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I keep seeing this car around at all of the Florida hot rod events – and
I just can’t get enough of it – it is just such a sanitary little roadster – a
clean ‘33 highboy with a highly detailed…. Click for the Full Story
Well, after posting several barn/farm/shed finds of others / friends…I finally got mine.
About 2 years ago I was making some sales calls in an industrial area here in Daytona, going building to building on foot – I stopped in one particular building, and while talking to the owner, I noticed the top rear corner of a Ford sedan roof line…about a foot square of the rear corner of the roof was all that was visible…it had tons of stuff stacked in front of it. I took a picture that day with my cell phone, but I cannot seem to find that picture today. I asked “Is that a Model A sedan back there?” and she responded with, “no, that is ‘32 Ford”. I was so excited about it in that instant, I had to collect my thoughts and figure out how I was going to get my hands on that car! Read more »
Day 5 at the ‘08 LA Roadster Show
By Tim Davis
Semi-Pro Karaoke Singer
I actually had 2 people ask me at SoCal’s open house tonight why I didn’t post Day 4. I’ve become a quasi-celebrity…. In LA, the land of celebrity - How big must I be in Omaha at this point? Read more »
I think I may have worn out my digital camera taking pictures of the McGee Roadster. But more on that later. After my normal morning routine, and a quick breakfast it was back in the road and into the cool crisp SoCal morning. The weather at 8am here is about 70 degrees with a light breeze – ever breezier in an open car. First stop of the day – The Nethercutt Collection. This is in an incredible museum, located in Sylmar California just North of downtown LA, featuring the collection of Mr. Nethercutt – founder of Merle Norman cosmetics. Every aspect of this facility is top notch – the buildings are incredible, and the cars are even better.
As we topped the stairs and Max swung open the regal front doors of the building, the first words out of his mouth were, Read more »
Well,
My second day in SoCal started off with us setting out on the 57 freeway today heading to Boyd’s in La Habra. As some of you may or may not know, Boyd Coddington passed away recently, and has left is shop in the hands of his wife Jo, and the competent staff that has turned out some great cars over the years. When we walked in the door, Read more »
by Tim Davis
CHR Cherry Picker
Well, today was the first day in SoCal for the LA Roadster Show – I flew in Friday night, but as mentioned attended the ROAR 1/8 scale Buggy Nationals in Beumont CA over the weekend – it was great to see everyone out at the race, including Gil Losi, longtime member of the Over the Hill Gang, and owner of the steel yellow Boydster II, among other notable cars. The “St. Louis crew” had an interesting night out in Banning CA on Friday, with the night wrapping up with me spraining my left ankle leaving a local watering hole. It was a great time. Along with the race, Beumont was celebrating their annual Cherry Festival. I was unable to attend personally, but I met a nice girl, Vanessa, and she was so kind to pick me a small bag of cherries from her own backyard crop and bring them to me the next day. I would not say I am a big cherry fan, but Read more »
by Tim Davis
Janitor @ CHR
So next week I’ll be flying out to LA – attending the famous LA Roadster show. This is a Father’s Day tradition that every hot rodder should attend at least once. The first time I attended was in 1999, I took my father with me, as a gift. I was 21, he was 59 and had never been to California. He was a car enthusiast his whole life and that trip was really special for both of us.
I was planning to fly out on Wednesday the 11th, but I am currently trying to move my flight up to Friday or Saturday so I can attend a Radio Control car National Championship in Beaumont CA.
I’ll be there with the rest of the FL boys – riding around with Max Brogdon in that little green ‘31 on ‘32 rails we turned out of the shop last fall -
I be updating the blog daily – we should have an interesting time – both during the day at the shops and show – and you can all count on some great play by play of the night life from the sports bar next to the Shiloh Inn in Diamond Bar…….haha. Also, the Lakers will be playing 2 NBA Finals games while we are there, so I definately plan to take in at least one of those games from the Staples Center…….
1932 Ford K-member – This is really complete, one small notch inthe top to clear a larger batter box at some point in is life. The negative part of this K-member is that it has a lot of pitting, at the ends where it connects to the frame. In the center it is actually really nice, as this car apparently leaked a lot of oil and grease onto the center of it over the years. It is structurally sound, and in great shape, only the pitting is an issue – but it goes underneat the car right? No one will over see it again once the body is on it. $425
‘33-26 Dropped Axle – This is a Ford Axle that has been dropped approximatlely 3″. It has a great shape to it, and has a really nice drop on it. This is just an extra that we had our friends at fordaxle.com do for us, and we are thinning out some inventory around the shop. The axle has some pitting, it would be classified as a “paint quality axle” – you would have to spend some time trying to plate this one. $300
‘32-34 Ford Spindles – these are nice spindles, they have been glass-beaded, magnafluxed, and are ready to go. We really like running these on cars with side steering – and MT Car now makes the ‘39-41 Lincoln brakes with the smaller ‘28-36 backing plate bolt pattern – that will bolt right up with no cutting our spacers $140
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