Tuesday, September 21, 2010
WW2 was instrumental in changing the American culture in so many ways, but did you ever hear of car bumpers being donated to the scrap drives?
0 comments Posted by welot at 9:01 PM
Rita Hayworth did her part... so if you come across her big old car with no bumpers, now you'll know what happened to them.
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/08/28/Worldwarii/War_changes_fashion.shtml
For an example of immense largese in donating to the scrap drives, read about Panmsy Yount's 1933 Duesenberg Model J Judkins Berline that was turned over to the war effort for it's use as metal for armor plate, or whatever they did with all that steel http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/08/ive-posted-before-about-ww2-scrap.html
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Anyone know what the story is about this roadster?A couple of brass era vehicles from the movie "The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday" a Lee Marvin movie
0 comments Posted by welot at 8:41 PM
Don't know what they are specifically, but the movie was fun to watch, and the antique cars were frequently on screen.The biggest wagon I've ever seen! Might only have been a movie prop, because they blew it to smithereens
0 comments Posted by welot at 8:24 PM
Three axles... I've never seen one with 3 axles. This was in the movie "Duck You Sucker" with James Coburn
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067140/
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Hudsons, quite the difference between stylish cars, and odd looking trucks
0 comments Posted by welot at 8:49 PM
The owner told me a bit of Hudson Hollywood information I've never learned before, the Hollywood was fundamentally a convertible chassis with a coupe top. They had to switch them between assembly lines from the convertible line to the hardtop line after getting all the undercarriage and chassis done. This is why it has such a roomy interior
This one is new to San Diego... it was just purchased from Florida. What does that matter? Well, I like the Hudson Hollywood look a lot, and realised I hadn't seen this one before, so I asked if it had been here long or if it was recently brought to San Diego. 
Thursday, August 12, 2010
The Munster's Coach was a birthday present for Herman from Lilly, according to episode 4 of season 1, custom built from a hearse and a hot rod
0 comments Posted by welot at 11:32 PM
Here's the place Lilly stopped to look for a car for Herman
The Fleetwood Cadillac Lilly's invisible chauffer drove her in
I'd love to know if this T Bucket is known becaue of who built it, or just happened to be available for this scene Some one else wondered about this too! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=298015&page=3
From page 70 and 71 of the March 1965 issue of Hot Rod, a bit of information:
Built by Erv Campbell of Santa Ana, CA from a cut down 1922 Ford touring body and a shortened Model A pickup bed on a 1930 Model A frame. At that time it was Erv's sixth rod and reportedly took over 5,000 hours to complete -- the hardest part, according to the owner, was fabricating the headers for the 1957 347 cu. in. Pontiac motor.
Very unusual hearse, Lilly liked both the hot rod and the hearse and decided to have a customizer make them into one car for Herman, taking the best features of each
