Remember the White Hot '36? It was an extremely fast and blown '36 coupe built and owned by the legendary Cobbs/Fox duo. Well, in late 1952 the Cobbs/Fox team decided to move on and sold their '36 to Bob Joehnck sans motor and transmission. Bob qu... <BR><BR>To read the rest of this blog entry from The Jalopy Journal, click here.
If it weren't for the windows and lack of Headlights you would have never guess that this thing screams down the track. I would give my left eye for a '36 and this one just twists the knife a bit more in my back. I love the image that says, "Here is Bob sipping coffee awaiting his next victim".
My first hot rod was a chopped 36 with the windshield posts laid back just like that. It was so rusty it would fall apart if removed from the frame, but the look was great and it was only $250. It's tough to get a 35-36 to look like a real hot rod, but that one does it.
When I was growing up my parents would take me over to Bob's shop in Santa Barbara and I would get to see the 36 and his other cars. I remember being told that the 36 was so red it made the other red cars look orange.
I downloaded this off of Hot Rod Hotline in June of 2006. I grew up in Santa Barbara and knew the car well and saw it run. What a shame what they have done to it now. It was absolutely beautiful! Bob is a friend and I hear he is still building motors. He just had his 84th? birthday.
Was there a story in the '70's on installing a top insert in that car? Seems like there was. My favorite is the shot of it launching next to the Drifters car club white '35 Coupe from my town, Redondo Beach. Both cars were highly competitive.
That car is good reason why I think 36 are the most beautifully styled cars from Ford or any other car of that era.
As my brother, Cheap n Dirty said, our parents took us to many races. As kids, our play ground was in garages many times. I don't remember when there was a time we weren't involved in racing.
True Boss, but I know you'll agree, why f#@k it to start with? I can understand that a guy might want to personalise his newly purchased ride, but where's the respect for history? Now it's just another Street Rod (albeit one with a cool history).
10 years ago only a handful of cars were protected and considered "historical". When that car was rebuilt it was just an old car that had been raced (and in fact probably not valued by many because of the radical chop)- in the past no one would restore something for "display" purposes when they could drive it as a street rod instead. Plenty of great old race cars out there running around in a completely different disguise. Good to see so many of them being returned to their former glories. Without the recognizable chop that car could have easily been lost.
My guess is that it was "Streetroded" long before the "Historical Hot Rod" restoration trend started. Asking price based on the cars history and condition doesn't sound way out of line IMO.
Looks like it was prolly done in the 70s and there wasn't a lot of awareness then of historical cars... I mean, the Neikamp car was really the first historical hot rod to be restored and that was done in the 70's... In any case, better to see it in the current shape than sitting in a field for 50 years.
Like this '35 that Art Chrisman built- it's RAD, but do you think it survived? And if it did does anyone know where it's at? Probably not- they were just old cars.
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