Folks Of Interest Jim "JAKE" Jacobs, The Original Traditional Hot Rodder ! "TRODA"

Just a little bump of a 9 year old thread... I believe the young guys need to know about IMHO.

 

Since this has been bumped we’ll add just a little bit more to it, some images appeared earlier in the thread, A couple of the pix are “What’s Ifs?” Done for me by our very own “Stogy “.
Lastly the P&J’s 28-31 Chassis that’s under my family owned 30 A P/U. It’s nearly the same as the one under Jake’s P/U.

 

Bumping this one up again with a question???
@ROCKER77,
Does Jake still have the 33 Tudor that his former spouse “Patty” also drove as a ChevyII powered Hot Rod that once towed this tandem axle trailer with this (@that time) once famous Kustom Merc?
I know the engine did time in the Mail Truck.
Is it still in the mix????

 

I don't know about the Model A but I restored the Buddy Alcorn Merc. about 20 years. I do believe it's for sale. Kurt Mc Cormick still owns it.

 

Hi Cyclone Kevin Jake's neighbor owns the 33 Tudor he's had it a number of years

 

Bill R in Hesperia,CA owns the '33 tudor and still does.He bought it from Jake around 2008.

 

Thanks guys, I was wondering what happened to it. It was in his stable a very long time…….
Any current pix of it?
Sheldon,
I’m the guy that bought the rolling 32 Chassis that You & Jake had @ the Claremont-Cable Airport V8 Club Swap & Jake delivered it right here in Temple City. That’s the nicest Deuce Chassis I’d ever seen. the next week it became this Hot Rod,
Jake was stoked!!!!!!!
Roy was telling me that Mumford had to buy a BB Truck & that Full Fendered Roadster in order to get it, I guess Damien had to do the sane just to get those upper parts for Roy to build his Hot Rod????

 

Also--- remember when Jake had this license name on his coupe?-----SIROD??--That was his moms name spelled backwards in 1971.

 

Hi Don,
Yeah, Jake’s was Jake’s 34, Pete’s dads on his 26 “Father’s Day Roadster 1978” was SIROD 2 which is
“2 Doris”, PC2’s wife. PC4 is its caretaker presently & perhaps PC5 is in line for it after that.

 

Hey Kevin, Very cool !! Jake helped me haul that chassis from Brizio's ,then to that swap meet then we hauled it to you.My how time fly's. The '33 is stuffed under a carport partially apart.I emailed Bill and he still has it.Bill is giving it to his younger son someday. Bill never has transferred the title He'll keep it that way and apply for a lost title if he wants to register it.Sheldon

 

So kool to see it being past down. .
Still would like to see pix. Yes, that’s 17+ yrs ago for that chassis in the rear view mirror. Mapped out the 7th (2nd of the then new version) of our PRC RR with that chassis under 64D, I recall on the test run I had to pull the tank near Art Center College of Design to get some of the silicone sealer that the previous owner let get in the tank (fuel pick up unit) & into the line.
I felt sorry for the asphalt as I had a full tank as it made a mess of that street. .

 

I remember that the '32 fuel pump was not working right and I think you got a kit from Vintique. Sorry,no way to get pics of Jake's '33 as it sits.I am to far away.I'll ask Bill.

 

Good memory Sheldon,
Yup, initially the diaphragm was bad & I went ahead & replaced it before I was able to take that 1st ride, The fuel system was contaminated with silicone, but I learned later after it was sucking up that silicone sealant, once that was gone she fired up religiously. I did install a back up 6 volt fuel pump as a priming pump just for starting. Made it very easy to light.
2 other small gremlins popped up down the road, that 21 stud had the 32 pole type generator, the adjustment nut broke , but Jim Gordon had one in stock and dropped on by, a bearing in the generator seized on the way to the Hot Rod Reunion, a very good Kiwi friend & Outrider brother-Phil Andresand saved my tush by hunting down a bearing and assisting me in working on it @ Squeak’s shop while the party was going on.
The car itself was left @ another good guys house while his Hudson Kustom sat out till Sunday when I put the generator back on & drove it on home to T.C. The only other thing was it would develop a miss, wasn’t sure about the plug wires or the distributor so I just swapped them out with others that I had from my 34 Coupe. Worked out great. I think I still have those former parts in my stash.

 

SIROD was the plate on the 26 roadster that Pete Chapouris III built for his Dad, Pete Jr. in the 70's and then rebuilt in the 90's ~ Sirod was Doris backwards who was Pete III's Mom, Pete Jr.s Wife. The cars is known as Sirod 2 (for To Doris). Pete IV owns the car.

Jake's coupe had the plate "JAKE 34"

 

There's a man who knows how to have "Fun with Cars",

 

This is a great update!! I can't get enough of this kind of hot rod history...........

 

Just a bump for a good thread

 

So an add to this TRODA thread.
Was chatting about hot rods with the current L.A. Roadster Club President over a pancake breakfast at my place here in TC, and we got in to a conversation about club plaques. That led to early members, then to cars. I brought out my L.A. Roadsters book and we went through past away members and past, still living members and some associates -Incoming associates. What popped up was a few names. One being Carl Johansen who formerly owned the now Highboy 4 Door Sedan that Jake’s been known to take out on a run or so….. Carl just so happens to have bought like 20 years ago a mail truck that Jake worked on for Tony Piner who Jake traded his mail truck to for the 28 Tub body back in 87…..
So a name Tom Lawson comes up who I believe is going to be an associate member of the LARC ?
So Paul - L.A.R.C. President and I go off to run errands . In our day we had lunch at the Downey Golden Arches, then headed over to see if a cruise night was happening in Whittier, not really there…..
Then I headed for home. When I came up this one street , I decided to pop in on a friend who happens to be the 7 or 17th L.A. Roadster Club Member from 1958. That’s Carl Johansen. we got there about 5:15 pm or so and didn’t leave till nearly 12am…..
Paul had never met or known of Carl or any of his connections with Hot Rodding.He always has a cool project or three going on….
He brought up Jake, We all used to eat at all the same joints. So I relayed a story about Jake and his closed cab - RPU that he joined R&C with. Somehow I googled images and came across this feature in “Fuel” about a “Once Famous RPU” that was recognized on FB by Of course Thom Taylor who’s like a walking Hot Rod History Book saw the color photo of Jake’s rpu. From back in the 60’s..
I read the story which is written by another former R&C editor Jeff Tann and pix by Michael Breeding with a Goodguys watermark. and Paul tells me about this yellow 28/29 Rpu that was going together @ Tann’s place.
and the guys name is Tom Lawson.
Didn’t we just have a conversation about this truck & guy this morning????
We’ll between us 3 there we unaware that Jake had even let rpu go???? So we were surprised that this was indeed parts of Jake’s Closed Cab-RPU from his very “Early Times” of “Compton Cruising”.
Looking at its present look kinda reminds me of a 29 RPU that Paul & I built out of a thrashed by nicely repaired bed and new RPU cab, cept the one we built was very traditional. Take a close look at that yellow trucks license plate……

 

Kevin , lately I've been talking with Jake about the roadster pickup.
He has spoken with the fellow who now owns the yellow version .
As you know the original car "split" and became two.
The roadster cab, hood, radiator & chassis was sold to Ron Jones & Jake helped him with making it a whole car again, in the same color, but no "flake" fenders .
The original closed cab, bed, 2 fenders & other pieces became the gold truck.
The interesting thing is, there are still parts of the original truck still kicking around !
Here's just one & I know of other parts .

 

This reminiscing is great. Please keep it going……

 

Pete,
So is this one - that Thom spied/ID’d Jake’s? I enlarged the only pix that I have access to and even the pinstripes are in the same place-just got me wondering. Was this or the version Ron has one in the same ???
The “Jeff Tann” penned article states that a “Doug Fraijo” formerly owned both the
engine and the Roadster pieces. Got me curious now .

 

CK, if this is Jake's ol' rpu ..... all I can say is "some people shouldn't be allowed to buy historic hot rods".



I know it was only the body, hood and grill shell that were pictured as being original to Jake's build, but isn't it time we started to preserve cars from that era???

I remember a 'barn-find' 32 roadster in one of Mort's issues of hop up being sent to a hi-profile shop in the Bay area, whereupon it lost all of it's original identity. So sad that some people have no desire to preserve the history of their cars, and I say this as a caretaker of a car that came out of a collection,where the owner bought it in 1966,, and I have not changed the car's identity.

 

I'm just trying to get in touch with Jim. I was born and raised in Compton and joined Early Times in 1967. I have lived in TX since '68, and have lost touch with hot rods and many friends, but heard that sometimes Jim shows up at the Lone Star Roundup. I live about 20 min. from the Roundup and go often. So, I hope he can contact me. I'm not asking for his phone no. or email, sure would like to talk though.


This is a photo I took of him the morning he woke up after sleeping in the bed of his truck. We were at Big Bear or Arrowhead or the weekend I think.

Thanks for your help! Greg

 

Jake sure is the real deal - it was a huge honor to meet him at 2019 GNRS and take Model As

His fun with cars attitude has inspired my interests greatly!

He inspired my green fenderless pickup which in turn he was impressed and intrigued with - i thought that was cool

 

Where in Compton? I lived on Harris, North of Alondra. I think one of the Booth bros. Lived on my street…

 

He grew up on Lime St in Compton .Not far from Service Center.

 

809 S. Pearl. Around the corner from Rosevelt Jr. High on Alondra. I went to Dominguez H. S.

 

Greg and Sheldon....Who in the Early Times had the blown metallic blue "T"? That's the one who lived on Harris near Alondra. I think it was Tom Or Bill....could be wrong, I was only 9 years old....

 

I have been told a frame that was under that truck at one time was in Livermore CA, I was offered a chance to buy it a few years back.

 

I think, it belonged to Don Mabe. It's not on the cover of the June 1967 Rod & Custom mag I have. My coupe in not in the photo either, but I remember being there when the photos were taken.