History An Unknown Roadster

Looks like a Hot Wheels car. Give another shirt to the guy who can post a pic of the Hot Wheels too.

 

is the owner listed in the table of contents?

 

It was built by Ted Wingate, an engine builder in NH, and the car still exists.
Ted is still in business, and although he sold it long ago, it was for sale a few years ago.
The other car in the feature was his full fendered Deuce Roadster.

 

Here is your hotwheels. Enjoy

 

Don't have the article.........but are several copies of that magazine for sale now on eBay.... http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trk...july+1964+hot+rod+magazine&_sacat=0&_from=R40

 

There you go.

 

I think I remember reading the ex Ted Wingate black '32 was used as the proto type for the 1st flamed black Hot Wheels '32 toy. This was after the real car left the east coast . However, this could be a case of fuzzy memory. Edit 12:12 I read Alfins post ; and started typing... never mind!

 

^Quickdraw^ Oh well, here's my scans from Hot Rod, Aug. '64.

 

I'm quick on the Google

 

Here is the Hot Wheels version. Interestingly, the red fendered roadster reminds me a lot of Tom Daniel's/Monogram "Son of Ford" kit.

 

The very first issue of Hot Rod Magazine I ever bought. Bitch'n.

 

anybody notice that channeled rods with other "genuine" old details like SP headlight stands, shorty grilles, etc, are starting to gain more respect around here?

 

if its still around i wonder what it looks like now

 

Day late,dollar short,,I was looking through that massive stack of musty old magazines in the closet and just got immersed in the scent and feel of these wonderful magazines and completely forgot I was trying to find something for someone else. HRP

 

Channeled roadsters with sidepipes that don't look like an afterthought are rare. He's one of the few that got it right.

Maybe because the sidepipes are tucked in close to the bottom edge of the body??

 

I spent some time with Ted a few weeks ago, I am sad to say he is in rehab after a stroke. He was in good spirits and is doing ok. I have spoke to him about his roadster before as I wanted to clone it car has a nail head with a 38 buick road master trans with torque tube drive, 6 97`s, what a Bitchin` car he did all the work himself paint motor everything except the Nancy stitched interior. Someday I will clone this car.

My headlights are awkwardly placed aswell

 

The placement of those headlights harkens back to the silly law passed by California concerning headlight height. Glad it was squashed.

 

I'd have to double check, but I'm pretty sure that car belonged to a guy named Les Jarvis in the mid seventies when it acquired it's flames and the Hot Wheels gig. If I'm not mistaken, Les was tied with Street Rodder magazine at the time maybe as an ad executive of sorts. I do remember that the car spent a winter here in Phoenix in a mentor's garage in '77 or so, and I saw it at that time. 'Course it's 11:00 pm, and back wide awake full of Nyquil, too...

 

The two pages arent in the 1st issue they messed up and didnt put them in they put themin the next issue i have both.

 

Hey, I have that one except in white! That was probably my favorite Hot Wheels growing up.

Well, actually, second to the brass-era touring car I took the fenders off of with a razor saw and brushed flat black.

 

Another beauty...

 

I've been promoting it for years.

 

I have the white one as well. They are part of my personal collection. I have been collecting since I was a kid.

 

While the headlight placement could be a little better; they are hot rod headlights on hot rod headlight stands. Anyway, much better than big old Guides or stock '32s sitting low on the frame horns way out in front of the grille, looking like frog eyes or something.

 

I was fortunate enough to meet Ted and have a great conversation with him. I made the journey up the kangamangus highway to purchase a LaSalle grill shell. I had no idea who he was until we got to talking. I commented on the magazine covers he had displayed in his garage, and told him I actually just picked that issue up at a swap meet the weekend before. He then informed me it was him in the drivers seat! and that he built both cars. then he got to talking of his role in the hayday of hot rodding in so-cal, and that he built the roadster in his aunts chicken coop! He showed me the 5-window deuce he was currently working on, and then showed me the rest of his collection of bikes and cars. Great guy, great time.


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I don't think that the headlights are awkwardly placed. A lot of cars are still or were built that way during that period of time.

I'm of the school of thought that headlights are actually a functional part of a car and I tend to agree with minimum headlight height laws.

IMO headlights need to be high enough to actually function as they are intended and I do not like the tendency to mount them right down low at the bottom of the grille and in some cases too far forward or too close together.

Again IMO it can ruin the look of an otherwise nice car.

I have 2 of the Hot Wheels that were offered years ago at McDonalds.
A red one and a orange one.

 

X3...
The "New" hamb, where you can speak the old ways, and not get spanked.


although, those "big old Guides" just mentioned, actually do show up a lot in 50s pics. Those being the deeper bucket type. The shallower versions were very often used on later 50's and then King Bee sized ones in the 60s.


I have only seen one real '50s pic of a Texas-build (32 coupe) with the very low lights, so it sure was not common, by any stretch.

 

This is how I feel about lights,both when I was building in the 50's on and now,big lights were too old and thought of as ugly,low lights were only looked at as poor engineering