Hot Rods Tired of homogenized hotrods

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...E & J's Oh Yeah!!...This Hotrod is truly an exercise in Soul
and Getting it...

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Credit to Photographer Mike Harrington. Owner

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...Chitty Chitty for Terra Firma...from across the pond and a bit...and a survivor to boot...

Credit to Photographer, Owner
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...Truly a feet in Metalcrafting excellence...with Vintage Vision
at the heart of the Hotrod...








...What a Jawdroppingly Incredible Hotrod with
an equally Gifted Photographer

From Way across the Pond and a bit over yonder...

Credit to Photographer, Owner

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The Front springs are along side the frame allowing easy stance adjusting as you have pointed out on other Hotrods... @Six Ball was that style of running parallel leaf a Standard Feature on those old cars back in the 20s or Hotrod Innovation?​

 

I don't know of any car that mounted the front springs that way but some had the rear springs out there. One issue would be moving the spring farther apart on the axle and potential wheel clearance problems. On this car the frame has been narrowed so the springs look like they are on the stock place on the axle. I'm am in the process of figuring out how the parallel springs on my Chevy roadster will mount. The Ford buggy spring set up males it easier to get them low but most cars of the day had some sort of parallel springs. Mine doesn't need to be really low.

 

I'm thinking it puts a different kind of load on the frame since it comes off the side as opposed to under...so beefing to accommodate the potential twisting force might have to be considered.

As for axles, wider with perch locations outbrd of the original are a potential solution as well and in the land of Jalopy this is how things are often addressed...

 

http://www.motorcycle.ch/gallery

@Ziggster...

This is across the pond...and looks to be a big fun package indeed...

Credit to Photographer, Owner
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TROG Ready...Not all Racers were Show and Go but Soul was overflowing...

https://kustomrama.com/wiki/Robert_Genat

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/the-birth-of-hot-rodding-pictorial-of-the-40’s-and-50’s.170171/

Credit to Photographer, Owner
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Ready to Rockin' Roll

Priceless

https://kustomrama.com/wiki/Robert_Genat

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/the-birth-of-hot-rodding-pictorial-of-the-40’s-and-50’s.170171/

Credit to Photographer, Owner
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...Part of the Mix...it did happen

Thanks for the Memories Fellas...

Another posted by @rbantique

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/as-they-were.758207/

Credit to Photographer, Owner
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Art Deco Hot Rod

 

...this thing is one Wild Warrior...the look is actually quite a huge force today...it was years in the making...anybody know of the history behind the pic?

Update I found a great Hamb thread...
By Hamber @Tom Ingram with this and other priceless glimpses into some of the Good Times...

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/1955-1956-nhra-drag-race-photos.1002191/

Credit to Photographer, Owner
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...Knuckle Scraper...

1955...Stogy wasn't even a twinkle yet...

Another of Hamber @Tom Ingram 's collection with this and other priceless glimpses into some of the Good Times...

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/1955-1956-nhra-drag-race-photos.1002191/

Credit to Photographer, Owner
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Another of @rbantique's Collection of the real deal
back in the day...Although the Dates on the Engine pics are different I believe they are the same Hotrod...

Another posted by @rbantique

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/as-they-were.758207/

Credit to Photographer, Owner
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Lot of work in this Beauty...

Thanks for the Memories...

Another posted by @rbantique

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/as-they-were.758207/

Credit to Photographer, Owner
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...More of the Driven Hotrod...as is where is...priceless

Thanks for the Memories...

Another posted by @rbantique

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/as-they-were.758207/

Credit to Photographer, Owner​

 

...35/6 Fords and their other Fat Fendered Friends can do nasty just fine
and 1/2 fendered Hotrods are just a great way of saying ready to Rockin' Roll...

This Plated Warrior looks ready to do battle...

Another from Hamber @Tom Ingram's collection of priceless glimpses into some of the Good Times...

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/1955-1956-nhra-drag-race-photos.1002191/

Credit to Photographer, Owner
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Grilles are overrated...this look certainly is no doubt race related and may have been a weekend ritual in go fast...stripping it down at home or the shop but being road driven in this look says Hotrod to me...

Another from Hamber @Tom Ingram's collection of priceless glimpses into some of the Good Times...

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/1955-1956-nhra-drag-race-photos.1002191/

Credit to Photographer, Owner
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https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...m-days-gone-by.428585/page-6304#post-13005307

Posted by @loudbang...here's a combo you don't see to often but you know the saying...pics or it didn't happen...

Credit to Photographer, Owner
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https://kustomrama.com/wiki/Pat_Leighton's_1932_Ford

...Pat Leighton as a POW sketched up a Hotrod and after release built it when he got back to the homeland...a well built highly detailed Hotrod that saw Dry Lakes action...just another part of the vibrant mix of Wild going on in those postwar years...it was an incredible time...

This Hotrod reminds me of Jimmy Summers 32 with it's highly modded grille but each have their own unique identity...

Question...Has anyone saw that sketch...I seem to remember one, but have never saw it again...

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...Tuffy2

Another from Hamber @Tom Ingram's collection of priceless glimpses into some of the Good Times...

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/1955-1956-nhra-drag-race-photos.1002191/

Credit to Photographer, Owner
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Now that's a mouth full....the grille that is.

 

Here's a more aerodynamic view...think of it as ram air...I wonder what his reasoning was...Art?...incredible workmanship...



I wonder if Pat's Design and Metalworking skills were acquired during Wartime...he had amazing fit and finish skills.

Really neat Hotrod Roadster behind Pat's 32...Real Low...Nice Stance...maybe a Tracknose...

It was shared by the Late Hamber Rockerhead in a great thread on Old Hotrod Photo's and identified by @Jimmy B at link below...

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/old-hot-rods-photos.1038554/page-2#post-11762226

Credit to Photographer, Owner

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As an artist and metal worker I have always liked this car, I think the nose was a combination of art and function , I can't keep up with all the cars I've liked over the years, is this car still around?

 

That's always the 16 million dollar question...It may turn up in an estate auction a dusty recluse from the late 50's...... one can only hope...it really had aviation written all over it and it did pretty respectably at the lakes...

117mph El Mirage 1949

 

If i was the one that found it hidden away I could die an extra happy man.

 

...Lurkers...Uniquely Standalone and very Cool Pavement Pounders...



Part of the Peterson collection...

Credit to Photographer, Owner
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...Here's why FrameSwaps get a Bad Name...

I like Kooky...I'm Having a Chuckle Looking at it and its a Hotrod...Yeehaww!!

Credit to Artist, Photographer, Owner

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...The Delicate Balance continues...

Credit to Photographer, Owner
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...A rare Street legal Willys Big Window Coupe...Blindspots be damned...

A pic fro Hamber @George Klass's Collection

http://www.georgeklass.net/index.html

Credit to Photographer, Owner
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