History The Timbs Roadster

I've always been a hot rod guy but there is no denighing that I have a thing for traditional well built customs, one car that always stood out in my mind was the Timbs custom/roadster, a car that in my opinion crossed the lines of custom & hot rod.





I made me nausious when I saw the photos of the car the way it looked after it was lost to the wildfires, truth be know I feared it would be nothing but a memorybut I was wrong, the car has been restored. HRP







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Norman Timbs, the builder & designer of the Timbs roadster worked for Tucker as a junior engineer as well as the legendary wheel manufacturer Halibrand, designing many of the company's early products, including the famous quick-change rear axle. HRP

 

At what point do we stop calling something a restoration? To me this isn't a restoration it's a recreation with the original ch***is. When an entirely new body has to be built it's not longer the original car. Would the Hirohata be the Hirohata if the body was replaced with a new one? This a little different due to the custom ch***is but it's still a stretch in my mind to call this a resortation.

 

Hasn't this now been destroyed in the recent Californian wild fires?

 

The car has been restored after the fire.

 

Always the question. My buddy used to call it "My Grandfather's ax"
The head has been replaces 2 times and it's had 3 handles but it's still my Grandfather's ax.
This car being rebuilt and the fact that the history is known I would give this a little extra leeway.
In the restoration world things get sketchy when cars that were written off are suddenly found.