Oh it has absolutely nothing to do with the thread. it is just something that someone threw out there and hoped it would make us giggle. I do faces better then names and sometimes in the pits I don't do faces real well either. I will probably remember you when I see you though, I just may not remember why so if I look confused please don't take it personal I get that look when my brain is trying to access memory. I'll splain in a PM its not everyone's business.
Sancho, What is interesting is that the wheel wells are filled but the reveal is still there. maybe it is me personally but I think that the reveal makes it not look like a poor glass replica. It makes the car for me.
People sometimes bemoan the fact that there are few, if any, customs built from pre-'35 models. The light colored car in this picture is certainly an exception to that observation; the body is so far from any original Ford product that it's virtually a coachbuilt car. I've seen it before, but don't remember what it started out as. I think I recall that it has a deuce grille.
When I look back at old magazines, its clear to me that the lines between 'hot-rod" and "custom" were no where near as hard-edged and clearly defined as they are now, and making those definitions so hard-edged really stifles the modern scene. It seems like the new rules are as soon as you make any body mods beyond chopping a car and switching the tail-lights, it becomes a "custom" and is supposed to have a tail-dragger stance and skirts. Your car clearly violates the new rules, and that's why I love it. That light coloured car looks to be Model 40 based, and it is extremely cool, IMO. I'd love to know more.
Who else wishes that pic showed more of the 2 cars behind those? Wow, what can be seen of them looks good I'm sure a lot of viewers don't get your excitement over wheel covers, but yes they do look perfect on those cars. It's too bad it was only maybe a ten year fad back then?
Good clean up of the pic. The sure does look like Stan "The BodyMan" Berhinghele's 32 from Culver City back before Craig Bowman nee ,"Breedlove" flipped it back in the day. If one looks up a Rodders Journal with a garage spread story on Stan's then current build roadster, I believe that this 32 3W is in there as it was from pic that he used to carry in his wallet. Stan built 3 more 32 3W's. and a couple of 32 Roadsters and hung out as an "OLDTIMERs" WLA. club member. He past away roughly 6 years ago. Coincidentally Stan chopped the Neal East 32 5W Coupe back in like 56. Did Robert William's body work on his black 32 3W, Was a great talent and made pounds of lead dust.
I could not agree with you more George. The Ol' Man used to say that all hot rods were customs but not all customs were hot rods. I look at it this way, let us suppose that we have an A sedan, and channel it with a mild chop. then we put the fenders back on it with the fenders in the stock location. That is an old custom trick moving the body down and leaving the fenders where they sit, they look raised in relation to the body. Then we stuff a hot olds between the frame horns and back it with a LaSalle top loader. Now this raises a question, is it a hot rod or a custom?
Interesting candy apple roadster from British Columbia running 322 nailhead and another Ford steering wheel.
Looks like a later version of this car: http://www.kustomrama.com/index.php?title=Henry_Rootlieb's_1933_Ford
This car was originally built by Joe Mahovlic of Vancouver, B.C. in 1950/51 and later sold to Chuck Robinson who installed the Buick engine and painted it Candy Apple red.
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