Showing posts with label So Cal Speedshop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label So Cal Speedshop. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 04, 2018

if you haven't seen the tv series Bones, you're probably not aware that Billy Gibbons is a recurring guest star. Season 5 episode 22, he helps steal the iconic red and white '32 So-Cal Speed Shop Special


The relevant part of the episode synopsis:

Angela's dad is back, and he needs help from Hodgins. (and that is all three of them above)

Billy Gibons (the father-in-law) lost a car in a high-stakes poker game and requested that his new son-in-law steal it back from the bikers who won it.

Hodgins tries to get to the car, but he finds Billy there instead. The whole thing was a test to see if Hodgins was worthy of being his daughter's husband. He and Hodgins steal the car

Billy offers Hodgins the car as a gift for passing the test.

http://bones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Beginning_in_the_End

Friday, September 16, 2016

Tom Lieb bought his 1929 Ford, this very Model A roadster, when Eisenhower was in office, it just takes a while sometimes to get around to finishing some cars


Preoccupied with college and a fledgling business that paid for it, he put off building it. And it was the right thing to do; that fledgling business grew to one of the more prominent aftermarket manufacturers, Scat Performance. 

So he put off building it some more. In fact he put it off until about 2006 or ’07 when he broached the idea again. Still loaded with obligations, he resigned to let someone else do the heavy lifting. He delivered it to SO-CAL Speed Shop



The exhaust manifolds are rare and unusual: “They came off a World War II-era landing craft,” he reveals. “I found them in New Zealand, so I put some in my suitcase and brought ’em home!”


The air filters, are just as exceptional, they’re ’28-’29 Lincoln. “They have a little impeller in there,” he explains. “The louvers direct the air to spin the impeller which throws any solids to the outside.” A trough around the bottom perimeter catches and dispenses with the debris. “There’s no element, just the turbine wheel.”


Incidentally the tank began life as a crewman’s oxygen tank from a high-altitude bomber like a B-25. Shine elongated it to take it from 7-1/2 gallons to about 12.

Believe it or not but this very engine profoundly affected on the industry. “A fella who I knew is a third-generation crankshaft manufacturer in Spain,” Lieb says. “His family made all of the crankshafts for Simca, who used Flatheads in trucks until 1972. He told me about a surplus dealer in France who had 200 of those cranks and he wanted to sell them.” So he bought the cranks and put them in the catalog.

“In the process I set aside a couple for myself,” he continues. “A couple years later I went to collect all the parts to build the engine but the cranks weren’t there!” As it turns out, the warehouse manager thought they were out of place and put them with the rest of the inventory that sold off. “‘Aw man!’ I thought. ‘Well I guess there’s only one thing to do now, make them!’” Which he did, H-beam rods included. “Now we still sell an average of two of those cranks and rod assemblies a day.”

http://www.hotrod.com/articles/1929-ford-av-8-highboy-ambr-roadster-has-all-the-traditional-vintage-parts-covered/

Saturday, December 01, 2012

the So Cal Speedshop bellytanker was at SEMA this year





notice how perfect the paint and body are, nothing wrong to be found in the reflections