Features TWEETY BIRD, JIM GOVRO'S BEAUTIFUL CHANNELED 32 ROADSTER RETURNS AFTER 50 YEARS, KERVILLE DRAGS

That's gold right there!

 

It's awesome to see posts with dated photos from the day! Never saw Tweety Bird with the top up until now!

 

This is a great story! Remember this car from the early magazines. Will be following.

 

Oh man... that top up picture with the roll bar out back. Bitchen!

 

This is so awesome to see. Keith and his crew will do this roadster right.

 

It's just now starting to set in with Jim how cool is Tweety. From day one for me I knew this was a special car. I'm digging in boxes of gold photos. Here's my latest finds.

 

That last photos SLAYS...

 

A few more from the treasure chest. I'll let the dated photos say the rest. These Photos are from the George Walker collection. That's George in the last pic with Tweety.

 

Amazing

 

I am honored to be a part of this project. I look forward to helping Jim bring his hot rod back to its original glory.
Thanks for all your support.

 

And all of us here on the HAMB will enjoy watching the build with envy! Thank you Keith and the rest of your staff!

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The Austin Car Show of 1969.

 

Look at the 1968 Hemisfaire plate. Great look from the front with the top up. Jim has been working on the design of the caddy mounts for the front using ford biscuits.

 

That's a really big steering wheel. Jim said coming home from Bonnieville it wore a hole in both sides of his pants.

 

In this pic of the glove compartment there is no Tweety Bird yet. The bird was put on in early 1957. You can also see how the frame in the door jam was carpeted over.

 

She sure had a great looking interior - '40 Ford Dash? Steering wheel - not sure. Love the pleated interior!

 

Nothing screams 1974 like a set of Cager SS wheels except the 1974 license plates. This is best photos so far to see Tweety's channel stance.

 

Does anyone know what timeframe it was when Tweety Bird was last seen registered on the street or strip?

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The last license plate was 1980. Jimmy Vaughn says he saw it in a storage unit for sale in 1980. I will ask George when I see him again when it was on the road last.

 

To back track a few months ago. I was working as a sea food rep in my HEB Grocery store. I struck up a conversation with a customer about Tweety. She said that she had several cool cars herself. She went on to say that this weekend was the Dripping Spring Rally for Kids Custom Car Show. I told her I'm going to try to trailer Tweety there in pieces to help tell the public about this car. That night I called Jim and told himI'm going with or without you. The next day we bolted the new axle,springs,and hubs on. Now we are a rolling frame and bare shell.

 

I called Steve the event founder and he told me he had a perfect place for Tweety. He said that one of the guys from Hot Rod Magazine might be there. I had several poster size prints made of the Hot Rod Magazine made to show off the articals on Tweety. I went to the show early to make sure i could set up in the right spot. It was the best place ever. May be a 100 cars plus came to the show. We never saw anyone from Hot Rod Magazine. It was around 6pm and all but about 10 cars were left. I asked a couple of passer bys to help push Tweety on the trailer. A friend of mine who I had not seen in 20 years drove up in their 1950 GMC pickup.

 

View attachment 3732392 View attachment 3732393 So we had alot fo catching up to do. Mom and Jim enjoyed talking with them also. So by now we were the only ones left at the car show. Another couple walk up and took alot of interest in the car so my atension turn to them. I really love telling Tweety's story to people who had not heard of it's past life.

 

I'm going to interrupt this story with some breaking news of yesterday fun, We plucked Tweety of all his feathers. It was nice to see the condition of our fine unfeathered friend. The fenders were really straight along with all the other pieces. The frame is sitting on the frame table waiting to be transformed!!!!!!

 

Okay, now comes the most interesting part of Tweety's resurrection - the actual start of the build! And the crew at the shop are allowing Jim to help too!

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We picked up a nice set of 36 radius rods for Tweety's Olds rearend.

 

Damn they look longer than I've seen before... COOL!!

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