Art & Inspiration Traditional images that need no explanation.

Most of exhaust welding done in my years as a mechanic was a torch and coat hanger wire , your work uniforms were delivered on weekly . I knew old time pipe welders that would weld pipe joins with a torch and steel welding rods , and say to me “ kid when you can do this your a pipeline welder ! “

 

1954 Buick Roadmaster Convertible.

 

1956 Continental Mark II.

 

1958 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser.

 

Local Hero And Fastest Deuce In The Valley...

 

Ray Fillipini-Tony LaMasa deuce roadster, sometimes called the Ricky Nelson car.

Mick

 

Guess who..... Long time ago

 

So that's what a real American Graffiti car looked like.....

 

Must be you Bob, it's got a cool set of custom made headers !

 

^^^^ Yeah, that was me and my girlfriend at B&W Resort west of Lodi, Ca. on vacation. 800 miles round trip with no upholstery except the seats, no carpet, no music, no side windows, she was a trooper. That was about my 4th or 5th set of headers, back when I thought the "basket of snakes" look was cool.

 

It's a whole lot nicer than Milner's.

 

You can’t do this to me! I was framed I tell ya, ya gotta believe me! I did NOT pass gas just so we could go home.

 

dirty diaper time ^^^

 

Oh yeah and I bet it was faster too!

 

I’ve always liked the graffiti coupe, it just needed a taller grille shell/radiator and a couple other little tweaks to be really “boss”.

 

Milner's Coupe, with it's imperfections, was in reality, closer to cars of that period, than My buddy Ernie Martin's Deuce. It was the only one, without flaws in my town.

 

That is nice. I have a real nice set of those hubcaps. I was going to put them on my ‘31 sedan but I never did, they are still hanging from the rafters. They look pretty good on that car.

 

Wow! What a beautiful car. I would have loved to see it in color.

 

"baby you can drive my car!" beep beep n beep beep ya !

 

It was Fiesta Red, and it was very nice. Ernie sold it in late '59 for $1600.00. He was a newlywed and needed furnishings for their house. I met him much later, in 1983, we built cars together for 37 years, he taught me a lot.

 

It was a movie….

 

IMO, the Mercury truck nose is nicer looking than the Ford jail-bar grill

 

Sox and Martin in the early days, before the big bucks sponsorships.

 

The boys and their music survived, I wonder if the car did.

 

A very clean example of a channeled roadster.

 

Jack Gillis 1940.