Did this not end up in the hands of an early times club member (so cal) in the 70s and had the name "Liquors Quicker" painted on the side ? have not recalled his name yet. Tom Langdon? or?
That car was later featured on the cover of "Street Rodder" in the seventies... I believe it was sporting flames and buick wire's at the time. Maybe PG has some input from that time period?
Les Jarvis was the publisher of the short lived Rodders World magazine. I think there were only 3 issues published. This was some time in the mid 70's.
Several 1950's photos of this car in "Cool Cars Square Rollbars" along with the build history. Saw it years ago in the Yankee Candle Car Collection in Sturbridge, M***. Owner at that time was the inventor of Tean Age Mutant Ninga Turtles. Bob
When I was a young hot rodder I had the privilage to meet & get to know a guy named Tommy Langdon. At the time he owned that car. He was a member of the Early Times car club ( Jim Jacobs & Sheldon Barden a lot of other note worthy guy's were members ) . At the time it had Buick Skylark wheels, & Tommy drove the **** out of it. He later sold it to Less Jarvis & it did become the model for the hot wheels toy. Tommy was a real character !!!
I think those head lights look a lot better than the frog eyed commercial units a lot of guys need to run today. I was a room mate of Teds in the early 60's. We lived in South Pasadena.
This roadster is on display at the Counting Cars shop in Vegas. "HOT WHEELS" HOT RODDED IN 1949 - THIS CAR WAS THE ORIGINAL MODEL FOR THE MATTEL HOT WHEELS COLLECTION - 1932 ROADSTER- I have no clue to the authenticity of this claim just saying.
Well.....that ****s......no more six pot nailhead ? Sheeesh.......cool guy, but tacky taste in some of his cars unfortunately. I can totally see him being the one that threw that goofy *** blower engine in there. Back to original please...ya' ***** !!
I've got that issue in a wood binder I made in wood shop the last half of my sr year in high school. It would probably take a week to find it though. I can't remember if the lowest a headlight could be was 22 or 24 inches from the ground at the center of the headlight back then but it was an issue for a lot of hot rodders and finally got rescinded when a number of European sports cars showed up with rather low headlights.
The Jalopy Journal
