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I've been following Rod's work for years, so it's nice to see him doing something that is HAMB friendly.Having had several Porsche 356's in our family, I do think that they dovetail nicely into what we do.
I've burned a lot of time on his instagram page, but hadn't seen the '39. How cool it must be to have your grandfather's and uncle's handiwork is such great condition!
"It’s just that these darn little German cars keep getting in the way." That's unfortunate because those little German cars bore me to tears.
In the article the car was a coupe it was later modified into the convertible. Which for me was a great idea as it lends itself to being in the style of the early Valley Customs. I want to say there was an article about the channelling process in HRM in 1955 (ok, the '55 article was about Z-ing the frame looks like the same car) then in '57 R&C did the channel article.
Just an FYI ... The ‘55 HRM articles were about a ‘40 Ford Coupe being customized by Neil Emory of Valley Custom: May 1955: “Lower The Beam” (with a dropped axle ...) June 1955: “Lower Away” (Z frame alteration ...) July 1955: “Dropped The Limit!” (Rear of the ‘40 Ford is given the full treatment ...) The December 1957 issue of R&C included an article on channeling:
Yeah when all those articles were written it was still a '40 coupe, Rik has done a good article here explaining Don and Gary splicing in '39 convert panels--> https://www.customcarchronicle.com/custom-cars/in-the-works-gary-emory-1939-ford/
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