Chopped and Leaned: The Roadster Windshield Thread

Built by the Leskys, more commonly known as the Ionia Hot Rod Shop. Great windshield. These boys get it.

 

My "right click save" muscles are getting beat up with this thread!

I snapped a few at LARS with this thread in mind and will load and post some later.

 

Awesome! Can't wait! I stole a few pics to post over here as well. I can't wait to get back to LARS next year. I may sneak my little guy (7 weeks old) to GNRS, this year... we'll see.


Anywhoo... here are 20+ from Tom Davison (I let him know I did this). Some are familiar cars but Tom has a good eye and captured them well.

 

As always, click to enlarge the photos.

 

Wow, fellas.

Here's one I really like. I found it recently in a thread around the HAMB somewhere. I like the roll bar matching the windshield height.

 

Well, I didn't shoot quite as many as I thought I did!

 

Awesome NeedLouvers?,

Here's another stolen from a recent thread.

 

This one is pretty cool.. Any more of this one? I'm trying to decide if that's a real T body or one of those ShadowRods bodies.

 

if it's the little bare metal car with the Edsel type nose it's Shadow Rods... I can tell those from space, kinda like a weird sixth sense.

 

Yep, the cowl, too. I can't tell from space though, hahaha.

 

Here are some miscellaneous chopped and leaned roadsters... That 29 is perfect. I wish I didn't want to own one so so so bad. Pics just don't do it. Hahaha.





Here are some miscelanious

 

Vic and his chopped and leaned 32 deserve their own post.

 

Well, I might be exaggerating just a hair with that one 'cause I've never actually been to space. 'Course, if my profile read "Job - Astronuat", every body would seriuosly freaked out...

 

Here's mine

 

That's a cool car. I've been wanting to see better pics of it than what you had from the previous owner's garage. The windshield is interesting, with that curve. Or is it an optical illusion? The stantions, too, got a better peek at those?

 

Touring cars have been on my mind a lot, lately. I'm going to pick mine up Sunday. I've contemplated the windshield, too. I'm not sure if I've posted this pic already but it popped up on my screen and I thought I'd post it up.

These two were at this years LARS, I think.

 

Man I wish I could find a pair of "orchard posts" like that '29 on '32 rails you posted above Brent.'Course, eveytime I look at that combination I get the urge to pull my roadster pickup off of the "A" frame and build a deuce frame for it too... I honestly think that's a better looking car than most deuces!

 

I think I'd take a 28/29 roadster over a '32 if it were fenderless on a 32 chassis. But between full-fendered cars, I'd go 32.

That 29 has perfect proportions, in my opinion.

Someday I'll have a 28/29 in the collection. It'd be a tough choice to choose how I'd build it though.

 

Here's an odd pairing: 26 T w/ A fenders and the Goolsby car.

 

Here's a few from my hard drive:

 

CTAulbert's killer 32:







If you want to see the thread on the car, click here.

 

CTalberts car is just flat astounding.

 

I swear I had a pic of A folding posts on a 26/27 but I cannot find it. The work would be similar.

 

Brent , I was just looking at the car in the "Lost Hot Rods" Book by Pat Gahnal last night. Love it!