Features this from a 1932 movie

Mopar had tubular axles in the 30's...I wanna say franklins had em too. JohnnyA

 

The line, for the guys mounting bulb horns on their windshield, starts....

 

Now that is a******in little ride!

 

looks like maybe it was made from a miller race car

 

Obviously the car was built in 31 at the latest...so what would have run a curved axle like that in the late 20's I wonder?
Be a little odd for a car with parallel leafs to curve the axle like that...but who knows!?!?
Gotta LOVE a thread like this because its proof of how things really were done!

 

Those rams horn bulb horns were really popular on rods in the mid to late '60s. Can't believe I liked some of the stuff I did back then.

 

Could the hood be aluminum instead of chrome? Early T's had aluminum hoods, but I don't they would have fit a '25-'26, would they? In the movie it has a gearshift too. And are those front brakes or just part of the Buffalos?

 

Could easily be aluminum and well polished out. Makes more sense if the early hoods were aluminum!!!
Didn't notice the shifter, but haven't had a chance to really look at the movie yet...and I was wondering the same thing about the front brakes.
That Roadster had a serious load of modifications for a 10 year old car back in the day!

 

I like this roadster because it causes guys to rethink what they took as fact. Like the hair pins being used and that style front axle in 1932. This may be a rod that was odd ball at the time, but some of the oddness ended up becoming mainstream.

It's like finding a human foot print, next to a dinosaur foot print. Here's a fenderless street car, in a time when it was thought that the fenders stayed on, unless the car was at the lakes.

It's nice to have a head scratcher show up.

 

I lighten the photo,cropped it and re-sized it hoping someone might spot something that will help identify the parts used. HRP

 

I thought the first movie with a hot rod was "Devil on Wheels" circa 1946. This movie pushes that idea way back. Fantastic roadster!

 

I can't see the whole YouTube deal, but I can tell the T is a 1923-25 by the windsheild posts. Front axle is must likely from a Franklin. Hood looks like a chromed stock T. Wish there was a clear shot of the wheels, I think they are Daytons. Great looking car! Bob

 

This is a Mercury Speedster body on a T chassis, were is the car today Don? Bob

 

Axle is definitely a Franklin going by the dip and riveted axle ends.

 

You need to look at the video. There's a nice shot 17 minutes in of it in day light.

 

Daughter has a laptop, I'll be back. Bob

 

Thanks for the movie time Fred, the wheels are Buffalo, don't know what the disks are on the front, Franklin didn't have front brakes. Bob

 

Thanks SD.

 

Bob, my Buffalos have a hub similar to that. They attach to locating pins on the hub. But these almost look like brake drums, have depth to them.

 

Another thing I found odd about the movie and this car, is that no one in the movie comments about it. True it's just a movie, but no one seems to care, even the girls dad, that this guy is cruising around with what amounts to half a car. Seems there would be a reference to this "gow job" or "jalopy".

YES! I watched it and I don't care who knows!

 

It's different seeing him drive it wearing a tie, jacket and hat too.

No reference to the car at all? That's weird.

Where'd you find the whole movie, Fred? I didn't see that it's available on Youtube, but I found it on vioos. (pronounced "views") I use vioos all the time...they've got lots and lots of movies on there. Pay no attention to the "you need to upgrade your flash" etc. And just X out the pop-up pages.

Here's a link to this movie on vioos.
http://viooz.co/movies/20422-hot-saturday-1932.html

 

The link is in post #25.

 

Here's a few more screen captures:

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Who ever built that car knew what they were doing. Thats one nice
little roadster. Sure wish I owned it.....

 

I've used the HAMB search without luck looking for an early Gow Job built by someone named Gabby I think, there were lots of shots of the car and a few clones. Can't find my Frank Kurtis Story book either, wonder if this car was the one that later in life got the first hart shaped nose. The thread****le isn't one to attract any of the Gow Job guys here on the HAMB. HEMI32 thanks for the still shots! Bob http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=502216&highlight=gow+job&page=5 ....... Just went through this old thread and the movie we're talking about was mentioned there back on November 30, 2011.

 

I have seen this car before, perhaps in other stills from this film
I heard a story once that Clark Gable challenged Bob Estes to a race with his early T roadster against Gable's '29 Packard 8.

As the story goes, Estes shamed Gable's Packard so badly with his Hopped up T and impressed Gable so much with his victory, Gable commisioned a similar T built for himself.....but sadly with less then comperable performance.

This may very well be Gable's "clone" of Bob Estes' T.

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Now that is one slick sweet ride.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
leo

 

Don, more proof that all of us should be taking more photos of our rides. We don't think much about it at the time, but what a gift to you that shot is now.

 

.......Such a very true statement. In this modern digital age there's still nothing as rewarding as shuffling through a shoebox of old family photos and finding a shot of a loved one now gone that you had perhaps never viewed before. Same holds true for their cars which they were often posed next to.