Scrounger Chris....Hot Rod Junkie from New Zealand.

Meet Chris Piaggi, founding member or the Scroungers car club and hopeless hot rod addict. Chris is a die hard Ford man. I was looking through some pictures from my NZ trip I took over a year ago and thought you guys might enjoy a look around Chris's shop to see some of the junk that has ac***ulated...........

 

Thats amazing. Some neat stuff!

 

Flathead stuff......

 

Cool post Kev
Chris is one hell of a guy - real genuine no bull **** bloke.
His collection of stuff is unreal and if there were ever away to describe an absolutely addicted hot rodder it would be Chris.
His knowledge on old Ford stuff and hot rod history is equally impressive.

 

Very cool man thanks for giving us a peak at his shop.

 

Cool stuff.....An Alladins man cave! Thanks for sharing.

 

Some homemade intakes from the early days of New Zealand hot rodding. If you can't buy it, gotta make it......

 

More stuff.....



















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Looks like an eclectic collection of cool hot rod stuff. You could probably spend hours looking through it!

 

Chris sure did a great job re-directing the carbies from an angled intake to parallel with the crank on this Wade RO34 blower. Here's what they look like stock:-

 

Chris lived in California for several years in the 80's and worked for Dean Moon.

 

Now for the cars.......

Here is a T Chris and friend and fellow Scrounger founding member John Pavlovich (far left) built back in the late 80's. You can bet it stood out in a crowd back then and still does.







Here is the blown flathead altered that John and Chris raced. It hasn't been raced for several years due to.... well not all the parts in the engine are not in one piece any more. The street car was the tow vehicle at the drags.

 

Amazing!

Whats the skinny on using a Wade blower on a flathead?

Danny

 

Her is Chris's Roadster....6 carb Y block power.

 

their T has always been a shining light in the sea of common...then, now, and future

 

Chris built this 38 coupe into a street/strip machine with FE power and 4 spd. I used to own this car 29 years ago as rolling shell and chopped it when I was learning the art of metaworkin.....OK, bondo spreading! I had a blast driving it on my trip.







The day Chris bought the coupe from me, I was heading to the States.



Here is his roadster pick up. No repro parts on this one.....

 

Chris bought this 57 Ford about 3-4 years ago in Pasadena. It had been sitting behind Blairs Speed Shop for about 20 years. Chris shipped it back to NZ and got it running, it's a real solid car!





Plus he has this one.....

 

Here is an old show car that Chris found and saved. It is virtually untouched and in great shape.





Here is Chris and his little guy Carson, p***ing the torch.....ps, Hi Kelly!

 

Yeah he is the ducks guts that is for sure.He is probly one of the neatest kats that you will ever meet & he always has time to say howdy,,but he still aint gunna get my FE blower intake.

 

Wow!!!

 

So that is where we go when we die if we've been good.......Heaven!!!

 

Now i know why we can't find any old parts down here,Chris has them all.What a great collection.Thanks for the great pics Kev.

 

Now you can see why the scroungers put on a great show.
Start saving your pennies and get over here for it.
Take in Beach Hop while your at it.

 

Piaggi and Pavlevich.... world famous in New Zealand.

 

all I can say is when I die would you guys put my ashes up on a shelf somewhere.
thanks for the wonderful pictures.

 

Cool pics, Someone over there paints some wild *** flames! Nice! Very nice!

 

The Piaggi & Pavlovich T was one of the first rods I saw at the time - 1988 - I was 8 years old and thats what turned me on to nostalgic cars and history.

Here is a model that I am building of that car.

 

Wow, so much good junk.

 

Good stuff.