There's another image with either similar or its the same car better detail...might it be bus steering?...it was mentioned...this pic below shows either an optical illusion or some interesting splicing to get the pitman thru the pipes... https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/found-pictures-edit-found-more.1274715/#post-14617664
The sporty one looks like one along the lines of the Thorne a flathead powered oddball featured a while ago... https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...ing-about-this-special.1273793/#post-14605569
Looks to me like they cut the shaft and welded a piece of steel to both ends for strength to possibly shorten it.
I always have a hard time seeing the details in photos like this, my eye's aint so good, but is that a Plymouth flat 6 w/ split exhaust manifold and downdraft intake?
Channeled Duece pickup, with no running boards? Look how low the radiator grill hangs, maybe he's hit it a couple of times?
Homogenized Thread perhaps? I thought it was a great example for the Big Headlight/Small Headlight fiasco debate...and many of the others for the lack of following the bible so to speak...again a most enlightening bunch of pictorial history...and in the evolution there were transitions and even holdouts...
Some of the arguments about things are almost embarrassing to read aren't they?...pics or it didn't happen... I proudly run my....what do they call'em...donkey dicks...1500 magazine covers aren't enough to convince them nothing will...but yeah these pics help round out the reality on the street...on the Upper east coast and across the great divide...it really reminds me of @Marty Strode's and the Massachusetts/New Jersey stomping grounds and frankly right across the northern flank on both sides... Adventurous Hotrod I say...
The trucks nickname was Ole Sparky......there certainly was a price to pay for a look...glad they took those risks...and some captured it... Many times I call them trendsetters...just in awe over this photoset...
Yes it sure is offset by heat and/or cut and rejoined as you say...I suspect it has some clearance to the pipes even if it's a few thou...
Hahaa. Looks a little sketchy too, like a lot of things you’ll see from “back in the day” so to speak.
I revisited the cars- as usual my favourites are the ones with not so shiny paint. Looks like kind of an unofficial gathering, no lawn chairs in those days.
some day when we are all dead right now will be the good old days and people not born yet will be wishing they were here.
@alanp561 you posted this Thread above, once your eyes uncross didn't you think this sporty hybrid looked like one of the potential Thornes...perhaps it lacked the name because it was shaved as it was customized a bit? Is it an Allard? I was just snooping and found one and it has the grill of that in it... ...mind you I think its just the grill repurposed...maybe this isn't an Allard either...
I always felt the mix was there and existed together perhaps with less friction we witness here on a daily basis but that sentiment may have been as Traditional then as it is now... Every builder danced to a different tune, each with different funding in their pocketbooks along with skillsets varied just as they are today... The Big Shows starting in the early 50s along with the magazines probably effected the glamorization of Hotrod but the high bar Hotrod/Custom was already well evident in the early 30s and perhaps well before that with Indy and the numerous coach like shops dotting North America and beyond... Despite my analogy......love that word..., I do love driven Hotrods with soul only pounding the pavement can provide...
Alot of it's better known as Canadian Bacon......Rabid actually did live both sides of the great divide I believe so I guess you could say he saw the best of both worlds...
Good stuff with the BC photos, Remembering in the early 60's you would see some real nice cars from BC in Seattle indoor car shows. In the early 80's there would be a whole contingent from BC with rods at the Vintiques NW Nats in Yakima and lots of Alberta cars. That was before Reno put hot august nights the same weekend. They would come down to Yakima, stay the weekend and head to Reno or maybe Bonneville or both.
Just checking in and to clarify the pic's. The first ones are all from BC 1952. The BCCCA formed in the winter so I think this was their first outdoor gathering since there are no leaves on the tree's or ground.. The other pics were what I was showing the original poster that there were alot of patina'd cars back in the 50s.. The ones he posted are just a few pic's I have collected showing Patina back in the day. Not just shiney or primered.The young guys wee throwing anything together with what ever they could afford which wasn't much. So the later pic's are from all over, not just BC. Also the young kid in the pic could have been my Stepdad. Bob. hence the "B". And yes he was always into cars. Also the car club BCCCA (British Columbia Custom Car Association) "own" and run Mission raceway. Its the fastest track in N.America as its Sea level. Most records are set there. Also I am a Dual citizen so Ive experienced the best and.... worst of both countries. Here's another pic of my Dads best friends 1931 Model A with cobbled headers, around a 12" channel. This was 1956. His Dads brand new car is in behind Waynes 31. The pic was suppose to be in a story in the Vancouver Sun about Hot rodding in Vancouver. It apparently didn't make the cut. Also a pretty cool article on the BCCCA This is the earliest BCCCA car club plaque. The car is riveted on and apparently the member number is engraved on the back of the car. Im not about to drill out the original rivets but I heard thr were 50 of these plaques made with the car riveted on and this is 37 is what I was told. Afte doing the rivted on car they cast the car onto the plaque as one pour.
Steve, welcome back. Thank you for all that information and thank you for allowing me to post the pictures.
These are some great photos. Cal Van Stores were one of the first speed shops I ever went into in the early 80's on Hastings in Burnaby. Tried really hard to figure out where these pictures were taken as there are no mountains visible to give reference. Looking at some of the post War bungalow houses they could have been in East Vancouver. Today most hot rod and car culture is alive and well but, removed from the metro condo infill development of Vancouver. 30 miles east of Vancouver in Coquitlam then to Surrey, Langley Abbotsford car culture is alive and well. Mission raceway is still alive and ongoing and of course from my perspective because I don't live in those areas, we trek out there for shows or the local Cars and Coffee makes the little gatherings interesting. Back then population would have been 550,000. It's now 2.6 million.
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