Hot Rods The Severely Chopped Coupes and Sedans Thread

Flathead. Was for sale 2 or 3 years ago by a member here.

 

Thanks Joe Blow

 

@Jonneville got any pics of the chassis you can share please?

 

A couple more posted by @40ragtopdown in the images that need no explanation thread.
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...ges-that-need-no-explanation.1143737/page-367

 

Anybody know who built this Crosley Posted by @Stogy

 

Unsure of the builder......but pic is from the 1957 Hot Rod Annual article - Flame Painting and Striping.
Article by Jive-Bomber:
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=27806

 

@Speed Gems it is in the top right corner behind the 32 on the right...

This looks to be a well healed show...

I think its outlandishly cool...

By the way I asked about it to no avail...mind you it was pic above...
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@Joe Blow Page 101 of the same article also tells us who did the flames on the ill fated 525 C coupe,. I know the driver was killed drag racing the car unfortunately i don't recall his name.

 

This the guy? Car looks the same....pre-flame? Text says roadster but pic shows coupe.

Harold Casaurang
Born: November 6, 1927
Died: September 30, 1956
Buried: Memory Gardens Cemetery, Concord, California
Age: 28
Full Name: Louis Harold Casaurang, Jr.
Nickname:
Drag Strip: Vacaville Drag Strip, California
Event:
Accident Date: September 30, 1956
Car: roadster

Biographical: He was clocked at 134 MPH, the top speed of the meet, when his roadster crashed and he was killed. Just after crossing the finish line, he swerved to miss the timing tower. He tried to correct it, but the car went into a long skid, shot fifty feet through the air and landed on its top. He was crushed. He was from Concord, California, and was survived by his wife Evelyn who, along with 3,000 spectators, witnessed the fatal crash. It was reported after the accident that the paving was rough in the shut down area and may have been a factor in the inability of the driver to control and stop the car at its high rate of speed. He was a construction truck driver.

Sources
"Drag racer dies," Nevada State Journal, October 5, 1956
“Hot rod driver flips, driver dies,” Hayward Daily Review, Oct. 1, 1956
“Hot rod notes” Hayward Daily Review, Oct. 5, 1956
"Drag race driver killed in crash," Humboldt Standard, Oct. 1, 1956
"Drag strip driver dies at 134 M.P.H., Oakland Tribune, Oct. 1, 1956.
California Death Index (Louis Harold Casaurang, died September 30, 1956 in Solano, CA, born November 6, 1927, in California, mother’s maiden name was Mendonca)
Social Security Death Index (Louis Casaurang, born Nov. 6, 1927, died Sep. 1956, SS# issued in California before 1951)
California Birth Index (Louis Harold Casaurang, born November 6, 1927, in Contra Costa Co., CA, mother’s maiden name was Mendonca)

Photos

Find a Grave





Bigger pic of the car:

 

Yes, I think the car pictured is actually the CAL NEVA coupe but they may be one and the same.

 

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...enized-hotrods.1002926/page-194#post-14073897

...I found some really nice pics of this radical Crosley and the blurb seemed to accompany it not sure if Lloyd Krant had anything to do with it a Saugus in 1952 but he may have...we will connect those dots in time...or someone else will...

Credit to Photographers, Owners
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Treasure trove in here......can't get the pics to copy. Looks like the car was a Hayward Headhunters club car.
https://dragstriplist.com/ca This page doesn't want to load real quick....give it a minute.
Pics are approx. half way down the page.

Here's the caption on this pic.

Hayward Head Hunter members Charlie Booth and Bob Rosen set a record at Kingdon in 1954 in this C Altered. Courtesy of Don Jensen

A pic of the 56 Oakland Roadster Show with caption: (car in the upper right of the pic)

"This photo shows some of the sixteen cars entered by the Hayward Head Hunters in their club display at the 1956 Oakland Roadster Show. Courtesy of Don Jensen"

And finally a pic of a newspaper clipping with this description:

Lions Drag Strip, 1956

• The May 5, 1956 race at Lions drag strip was the last race my father ever competed in. The interesting thing is that my father's motorcycle was a 1943 Harley-Davidson Knucklehead motor with a 1930 VL frame with Triumph forks. I guess who ever write the newspaper clip only noticed the forks, therefore the mistake.

Guy Krant,
son of Lloyd Krant

 

Damn....finally figured out a round about way to get this copied.


This photo shows some of the sixteen cars entered by the Hayward Head Hunters in their club display at the 1956 Oakland Roadster Show. Courtesy of Don Jensen

 

@Joe Blow According to this website California Drag Strip Personal Memories (dragstriplist.com) Vacaville was windy which could've played a role in the crash but he may have just over corrected too miss the tower. (scroll down to the bottom ,dragstrips are in alphabetical order)

 

Great, thanks man. Yeah, damn shame.....he was just 29 years old.

 

Great photos. The cars nice too.


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Posted by @40ragtopdown in the traditional images thread.

 

Chop em all! The 32 has a 5 inch chop, the chevy has a 6 inch chop, and the 34, three window has a 5 inch cut as well.

 

This one says CAL-NEVA Coupe but looks like the one driven by Harold Casaurang at Bonneville and is on the cover of Hot Rod in '54. maybe the same coupe?

 

The Pacific body shop coupe ran by Goodyear and Serpa bought from Harry Duncan had a 296"flathead.

 

A couple from T.R.O.G

Looks like @tdog finally got his car together.

 

New ride.

 

Now that's a Hot Rod by definition!

 

Sent you a DM. Please contact me. May have found this car.