60s show rods and bubble tops (post pics here)

My Dad took me to my first car show in 1964 at the Houston Coliseum. I only really remember one car, a T-bucket with a tall top, and two inline six cylinder motors, side by side, mounted at an angle to each other. It might have been gold or brown. Anybody remember it or know where it is today?

 

I think I need a show rod now, great topic.

 

Stilleto

 

LOVE this thread, were there any ever built on 57 chevy frames?

 

Heres one a friend of mine is building locally , started with what was left of a 33/4 5 window stock car body....a really really bad rotten one that had more patches than orig steel.....blew his own bubble as well !

 

I just gotta ask, what is that next to the bubbletop?

BB

 

It was a 39 Plymouth 4 door humpback ...no frame or floor lotsa rust, it was finished last year but he had a fender bender with it ,its just about ready to repaint and a few other changes...he built it in about 4 months...wish I had his energy !

 

What a great thread, enjoyed it immensely...

 

Do you pass out first or the motor?

 

I dont have any pictures... but I did do a report on it at school.... I was in grade 5 ish.. that was about 1971 or 72.... koool to see it again... thanx for the memories..

Roy

 

From the Bill Usedom Photo Collection that is being scanned and shared by Chip Chipman on my site.

 

I know some of these pictures may not be totally correct for this thread, but they are my collection of hot rod cards from the 60's. I am too lazy to sort them out, so I just scanned the whole card holder page. Here are the first 4 pages:









Marty
Marysville, OH

 

Here are the next 4:









Marty
Marysville, OH

 

Here is cool ride from a show in Denison,Texas.
Tex-T

 

Looks good, EXCEPT.... the exhuast looks like an afterthought. It doesn't fit the style of the car.

MOO

Marty
Marysville, OH

 

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<!-- / message --><!-- sig --> Pich up the rodders journal #50 it has good history on the X-Sonic

 

Corvair powered

 

These cards are super cool.

 

I Love this thread, Here's mine.

 

Never seen this one before, where was this taken at?

 

Pic taken at a show in the uk November 2012.... Englands answer to Roth!!

 

AAaaahhh yes, didn't it win "custom car of the year" back in '63? lol

 

Great stuff i really felt at home seeing all of those great cars.

 

Really old thread but I can add some info about the history of the Silhouette. Starbird ended up in Bakersfield for some time in the 70s. I remember seeing the Silhouette in the back of a paint stripping shop her in Bakersfield many years ago, like 1975? It was pretty much all there except it had been painted a horrid lime metal flake color. Why do all old show cars end up painted lime metal flake? I was poor so didn'te even ask if it was for sale but it was in rough condition; the chrome was all rusty, the bubble scratched and checked and the paint really trashy. Sad, that was one of the most beautiful custom cars ever made.

 

I liked the X-Sonic through all it's incarnations but never understood th bubble top but no windshield?

I realize that by that time it was show only but I liked cars that were at least hypothetically streetable.

 

America's Wildest Showrods - A MUST read if you are a fan of bubbletop showrods!

http://www.amazon.com/Americas-Wildest-Show-Rods-CarTech/dp/1613250363

Marty
Marysville, OH

 

I have old pics that I took of Del Clausens '31 A in 1961 at the Mason City, Iowa fair grounds car show. He still lives there and has a chopped, channeled and sectioned shoebox Chevy that's out of this world!