Customs interesting custom? Bonneville racer? on Youtube

crazy looking car. tube frame, Y block, Columbia overdrive, full bellypan, Ford axle front suspension, 56 California plates. anyone know the history of it?

 

. . . it could be aimed at the Streamliner class, but why?

 

Not a clue. But looks like something to dig into. Someone spent some time on it.

 

Looks like a home built 50's sports car. I remember seeing a lot of cars like this in the small rod books and books like Popular Mechanics.

 

The radiator filler is on top of the motor, as you've probably noticed by now, & there were crossflow radiators as early as the early '60s: '60-'63 Galaxie had one available stock I retrofit one to my '59 Ranch Wagon & never had a cooling problem using it as a tow vehicle for a car trailer.)

 

cherry it out, paint it silver, mount ray guns on the fenders and drive around in a martian costume.

that's what I'd do.

 

That’s killer
I’d drive the crap out of that

 

I like the shape of it.

 

Actually the 34 Desoto and Chrysler Airflows had crossflow radiators OE.

 

I've seen novelty customs with two front ends before, but this is the first one with two rear ends.....

 

when I saw the title I thought it was going to be bombshell betty, a 1952 buick.

 

It would never have been a Bonneville streamliner.. in its apparent era there was a class called SR or Sports Racing where it had to have the ability to seat 2 people. The 2 fastest ones were owned by Jack Lukin and by Nolan White. The most famous was probably the one built by Dean Moon and used a Devin body.The class “morphed” in to GasStreamliner.
With what powered this it would never have been competitive at Bonneville.. but who’s to say.

 

it does have 2 seats. I think the Bonneville thinking was because of the belly pan

 

Oh wow!, I just watched the video now and i really like this. Glad Squarepeg fab got it, they will do something with it besides just leave it sit in the background. I like the guys Otas(orange car under cover and his 1937 International builds too. I am going to watch the progress on this one. this is up my alley.

 

I'm with jaracer, that one has the build your own sports car vibe going real strong. A bit more advanced than most that pretty well used a stock Chassis with a pieced together body on it.

 

It even has a vin tag and paperwork going back to 1964 on it.

 

This car is currently listed on Bring A Trailer with No Reserve! . . . Checkout my (Pre-1964) Custom "Roadster" Project post . . . and here's a couple videos from the Bring A Trailer listing:

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