Oh, the "Show Rod" years... The date was November 18, 1965, and the place was the New York Coliseum. The indoor car show movement was fully into the kooky themed vehicles that lacked reasonable function or provided trend-setting design cu... <BR><BR>To read the rest of this blog entry from The Jalopy Journal, click here.
A customer hired me to bring his antique car collection to that show a few years after that, maybe 1970 or so...Remember Don Imus was there...My friend had to pull his motor apart to retrieve all the pennies the bozos from NYC threw down his Altered's injector scoop...still was a fun few days.
Well, no it doesn't. I'd bet nearly 2/3 of the membership here would dearly love to have Casper's Ghost. And yeah, who in their right mind would want to own or build a dragster like that "Mortician"? Clown cars aside, some of the best looking kustoms and mild kustoms were done right in that time period. That was the pinnacle of Roth's time too. Maybe his stuff isn't HAMB material? I hope you and everyone else sees the sarcsm where appropriate, but I couldn't possibly disagree more with the "64" comment.
Does anyone that was at the New York Coliseum shows in the 60s remember seeing a red chopped and channeled 32 5w coupe with short doors?... Or has anyone seen pictures of one there?
Be it race cars or show cars, the further one gets away from streetability, the less interested I become. -Dave
I remember going in the early 70s.Bob Hope had a golf cart there.Saw the "Truly Rare" 50 Buick,plus a shitload of wacky show cars.
Those shows were really special to a 12 year old kid in 1963 who had a Dad who took him into NYC to see them. Still have my program and remember seeing Roths "Outlaw" and Bill Cushenbery's "El Matador" as clearly in my mind as if I saw them yesterday.
Last year Me and a buddy rode our motorcycles down to Auburn Indiana and went to check out the Carl Casper display of hot rods and movie/show cars. I pretty much just wanted to see some of his interior work. That dude could stitch. Anyway, here is the link. http://www.kacmuseum.org/exhibits/carlcasper/caspersghost
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