Dual cowl hot rod

I originally posted on the "introduce yourself page & while doing just that asked a question about this wild looking rod that was tooling around the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Festival this past Labor Day weekend. I later posted this after receiving my November Hemmings:

"Been busy since my last visit....working for a livin and doing a bunch of car stuff. At any rate, the wild looking dual cowl I was trying to find showed up on page 54 of the November Hemmings. Article says it was built by the Vanderpool father & sons team of Nashville. Wanna bet they're members? At any rate, have a look, its a neat ride."

Anybody know anything more about it?

Thanks,

Mike

 

Welcome to the HAMB, could you post a photo of the car? Just scroll down and find the attachment box after the reply box.

 

bttt

 

Ok,

I don't do this a lot so here goes, hopefully there's a picture!

 

uh, ...hmm...I ain't feelin' it

 

If I squint real hard and tilt my head.... nope still nothing

with fenders?

 

It shows as a thumbnail you can click on when I look at this thread, but hey, I tole ya I wasn't much good at this stuff....

 

Well, the thread ***le peaked my interest....but that car is not what i would try.


I CAN see a 36 Ford pheaton mild custom, full fenders with dual cowls....that would be cool, eh?

Or take a a later 30s Ford 4 door sedan and do a pheaton with dual cowls.

 

I love the concept, just not the execution...I think the tucked rear wheels, exposed front wheels and the odd lower grille and open hood side combination throw it off, not to mention the out of proportion carson top...hmmm, it has potential, but it's a little too eccentric (read: rat roddish) for my taste...

 

Tubbed?

 

Excentric it is, but consider the context: This was shown at Auburn Indiana, home of the Cl***ics during the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Club's annual reunion and the accompaning A-C-D Festival. There were a lot of Duesenbergs, including some real dual cowls, along with plenty of Auburns & Cords tooling around all weekend. They had the balls to bring it, kept a real low profile, but the car was always there on the street. A lot of us who aren't opposed to a little creativity, dug it.

It's in the details and probably better seen in person. For instance, the real dual cowls often had a set of instruments in the back, this one did too, both were 49-50 Pontiac.

 

You can have all the details in the world, but an ounce of proportion and vision goes much farther...a chromed Jag IRS is a hell of a detail on an F-100 show truck, but if it's 3 inches off of center in the wheelwell it just ends up being a poorly executed shiny detail...I'll take a well executed and proportioned run of the mill Model A over a Deusenberg "shock rod" that looks incomplete anyday...

 

I can appreciate your enthusiasm, but even the ugliest girl in the bar looks good at 2am...

 

Have to say I don't really like the tucked rear wheels either....

Yeah, I can dig that....

I've been ghosting on to this site mostly from links for a few years; you never know what you're going to see, but it's almost always cool, as you regulars already know.

 

hey don't knock it! She may be from old money!

 

I think the top hurts the look. I would like to see the car without the top. I think this thing has possibilities.