History Hey, Bud! Crossing Paths with a Classic

An iconic roadster for sure, well cared for thankfully, much admired by many of us.

 

Desatoff painted it the second time, after it had been on the road for a couple years. When it left our shop, it was painted and buffed.

 

HI BUD!!!!----Reading this thread brought back the many memories of our trip back to the 1972 NSRA Nats with you & "Stroker" & the line chasing events that occured daily.-----Now after 300,000 happy miles & line chasing, I have given my '32 roadster to my son to enjoy as I did since 1968.

 

I drove to the Detroit Nats in 72 in my 29 roadster. Parked around the pond with all the West Coast guys. I felt as though I was in hot rod heaven. They were all very friendly and the stories about the ride across America were second to none. I will never forget that weekend.

 

Great stories & pics about my friend Bud Bryan. Sometime I'll post some pics of when he, Tom Medley, Bud Lang & Glen Hamaguggi (?) came from Ca. to our little rod run know as the" Williamsburg Rod Run". That was in 1973 or 4. R&C did coverage of it that fall or winter issue. Tom & I had met before & he said they ALL wanted to come to Va. We all bench raced all night & Bud talked about his project rod etc. First thing Bud said was where are all the dancing girls ? Bud was/is a great fountain of Ca. info for us "easterner's". I don't know how the hell he ever fit in that roadster. Those were great days. Bud Lang stayed a week or so & we did garage scenes (also in R&C later). Tom stayed a day or 2 with me & just think he wanted to hang out with our Doberman. (he had one too). p/s : I was doing articles for R&C off/on in those days. They paid $60 per page , I paid for film. Haven't talked to Bud in a couple years, glad to hear he's still hangin' in there. Probably still looking for the dancing girls....right Bud ? Alan

 

Hey Joe ! I was there too in '72. I remember some of the security people around the hotels with shotguns. It was the time of the riots there. Yep that was a shock seeing so many "street rods". Hope you are doing well. Alan the "Flatlander".

 

Alan, those were the days. My 29 showed up in the issue of R & C that covered the Detroit Nats. There was a photo showing the rod repair area with my frame getting welded after I hit one of those raised man hole covers on 8 mile. Crazy week.

 

BTT

 

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