Customs Bonneville Custom......Does anybody recognize it?

Wow. I'm NOT a Ford guy AT ALL... but that's... Wow.

What more can I say?

 

Brent,I cant stop looking at your pics you took! There has never been anything like the ol Bomber !!!!!!!!!!

 

pure ***.please put some chrome on thoses hubcaps..great looking ride.

 

Bringing it back up for anybody who's missed seeing this. I started buying car mags in '62 when I was 10 years old,and didn't start collecting the older ones til the mid 70s.My first big score of little books had the original articles on Doug's car.I must have stared at the pics for days.
Absolutely beautiful lines.Not surprised how many dig this car.
When I hit the lottery,I'm going looking for that coupe.

 

Was it the Bonneville Boomer
or Bonneville Bomber?
I thought I saw it called Boomer one time.

I was sacred to chop my 39 but I think it needs it now.

 

That car has made the car show rounds for awhile up in the Seattle area. It was at Good Guys this year and I've seen it at other shows in the past. Probably the one of the very few chopped 39/40s I like. It's an icon up in the PNW.

 

Yes I have seen the photos of it in kind of recent shows up in Washington and it looked great,I have even posted on some of those old threads BUT....... to see this car with a fresh restoration and to see it on the salt is a whole different story. All kustoms look great on the salt but to see a kustom that raced back in the day is magical to me,there hasnt been a kustom on this level that was also a race car that was DRIVIN to Bonneville since this one and probably never will be.

 

real cool car

 

I took my my youngest son (27) to Bonneville this year for his first time. He was driving me nuts saying how he just has to have a rat rod to drive down here next year with his friends. He liked the nice hot rods, but he really liked this ugly *** model a (LOL, I wont say anything more just in case it is a board members) Im pretty sure its not though since Ive never seen it posted here before.

Any way, when he saw this beautiful custom I think he died and went to heaven. Every time we came across it the few days we were there he just couldnt say enough good things about it, and now a car like this is on his wish list instead of a rat.

There is hope =)

 

Theres another one in Minnisota- very simalar build style. Somewhere I saw a picture of the two together. People always fall in love with a good looking custom-It changes their perspectives to wanting a one.

 

Now that is a great story.

 

Clean!

 

No man,it was and still is the Bomber even though it has a small block now.

 

But it was called the "Boomer"... check the website link on page one.

 

It was on the cover of the December 1953 issue of R&C... small photo, but it is a cover car...




Despite the small photo on the cover it had a full two spread article inside.






This great photo of it was used in one of the fantastic Don Montgomery books

 

I now have a serious "want face" looking at the coupe....and the RPU on the cover ain't to shabby either

 

Well you're right Rik it does say that on the site,that is the first time I have ever seen it called the Boomer but it does say that.

 

Wow glad to see this back on the salt. One of my all time favorites. Kudos to the owner for actually driving it out there instead of having it cooped up in a museum somewhere.

 

Their shirts said "Boomer".

Couple pics I took of it.

 

...and a couple more.

 

So rad Coby... We were trying to get the car to the Motorama.. but they said they were
already going to Bonnieville

 

People mention Heavy Hitters ........... It dont get much heavier then this. Great pictures Church .

 

Here's one I have of it, I probably copied from the hamb somewhere...And to all of those who think you cannot chop a 39 or 40 Ford & make it look good, take a long gander at this badboy!

 

Thanks Piero. Would have loved to get that thing out in the open for more pics. Some times you just gotta take what you can get.

 

Wow Coby! Those shots are awesome!

 

Coby those are some really really great pics!!!! Those would look great as posters

 

There was a very similar '39 Coupe at the West Coast Kustoms show in Los Banos, just before they moved the show to Paso Robles. Car was that deep maroon, chopped top, channeled, fenders raised, and was from Washington State.
The owner and his friend had just gotten it running again with a smallblock Chevy, and they had 'warming' issues...They stated it was an "Old Kustom", just restored.
The year had to be...'93?
Anybody shed some light here?

 

I liked it best when it was black in the late 50's. Gotta admit it looks better finished now than ever tho...

 

What is this color?factory or custom mix?

 

The one I recall was in a light shade of purple primer.