Features 1940's period correct hot rods

This is absolutely an unbelievable thread...thank's so much for sharing the man, many pictures...I can see where I'll be spending my morning coffee!!

 

What are the whooies between the exhaust manifold ?

 

Ok,Jimmy. Stop. I've run outta room to save pics. Btw...I think I need more 'alone time'.

 

Those "Whooies" could be additional crank case breathers.

 

1948
Los Angeles
Herald Examiner Collection

A delegation places a Green Cross Safety sticker on a hot rod as the hot rodders look on in the background. The photo caption reads: "The first Green Cross Safety sticker of the National Safety Council is shown here being placed on a[n] experimental engineering car when members of the National Timing Association were inducted into the Green Cross for Safety Mobilization yesterday. Left to right are Capt. Roger E. Murdock, Los Angeles Polic; Capt. Otto Bauer of California Highway Patrol; Jim Bishop, presiden tof the Greater Los Angeles Chapter, NSC; Akton Miller, president of the Timing group; and Judge Roger Pfaff of the Los Angeles Municipal Court". Photo dated: Sep. 20, 1948.

 

Santa Ana, c1940.

 

I love this coupe.

 

I can't get enough of this thread!

 

They should be vents

 

Looks like Bob McGee's deuce....?

 

Screen savers for days. thanks fellas. Inspiring future builds around the world!

 

Chassis looks very 'heavy' on this ..anyone care to explain why ? ?

thanks

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Keith

 

heres mine the newest part is the intake from 46'.

 

What a fine thread. Big thanks to everybody who's posted!

 

Definitely one of the better pictorial threads.

 

looks like covers around stuff,,no so much the thickness of teh frame itself

 

Thanx to all the contributors!! One of the neatest threads on the ... H.A.M.B. !!

 

I think the real question is how fast does she run?

 

Some new, some old

 

I really dig your Highboy,... but I had to have fun with it,... hope you don't mind.

 

Great pics Chris,any more info on this one?

 

Zach Suhr built that last year and sold it. It was the the car tha made me get off my ass and get a roadtser body. Then I pretty much coppied it He sold it over seas, though I can't remember were....

 

These look like covers, not sure what the purpose was...this picture appeared in a magazine some time ago...supposedly getting ready to street race somewhere in rural Orange County, CA, and supposedly Wally Parks is the guy standing next to the modified with the aircraft cap on....apparently taken around 1938

 

The only thing that blows the period correctness of your retouched photo is the photo of James Brown in the window next to the guy sittin on the bench. "Hey, Jump Back!"

Can't beat the picture, looks great.

 

Erlomd, thanks for starting this thread

And thanks to everyone else for posting the pics, for someone who's trying to build a 40's era (or as close as) this pictures are further inspiration for me

 

I've been sitting here for hours looking at these pics. I remember my oldest brother and stuff like this when I was just a tyke. He's a really old fart now and I'm sending a few of these to him. I remember the day he helped me pull my first engine in 63. Wish I knew what he has forgotten about cars. The old time rodders did it all. Great thread. Thanks

 

296ardun,

Thanks for the explanation, just seemed they had gone to a lot of effort to strip weight out and then put it on a truck chassis

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Keith