tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20034959001455927292024-03-13T01:54:48.194-07:00Rik Hoving KustomsRikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09449574105591408014noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003495900145592729.post-16423909243185624062013-02-07T04:40:00.000-08:002013-04-05T12:41:42.228-07:00The Jack Stewart Ford Project goes GNRS<br />
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For the last two or so years I have been part of the Jack Stewart Ford Project team. My biggest part in this project was creating the Jack Stewart Ford book which was finished in November 2012. After that I have been very busy with all kinds of things that needed to be done to prepare everything for the other really big part in the project, getting the Jack Stewart Ford as complete as possible and ready to be shipped to the 2013 GNRS in Pomona California. </div>
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Palle Johansen and his team took care of most of the hard work restoring the car in Denmark. In early December 2012 the car was - as planned - put in a container along with the printed books and shipped to California. Here David Martinez would do some finishing work on the car to get it at its best to be shown to the visitors at the show and to to Jack Stewart who was very anxious to see his old custom being brought back to the looks it had when he drove it in 1951. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The car at David Martinez his shop in Desert Palm Springs <br />
moments before it was put in the trailer to be driven to the <br />
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The first plan two years ago,was to completely finish the car, paint and all, and ship it to the GNRS. But once the car was stripped from its 1972 paint job a wonderful bare metal and lead custom sculpture was revealed. It was then decided the car should be show in bare metal so that everybody could see the great workmanship from the Ayala brothers in the late 1940's and early 1950's as well as the fine tuning work of George Barris who did the finishing work on the car for his friend Jack Stewart in 1951. </div>
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Before we left for the GNRS the team had created some large 3-D "Jack Stewart" letters copied from the 1951 Hot Rod Show display. We also made some framed display signs and Palle had a series of stitched patched made from my Jack Stewart Ford Project logo artwork.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The stitched patches arrived the day before we left for the US.<br />
They came our really great. 100 patches were made.</td></tr>
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This last decision was welcomed by a lot of custom car enthusiast who came to see the car in person at the show. Through out the whole show the car was mostly surrounded by people admiring the metal work done 60 plus years ago. Never before was such an iconic Custom Car built by both the Ayala and Barris shop displayed in bare metal. </div>
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The highlights at the GNRS for the Jack Stewart Ford Project team was when Jack Stewart and Bob Drake inspected the car. It was the first time that the original owner of the car Jack Stewart and the fourth owner of the car Bob Drake met in person. Both had very emotional moments when viewing the car in bare metal for the first time. Bob had traveled all the way from Indiana with the help of his daughter Tanya. Both talked in length with each other and shared many personal moments they have had when they owned the car. Both Bob and Jack spend all three days signing copies of the Jack Stewart Ford book, and talking to people who wanted to know more about the car.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me hanging the Kustom Kar Books banner on the back wall<br />
of our booth.</td></tr>
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A personal highlight for me was when I presented Jack Stewart with my book during set up day on Thursday. Jack had been so kind to wait receiving the book until I could personally hand him a version at the show. He kept looking in the book, and each page he opened and each photo he saw a new story about the car and the time was shared. It was an absolutely great day that will never be forgotten.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jack Stewart in his old custom. He sat in it for some time, reliving<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bob Drake, owner of the car from 1955 to 2006 on the left <br />
and Jack Stewart on the right talking about the book in which<br />
they both play a huge roll. They were both pre-signing books<br />
before the doors of the show opened.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another highlight of the show was when Jack Stewart handed<br />
over the award Jack won with his Ford in 1951. The same<br />
award that can be seen in the popular photo with the car on<br />
the display with the wall and Jack Stewart letters behind it.<br />
Jack also gave me something really nice. But more about that<br />
in a later post.</td></tr>
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I had never before had a booth at a show like this so I had no idea what to expect. I had, as on previous times when I visited this kind of show, brought my photo camera and try-pod to make as many photos as I could. It turned out that I was so busy during the entire weekend selling books and talking to the people that visited our booth that I did not even have the time to visit every building at the show, let alone take photos of all the cars I liked. </div>
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The book sales started already on set-up day when people came over to ask about the book. And the rest of the weekend there were always people getting a signed copy of the book right there and some even traveled from far with the previous acquired books to have them signed by Jack, Bob and Palle.<br />
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The Jack Stewart Ford book is available directly from the publisher at: <a href="http://www.kustomkarbooks.com/">www.kustomkarbooks.com</a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Out great friends Pat and Paul Bragg came over from Paso Robles.<br />
Paul had brought his book which he had ordered when the book was<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Palle Johansen showed Keith Weesner every little detail about<br />
about the car, and once inside he would not leave it for some time.<br />
Here Palle takes a snapshot of Keith sitting in the Ford on Keith his<br />
iphone. I guess Keith will cherry this photo for a long time.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After the show was over the car was transported to a photo studio.<br />
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Rikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09449574105591408014noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003495900145592729.post-49181359869910709972012-10-29T23:08:00.000-07:002013-04-05T12:40:33.279-07:00Rik Hoving's First Custom Car book.<br />
It has been a while since I wrote my last story for this Rik Hoving Custom Car history Blog. I never intention to go so long without a new input on this blog... But I think I have a very good excuse for it.<br />
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For the last year or so I have been spending most of my spare time working on one of my long lasting dreams.<br />
<b>Writing my own book about Custom Cars.</b><br />
And I'm very proud to say that I just finished this book!<br />
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My first book about Custom Cars is at the printer right now getting ready to be printed and bind into my very first and hopefully not my last Custom Car book. The book is planned to be all done at the beginning of December 2012, and if all goes as planned I should have it at the GNRS at the end of January 2013.<br />
More details about pricing and where to get it other than at the GNRS will follow in the next couple of weeks. So far I have been too busy getting the book ready for the deadline that I did not have to much time for the other details yet.<br />
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The book is available directly from the publisher at: <a href="http://www.kustomkarbooks.com/">www.kustomkarbooks.com</a><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">So what is this book about</span></b><br />
I hope I have created a rather unique book that will interests a lot of people.<br />
The book title is <b>the Jack Stewart Ford</b> and the subtile<i> </i><br />
<i><b>a journey in time with the car and its owners</b></i><br />
So basically the book is about one car?... well YES, and NO.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The cover of the book, well a 10% print of it. <br />
This one is not even 2 inches tall. The real book will be<br />
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Even thought the Jack Stewart 1941 Ford plays the key roll in the book, it sure has a lot more things to offer. The book starts with a inspiring foreword by <b>Pat Ganahl</b>. And then there is a Chapter about the history of the Jack Stewart Ford, showing many great, never before published photos of this trend setting historical important car. This chapter tells the story on how the car was built, when, where and how it ended up on the Mid West of the US and later in Denmark. </div>
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Then there is a chapter in the book about inspiration, things that inspired Jack to built his custom car in the later part of the 1940's. It shows and tells about other custom cars that influenced Jack, or that were built with a similar theme. </div>
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There is a section on the two major Custom Shops, <b>Ayala</b> and <b>Barris</b> that created this car.<br />
And my most favorite part of the book are the chapters devoted to the four major caretakers. Here they get to talk about their years with the car. But these chapters also highlight many other cars and other vehicles these guys have owned prior and past the Jack Stewart Ford.<br />
The Jack Stewart Ford has always been owned by people that had some very interesting cars, and done some great stuff all around.<br />
On the Jack Stewart Research trip we have interviewed the former owners of the cars, And since then we have been in constant contact verifying the text I had written to make sure the stories are as accurate as they can be.<br />
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<b>Jack Stewart</b> had a 1953 MG Custom Sports Car that was customized by George Cerny, and Jack later built his famous 1932 Ford Roadster. Both of these and more are shown in the book with many never before published photos.<br />
<b>Jim Skonzakes (Street)</b> had several very nice custom cars before the Jack Stewart Ford. And the famous Golden Sahara, kookie T and many other projects after he had sold the 1941 Ford. Some of his amazing stories get told in his chapter.<br />
<b>Bob Drake</b> made the Jack Stewart Ford famous by driving it all around the mid West and creating several other great cars during the time he owned Jacks Ford.<br />
And <b>Palle Johansen</b> the current caretaker has done everything in his power to restore the car back to its 1951 version. Plus he has had some great cars in the past and present as well.<br />
All these caretakers had a great collection of wonderful info and photos to be shared in this book.<br />
The book shows a great selection of never before published material on a lot of really great cars.<br />
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There are some really great color photos in the book dated back to 1948-52 from the collection of Jim Street showing his early customs. 1941 Ford, 1949 Buick both in beige and dark purple and couple of the only color photos we ever found on Jack's 1941 Ford in 1951.<br />
There are also a series of amazing photos of the Golden Sahara with the most accurate information on this fantastic show car ever published including the REAL story with documents on how the pearl white paint job was created.<br />
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There were a few people who I told that I would be working on this book, and when I told them in the beginning that it would be about the Jack Stewart Ford some were somewhat skeptical. They where afraid it might not be interesting enough focusing on just one car. But as soon as I showed them the first drafts they all knew they had been wrong and took their words right back.<br />
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I have created a small scale dummy of some of the pages from the book and took some photos of them to share here. And of coarse the best pages will not be shown here. For those you need to get yourself a copy of the book.<br />
These photos are taken of 10% size prints and are far from the quality the finished book will be. The photos are just to give a first impression.<br />
The next time I will show some photos of the book will be from the printer in Denmark Hopefully in the next ten or so days.<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">GNRS 2013</span></b><br />
The plan is to have the book available at the GNRS 2013 where the real Jack Stewart Ford will be debuting as well. The car is currently being prepared for this show where it will be shown all done, except for the final paint. Early December the car and the books will be shipped from Denmark to California.<br />
When the body of the car was stripped of its paint the metal underneath it looked so good and the craftsmanship of the Ayala's, George Barris and Bob Metz looked so great that it would have been a shame not to show it. So it was decided to finish the car as far as possible and do all the body work needed in metal and lead and show the car in bare metal.<br />
At the show the car and the original owner Jack Stewart will be reunited again. And we will have the new book available there, and of course we will have Jack there to sign the book for those who want that.<br />
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I want to specially thank all the previous care takers of the Jack Stewart Ford, Palle Johansen, Scotty Gosson, Tony Miller and Paul Kelly for helping me out on this project.<br />
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Below is a small collection of the photos/documents that did not make it into the book.</div>
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I hope you enjoy it.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jim Skonzakes his 1949 Buick in 1951</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the many news paper articles about the Golden Sahara.<br />
Jim Skonzakes (Street) toured the US Custom Car shows with<br />
this masterpiece for many years.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the several early color photos from the Jim Skonzakes<br />
Collection. Each had one of these date stamps on the back.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A bit blurry photo of the Jack Stewart Ford when owned by<br />
Bob Drake in the mid 1950's.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">George Barris and Bob Drake checking out the engine in<br />
Jack's old Custom. This was in the 1980's as George his<br />
Jacket and glasses clearly shows.</td></tr>
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Rikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09449574105591408014noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003495900145592729.post-16191840289679433282012-01-13T02:28:00.000-08:002012-01-14T01:29:55.434-08:00The Danny Hall 1940 Ford Coupe - another surviver<i>By Dick Page and Rik Hoving</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is how Danny Hall's 1940 Ford Coupe looked<br />
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This 1940 Ford coupe was owned by Danny Hall of Tacoma, Washington when it was featured in the magazines. When Danny bought this 1940 Ford he had great plans with it… Full custom was the only way to go for him. So Danny contacted Schneider's Custom Shop in Tacoma to do the heavy work for him. The top on Danny's coupe was chopped 3 inches, with the windshield raked back at a very pleasing angle. The drip rails remained, but where shortened around the rear side windows. Unusual for a chopped 1940 Ford the rear window was chopped as well. The hood was welded and nosed, the trunk decked and the rest of the body trim was also removed. Electrical solenoids where installed to open the doors and trunk from the dash. Danny used a 1941 Lincoln front bumper bumper and an 1950 Chrysler bumper at the rear. The license plate surround comes from a 1953 Studebaker. A very nice Custom parts that is not used a lot. He installed the Studebaker taillights, and those are the best looking taillights for any 1940 Ford Custom.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Studebaker license plate surround on the rear bumper</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wonderful flow of the top and this view also shows the<br />
shortened drip rail</td></tr>
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The interior in Danny's Coupe was done in red and white naugahyde in a very nice but unusual tuck & roll upholstery pattern. The body was painted in a really deep Titian red lacer. Danny installed some new smooth hubcaps, but a set with a nice revile in them to give the car just a bit more flash, but not to much. I think he made a perfect choice with those. The car already came with a set of spotlights, so they where put back on. Back in the 1940's and 1950's you needed to have a set of Appleton S-112 or S-552, but those seamed to be less popular in the later part of the 1950's. A lot of the cars started to use Dummy spots from Cal Custom or other aftermarket companies. But Danny wanted to use the real ones, perhaps they where Appleton's, but not the famous Custom Series, these where a bit smaller. Still they look very good on the car. Danny was a member of the Tacoma Toppers Car Club.<br />
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Danny Hall's 40 Ford coupe was a big deal to Dick page as well. Danny worked in the neighborhood where Dick Page lived, just a very short walk from his house and he always loved looking at it up close. When he heard that it was for sale in a body shop in Bremerton around 1970 he went to see it and was shocked to see it radically changed and sitting outside in primer. After that the car was painted lime green with gold trim.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I only found this small scan of the car<br />
around 1970.</td></tr>
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Later Bob McCutchen owned the car. For the last sixteen years it has been owned by John Dixon of Olympia Washington who loved the car when he first saw it in its present form and has no plans to change it. So the car is still around today… it sure does not look anything like it did in its glory days in the 1950's. But the new owner feels otherwise.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This photo of the former Danny Hall 1940 Ford and now owned <br />
by JohnDixon was taken in the summer of 2011 by Dick Page.<br />
It pretty much looks the same as it did in the 1970's<br />
But far from how it looked when owned by Danny Hall.</td></tr>
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Dick page helped the John Dixon identify his chopped 1940 Ford coupe as the Danny Hall 1940 Ford, showing him some hidden signs that nobody knew about. But Dick was able to find them. Positive ID.<br />
Could this 1940 Ford be brought back to how it was in the photos shown above. Yes I think it could. It would need four new fenders, possibly a replacement hood and most likely a new old chassis. But the rest is all there, and most of all the great chop performed by Scheider's shop is still perfect today. I sure hope in the near future we could see this old custom get restored again.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixu0NxircuMNZ5c66ycOxxWtaRfGXpA2sqI37jCxOMzy1QmQ0_zIz29Dwspid1P9jDm_ER5lYFmgqIYjraVmZNdafekhDNsIEPO2as_MahE4s9PksePIj-gFyNhA7__bZRKBXFyvjw6UFe/s1600/John+Dixon-HallFOrd-01-w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixu0NxircuMNZ5c66ycOxxWtaRfGXpA2sqI37jCxOMzy1QmQ0_zIz29Dwspid1P9jDm_ER5lYFmgqIYjraVmZNdafekhDNsIEPO2as_MahE4s9PksePIj-gFyNhA7__bZRKBXFyvjw6UFe/s320/John+Dixon-HallFOrd-01-w.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Rikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09449574105591408014noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003495900145592729.post-89014780829678770842012-01-02T04:36:00.000-08:002012-01-02T04:36:34.401-08:00Bruce Rosengren's 1936 Ford Cabriolet.Bruce Rosengren from White Bear Lake, Minn. has owned this 1936 Ford Cabriolet from 1955 till 1958-59.<br />
He would like to know if his old car is still around, and also who was the original builder of this great looking Custom.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7QiAFCz0YCU/TwGiMkOCwJI/AAAAAAAAAI4/afgixS4Ks1c/s1600/BruceRosengren1936Ford01-vi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="285" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7QiAFCz0YCU/TwGiMkOCwJI/AAAAAAAAAI4/afgixS4Ks1c/s400/BruceRosengren1936Ford01-vi.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bruce Roseengren and his 1936 Ford Cabriolet in 1958. <br />
Bruce had to remove the hood and hood sides in the summer to <br />
prevent the engine from overheating.</td></tr>
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Bruce bought the car in 1955 as a used custom from a news paper ad in St Paul for $350.- The car was obviously customized in the 1940's with a chopped windshield, a padded top that most likely is an original Carson Top Shop top and one that was made none removable for unknown reasons. The interior was done in red lather for the seats and red velour for the rest.<br />
The stock grille was replaced with a custom made panel and Packard grille with solid hood sides. The taillights where 1948 Chevy units. All the work was really well and most likely done by a professional body shop. The car was painted a two tone light green and cream color when he bought it. And after Bruce had made the changes it was painted with gray primer, he never got around to give it a final paint job and wen the car was sold it was still this same gray primer.<br />
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When Bruce bought the car in 1955 everything and especially the natural aging pointed toward this being an old custom car from the 1940's, but Bruce was not really interested in its history at the time, so he never asked about the cars past owners and where it was originally built.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TsDLGcQlBS8/TwGiVBDssaI/AAAAAAAAAJE/g_HkVqA5x1Y/s1600/BruceRosengren1936Ford04-vi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="258" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TsDLGcQlBS8/TwGiVBDssaI/AAAAAAAAAJE/g_HkVqA5x1Y/s400/BruceRosengren1936Ford04-vi.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The car with its smoothed hood and solid hood sides. <br />
An amazing early looking Custom Car for 1958.</td></tr>
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Bruce had Dick Freudenberg rebuilt the 59ab Flathead engine and had a local shop french the Chevy taillights and set in the rear license plate.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-apOG6-o3wfg/TwGihLahBDI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/L-uzy_oCVno/s1600/BruceRosengren1936Ford02-vi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="261" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-apOG6-o3wfg/TwGihLahBDI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/L-uzy_oCVno/s400/BruceRosengren1936Ford02-vi.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A better view of the Dick Freudenberg rebuilt Flathead engine with <br />
two carb intake.</td></tr>
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Bruce went into the Navy in 1957 and had parked the car at his parents house. His father sold the car a few years later, after first asking Bruce if this was okay with him.<br />
Ever since the car was sold Bruce regretted ever letting him father sell it.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5FWlDbnmaLY/TwGiqYH-OOI/AAAAAAAAAJc/nhZOR5Ujz9o/s1600/BruceRosengren1936Ford06-vi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="258" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5FWlDbnmaLY/TwGiqYH-OOI/AAAAAAAAAJc/nhZOR5Ujz9o/s400/BruceRosengren1936Ford06-vi.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This fuzzy photo of the rear shows the set in license plate and 1948 <br />
Chevy taillights.</td></tr>
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Over the years Bruce has always wondered what happened to his old Car, if it is still around. With all the restorations of old Custom Cars going on in the last couple of years Bruce now also wondered who built this car in the 1940s, and he really regrets never asking more info on the car when he bought it in 1955.<br />
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So if anybody who sees these photos of this great looking 1940's styled 1936 Ford Cabriolet recognizes it and can shed a bit of light on its history or current whereabouts, please let me know and I will make sure to pass it on to Bruce. (rikhoving@xs4all.nl)<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xZa1pxMikZo/TwGi0Z-NV6I/AAAAAAAAAJ0/2_UHYU_CyTY/s1600/BruceRosengren1936Ford05-vi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="258" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xZa1pxMikZo/TwGi0Z-NV6I/AAAAAAAAAJ0/2_UHYU_CyTY/s400/BruceRosengren1936Ford05-vi.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Without the mid/late 1950's car in the drive way this photo could have <br />
very well been taken in the 1940's. </td></tr>
</tbody></table>Rikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09449574105591408014noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003495900145592729.post-6115260125661924462011-12-28T02:35:00.000-08:002011-12-28T02:35:56.331-08:00Larry Watson's very first Scallop paint job<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Bob Schremp's 1954 Chevrolet was the first car that Larry Watson scalloped.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is how Bob's 1954 Chevy can be seen on the <br />
Clock drive-in Bellflower poster by Steve Stanford.</td></tr>
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</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Bob was from Norwalk California, his car was a mild custom car with removed trim on the hood and trunk and the door handles where shaved. All the body work was done by Brandson Body shop in Artesia. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">The shop also lowered the car and according the 1958 Custom Car Annual the ground clearance was just 1 1/2 inch, which was more than likely measure from the lake pipes to the ground. But still Bob's car was very low.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Bob installed the 1956 Oldsmobile hubcaps on medium size white walls on all four corners and no fender skirts where used as was the trend in the later part of the 1950's with this style of custom car. Bob also used a set of Spotlights which looked to be early style dummy spots that had still the shape of the Appleton Spotlights but no handles.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">In 1956 Bob drove his car to Larry's Watson house and asked him if he knew how to fix the bad runs he had on his freshly painted hood and trunk. Bob did not want flames on his car, and he realized the runs where to big to be hidden by some pin striping. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Larry had been having scallops on his mind for a while, and he figured this car would be perfect to use them on. He could sand off the runs, and cover up those sections by the scallops. Bob had no idea what scallops where, but he let Larry do them anyway.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Larry painted the scallops in teal blue with white fading tips in 1956 in Larry's driveway. He remembered that he wanted Bob to flip the front bumper on his car so he told him he would not pin stripe the scallops until he modified the front bumper on his Chevy. Bob agreed, flipped the front bumper and Larry striped the scallops initiation gold.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the only photo in the Larry Watson Collection of this<br />
car that shows some color. But I'm unsure if this the actual<br />
color of the scallops, or that its just a chemical process that<br />
gave the scallops color. <br />
There is no other color visible in this photo.</td></tr>
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</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Bob's car set the trend, and for a while Larry was asked to scallop a lot of cars for people who had seen Bob's Chevy at the local drive in's. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bob Schremp stands proud next to his 1954 Chevy mild<br />
custom with the first Larry Watson scallop paint job.</td></tr>
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</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">The photos of Bob's Chevy shown here, where taken by James Potter to be used in various magazine features on the car, the test sheets these scans where taken from are part of the Larry Watson Personal Collection.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
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</div>Rikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09449574105591408014noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003495900145592729.post-27732166274391119622011-11-15T16:09:00.000-08:002011-11-15T16:56:03.231-08:00Justin Kudolla's Custom Cars Trend Books<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">There are not to many strictly Custom Car related magazines and book published these days. Back in the 1950's and early 1960 this was quite different. One of the strictly magazines or perhaps we can even call them books where the Custom Cars annual put out by Trend Books. The first was published in 1951, and the last was done in 1962. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">It was almost an annual published report on the latest trends in Custom Car world. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">The books are filled with nothing but Custom Cars. And Justin has been able to find Custom Cars that where not published before, or seen to much on the internet. Quite an achievement today. And besides the features of Custom Cars there is a styling Studio, Book review, Custom Model Cars and as far as I think, the best part of the magazine, a wonderful interview with an old timer Custom Car who tells just great stories how it all was back in the days. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">The first 2009 book had an interview with Gerald Twamley and his famous 1954 Chevy Custom Car. Gerald also shared many of his great Custom Car photos from his personal photo album. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Justin Kudolla has been in love with everything Custom Car for as long as he can remember, and when he read one of the first articles publisher Luke Karosi from Kustoms Illustrated magazine put in his own magazine. The </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">article was called "Attack Of the 1/2 Foot Zines," which had articles about Rolls & Pleats and some of the other magazines along those lines. In the article he said something about "with the advent of personal computers and desktop publishing systems, things that were once solely done by professionals can now be done in your own home, such as magazine publishing." </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Well, that got Justin thinking! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">He always liked the old Annuals, they were my favorites. And he had hoped that someone would bring them back, and not do them in an updated way, but continue them as they were before. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Back around 1994, there were two issues published of Hop-Up magazine, in the little size how it was in the 1950s. (In Justins opinion, these two issues were far better than the Annuals that were later published, after the rights to the Hop-Up name were purchased by a new owner.) They were very good quality, on thick paper, and had some color inside, but many of the layouts and even the ads were done the way the old ones were. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">That is exactly what Justin wanted to do with his Annual. There may be some modern style customs in the new Annuals Justin created, but he still wanted to give all of the articles an old look, so it would be like looking at something new through the eyes of something old, like a Twilight Zone experience or something!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">If you have not ordered one of these great Custom Car books, do yourself a favor, and go to Justin's website and order one, or two. You wont be sorry. The interviews with Gerald Twamley and Johnny Zaro alone are worth the price. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rear view of Johnny's Mercury.<br />
Wonderful flow of lines.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Johnny bought this unfinished 1941 Ford project.<br />
George Barris had been building it for John Vara, but he<br />
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George Barris finished it for Johnny Zaro.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Especially nice is the very rounded shape of the tuck&roll<br />
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</span>Rikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09449574105591408014noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003495900145592729.post-68889360435408148682011-10-25T03:25:00.000-07:002011-10-27T13:52:16.469-07:00Custom Car builder Herbert "Bud" Unger<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">So every now and then you hear about a body shop or a body man from back in the days that you have not heard about all that much. Recently I was given a copy of Speed Age magazine from October 1949 (thanks to David Zivot). And inside was an article on a body man I had only heard about once or twice. </span><br />
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">His name… Herbert "Bud" Unger. And despite the fact I had never heard about Bud, I did now about one of the Custom Cars he created in the late 1940's the 1936 Ford Roadster for Ray Giovannoni which was featured in the November 1948 issue of Hot Rod magazine, Trend Book #102 Hot Rods, but in none of these magazines the name of the builder was mentioned. And I always assumed Ray was not only the owner but also the builder of this fantastic car.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">One thing that I always noticed, was the wonderful styling of this 1936 Ford. Very much like the work of Harry Westergard or early Barris or at least something that could have come from California in the 1940's. It had that typical - what we now know as - California look to it. But Ray Giovannoni was from Washington D.C. the East Coast. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Lets take a step back, and take another look at the Speed Age magazine article on Bud Unger. The body man I had never heard about and who has apparently turned out some amazing looking early Custom Cars.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">The article takes on two and a half page (a full spread and a half page) which is quite a lot for the time. And the full spread is wonderfully laid out with partly cut out photos of some of the Custom Cars Bud had created. Now we would say that it is unfortunately these cars where positioned partly on top of each other hiding some nice details. But back in 1949 this was really state of the art.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Bud Unger is from Rockville Maryland and he learned how to shape metal in the air corps forming aluminum for the airplanes. The techniques he learned here would come in handy when he opened his own body shop. The regular repair work was done during the day, but in the slow and after hours he would work on his secret hobby of Hot Rods and Custom Cars. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">The magazine mentioned he had studied California styling on Hot Rods. But it does not tell if Bud actually went to California to study the cars in person, or used magazines books or photos to do so. I guess he must have visited California himself, since there just was not much written on these car back then.<br />
Ray sure had a great feeling for CUstom Cars and styling. His cars really capture the Californian looks from the 1940's.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;">In the article Bud also made a statement that he will not work on any cars newer than 1948. "The lines are not there" he claims!</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">In any event his first car was his own 1947 Chevy (no photos). And it turned out so good he soon would have his first customer who wanted him to do his Custom work on his car. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">This first customer happened to be Ray A. Giovannoni with his 1936 Ford Roadster. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Bud chopped the windshield, made a custom grille surround to fit the Packard grille and added a set of 1939 Buick headlights which where much longer and more streamlined than the stock Ford headlights. This gave a whole new appearance to the front of the 1936 Ford. He removed the door handles and removed the running boards to replace them with smooth units about half the width of the originals. To fill the gap bog front and rear fenders where extended down. 1941 Ford bumpers where used front and rare, and at the rear Bud create a splash pan from the body to the new bumper. On that he would mount the chrome license plate frame with the plate set behind glass. On the splash pan he installed a white light to illuminate the plate at night. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">The 1948 Hot Rod article mentioned that Ray drove his car to the California to have his padded to made there. And in the Speed Age photo it looks like Ray's 36 Ford has a soft top, perhaps the photos where taken before his California trip when he had the padded top made. And Bud or a local upholstery guy made a soft top to fit the chopped windshield.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Ray Giovannoni had a speed shop in Washington D.C. and would later establish himself a very good name with his racing cams when he moved to Florida and opened a speed shop there.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
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Bud Unger would later in and around 1953 be hired to do an series of articles for Speed Age magazine called <b>Customizing Questions and Answers</b> and <b>Customize it yourself. </b><br />
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</i></div>Rikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09449574105591408014noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003495900145592729.post-8058961251772286582011-06-20T00:36:00.000-07:002011-11-18T23:04:07.937-08:00The ART of early Custom Cars<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was 14 years old when I saw the first first "custom Car" in my life. It was during a vacation in Sweden with my parents. This was in the early 1980's. And most Custom Cars back then are now remembered for not being particular beautiful. But back then I loved every bit about them, and tried absorb as much info and as many photos I could find. Not really easy for a kid with no money on the wrong side of the world (the Netherlands). But over the years I managed to get a few US Custom Car magazines, and subscribed to a Swedish magazine that featured new and so every now and then some old Custom Cars. The Custom Cars style of the 1980's was so natural for me, and it took me some time to figure out most of them where inspired by the Custom Cars of the 1950's. </div><div style="text-align: left;">I then got really impressed with these wonderful styled Custom Cars from the 1950's and with some luck was able to find some unwanted 1950's Rod & Custom Magazines. And studied all these cars, from those magazines, the style they used, the details. Howe and by who they where built. I then started to believe Customizing really started in the early 1950's. </div><br />
The more research I was able to do on the subject Custom Car, the more I noticed the cars built in the 1940's, built before WWII or right after it. The style of these early Custom Cars really appealed to me. They where pure, they where most of the time very stylish, glamourous and very tasteful. This style slowly disappeared in the late 1940's, although there are some samples of this style up into the early 1950's as well. The 1936 Ford 5-window coupe below was one of the first samples I saw of the early style Custom cars. There is a photo of it (deferent than the one below) in a book called Automobile and Culture.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This 1940 photo shows an wonderful styled 1936 Ford 5-window coupe.<br />
The customizer used some very early aftermarket parts like the Ripple Disk<br />
Hubcaps, the stainless rock shield and rocker cover to hide the frame after<br />
the running boards where removed. The chop is just right and so is the mild lowering.<br />
The narrowed stock grille with custom side grilles in the front fenders is genius.</td></tr>
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Over the years I have wondered often why there is relatively limited interest in these early style Custom Cars. You rarely see recently built Custom Cars built in this early style. Sure there are some great samples, but the majority chooses the built new Custom Cars in the better known 50's style. Or for the last couple of years - in the satin paint, laying frame kind of styling.<br />
When I post some photos of early built Custom Cars they rarely get many views, or comments on the Hamb. There are some exceptions, but in general you can say the 1950's styled Customs are favored by most.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harry Westergard designed and built this 1938 Chevy Convertible for Sal Cociola.<br />
Packard grille, 1941 Oldsmobile bumpers. Aftermarket hubcaps, Spotlights, <br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">So what is it that makes these early style Customs </span></b><br />
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These cars where all built in an era that Coach built cars where a "common" sight. Especially in California the rich and famous had special Coach built cars built for them. Wonderfully styled Custom creations which we don't call Custom Cars today. But these hand made one off Classic Cars where the inspiration for the boys in the street who wanted to make a statement, wanted to diverse them selfs from the crowd. They where not able to buy the Duesenberg's and Cadillac's that where used by the Coach Builder's. But they figured they would be able to get similar results when Customizing their everyday Fords, chevy's and Lincoln's - to name a few. Body shops in California started to do Customizing on cars, and soon the first custom shops where opened. Pioneers as Jimmy Summers, Frank Kurtis, George DuVall, Harry Westergard, Carson Top Shop and many others are responsible for a lot of these early Custom Cars, and the style that was developed for them. There where no magazines or Custom Car shows to promote the style. And still you saw Custom Cars pop up all around California. And most of them where very stylish. Body work was performed to create more exclusive looks for the car, and not just to be different as was the case in the 1950's.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Howard Wilson's 1936 Ford three window coupe is basically a mild custom.<br />
Not to much has been done to the body, but what has been done, is done<br />
with style. The running boards have been removed, and the front fenders <br />
extended down. The ribbed stainless steel frame covers are most likely<br />
aftermarket, I have seen them on more 1936 Ford, including the 5-window<br />
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A good sample of a mid 1940's styled Custom is the Lincoln Convertible below. A wonderful car to start with. But the customizer who designed and built this car knew exactly what to do and where to stop. The running boards where removed to create a more elegant body as seen on the most expensive Hand made Sports Cars from Europe. An elegantly shaped stainless steel rock guard was fabricated for the rear fender. This attracts the eye, and gives tome weight to the rear of the car. The door handles were left in place and give just the right amount of spark to the side of the car. The car was lowered, but just a small amount, and not put on a rake, just level, or perhaps with a slight rearward angle. The body work that was done was sharp, not with large amounts of lead as was so popular in the late 1940's and early 1950's. And then the perfectly styled padded top by Hall of Oakland. This all gives the car a very classic feel. I have often wondered if the early Custom builders might have been influenced by the wonderful and colorful artist impression illustration used in the early Car brochures. Many of those cars had the factory lines, but there drawn much lower than stock, had a visual chopped top, all made to make the car look longer and lower.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I think one of the key point for these early style Custom Cars is the balance between smooth crisp well designed body work, the right amount on chrome left or added to a car in combination with a perfect proportioned stance. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">George DuVall and Frank Kurtis can be seen as pioneers in Custom Car building. They created some wonderful Custom designs on cars as old as 1929. The general point of view is that a car from 1936 and up can be called Custom Car. Everything older does not fit the category. But the samples below - early samples of customizing - sure can be seen and named as Custom Car in my book. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Lately there have been some discussions about 1933-34 Ford turned into Custom Cars, and some die-hard Hot Rodders will not go that way. But Pat Ganahl's excellent article on Wes Collin's 1934 Ford in Issue #51 of The Rodder's Journal has proven otherwise I think. Wes Collin's 1934 Ford Roadster is an early Custom car built in the early 1940's with all the style elements of the Coach-built cars, but based on a "cheap" Ford base. The car has been published before in early 1950's magazines and I have always wondered why nobody today would built a Custom based on this body style. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(Rick Dore's 34 Ford convertible might be the only exception, but that was built as a modern street rod /custom)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Wes Collins 1934 Ford Roadster was black with a red interior in the mid 1940's</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">But after Al Marx bought it he repainted it in a light color. The DuVall windshield,</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Longer - La Salle - headlights, smooth hood sides, skirted rear fenders, Lincoln bumpers </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">and wonderfully shaped Padded top make this one stunning Custom Car.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Very interestingly are the hubcaps on this version, they seam to be the very first</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">version of the George DuVall designed Hollywood Hubcap with a sort of swirl shape</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">stamped in instead of the later single bar version.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alex Xydias owned this 1934 Ford Cabriolet in the mid 1940's. <br />
Staring with an already chopped car he took it to Jimmy Summers shop<br />
where Jimmy molded in the fender skirts, and most likely also added<br />
the shortened metal running boards to the front fenders. La Salle headlights<br />
Oldsmobile bumpers, molded rear splash apron and a white Carson top finish this <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When we discuss about the Art in early Custom Cars I have to show one of the high lights of them all. The So Calif. Plating Company Delivery Truck based on a 1935 Ford Phaeton. George DuVall designed the truck, and together with Frank Kurtis and Jimmy Summers the car was built at the end of 1935. The frame was stretched 12 inches, and so was the body just behind the front doors, the rear doors where welded shut. Brand new 1936 Ford fenders where added, because they looked so much better than the 35 units. The DuValle style windshield which is still a popular - mainly 32 Ford option - Hot Rod accessory today was designed for this car. And george also designed the wonderful grille. The whole car has a lot of chrome, but not to much, and what there is is either functional, or very well designed. Again all in style with what the major Coach builders where doing on high dollar cars in the mid/late 1930's. The wonderful long padded top designed by George DuVall and created by the George Thomas Top Shop is the icing on the cake. The top in combination with the very much laid back windshield create instant speed. The level stance with the large white walls and Custom hubcaps make you stare at this car for hours. Everything about it is perfect.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spence Murray photo of the SoCal. Plating Delivery Truck.<br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A lot of the early Custom Cars are based on Convertible or Cabriolet body types. The good weather in California has a lot to do with this, but also the fact that most of the Coach Built cars from the 30's where based on these open cars. And the sleek body lines with a chopped windshield made and instant Custom Car. Top shops as the Carson Top Shop, Hall Of Oakland and others location in north and south california had a lot to do with the looks of these Early Custom Cars. The streamlined looks of the often white padded tops create an instant classic feel.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The fantastic often published photo of the Carson Top Shop shows the importance of these top shops. All these cars have this wonderful classic look. With wonderful flowing lines of the chopped padded tops.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The 1940 Ford from Al Beckman could have been in the Carson Top SHop photo as well. The car has not much done to it, yet it is extremely attractive. Slightly lower than stock, with a chopped windshield. Appleton Spotlights Custom smooth hubcaps, fender skirts and 1937 DeSoto bumpers are the only customizing done to the car. What we cant see in this photo is the wonderful Tuck & Roll upholstery and Padded Top that Al had built for his car. The photo was taken in 1949, so the style was still very much accepted then.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But in the later part of the 1940's things where changing Body shops where experimenting with adding parts from other cars brands. Custom made panels where created to make different body designs. Fenders where molded into the main body to create smoother - like melted butter - looking bodies. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Wonderful custom cars creations where created, but the simple crisp and classic style of the 1930's and early 1940's Custom Cars was slowly disappearing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The sample below shows the early version of George Barris his 1941 Buick. The padded top is still there, but the addition of the smooth fade away front fenders, molded in panels and shaving of all the exterior chrome including the door handles give it a whole different look and feel than the other samples shown in this blog. I have to say I like both styles in customizing, but over the last couple of years I noticed than more and more photos of these early style Custom Cars have found their way on my office walls. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div></div>Rikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09449574105591408014noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003495900145592729.post-55289295582853132182011-06-09T08:21:00.000-07:002011-06-09T08:28:04.298-07:00Rik Hoving's Custom Car History BlogFor some time now I have thought about starting a Custom Car blog where I could publish some of the many Custom Car stories I have planned.<br />
So far I have been featuring thousands of photos on my site and writing on the <a href="http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=5">HAMB</a>, several magazines as <a href="http://www.kustomsillustrated.com/">Kustoms Illustrated</a>, <a href="http://www.kr8cruisemagazine.nl/">KR8 magazine</a>, <a href="http://www.gasolinemagazine.se/">Gasoline magazine</a> and <a href="http://www.roddersjournal.com/">The Rodder's Journal</a> and lately also on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1735525427">Facebook</a>.<br />
I love to create all of these different ways of communicating about Custom Cars and its history and for most of them I will continue to contribute to them. But I just wanted to try something new, a medium where I can write, can add photos to and still be able to communicate with the readers. I love creating threads on the HAMB, but only a very small portion of its viewers is interested in Custom Cars. Which can be aggravating from time to time, when a good Custom Car thread gets buried deep way to soon. My own site is wonderful for its huge amount of photos I can share there, but it does not lend itself very well to writing articles. And writing for the magazines is perhaps the best, but there I really miss the contact and interaction with the readers.<br />
So I figured it was time to start a Custom Car History Blog and share interesting stories about Custom Cars, show wonderful black and white and colorful photos showing the best custom cars in fantastic colors.<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Focus</span></b><br />
My main focus will be the 1940's and the 1950's Custom Cars, but there will also be articles on the 1960's Custom Cars, and perhaps even an occasional recent day built Custom Car. I have planned to do some articles about just a single photo and try to point out as many things in that one photo as I can find - the Photo Reviews. Some of these old photos are just so interesting to look at, and not only the subject car in that photo.<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Lets start this first blog with the first Photo Review.</span></b><br />
This photo - from my own collection - was taken at the 1952 Oakland Roadster show.<br />
The car photographed by an unknown photographer is owned by Reno and Roy Peretto from Alameda.<br />
And according to the <a href="http://images112.fotki.com/v106/fileobgz/79708/0/223020/9719076/51program2Larger.jpg">1951 Oakland Roadster show program</a> in which the car was also entered (as #408) the car was built up from a 1937 Ford frame. Which was stepped down, had a dropped front axle, 1946 Chevy grille, 1949 front Buick bumper, 1947 Buick rear bumper. The complete body was hand pounded and rolled of sheet metal. 39 Inches to top of the hood, 53 inches to top of windshield, maroon and white padded & rolled upholstery, and a 1941 Lincoln revamped dash.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It appears to me that the main body was very much inspired by the Ford Shoebox, perhaps the windshield even came from one of those, or perhaps 1946-48 Ford convertible windshield. The side trim has been taken form a shoebox Ford. And it appears that the bench sits rather far forward in the body on this single seat custom.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I know that I have seen this car somewhere before. Most likely in one of my many magazines I have, but I have not been able to find it again...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In the background we can see some great Custom Cars as well. On the far left is a unidentified stock top Shoebox Victoria. Next to that is a nice Padded topped 46-48 Ford/mercury, but I cannot see enough of this car to make a positive identification And behind the windshield we can see a – what appears to be a wonderful chopped Shoebox victoria, that I also cannot place. And toward the right we can see a chopped 39-40 Ford Convertible with open hood. All amazing custom cars that have not seen much publication... Its amazing how few photos of these early Oakland Roadster Shows have been found and shared on the net, or in magazines and book.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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