History 1966 OAKLAND ROADSTER SHOW ARCHIVES

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Perhaps a bit off-topic for the H.A.M.B. ... but @John D and our friends over at recently posted a great article (by David Fetherston ) that includes photos of several Traditional Hot Rods & Customs.

Just click HERE to read/view the entire article.

 

Cool - Thanks

 

The 1966 winner of America’s Most Beautiful Roadster went to the Barris-built Don Lokey T-bucket T plus II. This ’27 roadster pickup featured a chrome frame, a brass radiator flanked by European Cibie headlights inside a sculptured nose and candy and pearl paint.
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This traditional ‘23 T pickup complete with US Mags and slicks, showed off its V-belt-drive blower topping off a 292ci Chevy small block
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George Barris’ Surf Woody is the classic custom hot rod woody of all time. It graced the the cover of Hot Rod Magazine and toured the world during the height of its popularity.
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Custom Corvette Stingrays were at the height of their popularity in the mid–sixties. This 1963 featured a Manta Ray-like reformed nose, custom hood scoops, radius wheel wells, Halibrand mags, a 327 under the hood, custom interior and louver moldings.​

 

Bobby Greenwade extensively toured his Cosma Ray custom Corvette bubbletop all over the nation. It won dozens of awards with its wild pink metallic custom paint and radical interior. Built with the help of Daryl Starbird and others, it appeared in several TV shows, including the Wonderful World of Wheels.
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A classic street custom of the mid-sixties would have been something like this 1954 Oldsmobile Holiday Coupe two-door hardtop. It has all the classic touches: frenched headlights, street mags, lowered, shaved trim and door handles, and custom paint.
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Another classic street custom of the mid-sixties, this shoebox Ford convertible features a chopped Carson-style top, shaved body, custom paint, custom grille, radically frenched headlights, chrome reverse wheels and custom trim spear.
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This Barris-built Chevrolet El Camino featured a fade-away pink and red paint scheme with white pleated interior. It ran on Ansen mags and featured a custom grille with rectangular French Cibie headlights.
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The Dorricott and Sheehan Fiat Comp Coupe had won top prize for Competition classes in 1964. It was back this year, but there was no longer a special top award for this class.
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This famous Les Popo channeled, but not chopped, 1940 Ford Coupe owned by Bob Crespo has gone through several iterations. Here, we see it in 1966 after it lost its bright blue metallic paint. Barris, Cushenbery and Hal Hutchins all had a hand in building, or remaking this classic. It was last heard to be in the hands of Mark Moriarity, who was restoring the coupe.
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The famous 1956 Continental Classic, a Lincoln Mark-II bubble top, featured headstone bucket seats covered in snappy white pleated upholstery. It was apparently built for TV personality Alex Dreier. The body was splashed in metallic gold paintwork and featured a radically restyled nose, Mercedes grille, frenched quad Lucas headlights, and custom wheels. It was built by Lee Wells, Jack McKay and Gary Lee. Junior Conway put on the final color coat. This car has recently been restored.
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John Capman rolled in from Santa Rosa, CA with his neat ’26 Ford roadster pickup complete with long side-pipe headers, mags and slicks.
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The Wasp was a bright yellow Model A Roadster Pickup. It featured zoomie headers, pleated interior, roll bar and slicks—all typical of show rods the time.
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Another custom that appeared at the show, appears to be a Chevy that’s been channeled, hood pancaked and decked out, with a full custom grille treatment using vertical headlights.
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Another very neat T-bucket was T for 2. This beauty was shown by Dick Frost from La Habra, CA. Finished in greenish blue it was Pontiac powered with a 4-speed and Halibrand Quick-change. Eddie Martinez did the upholstery. It appeared on the cover the October ’64 Car Craft magazine. The T’s styling was classic of the time with a fancy rear window opening, mags, slicks, a painted grille shell, whitewalls up front and white headers.
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This T was built out of touring car body pieces and called “Julie’s T Cup.” It featured a full pleated interior that wrapped around the bucket seats, later Ford grille and chrome reverse wheels. The motor featured an eight-stack of Stromberg’s and long chromed zoomie headers.​

 

Steve Scott’s Uncertain T became one of the most famous hot rods of its time. It was made into a highly successful model kit with its fuel injected Buick nailhead motor. It is one of the classic custom hot rods. Note the skinny wire wheels up front with the huge mag/slick combination on the rear. The tilted roof line was a first!​

 

Another of the Comp Class cars was the Kelso-Kerr & Schroder BM/SP Corvette. It featured a fuel injected small block and enormous dump headers! ​

 

From nearby San Leandro, Nick Mura’s wild ’40 Willys pickup was the Competition Class winner of the AMBR this year.​

NOTE: This race car was featured in the September 1964 issue of ROD & Custom magazine:

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Carl Casper rolled in from Michigan to show off his radical custom roadster pickup known as “Casper’s Ghost.” The Ghost was powered by a Pontiac V-8, topped with a pair of 4-71 chromed GMC blowers, and drove a Tempest swing-axle rear end.​

 

Chuck Brazier showed off his ‘29 Model A roadster with a Deuce grille. The rod featured a 327 Chevy and a chrome reverse wheels up front and mags with slicks on the rear.​

NOTE: Jim Mack’s Fremont, California-based 1926 T Tub (next to Brazier's hiboy) was featured in the July 1965 issue of ROD & Custom magazine:

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Ray Goulart's 1950 Oldsmobile.

 

would love to have a set of those wheels for my 60 Chevy Sedan Delivery.. cool thread by the way !

 

Will this car ever see the light of day again ? have a heard talk regarding it... but nothing new

 

I almost didn't post that photo because of all the "controversy" & "drama" that @Steve Scott and his Uncertain T have caused on the H.A.M.B. over the years ...

 

I guess I might as well post this photo of yet another car that has caused "controversy" & "drama" here on the H.A.M.B.:

The Mark Mist GT starts somewhere in the late-fifties, when Richie Feliz commissioned Joe Wilhelm to build him a custom coupe. Richie wanted something super creative, so he headed to Wilhelm’s Custom Shop in San Jose, CA to get the results he wanted.
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that's so true , maybe one day this will come around.. now the Mark Mist not a huge fan of that custom at all... I appreciate all the work that went into it.. but boy back in the day they missed the mark(excuse the pun) on some customs... But it was another time and times were different.. hell there are new builds that get my head scratching...

 

Not to appear picky, but It's Bobby Greenwade.

Thanks for starting this thread, Hemi! Great stuff.