I vaguely remember an Offy powered Model A roadster pickup being featured in Hot Rod magazine probably 20 years ago. Seems like it was red and a highboy. I think it had a sidepipe along the body on one side. Does it still exist? Does anybody have pictures?
Belongs to Bob Anderson of Huntington Beach, Ca. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=98928 There are some pics in Rodders Jnl Issue 10, pages 10 and 17 and ch***is pics in Rodders Jnl issue 22
Thanks robster!!! Any more info on this little ride. The Offy pics in another thread brought up the memory. Kinda remember how the writer of the article described the sound of the engine while high-tailing it through an overp*** or something like that. btt
Bob still has it along with his two Hupp Skylarks. He had the '29 rpu out at the GoodGuys OC Get Together in March. He originally got the High Tower 270 Offy from my old racer buddy Hank Becker.
Alright, found the first pic. Had to find some quality screw off time to do it. Any more? I'd love to hear that thing at any speed!
That's the car that Bob took with him when he went to New Zealand for a tour about the islands! He drove the snot out of it if I remember correctly. The only problem he encountered was, I believe, bad gas. Now that is a "hot rod!"
See that little truck all the time around So Cal. Saw Hank and his Hudson Pickup at Bob's Big Boy last weekend
Bob and his wife Marlene are really neat people,. they bought that cool car down to NZ and I guess we didnt really realise what we had when it visited our shores! I remember going on Morty's reliability run and seeing them and the car again.
Bob was on the pre 49 run here in New Zealand a few years back. I listened to him leave the Hotel were we were staying, real cool sound.
I appreciate y'all chiming in. bbb was right about pics in the RPU thread that Royalshifter started. I just wish I could witness the sound of that Offy on the street. The only one I have ever heard was at Terre Haute at the Hut Hundred race while the road grader was taking the dry-slick off the top of the track as the announcer said that his time would have qualified another 14 cars to the possibility to make heat races. Johnny Rutherford, Tom Bigelow, and others were in the A-main.
I remember the Offy truck also. Great article. They said he had new streetable cams ground for it and when the were working on the exhaust they came to the conclusion that an OFFY should never be muffled. Big straight pipe out. Would be sooooooooooooo cool to hear run.