Hot Rods A Bit Of Real History.....

Very cool Jeff.

 

That headlight trim mod on that is really cool...actually he just really nailed it in every way...

In my first ten or so years I grew up in the Lakeview area around Cawthra and Lakeshore...not far from that Clubhouse near Dixie and QEW...

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I saw you posted these on the old Instagram machine, I wonder if you post them on the H.A.M.B

 

Glad he did...I likely wouldn't have saw them...they so belong don't they...always stuff coming out of the dusty archives...

Just a shout to the older crowd out there...share those old Hotrod/Custom pics...they are very moving as well as a great companion to the stories...

 

Oh man, I haven't seen Ron in a bit, we worked together at Courtesy Chev Olds before I joined Etobicoke Fire. When I was a kid, Ronnie was a Sunday school teacher at the church on Tenby St near Royal York and Queensway and always driving hot rods. He had a green Hudson coupe (a 39, I think) for quite a while. I remember a different version of the Meteor with a "drawer pull" grille and chrome bumper.

 

Hey Jeff, you'll get a kick out of this; check out the winners for street roadster and modified sports. This was a report from Kohler Dragway in 1961.

 

That's it rite there!

 

Yes, Jack was likely running the Olds powered 27. Bob at that point had a 50's Volvo P444 custom! Nosed, decked, tube grille, nerfs, Appletons, Lucas headlights with the bullets, molded lake pipes, rolled pans, whitewall Firestones and Moon discs, light green metallic and very white naugahyde. Probably still Volvo powered; it was called "The Fakir". It was at one of those Speed N Sport shows in 61 or 62, my oldest brother, who was in the Etobi-Cams with Bob, snuck me in on setup night, I was 8 or 9 years old. I remember spot lights, matching gas/oil/water cans and angel hair...........

 

I'm just glad most mothers-in-law aren't like lawyers. Then ALL of them could be hated ! LOL

 

I was thinking the same thing...
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Jeff, earlier in this thread you mentioned Duke Brown. I remember meeting and dealing with him, and Tony, when we were involved with CSRA and the Nationals here in the Soo. A little side story, my friend Paul Horton was getting his 40 painted by Duke and he called to confirm the drop off date was still on. Duke just said, "Yes, I said March 15, and out March 25, and that's the way I work. No delays, no issues". It's been sometime, so I'm very likely off on the dates and exact word, but you can get the drift.

 

Jeff what is the chassis Duke's Coupe is sitting on...34 Ford...looks a little chunky for a 32?

 

Normal stance with a slight rake... interspersed with a nice story/set of photos from the old days...



Hello,


I was drawing a Model A street/drag coupe for St. Patrick’s Day thread. The Model A was green for obvious reasons. But the rear and cab looked off kilter. So, for this thread, it ended up a nice simple Model A Coupe with a chopped top and some nice Moon Aluminum discs with white wall tires. If the real thing was lowered, here it is in all of its fairly legal stance, being as low as one can get without being stopped by the CHP in So Cal.

But, there is always room for a slight lowering of the front end to have a “lowered rake.”


Jnaki

This stock Model A coupe was the first hot rod to grace my brother’s eye after I pointed it out to him one day in our own neighborhood, as teens. Since then, it has stuck out in my mind as a permanent... “what if…project.”

It has been a “standard” to use the drawing as a base for a lot of my other Model A artwork.
The old coupe got towed home, reworked by a couple of teenagers with some new parts. Then coughing, the motor started as we were surprised + happy. Soon, we were off, backing up in a narrow backyard path to the concrete driveway and out to the neighborhood street.

This may sound like a million other "beginning" stories, but, it gave us a start in our adventures, with a twist here and there, along the long... route to our memories at any time. But, as written before somewhere along the years, the Model A was the "one that got away." YRMV