Amazing, Rick Elliott and his coupe**

theres a story in the new Rod and kulture about an amazing guy, Rick elliot, with a right up on the coupe he built, I dont have a picture of the car but it is unbeleivable and its on pages 46-47 in R&K, does anyone have any pictures or more stories about the car or Rick????

The car was Stolen the day after he passed away, and unfortunetly never seen again.... pics would help with this but i cant find any on the computer.......................

 

I was going to post the same thing yesterday...it was at the Cow Palace
show a few years ago I searched and couldn't find any thing..

That car is amazing..What the hell happend to it and how old was he?

will it end up in Mexico?

lets find this thing..

 

man, looked at the article and didnt read it today at the newstand............!

 

We gotta find it! lets get some info and pics up evel.

 

i'll keep looking for pix

 

that car haunts my dreams, such a great car and i cant believe someone would steal it.
and i hope they catch the bastard that took it, but sadly it was probably just parted out.
i just get angry thinking about it

heres some pictures











i dont care what anyone says this car is badass!

 

does anyone know where he's from? my guess is somewere in central calif. possibly san luis obispo? the sticker in the center of the grille is " Independent race susp". i race motocross and they are just a little shop in san luis obispo and they have done some stuff for my susp on my bike, weird that the sticker is on there, ill try and go by there this weekend and ask em about it..........................

 

When was that thing built?

 

That baby is just drop-dead COOL!

 

I saw a little pic of this thing in Hot Rod and I been wanting to see it ever since . Damn , I llove this car, at least I'm getting to see more pics of it. Thanks

 

that thing is nuts!!!

damn impressive

 

So, did it ever get on the road, it obviously was not in running condition when those photos were shot, and was the driver side motor just for looks? Look how the banjo lines up with the starboard.

 

Ummm wow............... I don't mean that in a good way either...
I hate that it got stolen but maybe if it got parted out it was just the hotrod gods making things right again.......
Go ahead and flame me but I am just giving my opinion.
Brad

 

That got butt ugly all over it.

 

There are some cool things going on there, and I'm all about the twin motor concept, but what's up with that windsheild? And the bowling pin...

 

Not that i would have built something like that but you have to give him credit for going outside the box. I think the car is kewl and definately has bad ass stuff on it.

 

ok sorry i know all you guys bagging on it dont look at the work that has gone into it, and you would all rather see a flatblack 5 window coupe with red wheels................... dont post if you dont like it!

 

I'm gonna check all the Mexican porn shops.

 

Any info on the drivetrain?

 

Are you kidding?? how can anyone not like that thing..

its one of the most crative hot rods that came out in the past few years..

who has the balls to build somthing like that...None of us! I think its
fucking cool as hell..and now the owner passed and it got stolen the next day.
adds to the mystery of the car..

I would get rid of the bowling pin tho.

 

I not much on "rat rods" but that car has some very unique ideas that , at least, to me work pretty well together. The offset rear suspension to accomodate the offset driveline is neat. This is how the old Indy Roadsters handled the drivetrain to keep the cars low for the corners. The old wooden bowling pin push bar is perfect application to the cars uniqueness. Enlargening the front window for a decent field of vision is well done also. At first appearance it says beater but he has incorporated some excellent ideas. If his workmanship was as good as his concepts it could be a neat car to drive and fool some people.

 

That car rules.

 

shades of winfields "thing" coupe.....my only question.....since i just noticed it.....what was up with the drivers door....? i thought the car was bitchin since the little shot in the magazine a couple years back......the round tube chassis is pretty neat too.....brandon

 

You sure know a lot about me for never having met me..............
I like the twin engine setup. I didn't say it wasn't good craftsmanship and I did say it was just my opinion. So is the HAMB only for positive opinions now? Everybody hold hands and sing kum-bah-ya.
Just because something was a lot of work and has good craftsmanship doesn't mean it looks good, has symetry, or even a fills a void. Sometimes less is more you know......
Brad

 

this thread isnt about opinions, read it, we are triing to find out were it went and were it was from. thanks

 

Point taken.......... but all these opinions keep bringing this thread to the top for more people to see

Brad

 

Every thread on the Internet is about opinions.

 

that is a crazy coupe

 

wow, is that dirty

The man dies and some low life steals his project ..
Seems awful odd ?

Rest in peace Mr Allison ..

 

Alright, I can give you some major insight into this car... I was actually Rich Elliott's bestfriend. We both started the Koffins car club in northern california together. Rich himself was from redwood city he was an upolsterer @ cooks upolstery. I met him at 14 and basically learned all I know about hot rods and building stuff from him. We actually built the car in my backyard, and it was never ment to "look like it ran" It was more of what Rich called an Art Project. I decided that instead of waiting around an trying to save up 100,000 dollars to make this thing functional, he would mock it up and make it look like it should eventually. The idea was done just to get it out of his head, I convinced him to build it because we were always talking about it and he was always building other peoples cars and never his own. The car is proably, my opinon the most period correct stylized version, of a 1960's dragster show car that looked like it was pulled out of a barn and taken to a show, that has been built in this day and age.
I was with Rich the day that he passed. He actually to told me he was feeling great, better than he had in a long time. We were working on a buddies 54 Buick at cooks I left about 5:00 that Sunday and got a call from the owner a 5am the next morning telling me that he had passed away from a heart condition, he was found outside the upolstery shop next to his car. It turns out his Aorta blew up and he was gone before he ever hit the ground. He didn't feel anything. He went out the way he would have wanted to working on cars til the last second of his life.
If you read the article in Rod and Kulture you know they were full of shit, they got this info from is brother who is, by the way, clinically insane. The car never ran, it stayed exactly how its seen in the pictures, 11 to one compression is rediculous considering it had no pistions, the chrome molly frame was actually sewer pipe that we pulled out of a garbage can, and you know what.... It doesn't take away from the car because it was never ment to be something it wasn't, how many of us have been hording parts for the last 10 years waiting til our wives let us take some money out of the kids college fund to build our dream that never happens. For once Rich lived in the moment, instead of for tomorrow and built what he could of his dream with what he had. And I'm thankful that he did, at the Cow Palace Rod and custom show he was the happiest I had ever seen him, with all the attention that he had got with his car. He never even made to the magazine publications on the cover of Hot Rod, CKD, ect.
Another thing was when he passed his family (mother father and brothers, and sisters) who by the way hates anything modifed went on a savanging hunt looking for anything worth money so that they could sell it, no regard for his creation or his will. They even left him at the coroners office without claiming him so that they wouldn't have to pay for a cremation. They are awful people, and so it is better the car dissapeared. They were never interested in keeping it, they wanted to chrome suspension, the two magnetos and the top loader because they knew they could get a thousand dollars, bastards!
Rich died at the age of 40 from an inlarged heart, he got the chance in his last month to build as close to his dream as he could, he lived breathed and blead hot rodding he was like a father to me and he never asked for anything in return. I will post more about him and dig up some old pictures and keep this thing going.