Hot Rods CA Hot Rod Deuce Coupe **Found***

Where in the Los Angeles area did you find it? Looks like a rough part of town? Might be a hint as to where it spent some of it’s time while cruising around, and someone might remember seeing it.

 

He said he bought it out of the Pacoima/Sepulveda area. Where he also lived.

I am certain the guy I bought it off of did not have it running long to be seen around that area.

The detail and amount energy/$ spent on this car back then should really point to a well known car...


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I am thinking this car would have been in some publication.

Please someone help me find it!!!



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Looks like the taillights were '38-'39 Ford 'teardrops', 'cambered-in' for that 'Sloe-eyed look'...

A friend in San Jose did that to the channeled '31 'A' roadster I found for him. I told him what that idea looked like...and it wasn't kind.
Actually, it would make identification in pics more 'possible', not a lot of guys did that one.

 

Another one that's green with envy.
Nice score! Good luck with the search and the build.

 

Wow, Christmas has come early. An outstanding score!

 

Congratulations with this find. Bet there is a photo somewhere, maybe that it,s not even the main object in the photo but parked next to something else. At the drags or some other event.

 

Banjo steering wheel looks very British. Maybe Austin Healey or Austin Atlantic. How about those swing pedals on the homemade wooden firewall , what could they be from ?

 

That pedal set up, looks real similar to an Ansen. Really nice score on the whole pile! Good luck finding a history...I have been trying to find information or a historical picture on my 3W to no avail since 1968.... hope you have better results!

 

Great story. I'm surprised somebody didn't beat you to it after you planted the seed of buying it.

 

Cool......you must have been a really good boy this year !

 

your work is cut out . your mission should you accept it

 

while looking for this picture . found that it was voted #1 hotrod of all time .sure a classic/hamb friendly look !!

 

This is my all time favorite and with the floors already cut out it’s asking for a channel.
I really like the 60’s Drag/Show look...

I would be partial to putting it back in its original configuration if I can find any documentation....


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Truth be told, I have never wanked to the Graffiti coupe like most seem to.

They unchanneled the car, for the movie, & left bobbed fenders & grille in channeled positions. The radiator support rods sloping downhill is just a big "NOPE" for me.

The decisions of Hollywood. Whoop dee doo.

I'll take your interpretation of "cool" over yet another "piss yellow" clone of a hastily done movie car.

Hope you find your '32's history, or make your own history .. .. when able. Great freggin' find.

 

there all cool . things where different in the 70s . i was there!!

 

Good find,

Now I'd really like to hear what the sellers memory was of the acid trip

 

Shazam! That's a great start! Go nuts and make it yours.

 

That's not true. The Graffiti coupe was never channeled. There are "before" pics in an old Street Rodder Magazine showing the full fendered hot rod they started with.

Anyways, if I found the coupe like the OP did I'd for sure try to do some research as to its heritage. But unless he can absolutely verify a particular car, he should feel free to do anything he wants. And even if he can find a history he still shouldn't be scared to built it "his way".

 

Apologies for thread derail, OP. I love your '32.

@alchemy You likely have more magazines than I. Nov 1976 SR shows Jeff Beck's Graffiti clone starting with fenders. I've never seen an actual photo of the "before AG" coupe.

If anyone has reference, PM me the photo, please. Or post to the AG thread, already on the forum.

All references, I've deep dived on AG '32, was HAMB oriented, here. If I missed notes on a car, I'm "meh'" about, I'll blame it on CRS.

Anyhow .. back to OP's awesome thread. No further off topic interruption from me.

 

Found these while browsing, at first glance I thought it may be the same car but pretty positive it is not. Found through google here https://mobile.twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1024776429517590528

 

Does anyone know anything more on the George Barris Fish coupe??

Anymore pictures of it??


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Maybe try Rik Hoving or the the Kustomrama website?

 

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...-32-3-window-into-a-lions-drag-coupe.1167290/

Is this related...theres a Five window that pops up in the thread but it still exists today...

That one @Shadow Creek found looks a close cousin...

When you say Fish I think of the Golden Sahara...

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Burbank Choppers "Fish" as in Fisher coupe ? Valley Customs chop, HAMB banner at times. It exists.

 

That Brown Inspiration of Cash's a page ago is similar but not the Fish Coupe, correct?...the Fish coupe shared was in a Satin finish...

Stogy's mixed up...nothing new......can't wait to see this one show up in black and white...

 

Brown one Don Tognatti...he had the very cool Pinkish T



https://www.barrett-jackson.com/Events/Event/Details/1932-FORD-CUSTOM-5-WINDOW-COUPE-THE-AVENG-23904

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Congratulations on your find and how you handled the purchase! I'll start going through old Hot Rod issues, when was it originally built so I can skip earlier years. Old Hot Rods need their history tracked and documented just like vintage race cars. Strip that yellow paint with a razor, start looking for any lettering if you think it may have raced somewhere. Start a HAMB build thread, or keep adding info here.
Sure glad something good turned up in 2020. Bob

 

Not sure when originally built but was repurchased in 64’ and started to be torn apart around 67-70....



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Looks to me that any history the coupe may have had is long gone; just build it into a hot rod reminiscent of either the flathead era it was born in or the overhead era it last lived in.