Russ Beckwith RussB Fotki site of California took some fantastic photo's of the freshly restored Jack Calori '36 Ford at the GG West Coast Nationals. The car won best early custom a week earlyer at the Pebble Beach Concour. Brizio did the restoration and paint work was done by Darryl Hollenbeck. Restored to its '48 specs, although a few changs where made. The black wall tires still look a bit out of place to me, but Jack Calori was a Hot Rodder and most likely that plus the lack of extra money to buy a set of white walls was the reason why it runn black walls.
....drool...... i think the choice of blackwalls was spot-on!!.... thanks for sharing the pics..... -THOM
Absolutely outstanding! That car is one of a handful of classic/icon/landmark customs. So glad it's with us and restored. I agree 110% with the blackwall choice.
indeed, to many old customs are restored with ifs's and white wall radials loosing a huge chunk of their soul
I do like the fact that the car is restored to its original specs... with black walls... It was just my personal opinion that I would have like the car better with a set of white walls as can be seen in this old small and blurry photo of the Jack Calori Ford. (I believe this photo was taken in the late 50's or 60's)
Thanks for the great photos! What are some of the changes that have been made? I agree, i always thought it would look better with white walls.
I have heard that when the car was built originally in '48 it had a sort of scoop underneath the grille for extra air to cool the engine. That was eliminated during the restoration.
I agree that the whitewalls are nicer, but if the car was built for Pebble Beach concours, period originality trumps later mods and changing taste. Classic era restorers have similar choices to make when restoring cars that may have been rebodied several times. They need to pick an era and stick with it. Notice also that the car runs just 1 spotlight and uses bumper overriders front and rear. And there is nothing stopping the owner from running different tires or hubcaps when on the road or at a custom show. All in all - a real beauty!
Can anybody ID what those tail lights are from? Custom made? theyr'e so perfect on the back of that car...
They are Hudson... but not sure about the year, must be pre '48 50Fraud will know for sure he used them on his 36 Ford as well.
Rickster, Awesome to see the Calori car at last! Got any pix of the Ralph Jileck Car? I've got a soft spot for that one too!
I saw it first hand last weekend... and man, is it beautiful. It sure is great to see that car restored that way... man, that's neat. I talked with the owner a bit too... I was surprized when the guy said that he was the owner... I was expecting to see Bruce Meyer as owner. Sam.
Real great to see it, I've been longing to see pics of it finished. In this case blackwalls would have been my choice as well. Why? First, The Calori coupe as I know it was featured in the early magazines running blackwall tires. Second, I see Calori's original choice of blackwalls as the influence from European coachbuilders, as a black early custom with blackwalls do have a lot of European style. Yes, whitewalls would have been the normal American custom choice, but a European owned coachbuilt Horch or Mercedes from the same time span would probably have been running blackwalls back then.
I love that car and have been wanting to see it for a long time, I finally got to last weekend and it did not le tme down. It is just beautiful up close....Thanks for the great photos!
Very cool, my buddies all looked at that thing this week end, I had not seen it finished. There has been lots of talk about it over the last year up here in Spokane, it was here for a long time and sold to the new owner not long ago. Those boys at Brizios, Hi Bill, did a super job. oh, and the blackwalls look perfect.
'41 Hudson, swapped side-for-side and turned upside down. I copied Mr. Calori's treatment pretty closely, as I have never seen a better solution for the tail of a '36 (left picture=Calori, right pic=mine). I can't see the scoop in the front view, as Weez did, but it's visible in the '49 HRM article on the car. I am told that Mr. C sold the car originally because of its chronic overheating problems; I wonder if/how the Brizio guys solved that?
I remember reading that Calori hated whitewalls and was disappointed when the new owner of his 29 roadster put them on it after he sold it.
the car looks amazing...i think this was one of the nicest shapes ford ever made...nice to see some pics of it close up. 50fraud i think you also have one of the nicest 36's kicking about just now.
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