Especially geographical ones.įirst time I saw it was when dad picked us up at the skating rink in his black 54 Ford sedan. I guess good taste and skill know no boundaries. Having one come in from Kansas, of all places, was a touch mind boggling. Heck, wed never seen a local car that looked like the little roadster. This little roadster made our gang, and for that matter the whole school, all California guys - who figured California was it as far as hot rods went - realize that Mid-West America was alive and well. They were, for the most part, simple cars with not much done to them. It was a bit of a shock when we found out it was from Kansas.
car or possibly from the San Fernando valley as the guys there really had an eye as far as making a car sit right. This little car had the right stance and it had it in spades. We didnt know it at the time, at least not well enough to put it into words, but every once in a while a car with the right stance showed up. The stance, combined with the chopped and slightly laid back windshield along with the slightly wedged shape of the front part of the top made the car sit just right. The roadster had a dropped axle, big & littles and it sat quite low front and rear. Life got easier when the tire companies started selling whitewall recaps in the sizes our cars took. If you didnt paint em pretty often, you soon had yellow walls. To the point where some of the guys in our group painted their blackwall sidewalls with white tire paint every couple of weeks in an effort to look the part. It had blackwalls even though whitewalls were the hot setup and what we lusted after. The top on this one looked good though, the windshield was chopped about 2" and the top irons were cut down a bit. Wed seen Deuce coupes, and sedans and even an occasional roadster. A tan one, a bit worn and considerably faded. Tough paint too, you could drag the flat end of a church key over it and it never marked the paint. I would never have thought of using this paint on a car, but on the roadster it looked good. Kinda reminiscent of the splatter pattern baked enamel pans youd see in the hardware store now and then. Just plain old hubcaps.Īn interesting bit for us, and one that none of us, or for that matter, no one in school had ever seen, at least on a car, was the black Zolatone paint job on the firewall. This one was kind of a magical little car, it showed up in town wearing black primer, red steel wheels and small stock 40 Ford hubcaps. It did have pipes though, one of the first steps toward owning a real hot rod.ĭeuces, even in the late 50's were a rarity in our small Southern California coastal hometown. This one owned by a guy named Larry, it was a simple car, almost totally stock and it still ran the stock Merc little hubcaps. Most of us were running 49 and 50 Ford coupes, and one of our group was running a nice little black 50 Merc coupe. The little roadster was different though. It had kind of a magic ring and it rolled off the tongue quite well. Funny part was, no one ever said they were running a 47 Merc. No one ever said 48 Mercury, it was always 48 Merc - as in murk. The Deuce ran a flathead, for the most part, just a stocker.
Owned by a nice guy, but he ran in a different group than us.
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A 31 Model A, full fendered with Red Ram Hemi. Not many roadsters either, just one other that I remember from school. Other than being a Deuce, not many of them around. It wasnt often at our school that a new kid showed up with an interesting car, let alone a full fendered Deuce roadster. Things changed, and who knew, maybe they would have changed anyway. Not so much for the worse and not so much for the better either. Things changed when the new kid moved into town. (No page numbers because they dont fit the HAMB format.)
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