Showing posts with label roadster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label roadster. Show all posts
Saturday, December 27, 2025
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Monday, August 04, 2025
Friday, August 01, 2025
Monday, July 14, 2025
Might not exactly be a barn find... as no one "forgot" about this, but it sure was stored a while. At least a decade. Just long enough to get the right amount of dust all over it
Friday, October 04, 2024
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
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.
This 1925 American LaFrance Type 75 was originally dispatched to the West Palm Beach Florida Fire Department, and served as pumper #4 until about 1966.
this would be just incredible to drive across country in something like the Great Race, or even better, slowly through the small backroads while taking the time to stop everywhere to see everything
Of course, for such an enjoyable use, unlike museum time showing it's functional accessories, I'd leave everything in storage like that spotlight, extinguishers, ladders
After it's retirement, the pump was removed and a simple touring style body was installed, and it served duty at a resort providing transport for wedding parties and tours.
The chain drive American LaFrance chassis traces its origin to the early days of motoring. The design of the 1904 Mercedes was recognized as the most advanced at the time, and many manufacturers followed the design and configuration. The Simplex Automobile Co. was one such manufacturer. The Mercedes 50hp was copied by Simplex in New York City.
The engines were large T head models with three speed transaxles and dual chain drive to the rear wheels. They even copied the shape of the radiator.
When American LaFrance decided to seriously get into motorized fire apparatus in 1909, they bought two Simplex car chassis upon which they built two rigs. They then went on in 1910 to copy the Simplex and built their own rigs from the ground up to a larger capacity then the Simplex/Benz. American LaFrance offered their chain drive chassis until 1927
https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/cars-for-sale/american-lafrance/type-75/2636621.html
Am I right in thinking this is a roadster?
Tuesday, September 06, 2022
you've heard many stories of guys not coming back from Nam, and their families selling their cool cars... well, this is the 1st time I've learned of a WW2 soldier who didn't come back and his car being sold by his family
It's on Bring A Trailer, currently for 30k, with 3 days left
the gallery has about 350 photos
Friday, June 03, 2022
Sunday, January 30, 2022
Monday, February 22, 2021
Thursday, August 20, 2020
Sharp Equipped
nice simple scallops to make this even better looking
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by.428585/page-6662
Saturday, August 08, 2020
Sunday, June 28, 2020
up for auction, the McMullen roadster
it set a speed record at Mirage, and the flames were painted on by Ed Roth.
https://mecumgallery.com/ford-mcmullen-roadster
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
I'd never until now ever heard of, or seen, what was done to Vic Edelbrock’s historic black Deuce roadster to win the AMBR, it was also the first Deuce roadster to win the trophy.
Eddie Bosio proudly shows off what he did. This included narrowed ’40 Olds bumpers, outside headers/exhaust, a curved custom windshield, cycle fenders (with mudflaps!), and lots of chrome and gold plating.
Bosio kept it for decades, refusing to sell it to Vic Jr.
Edelbrock finally prevailed, and got Roy Brizio to fully restore the car.
https://patganahl.com/2019/05/27/quick-pics/
Tuesday, December 03, 2019
Dave York's barn find '32 Deluxe roadster
The complete roadster top was worked on to get an aesthetically pleasing chop. The irons and original wood of the roadster top which had been squirreled away since 1963 had to have 4 inches chopped from the stanchions and windshield frame and the irons were chopped accordingly.
The missing canvas top was replaced with a complete but aging soft top from a phaeton almost a century old.
the rims are wire wheels, however they look like steelies because they have Lyons wheel covers on them... basically, a really nice set of two tone hubcaps that are quite a disguise
https://www.hotrod.com/articles/barn-find-1932-ford-roadster-becomes-1940s-hot-rod-perfect-patina/
Friday, July 26, 2019
Friday, May 10, 2019
Deuce roadster from Iron Man and Iron Man 2
it turns out to be more than a movie prop, it belonged to Jon Favreau, who loaned it to production while directing Iron Man
https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/articles/2019/05/06/must-see-movie-cars-petersen-hollywood-dream-machines
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