I have always loved a good louver job. My dad told me when they were kids they would steal the doors off high school lockers and graft the louver onto their cars. Is this true? My friends and I were talking about this and they told me I was full of poop! What have you heard?
I have been told the same thing, and I'm sure it has happened at some point or another (as a matter of fact, I have seen it done poorly in a wrecking yard). But the most believable stories I have heard involve hot rodders needing to get heat out of engine compartment and the new found availability of aircraft tooling in the L.A. area. Louvers are fairly common on WW II aircraft, and a lot of that stuff was made in factories in the area. I have been told stories by the "old guard" of taking a freshly bent hood to the gate at a recently decl***ified aircraft plant in the middle of the night to get the deal done on factory time... Sounds most believable to me! Gotta remember though that race cars like the twenties Buggaties and such all had tons of louvers, so there was automotive pressident.
yea I don't doubt it a bit. We did lots of stuff like that when I was a kid. Something else he may not have done or is willing to admit to. We stole the p***enger side brake peddle out of the drivers ed car to make a cable throttle for one of the fellas g***er once. Worked like a champ.
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