Featured Hot Rods The I'd DRIVE IT - A NOD TO ANTHONY MYRICK

i think the abc people used a 32 grill shell!

 

No sir, not even close. HRP

 

I'm obviously in a bit of a mood lately

 

I’d drive this:

‘Acme’ McLaughlin’s channeled dry lakes (and wartime daily driver) 8/98 speedster. Jimmy B thought this pic was taken in 1946 when he ran a Zephyr v12. In 1947 McLaughlin ran a Mercury in the Auburn. He appears to be using a ‘32 Ford grille.

 

@SR100 that sure is a deuce grille shell. It started as a whole Auburn. That's surely an ACD frame, although the 2 big holes are a quirk.

I've had a run on Auburn speedster jobs this year. That's 3 since Christmas. Had a 35 in there...

and another 32 around the holidays...

Can't wait to see what's next.

And yeah, we'd all drive em!

 

Not me, not my pictures, not Anthony either, but they are driving it, with I might venture to say a big genuine smile. I would certainly take my turn if it were offered.

 

The Stutz which almost won Le Mans in 1929...

Or the Chrysler from the 1928 race.

 

That first T belonged to Multi Aldrich and could seen driving around the salt 3very year with Multi behind the wheel with a smile that went from ear to ear. I still miss his presence!

 

Clark Bates from Pennsylvania built that car in about 2001 or 2002, the number 999 comes from what it cost him to build it.

 

All cars should be driven! That’s what they’re for!

I have a policy that I won’t own a car that wouldn’t make it to Florida. (I live in Canada)
It may be uncomfortable, slow and bad in gas, but it has to be able to make it.

Recently I’ve been arguing with a friend about upgrading his dad’s A hotrod. It’s a good base with a chopped top and flathead, but it’s so rough that it’s really not capable of going more than 30min from home, if it starts. Friend is insisting he has to keep it just as his dad built it, I’m suggesting keeping the personality but making it better. Make it start and stop reliably, fix the hole in the floor and put in side windows, then drive the wheels off it grinning all the while.

 

I build my stuff to drive. It better be able to go any place I want to drive it, or it gets fixed, or sent down the road. I'm getting old, stuff hurts more then it did when I was young, that means driving where ever I want to go includes me being comfortable while driving there.

There were many years when the "hot rod" was driven 10,000 + miles a year. We have slowed our pace as we grow older, my 49 only saw 8,000 miles last year. This years driven mileage is down a lot more because we had to dump the vacation money into house repairs, but the plan for next year is to get the numbers back up in the respectable mile range again.

If someone likes the way my stuff looks, cool! If someone doesn't like the way my stuff looks, that's cool too! I didn't build it to look at, I built it to drive.

 

BINGO!! Thank you, sir.

Ben

 

This just screams drive me Anthony.

 

Seen this yesterday.

dude said he drove it from bama to Utah and back

I’d drive it

 

I would too! HRP