Anyone remember "I'D WINN"?

Does anyone know where I can find (online) pics or a story on Guy Ruchonnet's 34 3 window with the blown/injected Chrysler? the car was built in Livermore, CA about 20 years ago, and was named one of Hot Rod's "10 baddest hot rods of all time" in the 90s (and it WAS, too). Any idea what happened to the car?

Ruchonnet(?) went to HS with the older brother of one of my best friends, and there were a couple of times we were supposed to check out the car, but it never happened. Now I can't find out anything about it...

Thanks in advance

 

Oh yes. I still have a copy of the magazine somewhere. I remember it well. The baddest 34 I had ever seen at the time. Its the license plate I remembered most. Was the car black with flames? The car was a little cartoonish but in a good way.

I was thinking he had a hemi. Didn't it have some trick sliding exhaust valves so he could switch from some hidden exhaust to wide open side pipes?

 

I think you are morphing two cars there. Cole Cutler(?) owned the black with high school applied flamejob and cleaned up regularly at the track. Guy's car was orange, DAMN, that's a cool car! Is it still around???

 

Cutler's car had a shotgun Ford...500+ inches if I recall. The Ruchonnet car was orange with spindle mount Halibrands on the front. WICKED! If you have it, could you scan and post or email me the article? Mine's long gone...

 

Are you talking about the Orange '34 3Window that was on the cover of Popular Hotrodding in the mid 1960's? Car had a grill but no radiator.

 

Was that 20 years ago, HOLY ****!!

 

I wondered the same thing a couple of months ago. I did a google search and found a picture, but nobody on the HAMB seemed to know then, either.
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=71641

 

Nope, this car was built in the 80s, but it was all the goods.

Damn, I wish I'd kept that mag... Oh well, I'd have a million of 'em by now.

SOMEBODY'S gotta know something about what happened to it...

 

Thanks, Gary. I appreciate the link. I think I will try to find out what happened to the car.

 

Last I heard he tried to sell the car some time ago. Didn't work out and he still has it. He's a painter at a car dealership in Livermore Ca. and lives in Manteca.

 

the car still is around. untouched. still the same..

 

Oh yeah, I remember that Orange Beast! Would be nice to see some pics or better yet, some video/audio.

 

Cole (SlingShoter) Ruchonnet -

Welcome to the HAMB !!!

I was wondering when you would find this thread

Please post some more pics of your dad's Coupe ... if you don't know how, I'm sure KIRK! can help.

 

Written by one of my favorite magazine guys Phillippe Danh, Whom I started a thread about here 10 years ago and tracked down!

 

So looking at the picture - Was it I'D WINN or U'D LOOZ

Remember Philippe's Kustom Simca?

 

Yes I do! Philippe sent me an email after I asked about him. Memory serves me that he was doing something in the offroad world?

 

i remember that car,a timeless HOTROD

 

I'm the one who started this thread...my first post on the HAMB.

I STILL get the piss shivers looking at that car! Show me something badder...???

 

Hey stranger! Let me know if I can help you or your Dad.

 

Is this the plate off it? I used to cut up old rod mags, and make large posters, so i've no idea where this came from.

 

Nope ...


click thumbnail to view article

 

Here's some more pics of Guy Ruchonnet's "I'D WINN" '34 Coupe ... all culled from other H.A.M.B. threads:

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SlingShotr... IIRC, wasn't the coupe named one of HOT RODs "10 baddest cars of all time" ?

 

Looking at those black and white shots, that thing woul

D look bad as hell unpolished and in red oxide primer.....

 

So which was the original version, carbed or injected?

 

ijected. when he had a hilborn on it was when he ran it on methanol. he put carbs on it to drive it on the street more. mech injection an alky doesnt street real well. also when he drag raced it he he couldnt keep head gaskets in it with the boost so he just put the two 4s on it without a blower and raced it quit a bit.

 

and yea it was hot rod top 10 in 88' and badest hot rods of all time also. B-ville loved my dads car and put it in anything and everything he could.

 

Is your Dad building anything now?

 

haha funny you found that , i remember my dad sayin someone else already had "id win" with one "N" so he had to add the second one.

 

he's buildng alot of stuff now , he does alot of sheet metal work and body work for Roy Brizion in South San-Fran. building a few cars for him self , a 32 roadster that is all moved around with a 392 hemi also , and a topalino altered to drag race