Hot Rods Official hot rod's of the dry lake's thread

Thanks Gup, some really good stuff there! Did Roy Siegner live in Washington state? John

 

Yeah, He moved to Edmonds in the sometime in the sixties.

 

gup,

Did he say if or did you know if any of his cars survived? That is quite a cool collection. Scan us a timing tag, I'd like to see one of those too.

The Model A roadster is similar to mine, except mine is running a banger. I wonder if he was running fenders since the running boards brackets are attached to the frame.

Way cool and neat that you got to meet him. I was speaking with an older gentleman about those ol dry lakes days and he told me they used to tease the Sidewinders club members about the shape of the snake used for their club. They used to tell them it looked like a pile of ****. Hmmmmm..what do you think?

I didn't say that, that's what he said..I did think it was a funny story.

 

Mr. Pickle here...I did as much research on the Potvin car as I could find with the help of Dennis (Harms's Way), Cyclone Kev., and some other really helpful guys here on the HAMB. I have some cool period pictures I can post tomorrow and if anyone has more info, I'm all ears. I bought if from a friend a few years ago and have enjoyed the hell out of it...I'll have her in the PRC run this year, lost a fan on the 134 last year before I even made it to the start.

 

I don't recall him talking about running fenders or not. The model A roadster was his drag car that he ran at Saugus. This timing tag is from the 34 roadster in the picture.

 

This is great. A ticket to the past. Good to know it's in capable hands too.

 

hey pickle great you responded to the post. i will be at the prc with my car. hope to meet you there. billy

 

Nice pics Gup
Thanks for sharing. Love old pics.

Would be nice to see your pics aswell Pickle.

Paul

 

Look forward to it...I'll put up some old photo's later today.

Cheers...John

 

Awesome thanks . Any of the og lancer's around? I know of stan betz, **** craft and bill jenks and of corse jack calori but He just p***ed. I'm going to have his orignal lancers plauqe in my car when it comes out at the prc in may. Billy

 

Love those, "in front of shop" pics. Think of beeing able to wander inside there for a while.
The smell, what cool parts would be lying around, old tools.. . . .AHHhhh daydreams

 

Yes that front of shop shot is a beauty. And thanks for those others too Gup. Fantastic thread.

 

very cool thread keep it coming
thanks Bill

 

keep this thread going.......................

 

These are the basic DNA of the hot rod after all.

 

Roy was this your dads car ???

 

Right click...save. thanks guys. How did this thread get by me?

 

Agreed! Great thread!

 

This thread is fabulous! Lots of great stuff being posted. Thanks you to everyone who posted.

 

I have posted much of this is other threads before, but since it is on topic, I will add it here. I am blessed to be the owner of a 32 Ford Roadster that the late **** Kraft ran at El Mirage in Oct of 1948 before being given away at the 2nd annual Indianapolis Auto Show in 1951. Before his recent p***ing, I had the pleasure to speak with Mr. Kraft on several occations about the car and the story goes something like this.
Pre-Bronson History
**** was friends with Ralph Potter. Ralph and his wife worked at Long Beach Douglas Aircraft during WWII. Later, they would own Potters Muffler shop on Pennsylvanie Ave in Indy. Ralph was a big car show promoter in the Midwest in the early 1950's.
Potter contacted Kraft about locating a 'nice' car to give away to promote his 2nd annual Indianapolis Auto Show. While the first annual had gone well, he thought a give away car would be a way to bring more success to the event.
Kraft located a 32 Roadster in the LA times Antiquest and Cl***ifieds section for sale and recognized it as one he had raced in 1948 with a Winfield Cam.
While **** could not remember the owners name, he did recall that he worked for the then infant Hot Rod magazine. **** recalled that this was the last 32 he raced (he preferred 24 T's due to their lower weight).
A deal was struck for $2500 for the car and Mr. Potters son, Jr. Potter, drove the car back to Indiana.
Bronson History
The car was won by a gentleman in Kokomo, IN. My Grandfather pursued the car heavily and was able to purchase it in October of 1953. He did very little to change the car until 1966 when the car was painted, fenders and Chrysler wire wheels were added. A new upholstery was inserted in 1973. While he picked out the material for the interior and for the lining of the Carson Top, sadly he died suddenly before being able to see it completed.
After my Grandfathers p***ing, my father did little to no updates on the car. He just enjoyed taking it to local car shows in the midwest. Some of my earliest memories are riding with my sister in the rumble seat. It was always a family event for us to go to shows.
After my fathers p***ing in 1992, the only updates I have completed are to replace the copper fuel line with safer steel line and putting a newer Mallory distributor for better reliablity. I have recently replaced the Chrysler wires and General diamond whitewall tires with 41 Ford Caps and WWW diamond back tires, also for safety.
The laquer paint is over 40 years old and is starting to show its age with a few chips here and there, but I have no plans on updating it any time soon. It simply draws too much of a crowd the way it is and I dont want to loose that.


Photo used as my avatar is of my late father Larry at age 12 at my late grandfather, Bill. August - 1957.
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Photo I had made. Note SCTA tag on dash. Mr. Kraft swears that there were 2 tags on the dash when it was given away, but I have been unable to locate the 2nd tag.
If you are interested, I have created public albums with photos of the Roadster and Dragster as well as our families other cars. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/album.php?u=71902

 

How did I miss this thread?? Great stuff!!!

 

This is one of the best threads....

 

here is dean moon's first car, 32 ford sedan

 

BTTT because you ain't a hot rodder 'til you've seen and absorbed this whole friggin' thread. Read it.....live it.....do it.....NOW!

 

I just have to post these picture on this this thread for posterity sake. This is on May 16, 2009. Me and Billy met up in El Mirage and ran around in the dirt.

Wahoo!

 

There has got to be more photos and history out there, lets bump this very cool thread back to the top and see what happens...

 

cant believe ive not seen this thread before but subscribed to it now

i love pre war lakes cars thats my p***ion and cant wait till im 18 to get a model a roadster that i will build as a pre war lakes car which will be not far from stock really i have lots of pics that ive saved over the years for inspiration

this is from a thread i started a while ago but it might get more answers on here

this is one car that i would love to learn more about as it looks very similar to the A roadster my dad built a few years ago its also my avatar

hi i was wonder if there are any clearer pics of the bottema bros 29 A roadster on 32 rails i just think the car just looks so right its georgous

heres a pic that i scanned out of Tom Medleys Hot Rod History part 1 book

it also says in the book that it ran a model b 4 banger with cragar goodies and it ran 103mph

thanks

 

any thing else out there i love this sh*t

 

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