Junked Deidt body Roadster brought back to life... PICS

Feast your eyes...
All aluminum bodied roadster built in 1950 by famed Indy car fabricator Emil Diedt. The car was design and built for radio personality Eddie Anderson, famed African American sidekick of Jack Benny. This car appeared in Motor Trend in April of 1951, but has been missing for decades. It was purchased last year as complete basket case with no motor, and has just been completely restorer at Steve Moal's shop- Amazing!! Cadillac 331 powered, tube ch***is, Maserati brakes mated to a Ford I beam front end- Trick bits everywhere!!! Enjoy the pics- The magazines haven't scooped this car (yet) so its a HAMB exclusive at this point.

jay

 

Cadillac 331...

 

more...

 

Here's the brakes:

 

Last shot:

 

That is Righteous !!! WOW!!!

 

Hmmm... maybe that's why it looks like an indy car w/ fenders. very cool. thanks for the pics...

 

That thing is sicccckkkk! Any scoop on where/how it was found? You must be connected! Fuggeddabbouddit!

 

yowza!

how did a dirt bag like you get in there????? =)

 

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how did a dirt bag like you get in there????? =)

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Hehe, yeah, and I got to spy it too, riding on Jay's coat tails.

 

Yeah boss!!!

 

Any profile shots?
thanks

very cool BTW!

 

That thing is Beautiful...!!!

I'm Surprised Bobbleed didn't find that one... !

 

That is GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!

More details about the resurrection PLEASE!!!!!

 

Very cool!
Thank you for posting that.

 

Since finding this thread my mind has been replaying scenes from the Jack Benny Show. Some of us OLD guys used to watch that program when it was on black and white TV. Lots of good memories. " OH, Rochester". "Yes Mr. Benny". Still puts a smile on my face.

Frank

 

looks like a Jag humped a Lotus - and I like it.

 

Pretty nifty. If I had one, I'd do it up like the example from the ad - dark colors and whitewalls.

 

There was alot of work that went into bringing that back to life, I did my little part while I was working at Moal's this summer. The guy that owns it also has the ferrai powered roadster that was in Street Rodder a bit back, one helluva nice guy. With lots o cars...

 

FAR OUT !! Thanx for sharing !!!

 

KuturePimp-
True story. He's the same guy that has vintage Ferraris, the Moonjeam roadster, the So Cal 51 chopped Merc convert., and the worlds largest Rodzy collection!

Sorry I spaced getting a profile photo, but here's another detail shot to drool on:

 

I remember the article - COOL!!!!
Cosmo

 

Here's a few of the rodzy's from my last visit:

 

that car is just plain ***y

 

cant believe nobody's noticed the cunningham car sitting in the corner.
cool stuff. i like to see rods resurrected like this.
dan

 

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That's Moomjean.

 

Emil Deidt was the man. Take a look at the Lance Reventlow front engined Scarab sometime. I believe he also did the Chaparral I. And yeah, I noticed the C4R in the background. I would have noticed it sooner but I was out in the shop, working. Wayno

 

Another slice of auto heaven. Much thank's for thread! This place still blow's away anything out there. Historic car's, Tech help, ect.

 

Just caught this post and noticed the Cunningham right off! The old man bought me a model of that when I was a kid - always loved them.

 

Good looking car! Did the front fenders start life on a '32 Ford? If I remember correctly Eddie Anderson owned a OFFY Midget team in the 1950's, will have to look for some photos of the cars.