Great eye Rik....you are correct on the Plymouth...and to the left is the great Cunningham 40' Ford , with Dave Cunningham standing at the drivers door.
That is Eddie Johnson's 57 Plymouth. He was from Petaluma. It had extended fins rolled pans and Joe Wilhelm had just finished painting it in shades of Pearl white and Orange. It was a late entry and there is no other information in the program. I don't have Andy's book in front of me but I think Gordy Stefan's Plymouth was a '55 or '56.
Correct.. I just checked... and the book is wrong... well sort of mixed up. The caption says 55 Plymouth, but the photo shows this 57 Plymouth.
Great car. I need to buy the book. I already have Customs of the 50s, what am I waiting for? Here's another I have of the same car with a different paint job.
Rik (@Rikster) - Nope ... I'm thinkin' that Andy Southard Jr. (@AndySS) just goofed up the caption for his '61 GNRS photo of Cushenberry's "El Matador" displayed next to a '57 Plymouth hardtop: To the right is Gordon Stefans's 1955 Plymouth hardtop. The front is highly customized with a floating bar grille, the bottom bumper grille from a '57 Dodge, and tubular grilles. The 1958 Buick parking lights are cupped in '55 Buick bumper tips. The interior and trunk are upholstered in white-and-orange Naugahyde, and the exterior paint is pearl white with orange sherbet, trimmed in gold. Western Wheel and Rim Company did the chromed reverse wheels. Gordon Stefans was a pinstriper & sign painter from my hometown of Fremont, CA ... I remember going over to his house in the '70s / '80s and seeing pics of his '55 Plymouth hardtop Custom on his garage wall. Sondre (@SuperFleye) has some pics of Gordon's re-styled '55 Plymouth on his Kustomrama site ... just click HERE. EDIT: D'oh! ... You guys are too fast! ... or maybe I just type too slow
R&C Ron Thanks so much for sharing these great pictures! I see several cars, besides the ones already mentioned, that I recognize from old R&C magazines that I have.
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