I’ve been through Lewistown, Montana before. It’s a tiny little town with a tiny population and if not for the well cared-for buildings that spec the streets, it could easily be mistaken for a ghost town. There just doesn’t seem to be a ton going on there and it’s hard to imagine that there ever [...]
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Lewistown, Montana… Drag Racing in 1959.
Posted on July 28th, 2010 by Ryan
Filed under: Hot Rods
Filed under: Hot Rods
The Broyles ‘32
So Mr. Johnny Joyo pulls up in my driveway rolling a Ferrari F355. It was hard not to giggle like a little girl… I might have even chuckled a bit. The owner of the red Italian also owns a bitchin little ‘32 roadster and I wanted to do a follow up piece on my ”Ferrari Shoot” [...]
Tattersfield’s Streamliner
I’m on my way to a doctor’s appointment this morning, so I don’t have much time for my daily post. I made a quick search through my head looking for subjects we haven’t covered all that thoroughly in the past and landed on Bob Tattersfield’s Streaminler. The odd thing about Bob’s car is that it was [...]
The Quad Rod
Weirdness that somehow works… The “Quad Rod” was featured in the February, 1959 issue of Rodding & Restyling. It’s one of those cars that gets worse and worse as you describe it with words – ‘30 coupe cut down into a roadster and channeled deeply over a-rails, Moon discs, strange quad ‘36 Ford headlamps, etc…
Admittedly, [...]
The Rex Rod & Chassis Digger
Introducing the Rex Rod & Chassis Digger… We hinted around about this a few years ago, but life got in the way and plans stalled a bit. Recently, my brother Keith locked himself in the shop, flushed the keys down the toilet, and committed himself to making it happen. And like anything Keith does, it’s [...]
Reliability…
Around 8 years ago I started to build this A roadster in a 19th century carriage house garage behind a little cottage my wife and I rented when we first got married. Armed with basic, low grade hand tools, a borrowed 110 mig welder, and the Bishop Tardel classic “How to Build a Tradition A-V8″, [...]
Just A Nice Roadster
Don Brown’s roadster was featured in the April, 1959 edition of Rod & Custom Magazine. I recently ran across the article and frankly, was amazed the little roadster made the cut. Not only was it rare to see a flathead powered car featured in the fabled little pages by 1959, but this car seems to [...]
Crime Wave!
I love it when doing research on one subject leads to something even more interesting… I was looking at clips from the 1954 film noir classic “Crime Wave”, with a young Charles Bronson as a 2 bit criminal, when I noticed a sweet hot rod driven by the featured criminal couple. The very clean ‘29 [...]
Valley Custom Introduces The Street Rod
In the July, 1958 issue of Car Craft Magazine, Neil Emory and Clay Jensen introduced their idea of a “street rod.” The two custom brainiacs saw the traditional hot rod roadster as a machine built with no compromises. Hot Rods were built to go fast and in doing so, thoughts of style and comfort were [...]
Holdin’ Cups
A few years ago, I was at the Hot Rod Cinematic and found myself studying a very well done ‘32 3w. It was a casual hot rod, but a lot of time and energy was spent on the details. You know the trade – innovative wire looms, brilliant brackets, clocked hardware, etc… One of the [...]
