Hot Rods As Found Spurgin-Giovanine/Borgh Roadster

I received a Cd with alot of images from Ernie Nagamatsu, a**** the images were pics of the roadster in as found condition. Ernie gave me the ok to post, enjoy!











Look directly below the hairpin tie-rod end that is some of the original Teal paint from '48/'49



Alot of the original body was still intact under the sheeted ****pit.

Most brackets were just bolted in












& as shown in Ventura '09

 

Holey cow!!! Sweeeeeet!!!

 

......................was that history that I just got a glimse of roaring past me?............?

 

Very nice Jimmy....interesting to compare them to Bob's pics that I sent you.....great to see that the car is around and being restored and cared for.....very cool

 

What a great find! The resurrection of another piece of American history. I love these stories with a happy ending...

 

Any word on the do***entary that was being worked on?

 

Boy now that's something to see, looks like it's in good hands.

I like the ***le as well, " As Found" not "Barn Find"

 

Very cool post!!! Thanks for sharing the pix.

Chris Nelson
Kansas

 

very cool.
Al.

 

Thanks for sharing, that is righteous !

 

Very Cool! Thanks Jimmy.

 

Every time one of these relics from our past surfaces it's a miracle. Just imagine how many opportunites there were to chop it up, modify it, part it out. Truely amazing that any of them are around to restore or maintain "as found".

Frank

 

Oh WOW. Jimmy B! Thanks. Slim

 

Great stuff Jimmy. You allways come up with the goods.

 

Very cool looks like they did a great job restoring it.

This may have been covered somewhere else, but why did they not go with the light blue color that was on the car?

oh, nevermind I just realized which car it was.

 

THANK YOU JIMMY!!!

Man, I'd love to see the drivetrain resto on this... nice seeing those Olds 3 ports sitting there...

 

Fantastic Fantastic Fantastic

did I say that those pictures were Fantastic ????

 

Awesome - Ernie and his wife Elaine just attended the NZ Festival of Motor Racing with the Old Yeller II and an early Porsche - awesome people!

 

Very Cool Car !!

To Bad they arent Striving to use the Correct parts in all aspects of the Restoration.

 

Great photos, thanks for sharing these Jimmy. Here is a great color photo from 1948 showing the car on El Mirage:


More photos from the same serie can be dound here: http://www.scta-bni.org/EM_1948_photos.htm

 

Thanks Jimmy, looked to be in fairly good shape.

 

You're ****ing Kidding Me........... Sondre you are a absolute Legend, thank you!!!!!!

 

Very cool.

 

I'll have to look I think this is the same car I have on one of my old t shirts
out of the gus scta book.

 

Still been worked on.

The pics you sent of Bob's are fantastic and are from either April or May '48, this is my favourite version.

Yes Ernie and his team are doing a great job
It seemed appropriate and I hate the term "barn find" I could of called it a "desert find" as it was found in high desert.

I have attached a close up pic below

Yeah 4 times I do have to agree though.

Ernie is the perfect owner for the S/G roadster as he isn't just a collector he loves these cars and drives them hard.

????? Ernie has been updating me with the progress, this is the latest update
The seat is $$$ as every little detail from the photos was duplicated and have the right seat belts... doing the cross member in the back and again exactly detailed like all the photos with weld lines etc... motor is coming along

motor is being built to the original race specs. The things that were not correct at Ventura are being rectified in anticipation of Pebble Beach acceptance. Where is the problem? Not trying to be an ****, just wondering what isn't correct?

 

Thanks for sharing. I love seeing this kinda stuff

I pop my beer in your general direction and salute you!

 

WOW...thanks Jimmie...

 

Jimmy,

The head on the right is milled flat- could that be it? I don't remember if we talked about it, but the advice I was given was to mill the rocker shaft bosses down to allow for a higher ratio rocker instead of the Olds' 1:1. Don't know if Rufi modified his that way or not.

 

Yes that one has been converted to 1.5:1 rocker ratio. The one on the left is a stock head. Rufi did modify his head like this also.

 

Geez i would've loved to be in the same room when this photo came up.
I reckon your neighbours heard the screams.

Hey Jimmy, how long were you staring at the photo before replying?