I don't know who was behind Du Bont motors. In fact, about all I know about the used car dealer is what you see here - random images that have been stored on my hard drive for over a decade. I did some google searching and all I really found was more... <BR><BR>To read the rest of this blog entry from The Jalopy Journal, click here.
Jim DuBont wrote a four page article in the early fawcett book "How to Build Hot Rods" (no. 156). The article was about how to buy a used hot rod. Most of the articles in the book were done by and/or organized by Lou Baney and Louie Senter (their picture is on the cover pulling an engine out of a T roadster). DuBont Motors ran or sponsored several cars at the Russetta lakes meets and was active in the ARC club in Russetta Timing Assn.(Baney was the RTA President then). I used a photo of Jim's entry with modified T sedan with Chet Herbert's GMC engine in one of my books. Don
wow, that is more than I have learned of DuBont in the many years I have also been wondering. About the only thing I have to offer is the artice Pat Ganhal did in Rodders Journal years ago, which left more questions than answers.
Guess DuBont Motors was located on South Figueroa in Los Angeles. And that Jim DuBont and Chet Herbert were behind Beast II Not sure if this all common knowledge, just found the info in my 2 second internet search... It's on page 79 of a book named: Merchants of Speed: The Men who Built America's Performance Industry by Paul D. Smith Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
Wow! I don't think I have ever seen anything like DuBont Motors in my part of the country. In that day and age I guess the oinly place you could actually make money buying and selling customs and hot rods would be southern California. Thanks for this piece, Ryan. (Oh, and glad to have you back.)
Found on the archives on here, and listed as Jim DuBont's "Beast" I must be bored, I'll stop now... Posted using the Mildly Custom H.A.M.B. App!
originality?? has it been lost ? back when guys and gals did not have a parts book to order new custom parts from, it took originality. That is what makes us miss "the good old days". Those early customs were more of an art form than any Picasso or any other painting, it was a display of art that nothing else comes close to. the most beutifull cars of all time, and we almost missed it.
Found this in the November 1951 HopUp magazine. I saw no one mentioned the HopUp feature, sadly there is no additional information only the top cation on the left. Anyone know what car the DuBont special started as?
Oh man that front is wildly different! Thanks for the share! I’ll be posting more finds from my vintage hopup magazines, I got a bunch of them today in the mail. Me and my dad bought them from the hopup magazine website. They still have them for sale. They are original copy’s and not re-prints. Again, thanks for the share. Sent from my iPhone using H.A.M.B.
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