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

Funny! How many times you have had the car to events and showed at shows over the past 25 to 30 years and one trip to Bonneville and everyone sees it for the first time.
Mike

 

Glad I found this thread, and us Aussies weren't the only ones going 'look at that car...'

All we knew about it when we were out the front of the Nugget, was that it was cool...

 

Just wondering which picture you meant? Im sure you got me mixed up with the guy who posted that pic from early 50s but if not just let me know if I can help.

 

There have been some amazing pics of this beaut already but what the heck, here are a few more not so amazing, they are pics none the less

 

found another. The little dot between and to the left of the sun spots is the top of the electric antenna.
Man I love this car. What an honor to see it on the salt, where it had been driven too.

 

rc4u.....I would be honored! THANKS!!! Maybe another picture of me standing next to it with dirty tennees and cuffed Levi's, HAHA.

 

Hey guys, it was the Doug Rice Coupe, the BONNEVILLE BOOMER as it was called in the December 1954 issue of Hot Rod Magazine.

This is the car that both made me fall in love with '39-'40 Fords and want to go to the Salt when I read about it in 1957 (13 years old). I have had my '40 since 1972 and am finally channeling it (because of the Doug Rice Boomer). I will be at Bonneville in 2012 and hopefully be there with Don Richardson who now is the custodian of the Doug Rice '39.

 

That sounds great! We need more channeled 39-40 fords! Please keep us posted on the progress