What grabs me is the overall package... it's perfect. And the windshield... smoked glass? Who did that? Nobody, especially nobody from Guatemala. I wonder where it is now... and how he got it so "right". That would be a story. Sam
Word. Just found it... Was bummed to see there weren't any additional images of the car. It amazes me that there are still pre-65 "feature" cars that I have yet to discover considering I've been studying these same damn magazines for 20 years. This one rules me. I love this car.
By the time you start adding in all the east Coast mags like Rodding & Re-styling, and old Car Crafts and so on, I bet theres very few of us that have "seen it all". Its like a big treasure hunt. There is just nothing I like more than picking up a fifties era hot rod mag I have never seen before, you just never know what kind of lost treasure you will see. Theres always another one I haven't seen before. Its also really cool when you find an earlier or later incarnation of a car that you have seen elsewhere. I just got some late fifties Hot Rods from Alchemy, one of them had a feature on one of my all-time favorites, the Stan Dietz channelled Ford PU, after it had been sold to another owner. Neat. Oh and I started with a bunch of 1960-64 Car Crafts in 1973. Funny, at the time, I thought of them like an ancient archeological discovery, like I'd just uncovered some old papyrus scrolls or something. Looking back, they were only about 10 years old. Its an endless journey.
Just goes to the show, that there's always more little gems out there to discover. My wife doesn't really get why I keep(and still peruse) all those old car magazines. After vacation, I think it may be a good time to go back and look through some of the little books I have to make my own little discovery. Later, Carp
That roadster is just perfect another fine Deuce roadster would love to know what became of the car. And the builder. Ronnieroadster
Did a Google search out of curiosity and this came up. He sounds like a real character, which is not surprising looking at the roadster ... "During the mid 1950's I was attending junior high school in Guatemala City, Guatemala. These were very turbulent times for this small country, who had recently elected a socialist for President. Things were going rather well, at first, for the newly elected government, but it soon became infested with commies of the most undesirable kind including, Erenesto Che Guevara and his ilk. My father was a very close friend of the President, Jacobo Arbenz, they had been best of friends during their four years in attendance at the Escuela Politecnica -- the Guatemalan West Point, if you will. Things began to fall apart soon and the CIA formed a mercenary army, which also included a few aircraft and pilots. Jerry Delarm being one of them. After the overthrow of the Arbenz goverment, Jerry and his family lived in Guatemala City for a number of years -- the neighborhood were he and his family lived was Santa Clara. Jerry had two daughters who were part of my social network. We hung around together and were good friends. He was a very cool dude to be around and as a young teenager I was quite impressed with his black, '32 Ford roadster, hot rod which he drove all around town, sporting his Ray-Ban shades. He would often leave town for days or weeks at a time, but I never had any clue what he was up to." http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=16793
When I read the thread title, I knew it was going to be the '32 from Hot Rod. Always loved the look of that car.
Another article on him here ... http://news.google.com/newspapers?n...QQdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=u4oEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2029,1953245 Maybe the CIA has the roadster now
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