I had this dream last night. I was watching American Hot Rod, and Boyd and his wife were in this old garage. He was pulling out this old car that he had stored away for years. He was going on and on, that this was the ultimate build. This was his dream car. They pulled the door off the garage, and out came the Ala Kart in unrestored condition. I know Brizo is or has re done the ala Kart, but I got to thinking... What would the ultimate garage find be? What would be the car, if found, that would shake up the rodding world? What famous cars have disappeared never to be seen again, but not known to be destoyed? Any ideas?
The running/driving Anglia gasser I sold in 1972 for $200 - where did it go? It's costing me a fortune now to re-create that cheap piece of crap!
Then there's this '57 Belvedere... but we know where it is... and when it's coming out to look for it's shadow. I plan to be there with my car trailer and $500.00... cash. http://www.forwardlook.net/19571958Plymouth/countdown.asp JOE
original concept model A 3 window (extra point for the v8 test mule) http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=38034&highlight=model+window Maybe not so much of a custom but what about the long missing 69 Mustang from "Bullet"? That would be a find... Stolen Astin Martin DB5 from James Bond? Stainless steel model A http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=39430&highlight=stainless+steel+model stainless steel 36 ford http://www.squarebirds.org/stainless_steel_cars.htm
My favorite part of that is that they all recorded their "population guesses" on microfilm! Did they think microfilm was the way of the future and the people of 2007 would only be able to read data in that format? Did they not have a piece of paper handy? Had they forgotten that the Declaration of Indepence has lasted this long, on paper? If you get the car will you share the tranquilizers with the rest of us?
I don't about the dream car, but anyone that has a dream about Boyd Coddington needs to have his head examined.
Grabowski's T is sitting in Dayton Ohio in it's horrific show Guise that Jim Skonzackis (sp) changed it to. Better left alone. Mutt
Not a hot rod or custom, but it has ties to them. How about James Dean's Porsche Spyder? Last owned by George Barris when it disappeared on the east coast (NY maybe?) while morbidly doing the collector car show circuit. Many who have come in contact with that thing have been biten by a "curse" according to lore, including Barris himself. Barris still has the title, but the car has not been seen in decades.
Is "Ohio" George Montgomery's 33 Willys still alive? I've always thought that had to be the ultimate badassed car ever built, period. Drew
Saw the Cpt. America bike in the Motorcycle Hall of Fame museum in Anamosa Iowa last weekend, according to them, Fonda authenticated it. No confirmation on the dragon bike.
I recall seing pics of the Grabowski T in it's twin blower white with flames configuration. How about one of the orignal SWilndler A cars of Stone Woods, and Cooke?
Grapevine Panoramic Ford X-sonic High School Confidential coupes My dads '62 Impala convertible he had in 72.
Remember the chopped and crazy flamed mid-'60's Dodge A-100 pickup that Street Rodder Mag. built back in the early '70's?,...it had a blown big block Chevy in the rear with a removable rear subframe?....I know where it is....
Shit, the one with the McMullen deuce roadster looking paint job? I love that truck. My pick is a car only the Brits would know, it was a '63 Ford Consul Capri built in the mid '70s for Tony Coe by Ian Rawlinson. It was basically stock but it was painted apple green metalflake.
for me it would definatly be either the moonglow or matranga merc. duane stecks brother claims he actually saw the moonglow get crushed at a junk yard he took one of the window breezies off the car to remember the car by. the matranga merc was reported to have been wraped around a telephone pole or a tree one night in the rain and hasn't been seen since. so i always hold out hope that the matranga shows up somewhere someday. who knows?
I gotta agree with the Stu Hilborn streamliner. That car may actually be found some day in a garage. Who knows?
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