View Full Version : Old custom find, and background story........
I was going through old pictures today and came across these and thought id share. I was out at this guys piece of property in the desert giving hime my down payment on the sedan delivery in the background , and then just kinda snooping around i saw this wacky looking project that was obviousely from the early 60's, maybay even 50's, and i asked him where he dug that out from. He said he had gotten it from some crack-head that was going to sell it as scrap aluminum, (yes,ALUMINUM), for his next fix and thought "oh no", it's worth saving, and bought for a song. He did resurch on the project and came up with this. There were 3 sailors that worked sheetmetal ,(more than likely gearheads), on a ship together in the Navy. Well, they decided when they got out they would get together and build a radical aluminum rod, and so they did . This car is on the cover of a 50's HotRod mag. Not sure which issue but i'm sure one of you guys can fill that info in. The car was built entirly out of aluminum except of course for the frame ,and wood spares to buck the aluminum on, and was left as a skeleton for support. It was painted like a hunter green entirly on the cover of H/R. The "straight 8" engine sat behind the two passenger,(for a lack of better words), cubbyhole, and the rear end was not identified. It looked as if they used European window frames Jag/Mg maybe. I tryed to see how the engine and rearend were mated but it was to far back in the hole. I picked up my sedan delivery a few weeks later and he had moved it to the back 40 and i didn't see it again, until.......... I was watching The revised "Gone in 60 seconds", and when they show the front of their chop-shop there it was!, right behind the fence up front, what looked to have been sanded and maybe polished out. If someone has that copy of H/R i sure would love to read the full story behind it. Enjoy! "Hip" http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
slazzen
03-25-2004, 12:11 AM
?????
Brickster
03-25-2004, 12:15 AM
am i missing something? where is the picture
Satinblack
03-25-2004, 12:25 AM
Ok I can't pass this one up! Hey are you the crack head your refering to? Wheres the PIC!!!!!
slazzen
03-25-2004, 12:47 AM
LOL it hurts
desertratrodder
03-25-2004, 12:52 AM
Man, for the love of God and the sanity of us all, please step away from the bong, or the pipe, or the beer can with holes punched in one end.
What are you rambling about, where are the pics????
Thats a hard read for basically nothing... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
FnDIRTYGREASER
03-25-2004, 01:02 AM
hahaha.. damn that sucked!
I can't can't get the FUCKIN pictures to load!!!? Bare with me, they'll be up here soon.
Satinblack
03-25-2004, 01:45 AM
Well I hope the guy that owns it made enough money from it being in the movie to get a new house, What a shit hole, LOL
Satinblack
03-25-2004, 01:52 AM
Is that a pinto! Damn you should have picked that up too!
Sorry about that delay. Well, fact of the matter is ,the guy who owns this piece of land in pretty much the middle of NOWWHERE, moved up from LA to get out of the ratrace, but this is way on the other side of the spectrum!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
Bigdaddy
03-25-2004, 02:02 AM
Dam People are stealing fonudations these days to, put the poor old bastards house on blocks even.... but left the wheels on the shitboxes.....
-Bigdaddy
Satinblack
03-25-2004, 02:04 AM
Shit you gave him $100 for the sedan delivery and sold it for $3000. What did he want for the vette?
desertratrodder
03-25-2004, 02:09 AM
NO I want the pinto!! Now I know where all my missing jackstands ended up. Holding up the Hilton!
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
FnDIRTYGREASER
03-25-2004, 02:10 AM
whhhhat???? damn, now thats a good profit!
Satinblack
03-25-2004, 02:14 AM
Shitfndirty! Thats not the half of it, he spent all the money and mostly on el pollo loco and mcdonalds! Oh and he bought a stereo for the truck thats still not running, oooops did I say that? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif
I wish I could make a offer on the vette... my dad's been wanting one of those for years...
Anyhow, friggin killer car! I really dig it, it looks vaugely like a 30's mid-engine Auto-Union. Very wild!
Satinblack
03-25-2004, 02:19 AM
Hi Mojo, long time no see. Oh by the way stop changing the tone of this post. LOL Satin
Bigdaddy
03-25-2004, 02:20 AM
you would figure he would have some good beer at his house with all that money, but he had natural light... and some half smoked phillies blunts to offer Satin and I when we went to visit him..... since he cant get kitchen passes to often.... I hear most of the money went to the wifey to get some new lee press on nails!!
FnDIRTYGREASER
03-25-2004, 02:22 AM
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Shitfndirty! Thats not the half of it, he spent all the money and mostly on el pollo loco and mcdonalds! Oh and he bought a stereo for the truck thats still not running, oooops did I say that? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif
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woah, thats alot of food from the dollar menu. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Bigdaddy
03-25-2004, 02:24 AM
fndirtygreaser.... shit man he was loaded so he bought value sized combo meals.....he made me order off the dollar menu though
-Bigdaddy
He had some other workable metal too laying around his property. Alot more than i could snap off. I was going to go back for more later.
desertratrodder
03-25-2004, 02:27 AM
Hey dont bag on the mans beer that you got for free, but the blunts.. those already had the dope smoked out of them..
To keep this on topic, yes the aluminum beast is cool,and how much for the rest of the stuff?
Satinblack
03-25-2004, 02:28 AM
Well by the amount you got the sedan delivewry for it seems you snapped it off good!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
Who the in-the-hell is drivin this post anyway its going out of control!!!? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
Satinblack
03-25-2004, 02:30 AM
HEy desert dont you know this is the hamb and you suppossed to be off topic, and yes I ment to spell delivery that way, thats how hip spells it.
Bigdaddy
03-25-2004, 02:31 AM
I think you should just go back and snap the old mans neck and hook his "house on Jacks" onto some wheels and take it home for a guest house, youve already ripped him off enough by making all that profit on the sedan... how do you sleep at night. its called Karma HIP
-Bigdaddy
desertratrodder
03-25-2004, 02:32 AM
You my friend, are the driver of this crazy train!
Satinblack
03-25-2004, 02:33 AM
Karma? He doesnt even answer his damn phone!
You piece of shit SATIN! He didn't tell you guys the truth. I'll see YOU at work tomorrow. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
Bigdaddy
03-25-2004, 02:38 AM
oh ya he is a piece of shit??? you are the one that doesnt anwser his phone......
-Bigdaddy
Damn bigdaddy , whatd i ever do to you!? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
Bigdaddy
03-25-2004, 02:44 AM
well you gave me some carne in pomona last time that made me shit my pants for days... still a little pissed about that..
-Bigdaddy
Oh i know. Your still sore about the non-existent tranny that i supposedly had. Still don't know what the hell happened to that thing. Sorry.
hey didnt anyone ever clue you in that we laced that meat with e-lax? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Bigdaddy
03-25-2004, 02:52 AM
no clue but found out about noon when i had "FRA"tm Flaming Red Asshole.....
-Bigdaddy
nother pic of his spread.
Least it was flamin red, technicolor would have been a bad sign. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
desertratrodder
03-25-2004, 03:00 AM
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no clue but found out about noon when i had "FRA"tm Flaming Red Asshole.....
-Bigdaddy
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So thats what Johnny Cash was singing about "The Ring of Fire"..........
Bigdaddy
03-25-2004, 03:03 AM
funny thing itwas in the rolling stone about the hemroid cream preperation H wanted to use that song.... I Just wrote a 50 page paper on Johnny Cash and the communication theory Narrative Paradigm..... using the song The Man Comes Around... I gotta present it to my panel tomm.. its for my capstone class to pass college... wooo hoo May 8th
-Bigdaddy
Bigdaddy
03-25-2004, 03:03 AM
so im out..... bed time...
-Bigdaddy
Satinblack
03-25-2004, 03:14 AM
Hip you need to get your ass to bed so you dont fall asleep at work again..................by the way Hip still has the new rocker patch panels that he was going to use on the sedan delivery in case anyones interested
Wait a min. Satin! Look who's callin the kettle black "SNOOZY" http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Lowlife
03-25-2004, 07:03 AM
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Your the man lowlife! Would i be looking a gift horse in the mouth if i asked for the whole article on it? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif Thats the beauty though. Thanks.
Django
03-25-2004, 10:59 AM
That car is pretty wild. And that is one huge fucking air conditioner on the side of his wigwam.
Satinblack
03-25-2004, 11:21 AM
I am sorry I need to be honest. The workmanship is cool and interesting, but somethings are just butt ugly. Of course as years go by I guess it makes them more interesting. Why isn't the guy restoring it????
daign
03-25-2004, 12:56 PM
That thing was built by one guy. I believe he was a automotive designer from los angeles. Norman Timbs...
That car is no longer in the desert. It sold for some hefty bucks at Barrett Jackson about 2 years ago here in LA. I took pictures of it and took a look around the 'interior'.
Its an interesting project and piece of history. But its a piece of scrap metal to most...
-Dane
Well what i was saying last night is that i figure he either sold it or rented to the movie company. You can see the aircraft influence that went into this project in the "step only" plate from the magazine article. I like it. Almost looks like a cross between a NASA lifting body and a vintage lakes racer. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
Thanks daign for the update and correct information. I can only tell the story that was told to me but it just goes to show you, you can't believe everything you hear. Do you know where it is now daign? Id like to see it restored.
Satinblack
03-25-2004, 01:36 PM
Well hopefully that guy moved out of the shit hole he was at and didnt blow his money on fast food!
Lowlife
03-25-2004, 05:38 PM
Hip,I just sent the full scan your way.That one page is it,from Custom Cars Trend Book #101.They featured some crazy shit in these early custom books.I'm sure I have another pic or two if I can locate.later
shoebox72
03-25-2004, 06:24 PM
Man, that thing looks like a volkswagon with Hemmoroids.
Billy
prime mover
03-25-2004, 06:29 PM
man I was thinking about mounting a downdraft swamp cooler on the side of my house but now I'm having second thoughts.
choprods
03-25-2004, 07:04 PM
put a blown Hemi in and take that thing to speed week! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
It is in Custom Cars, Trend Book 101. Aka The Bible for the early custom guys....
Eh, the vette looks like it's been used for parts. Nix that.. vette crap is expensive, almost as much as mustang crap.
What's that rusty 30's sedan, in the pic of the 2 4door sedans and the cab-over in the background? Looks like something other than fjord... Are there two? One pic looks like a 2-door, the other a 4 door... same car?
I'm astounded at the stuff hiding out in the bushes here in the dirt...
Steve
03-26-2004, 02:05 AM
damn this post wnet so far off topic and then somehow came back. Thats an interesting looking car. here the fuck is it now?
Satinblack
03-26-2004, 02:36 AM
If you knew Hip you would know why things can go way off topic!
I don't think we'll here from him tonight. He was taking his truck out on its maiden voyage today after work and he made a sharp turn in an intersection and the bed flew off! He forgot to bolt it down. Man it wasn't a pretty scene to say the least.
nor cal nic
03-26-2004, 02:54 AM
great thread... even the tangents. i love these "i found something old" storys and finding out the history. i have this vw powered air boat that was used in the burt reynolds film, gator in my yard. no t really but i thought i'd take this thread in another direction.
nic
Ok . Just now found the time to reply to Satin's little "fib"! The truck is not on the road yet. The trucks maiden voyage is at least another month out. The bed will be securely bolted to the frame, unlike the previouse clone was,and it didn't kick up the production in the post like i think he thought it might. when he showed me his reply i couldn't just let it go. I'm not a total dumbass, just one of my cheeks are numb. "Hip" http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif (I am the king of tangents!) http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
was FLORIDA trying to BUILD the "DOUCHENBERG" styled BATMOBILE(tm). with a LITTLE JIMMY SHINE on their MIND?
GERM
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