Thread by @iowahawkblog

yes ma'am, all 3 are owned by my pal Beau Boeckmann and built or restored by my other pal Dave Shuten; 2 nearest are Ed "Big Daddy" Roth's Beatnik Bandit bubbletop and Tweedy Pie T bucket. Blue coupe is the Iron Orchid 34 Ford 5 window.

https://twitter.com/onairmermaid/status/1386466473258881027

I believe all 3 are currently at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green KY if you want to take a gander. For my money, the Iron Orchid is the bitchin'est hot rod built in the last 20 years.

fun story about the Tweedy Pie T: it was owned by Ed Roth, but originally built by Bob Johnson. In 1959 it won best of show at the 1st Annual Disneyland Car Club Day & Autocade. That was also the Last Annual, due to the tire-smoking antics & general delinquency of the hot rodders

Incidentally, Tweedy Pie was the original choice to be Edd "Kookie" Byrnes's car on 77 Sunset Strip, but they instead went with Norm Grabowski's "Lightning Bug" T, which became the iconic Kookie T

Apex of Civilization, right there

You haven't lived until you see the episode of 77 Sunset Strip where Kookie loses his mighty pompadour... IN GERMAN

I defy you to name anyone else on the internet who delivers this kind of high quality educational content