Event Coverage Central Coast New Year's Day Garage Tour

The Pismo Derelicts hosted their annual New Year's day garage tour. My brother and I took my RPU and my dad and my son Logan took dad's 40 coupe.
First stop near Avila Beach...













The 36 3W was my favorite of the stop. It was a nicely "screwed up" early Ford. Still 21 stud flathead and early drivetrain...

 

Then we headed on into San Luis Obispo to Jack Dewar's museum (at my place of employment). The 4-banger guys here should like this place...




My favorite of Jack's...



and a few more of Jack's bangers...




Some engines on display...



and the crown jewel...the Gemsa in his green roadster...

The just put a front drive distributor on it...

The machinist that made the front timing cover made Jack a personalized side plate...

Old pics of the race track in San Luis...


Jack was just given this neat little KRW carb and fuel pump test stand...

 

and a few random shots of some signs, Jack's shop truck and his office...

 

Then we headed across town to Jack's work shop and to tour the guitar shop next door.
First...




The wood guitars were neat, but these metal ones were a new one on me. Very cool...



They spin the "speaker?" that goes inside...

 

Then on next door to Jack's shop where he and his friends tinker...
Phil's long time rpu project. The truck was originally built in the 50's as a Bonneville push truck. Phil just put a new ch***is under it, as the old one was hacked pretty bad...and replaced the banger with a flathead V8...it's gonna be a cool truck!


Phil's T...

Max's perfect A...

Jerry's rpu...

We talked there so long...looking at roadster pickups...we missed the next two stops in SLO, so we headed straight out to Los Osos...

 

Stopped to talk and look at this 35 on the way out...




Nice shoebox...

 

Then to the collection in Los Osos...



My favorite of the bunch...

Wasn't too "street roddy"...

He had some Boyd cars too...but I forgot to take pics of those.
My dad liked this AutoCar car hauler...



This 40 convert was cool...




and a few other interesting cars on the run...


I liked the way the tire fit in the fender on this 34...





That was about it, but we had a great day.

Neal

 

Very Nice! Thanks Neal...

 

Thanks for posting , looks like a good time..........Z

 

That first house is my dream!!!!

 

Looks like there are a lot of welfare hot rodders out there. We could take up a collection if you think it will help.
Seriously, that was a great collection of cars you posted and thank you for taking the time to do so. It had to be a great time spent with likeminded friends.

Frank

 

neil,
great pics, thanks for posting.
Al.

 

great pics! looks like fun!

 

That looked like a good time cant wait for the weather to turn nice.thanks for the pics.

 

Nice!.....Thanks Neal....

 

Looks like you had a great day , better than watching football !!

 

some really nice stuff there. I really dig the pics of the guitars.

 

Thanks Neal for taking the time to post this thread. I saw Max's Riley powered Model A at Pat Gary's shop when I dropped by in 2008 - he fired it up and the sound of that banger made my knees go weak - built to the hilt!

Looks like it was a great day.

 

That looked to be an incredible tour, thanks for sharing it with us. Wow, bangers galore!

 

That was fun riding along with you. Great pics.
Thanks for posting.

 

Hey Neal, Thanks for the "tour", Being an "A" lover, those A's are something else. Lots of variety, It would be great to own one of those nice cars. How many did Jack have? WOW! By the way, the temp didn't get above "zero" here that day.

 

Wow... every car I saw was incredible. Great day, wish I lived closer.

 

Thanks for the pics. Resonator guitars have been around for years wood and metal bodies. Also called dobros although I think Gibson has the TM on the Dobro name. There was an old man down south of us years ago that had a metal resonator that was painted Case orange. He could play it pretty well too.

 

Neil, WOW, that is some amazing machinery in those pictures THANKS very much!

Nick.

 

19* here today with snow on the ground, and you post this...

 

It was 74* here yesterday...and they say 70 and sunny the rest of the week...

 

Neat. Thanks!
Tony

 

Cool pics...thanks for posting...wish i lived closer.

 

Thanks for the pics Neal. I don't believe I overslept.......what a way to start the new year.

Terry

 

Thanks for the post,...awesome!