Hot Rods For the Record

This is a great part of Hot Rodding history.. The orange roadster (upper right hand corner) was owned by Tom Plevin from the Bay Area Roadsters. He was my neighbor growing up and he would show me pics and tell me stories from this particular run. They met up w/ the LA Roadsters and what probably seemed as a normal photo to them, has since graced album covers and started many conversations.. Just a bunch of normal young hot rodders having fun.. Great to see this photo still attracting attention .. Sadly enough, many of these guys are no longer here, including Tom, but I'm sure they would get a kick of seeing it today. Tom was not only my neighbor, but a father figure and taught me a lot about hot rods which sparked my adulthood addiction...Thanks for sharing...

 

This is Warren "Tut" Brown's '28 Hiboy from the Willow Glen district of San Jose, CA:

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Here's Tut's roadster at the '58 National (Oakland) Roadster Show:

image from pg. 32 of the May 1958 issue of HOT ROD Magazine
by Dick Day​

... at the '58 NHRA Nationals in Oklahoma City:

image by @dechrome​

NO. 379
ENTRY Tut's Auto Supply Spl.
DRIVER W.R. Brown
CITY San Jose, Calif.
CAR '28 Ford
ENGINE '55 Chev.​

... and at Willow Glen Park in 1964 ... with Clif Inman's '57 Chrysler & Larry Brink's '40 Willys:

image from the Clif Inman archives​

NOTE: Clif Inman is the current caretaker of (his friend & mentor) Tut Brown's '28 Hiboy:

images from the Clif Inman archives​

 

Here's some more photos taken that same weekend in 1963 ... when the Bay Area Roadsters and the LA Roadsters clubs converged at a Fresno, California Motel:

all images by Eric Rickman​

photographer unknown



photographer unknown​

Duane Kofoed's (Dick Flint) '29 Track-nosed Roadster, Sam Conrad's '29 Hiboy Roadster, and Dick Scritchfield's (Bob McGee) '32 Roadster line-up for a cruise:

photographer unknown​

 

@HEMI32 All of those photos rule!!!!!

 

@HEMI32 ^^^^ X2!! (with two exclamation marks!!) Thanks for posting.

 

Those were truly "the days".

 

The yellow T roadster was on the cover of the October 1964 Popular Hot Rodding. It is featured, I will have to dig out the mag tonight and scan the article.