Hot Rods Niekamp race car & R&C Roadster

Rainy day at the San Diego Auto museum, so checked out the new displays. Saw the R&C car at the GNRS in 2018. Based on a drawing by Joe Hennings and promoted as a dollar a pound build.

 

That orangish copper car reminds me of the R&C dollar a pound roadster from '55

 

Didn’t Tex Smith do a dollar a pound car in one of the mags in the 70’s or 80’s too?

 

Yes.

 

It is….I talked the builders and he described what it took to go from a drawing to a finished car. I think that Tex did a $1 a pound roadster for CAR CRAFT.

 

@denis4x4 I believe that was in Hot Rod Mechanix

 

You’re right

 

Yep, it was a dodge or Plymouth roadster, I6, Volvo rear…

 

I'd been wondering where that roadster ended up. I think Fred Stebbin's little Crosley engined car favored the Henning and Rich concept, the proportions are too exaggerated on this car, IMO. The Tex roadster was a Ford with Chevy grille, I think....had Pontiac OHC engine. Tex's XR6 was meant to be a homage to that RnC Jennings and Rich concept.

 

I think you may be right there.
Edit: Yep.

 

Finished with a Volvo 4 banger.

 

IIRC, Tex Smith's car was the XR-6. A highly modified "T" body powered by a Mopar slant six. The last that I knew was that the XR-6 was part of Malcom Barlow's collection in Tolland, Connecticut

 

XR-6 with a Slant Six.