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Bruce Meyer's Red 32 3 window??

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by Kid Rocker, Aug 27, 2010.

  1. Kid Rocker
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    Hi Guys,
    I don't know if anyone can help but I am looking for some pictures of this car.
    I believe it's owned by Bruce Meyer now??
    I remember seeing it in the early 90's in a Rod & Custom magazine when Pat Ganahl was the editor...It had General Jumbo wheels on it back then but now it just has 16 inch steels.
    Thanks!
    Dean
     

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  2. KENDEUCE
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    I saw it at Peterson Museum a couple years ago. You might search it.
     
  3. heres a couple.
    Al.
     

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  4. Kid Rocker
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    Thanks Al!
    I love your pictures on the 32 3 window post!
    I was looking at it and was totally surprised when I saw pics of my 32 on there that someone had posted!
    This is my coupe...
     

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  5. captain scarlet
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    looks too sunny to be in Sutton:D
     
  6. Kid Rocker
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    Not Sutton...but close...California! haha
     
  7. Beach Bum
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    This it? I shot this photo in the late '90s.

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  8. Cris
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    Took this in 1994:

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    Cris
     
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  9. JeffreyJames
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    This thing is awesome!!!!

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  10. awesome
     
  11. Beach Bum
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    I think I shot my photo the same day. Pebble Beach right?
     
  12. kidrocker,
    that looks like the kennedy brothers coupe?.
    Al.[​IMG]
     
  13. Sure does Big Al


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  14. Clark
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    The car was originally from the Baltimore area and I think it had Goodyear airwheels on it. I forget the guy's name that built it.
    Clark
     
  15. Cris
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    Dean, is your car still on the market?
    Beach Bum, yeah that was parked behind the condos that are there on the green (I think.)

    Cris
     
  16. Kid Rocker
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    Thanks guys that is the same red coupe.

    yes I got my car from Joe Kennedy a couple of years back now.
    I put the 5 spokes and magnesium Halibrands back on it just it had in 1968 because I got it with steels and whitewalls.

    As far as I know it was built in Venice, California as a street racer. BUT if anyone has information that is different or better still...Pictures of it from back then...please post them!!

    I have 2 pics of it in 68 and it is on black CA plates.

    Thanks,
    Dean
     
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  17. Kid Rocker
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  18. Kid Rocker
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    pics from 1968...
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  19. Bunch of hot looking 32's, thanks for sharing ,,,,,,
     
  20. captain scarlet
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    Long drive then.

    Great looking car, awesome picture driving:D
     
  21. wheels1950
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    Was this the car that was robins egg blue and hailed from the northeast years ago
    Like around the 80's
     
  22. 31whitey
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    We all must be thinking of similar looking cars...

    There were a few though

    I was going to say a lite blue

    And out of Philladelphia

    sweet little coupe Dean...
     
  23. Bass
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    The red 3-window that is now owned by Bruce Meyer was featured in the Feb. 1991 issue of Rod & Custom when it was owned by Tim Benish of Jeannette, PA. According to the article it was a stock/original car in 1980, and was turned into a hot rod by Benish and Jim Cook. I think this has been proven to be partially false. At any rate, the car was on the cover of this issue of R&C, and at that time it was running General Jumbo wheels.

    When the car was featured seven years later on the cover and inside the Feb. 1998 issue of Street Rodder, there was no mention of it's origins in Maryland and Pennsylvania or previous owner/builders. Comparing the two articles...the only obvious changes were whitewalls mounted on 15" Ford steel wheels, it was lowered slightly, the motor was evidently rebuilt by Dave Enmark, and the interior was dyed black.

    Doing a little more digging, it appears that the car was first known to surface in the late 70's when a guy named Dave Cook from Maryland (probably the same guy referred to in the R&C article as Jim Cook) bought the car already hot-rodded in Salt Lake City. Cook removed the fenders and chopped it, and he put the Columbia rear in it as well as the SCoT blown Merc before apparently selling it to Benish.


    Dean, your 3-window is really bitchin'....you're a lucky guy.
     
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  24. Clark
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    Bass....I think you got most of the story down pat. If I remember correctly the car was driven back from SLC. Jay Fitzhugh knows for sure. He knows Cook.

    I'm pretty sure the wheels were Airwheels...smooth instead of spoked. I can see how RC got it wrong. A lot of people make the mistake of calling Airwheels Jumbo's.
    Clark
     
  25. Louie
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    I think the light blue 3 window you guys are thinking of was from NJ. It is still around untouched:D
     
  26. J. Fitzhugh
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    Bass is correct. The car was brought back by Dave Cook as a stock height car. I am pretty sure that it was chopped by the same guys who worked on my 3-window, Ed Harper and Lenny Smith. Nancy Rattigan, wife of Will Rattigan (also a 32 3 window owner) did the upholstery originally in a saddle brown. I think the seat has now been changed and the door panels were dyed at one time black. Dave sold it to Bellish, who put in the Ardun amd drove the piss out of the car.

    The baby blue car from the northeast in the very late seventies apparently is a different car. I think I had a photo in the story on the Nat's East that Ryan posted to the Jalopyjournal called "The Way We Were". Anyway, it was a killer car with Evans 21 stud waterpump heads and an angle Vertex. My sources tell me it is in a back yard in New England and unfortunately has become very weathered. Winters are hard here on cars stored outside.

    Jay
     
  27. flatheadpete
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    Looks better with the blackwalls....bad ass cars.
     
  28. Kid Rocker
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    wow...now I know then!!
    Thanks guys I have always loved that car...the chop is PERFECT!!!

    Thanks for all the good words on my coupe too...I am very lucky to own that thing!
    I Just got back from Keith Weesner's house warming party in the it...man driving though Griffith park in pitch black at 80 mph is a real buzz in that thing!

    Thanks again!
    Dean
     
  29. J. Fitzhugh
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    Dean,

    Absolutely cool piece.

    I just checked and the baby blue 3 window from NJ DID NOT make the final cut for the story posed to the Jalopyjournal. I will try and find the photo that I have.

    Jay
     
  30. Limey Steve
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    Looking good Dean
     

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