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Warren has previously shared photos of the hot rod scene at Hollywood High, and here's another great one from the 1950 yearbook. The unidentified gent here is on a 1932 Ford 5W coupe lowboy hot rod, running twin Stromberg 97s w/ BLC 682 headlights.
*"lowboy" refers to channeled car, where body is lowered to bottom of the frame rails, as in picture; "highboy" body sits atop rails, in stock position. Odd here, as unchopped channeled lowboys were more an East Coast style. West Coast style was typically a chopped highboy.
Also note the circa 1949 hot rodder uniform: 2 finger cuff Levis, dungaree jacket, white t shirt, black Oxfords, striped socks, and Lucky Strike in right hand. Imagine a HS yearbook today running a photo of a student with a cigarette.
Another youth from the late 40s with his car, this one a 1946-48 Chevy Stylemaster.
These campus cutups from Pacific Lutheran U are with a 1931 Ford Model A Tudor. Note the jaunty chapeaus and baggy big cuff dungarees, which would be supplanted by tight Levis within a few years.
Quick PSA: as always, I will thank you to keep your politics out of my car ID threads.
Back to the cars: I love me some cartoon & graffiti-painted campus jalopies, and this one is the bee's knees. I believe it is a 1925 Chevy Superior sedan.
Back in the Archie & Jughead days of the 30s-50s, it was au courant for high schoolers and frat lads to buy a beater, and paint it up with racy and/or humorous messages; Oh You Kid, and 23 Skidoo and what not. Gotta say this one is a fantastic example.
note "This Space For Rent" and "Koo Koo Bird." I think the cartoon fellow on the car is Mutt from Mutt & Jeff, but can't really place the dog; maybe some early comic strip aficionado can help ID.
That car would've been above a lot of people's pay grade at the time. The iconic Winged Victory hood ornament indicates a Rolls-Royce, I'm guessing a 1925ish Springfield Silver Ghost.
Quite a few Rolls-Royce cars were built in Springfield MA in the 1920s for the USA market. I think most of them were left hand drive, so this may in fact be a British built car.
Speaking of Springfield MA, here's badass Mamaw on a 1955ish Indian-Enfield, either a 500cc Tomahawk or 700cc Trailblazer.
*Indians were made in Springfield MA by Hendee Mfr Co., but that company died in 1953. It was resurrected 55-59, selling rebadged UK-made Royal Enfields using the Indian trademark; Indian has gone through a number brand reboot-death cycles since.
Oddly enough, UK-based Royal Enfield eventually died in 1970, but some years ago was resurrected as a retro motorcycle brand made in.... (wait for it) India. This Indian-Enfield-Indian reincarnation story is worthy of the Bhagavad Gita.
Dad drove a 1938 Chevy coupe; his brother made a ginchy little speedster/gow job/hot rod out of a 1925ish Chevy roadster or roadster pickup. Fenders and bodywork aft of the cowl are removed, grille I think is a cut down 34 Chevy.
I generally ignore requests to ID Amphicars, but I really dig the family photo here. All Amphicars were model 770, and all model years (1961-68) were largely identical. German made, but with a Triumph engine.
In the interest of speed, I'm trying to cut down on the zillion cars in one photo requests; I can say that the car driving away to the left with the silver trunk stripe is a 1941 Pontiac.
This touching photo features a 1937 Ford Tudor sedan.
Another hot rod, this one rather famous: The Kookie T, an Olds-powered 22 Ford T driven by Edd "Kookie" Byrnes on the TV gumshoe series 77 Sunset Strip. It has an interesting and complicated history which I will try to summarize in the next few tweets.
*correction, Cadillac powered. The Kookie T was originally built by my late pal Norm Grabowski in 1955 as the "Lightning Bug," first carbureted then supercharged; later it was repainted with flames & with a 4 deuce intake as the Kookie T.
A mutual pal, Von Franco, would later build near-perfect clones of both versions of the car, an you can see his quest to do so in the movie "The Car That Ate My Brain," which is available on Amazon Prime.
The reason clones were built of the car is that the original ended up in the Midwest, where the new owner kept "updating" it through the 70s until it was largely an incoherent mess.
Luckily, it was sold at auction a while back, and the new owner took it to Roy Brizio's shop in SF, where it was restored to its 77 Sunset Strip glory.
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Which ties it into this ID request: behold the George Barris-built Golden Sahara show car, based on a 1953 Lincoln. It fell into disrepair under the same owner, but sold at the same auction & is now restored to its 1954 glory by Speakeasy Customs Chicago.
yes, those are real deal circa 1960 Goodyear illuminated tires.
A 1928 Buick sedan; Gramps had an impressive car, but not quite the rarified unobtanium of a Duesenberg.
Time to squeeze in a few junkpile IDs: this sad carcass was once a beautiful 1953 Oldsmobile.
This here is a 1953-56 Ford F100.
Based on door, dash (that's a dash panel, not cowl vent) and bumper, pretty sure it's the remains of a 1939-40 Chevy pickup.
I salute this gentleman and his equally indefatiguable 1947 Dodge Coronet daily driver. Yes, several cars had side-opening hoods in this era.
Gonna close out today's episode of #DavesCarIDService with this challenging request: as best I can tell, it's a 29 Bulgar Thessalonian convertible, with Dyna-Chariot rims.
