I remember seeing this '32 back in the mid 70's. The flames were orange colored trimbrite prism vinyl material pinstriped in black paint. The Cragars and orange paint was really something. Black & white pic: http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-4/700182/19309499-File0012.jpg
Zach your killing me.....the first car I ever drove I was six years old, it's the red T better know as the Highland Plating Special/Dick Kraft car. My father sold it in the eighties.
Here is the '32 that really patterned my taste right to this day: Lots of chrome, Cragars, tunnel rams and crushed velvet interiors. John Lackner from the Cleveland Ohio area owned this car. I saw it at several shows in the -75-77 era.
Anybody remember the Bob Hope Car? I remember a book in the school library back in the 70s with the bath tub car above, telephone booth car, Zingers, etc. etc. Anyone remember that book?
I remember that book and anouther one with all 70's drag cars. I bet I checked them out a dozen times each. I'm pretty sure it was in elementary school too.
That Bob Hope car had to be the ugliest and most ridiculous thing ever made. Wasn't it a golf cart? George Barris really lost track in the late 60's and 70's. I wonder what Sam would have thought.
For any good, decent example you can find from the 70's.... I'll show you five or six abominations against all that we cherish, and god almighty himself, following not far behind....
At least my thread is about hotrods: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16267 http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16123 I think it is interesting to see how the real nice styles from the 40's, 50's, and 60's evolved into these cars. Thanks for all this pics so far.
George Barris has never made anything decent since the mid 60's. The stuff he made in the 80's, 90' s and just recently is just plain hideous. I've always been told Sam was the real brain behind things and knew what looked right.
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