What is your favorite Hot Rod of all time??

Mad Fabricators Society did that one...

http://www.madfabricators.com/dvd.htm

 

wait... no mention at'all of the baddest '34 ever???

here's a cool site full of historic and even some early pic's of the Mooneyham/Sharp car... http://75.141.218.6/554/554.html

 

I believe it was mentioned early in the thread...not sure

 

I won't commit to only one, but this one is near the top of my list. As bad-ass as any street roadster in history.

 

There's a long list of very worthy contenders, but for me there's only one champion:



Perfect appearance, superior performance and craftsmanship, owner-built, and most of its details were invented by Doane before anybody else did them.

 

Kookies
The California Kid
Ray Dresselhaus's 32

 

Amen to that! Had that site bookmarked for a year.

 

It's hard to pick just one. The jack Morgan 34 is one of my favorites.
Clark

 

Mooneyham - Sharpe '34 Coupe or the Orange Crate. Kind of a toss up... But like many have said, there are far too may cars that are my favorite.

 

love the Orange Crate

 

Here's my fave.....

 

This:


It's my Uncle Nick's hot rod. He finished it in 73 a year after I was born. Its a little hokey in some areas... but for me it represents home built hot rodding at its best.

He adapted Pinto front suspension on it... in 73... did everything in his garage... engine, body, paint, interior. Then he drove the doors off of it.

It seems to be in a constant state of improvment... he's always tinkering with this... or making that better.

Everything on it has been done by him. If he can't find the part in the junkyard he builds it... he machines his own fittings... makes his own brackets...

He is everything that hot rodding should be... and when I look at him I see that car... when I see that car I think of him.

Its blood.

Its soul...

Its family.

Give me a choice between that and the Doan Spencer roadster... Deaths Doorstep... "that model A that starts fights" and I'll choose my Uncles 32 every time.

 

After careful consideration I have to rank this one way up there in my book.

 

It's about time someone put Prufer's '34 up. I've been unable to locate my photo of it or it would have been here already.

And I didn't even have to give it careful consideration.

 

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McGee, Spencer and Ray Brown's. I also don't think movie props should qualify.

 

havent seen the latest progress on it, but Deaths Doorstep has been up there on my list for a couple of years.

 

Yeah-the Cop car is way cool.

 

This may not be a famous hot rod that graced the pages of the early 60s magazines. The builder is relatively unknown, unless you travel in the small circle of his life long friends. To me this is my favorite hot rod. It is my first memory of a hot rod. No matter what I build or drive, it always takes me back to the time I spent sitting behind the wheel with my eyes burning and my ears ringing Imagining what it would be like driving it on my own. If not for this chopped up little car and its builder, I may not have ever entered this hobby.

 

1941 Willys

 

Mid to late 60's SWC Swindler A:

 

mmmmmmmgassers,so many but this one was always a favourite,they must have searched for months to find 3 guys whose names would sound good.(thanks.stolen from Dean Lowe on another post)

 

Dick Patterson's Y-block powered, double-McCulloched Model A, with blown plastic roof.

 

Is that car still around?

 

pretty wicked car!

 

the joe & jason kennedy chopped 5W, just right

 

isnt this the clone built by the guys at califorina street ros in the early 90s ?? nice but if Im going to wish it would be for the real thing even tho this car most likely is a nicer car....

 

My all time favorite was a 34 2 dr sedan built by Ron Weeks it was a lite blue and had inlaid teakwood roof and running board ran torque thrust & a blown Olds motor was around in the 70s..this car did it for me....still does.......WHERE IS IT TODAY? rumor was it had a bad fire...cant find a good pic sorry

 

Any of Red Vogt's cars






Or Smokey Yunicks #3 57' Chevy




And my personal Favorite is the Fabulous Hudson Hornet