Showing posts with label Gray Baskerville. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gray Baskerville. Show all posts
Monday, September 14, 2026
Saturday, November 19, 2022
Gray Baskerville and his '32 roadster
Baskerville's '32 was originally built as a drag car by Paul Horning, but was found to be too heavy to race and was converted to street car use. Horning was killed in a motorcycle accident before he could have any fun with it.
Horning was Baskerville's best friend, and so Gray purchased the car from Horning's mother in 1966 and proceeded to drive it everywhere, everyday, until 1981, when he bought a truck, stating he didn't want any Hollywood types crashing his car.
That a roadster was a daily driver, and the only vehicle that Gray owned, for about 15 years, is remarkable. It wasn't trailered, and he drove it across country numerous times to hot rod events, back in the good ol days when he wrote enjoyable articles.
Gray was a really good writer, in the way that you ENJOYED reading what he wrote, as much as what he wrote about. Thankfully, it's all saved for history and accessible any time you open an old Hot Rod magazine
He was a champion of things like Bonneville, of the history of hot rodding, and of traditional hot rodding. He was as connected as anyone has been or ever will be in the automotive aftermarket world. Gray was loved by all and even though the majority of us never met him, we knew his words were honest and from the heart. That shouldn't be rare among auto enthusiast writers, but it's very hard to find.
Thursday, January 23, 2020
In Baskerville we trust
If you don't know Gray Baskerville, he was a pillar of the Hot Rod magazine and hot rod community.
He is the ONLY photo in the lobby of the company that makes Hot Rod magazine. Why? He earned it.
If you never met him, and I never did, we missed out on knowing a really cool guy
https://www.facebook.com/pg/DavidFreiburger/photos/?tab=album&album_id=115257008540218&ref=page_internal
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
the legend himself... Gray Baskerville, in the Sudden Death: The Ruggirello-Roush Mustang II, probably the most famous Mustang II
https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/permalink/1256675007812446/
update Jan 2018, it's for sale at Mecum
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1686223568321025/permalink/2033690020241043/
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