Titty Pink

I’m elbows deep in prep for a trip to Hawaii—no time to breathe, let alone daydream—but I figured I’d drop a photo grenade in your laps before I go dark.

Back in July of ‘58, Rodding & Restyling threw the Andy Kassa coupe on its cover. You know the one. Hell, if you’ve spent more than ten minutes in this world, you know the Kassa Coupe. Maybe the most beloved ’32 3W ever hammered together… It’s been reworked and reinvented a dozen times—went from elegant to wild and back again. You’ve seen the Barris “Cyclops” version. You’ve seen the chopped and reversed rake edition with the damn continental kit. But for my money, the best iteration was always that ‘58 cover car—chrome grille shell, full caps, drenched in red. All business.

That is… until Rich Boyton emailed me in 2016 with some dusty medium format scans from a forgotten shoot in Dallas, dated ‘63 or ‘64. And just like that, everything changed for me.

This thing, fellas… this pale pink bastard of a coupe. Same Kassa bones, but with a soft-punch color that shouldn’t work—but absolutely does. Two-tone grille shell, pink and chrome. Subtle. Innocent in a way. It’s my new favorite flavor of Kassa. The kind of car that whispers instead of screams.

God, I love it. Only thing I’d change? Drop those damn headlights a few inches and call it done.