Bought from down Bourmouth town way, on England's south coast,
the coolest of track nosed T's showed up at the Rockin' Weekender. The
'Rod Cat' driving the 'T-ster', who's name eludeds me, journeyed along
with his buddy to meet up with the South West/Bristol posse.This crew must
have made a mighty impressive convoy, as a total of eleven rods an' Pick-ups
hauled to Hemsby. The T's Pinto powered, has a neat, actual, boat screen
and groovey scalloped paint job of contrasting, metallic brown and cream.
Andy Brown's '32 Ford roadster has now had several American
magazine articals written about it including a feature in Street Rodder
and cameo pix in The Rodders Journal. He must have done something to court
such attention from the usually Euro-phobic Petersen (et al) advertising
supplements, (shouldn't that be Roddin' magazines ?)
Dean Micetich's 30/31 as per 'Henry' Bone Coupe. A 'plugged'
steel visor adds some character to this once Jerry Denning owned car. It
was originally a '32 roadster and fully fendered, when Jerry first built
it. Dean swapped the body for his steel A body, loosing the 'glass' fenders
along the way too. You might just be able to spot the stylish Tiki head
adorning the 'shifter'. No doubt an influence Dean 's picked up from one
of his Stateside forays.
Mr '32 Frame Rails, Jerry Denning to most, made the most, with
the coolest, when he anchoured his 'fab'ed' '33 Pick-up truck in Pontin's
Glee-yard. Yes sir! It t'was a phantom, but the kinda Bogie Wagon I'm sure
most of you knuckle scuffers'd re-verse in their Barn or Lean-To. Tale
has it that a big chunk o' rubber parted company with it's anicent ring
o' tyre on the journey to the Weekend. Must've been intrestin' when that
surprise popped.
Jim Pantall's '29 Hay Hauler has been a regular at Hemsby sinces
it's impromtued put-together by owner, Jim and that consistant 'Rod Cooker',
Steve Read. You'd probably get to know Steve better by callin' him 'Stinger'.
Both Jim & Stinger decided to put the Pick-up together over a few short
weeks and drive it 2000 miles to a Swedsh Rockabilly/Hot Rod Hill Climb
without hardly a shakedown run under it's so cool chassis skirts. They
did it, with no major hick-up ta dah pick-up !
The 'Low-Job' turned out to be a no-gow job. It's Germany based,
American 'pilot' did the only thing any lover would do when leaving
for foreign shores. With the prospect of bein' parted for too long from
his auto spouse, he hit her, git her an' split 'er. Packed 'er up in hand
baggage (!) and lept on an outward flight, 'fore the captain or cabin crew
could boo hoo his goose.When dah big bird laid it's egg; a quick tack attack,
with too few tools an' weld wire and Hemsby was tha' next destination.
Now showin' only the slightest granuel of sence, the goofer trailed the
'piece(s)' to Norfolk's finest Koolsville. Sorrowfully to all, I guess
? One amusin' turn on the rough beach park and the prop goes an' gobbles
copious amounts of BIG pebbles, 'fore spittin' an' splittin' . An' all
that wuz left was a talkin' point. Fun though.
Koops! Koops! Were you on drugs when you wrote this?... Mart
Stinger made it out in his fresh 32 'flaked' green hot iron.
With tidy white rubber shod on all four of his 16" steelies, they were
capped with late '40's shiney Ford grease grabbers. Tasty midnite peepers,
tacked to his rails, came in the form of period aftermarket lamps that
I'm sure I've seen on more than one of Steve's previous motors.
John Wicks has also had his Hot Rod, a sweet, Ford in-line 6
powered '27 T featured in well known colonial publications. This time out
though he made the black top in his alternative 'piece', a solid gone,
'32 suede red roadster. Now his skills as a rod craftsman are undoubted
as the'Veed' alloy windscreen mounted on the '32 can atest. Yup, we got
Pinto ponies doin' the donkey in this gowster too.
--ooOOoo--
Thanks for the photo's Koops, I've got to go next year....Mart
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