Art & Inspiration Cowboys and hotrods & customs

It doesn’t make sense to me so I’ll ask the experts. The golden age of hot Rodding and customs coincided with the golden age of western movies. Each one was a huge part of American culture at approximately the same era but they don’t seem to intertwine very much. I’ve seen a few customs like radical stagecoach builds or a T bucket here and there. Maybe the two genres don’t mix well together?

What is your favorite cowboy / western inspired car?

 

I remember seeing this at Pomona as a kid in the 80's .

 

I still have that model.

 

Modern day cowboy.

 

it would definitely have a moo horn.

 

Love the roadster

 

all deal in: horsepower; going for a ride; wheels/tires called shoes; getting back in the saddle again after a mishap;

 

The picture above and below are of Roy Rodgers 64 Pontiac. I don't know who sat in the saddle, guessing Dale?

Random interior shot. The genre gets real "campy" real fast. I've heard of 30/30 cams but not 30/30 console shifters.

Was they long horns or was they short horns?

 

Geronimo's Cadillac. HRP



And the song Michael Murphy sang about it. HRP

 

A field car?!?! C’mon man.
Oh wait, a cowboy!

Ok that right there is solid proof

 

LOL
Cowboy hat in a hot rod?
That's the only one I could think of.

 

So we’re not talking about the Micah Parsons trade?

 

What about Nellybelle?

 

Yep. Bob Falfa is the only cowboy I can think of.

 

Real hots have 3 pedals and no room for a Stetson! Hell, I don't have room for my yarmulke.

 

Just one I stumbled on.



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Yes I like cattle horns on a big old land cruiser!

 

Yippee Yi Yo Kai Yay!!!

 

Maybe Paul Newman as 'Hud' a cowboy hand of sorts in his Cadilliac.

 

My boy Billy G

 

Smokey Yunick plenty of H.P. under his saddle & always wore a cowboy hat as I recall.

 

If we're including professional racers, I see your Smokey Yunick and I'll raise you a Richard Petty.

 

Now that’s a Real ‘Lil Cowboy’ right there !

 

Darn......you beat me to it.....always loved every episode of Roy Rogers that included NellyBelle. Fast forward and I now have a 1953 Willys CJ3B in the garage......even retrieved it off a beautiful ranch outside Lander Wyoming and brought it back to Wisconsin/Iowa. Almost though if I looked really hard coming up out of the ranch on the red clay road with red bluffs......that I could see Roy peeking out from behind a boulder looking for the bad guy !!

 

"I've got a hot rod Ford and a 2$ bill"

 

Not a western inspired car but a cool old ad......