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Contents
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20 Features
8 The Booker prize
Hardly, but still worth a read
26 Approved and abused
Vanning in Australia
30 Improved and abused
Dragging in Sweden
37 Living the dream
Just our take on things

98 Humphrey Bogart
Well, almost

Cover feature

108
8 Time capsule
Perfect for the grandkids

Regulars Out and About 37

4 News & reviews 16 Rewarding weekend
10 Events Mostly approved, too
Plenty for the weekends 20 City centre BBQ
12 Mail Barn dance meets school bus
On the scales 22 How was breakfast?
96 So Cal Diaries It was OK
A rush of blood
128 Remember when…
One of a kind

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Introduction for vehicles undergoing a BIVA inspection.
A nigh-on impossible target for an
and reassuring proof that there really is
strength in numbers.
amateur build if ever there was one. Well done to each and every one of you

I
n the April issue I mentioned the
latest proposed legislation that
could potentially have a detrimental
effect for those building cars to BIVA
standard. The consultation document on
Road Vehicles – Improving Air Quality and
Safety made reference to the introduction
of up-to-date engine emissions testing
Many organisations were urging
enthusiasts to respond to this consultation,
and thankfully many did. As a result, the
DfT has recently announced that, following
substantial negative response, the proposal
to require certain classes of vehicles
submitted for Individual Vehicle Approval
(IVA) will be withdrawn. Good news indeed,
who took the time out to go online and
respond to the consultation.
All we need now is for the weather to
start playing ball and we’ll be in for a great
season. If only we could all log on to a
website and ask that the rain stops.
Dave Biggadyke

Old School Sundays

Turn to p20 and you can read about what goes on at a Rainy City
Cruisers’ monthly meet. These gatherings take place on the third
Sunday of the month at The Old School BBQ Bus, Alford Street,
Hollinwood OL9 7LP.
If you find yourself in the Greater Manchester area on the third
Sunday of the month, you now know where to head for.

On TRAX
The new-for-2018 event, TRAX
Donington, takes place at Donington
Park on Sunday 1 July, the day after
Japfest Donington fills the venue. The
double header means there’ll be an entire
weekend of thrills and track action for
performance car fans, with a special
combination ticket and camping available
Right route
The Route 62 Kustom Show takes place at Pontefract Racecourse
on Sunday 16 September. Along with the show vehicles, the
day promises trade stands, tattoo artists, kids’ entertainment,
refreshments and live music.
For more details, search Route 63 Kustom Show on Facebook.

Sunshine
for those who want to take in everything.
Headlining TRAX Donington’s

attractions will be the track time, which
offers visitors the opportunity to take their
own cars out onto the Donington circuit
for a 20-minute track session, starting
from just £25.
A diverse range of car clubs will also
be exhibiting their vehicles at this year’s
event, showcasing the very best of classic
and modern performance machinery.
Early bird ticket deals are available until
noon on Monday 4 June. To find out more,
or to buy tickets, go to www.traxshows.
co.uk/trax-donington
thanks
Following a winning sealed bid at
November’s British Drag Racing Hall of Fame
gala awards dinner for the DialAFlight-
donated trip to Florida’s Amalie Motor Oil
Gatornationals, Antony Noble (on right) and
best friend Will Sherratt (both of whom work experience was thoroughly enjoyable for
on the Yesterday’s Dreams cackle car owned the pair, who were appreciative of the
by Will’s dad, Bill Sherratt) were able to take generosity provided by Connie Kalitta and
in the four-day ‘Big Show’. Jim Oberhofer, crew chief on Doug Kalitta’s
Needless to say, the Sunshine State Mac Tools Top Fueller.

Action packed
Peterborough showground is the place to head for on 26-27 May for the action-packed Hot
Rod, Custom and American Car Show. With indoor and outdoor display areas, the weekend
offers the Best in Britain competition, live music, trade stands, a live action arena, lowrider
displays, a wall of death, tattoo convention and a rolling road.
For those stopping over, the site offers full camping facilities and plenty of evening
entertainment. For further details, visit www.hotrodandcustomshow.co.uk

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 Pod cast
Time for fun
The NSRA Fun Run returns to the
seaside at Great Yarmouth on the
weekend of 1-3 June. As the name
suggests, fun is firmly the theme
of the weekend, culminating with a The latest happenings at the home
huge show and shine on the Sunday.
Full details of everything NSRA can be found at www.nsra.org.uk of UK drag racing - Santa Pod
Summer? What, already? Well,

Shop talk
John Gumble has been knocking around
the hot rod scene for a long while now,
and for a good few years has shared a
workshop with fellow petrolhead ‘young Thomas’. As everything John
seems to build is a Gasser, the workshop affectionately became known
as Gasserville.
The duo have now started their own hot rod parts business, Gasserville
Hot Rod Shop. A universal range of parts is offered and, as John and
Thomas both have full-time jobs, all profits go towards expanding this
range. Intriguingly, John told us they have some nice things lined up for the
future, and made in England, too.
Gasserville will be trading at many shows this year, so keep a look out
for them, or you can also look them up on Facebook.
it must be, because Santa Pod
Raceway’s 2018 calendar (“A
Guide to the UK’s Most Action-
Packed Venue”, don’t you
know?) tells us the Summer
Nationals will soon be with us.
It’s been a tumultuous year
for the Pod, with the huge winter investment in the new track
complicated by winter itself extending far into the spring and
scuppering hopes of getting to early grips with the freshly
cured concrete. Easter’s Festival of Power was a washout,
preventing all but a handful of the less high-powered classes
getting anywhere near the track.
If you are reading this close to this issue’s publication date,
you will know that we are now waiting on tenterhooks to
see how The Main Event turns out over the upcoming Spring
Bank Holiday weekend – the Top Fuel / Pro Stock / Pro Mod

At the Hop
The Cannibals Car Club inaugural Hot Rod Hop
takes place at Scald End Farm in Thurleigh,
Beds over the weekend of 8-10 June. The
entertainment flows all weekend with live music
in both the day time and evenings.
Further details of the Hop can be found on Facebook.
competitive baptism of fire for the new track.
So what about the Summer Nationals? It is Santa Pod
Racers Club’s own event – the racers’ race, if you like. You
won’t find the stunt shows or the monster trucks or the
panoply of other family entertainments that help draw
the crowds to The Main Event (though the Battle of Britain
Memorial Flight is due to fly past on Saturday). In fact, you
won’t find much in the way of crowds so there’s room to
spread. Sure, there are the Pro Mods of the MSA British
Drag Racing Championship topping the bill for fans of hairy,

Drive-in show
hang-it-out, mayhem motor racing, and there are bound to
be a few Nostalgia Funny Cars cackling away to satisfy the
nitro fiends. For the most part, though, this is a weekend of
The date for this year’s Hot Rod & good, strong, unadulterated sportsman drag racing for the
Custom Drive-In Day at Beaulieu is cognoscenti – bikes, as well as cars. But you don’t have to be
Sunday 17 June, Father’s Day. Staged in cogno-whatever to appreciate it. If you like your drag racing
association with Solent Renegades, the straightforward, pure and simple, here’s the race for you.
day promises hundreds of show vehicles, The Summer Nationals takes place over the 30 June - 1
trade stands and live entertainment. July weekend. As usual, you can find full event information
It’s also the launch day for the Andy by visiting www.santapod.com, or by telephoning 01234
Saunders exhibition, The Art of Kustom, 782828, and you can book tickets online and print them out at
we mentioned last month. home. Advance day prices start at £14 and under 16s go free.
See www.beaulieuhotrodday.co.uk Sunshine? Of course
the sun will shine! Why
else would it be called the

Petrolhead’s summer
Summer Nationals?

Blenheim Palace is offering car

enthusiasts a diverse series of events
to get revved up about this summer.
The Pre-’50 American Auto Club’s Rally
of the Giants is on Sunday 8 July, the
Blenheim Palace Festival of Transport
is on the weekend of 26-27 August,
Salon Privé runs from 30 August to 1
September and the Blenheim Palace Classic and Supercar Show is on
Sunday 2 September.
Full details of all these events can be found at www.blenheimpalace.com
It’s a Classic
The annual classic Ford appreciation day, the
Classic Ford Show, takes place on Sunday 3
June at Santa Pod Raceway. Hosted by two of
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Essential reading
Vern Tardel – Hot Rod
Your Model A
Authors: Vern Tardel and David
Fetherston
Published by: Fetherston Publishing
Price: $59.95+ shipping from
www.verntardel.com (also available
from www.americanautomags.com / tel.
01606 888324)
Billed as a How-
To Guide for Hot
Rodding a Stock
Model A, this 340-
page manual is
exactly that. There
have been dozens
of how to build
a hot rod books
published before, but none could be read
and followed from start to finish and you’d
end up with a hot rod.
This book, which evolved out of Tardel’s
excellent ‘Let Me Help You’ series of small
format technical books, is single minded in its
subject and majors on the minutiae that other
books all too often gloss over. The reason it
can do that is it follows a single car through
its conversion from stock to A-V8 hot rod,
making it essentially a build book, only one on
a car that any of us can realistically aspire to.
Behind the hard outer cover, it’s ring-
bound and styled to look like a workbook,
with lined pages, sections in a handwriting
font and somewhat pedestrian layout. But
between the stark cut outs is informative,
illuminating text packed with tips, clear
photography (Dave Fetherston you may recall
was a contributor to CC for many years) and
Vern’s ‘key details’. It is in these in particular
that Tardel’s years of experience and
knowledge of early Ford parts and building
hot rods out of them shines through, making
this book an absolute treasure trove of
traditional hot rod know how.
There is even a template section with
full-size drawings for such as steering
column and master cylinder mounts, as well
as wiring diagrams.
If you want the inside line on building
a traditional 1950’s-style, Flathead-
powered hot rod with buggy springs,
crossply tyres and a torque tube, this book
is manna from heaven.
8 CUSTOM CAR SUMMER 2018
Day One – an automotive
journalist’s muscle-car
memoir
Authors: Martyn L Schorr
Published by: Motorbooks / Quarto
Publishing (www.quartoknows.com/
Quarto-Drives/)
Price: £22.95 from American Auto
Mags (www.americanautomags.com /
tel. 01606 888324)
Put simply, this is the best automotive
book I have read in years. It may resonate
with me particularly as it’s written by
an automotive journalist about his time
in the industry, but it’s far from a vanity
publication. Instead, it’s an incredibly
in-depth, front-line account of time spent
in the industry in the golden years of the
early ’60s through to the mid-’70s.
Martyn Schorr, and his sidekick, Joe
Oldham, were New Yorkers. Living and
working on America’s east coast, far
from the advertiser-led publications
that flooded out of the west coast gave
them a raw and rarely-seen perspective
– honesty. You may never have heard
of CARS! magazine, but its raison d’être
was to tell the truth, and hang the
consequences.
So while the mags on the other side of
the country were gushing over Chrysler’s
street Hemi, these guys said it was
Trans-Am Era – the golden
years in photographs:
1966-1972
Author: Daniel Lipetz
Published by: David Bull Publishing
(www.bullpublishing.com)
Price: $69.95 / £59.95 on amazon.co.uk
I searched for a long time for the ‘right’
book on this short but exhilarating period
of US motor racing and this is it, even
if it does give only a passing nod to the
European manufacturer-dominated Under
2.0-litre class.
There are other books on the Trans-
American Sedan Championship, but what
makes this book special is the beautiful
and intensive illustration using largely
previously unpublished work by some of
the most accomplished photographers of
the time.
It covers in blow-by-blow detail arguably
the most exciting saloon car championship
ever, from its thunderous explosion onto
the motorsport world stage in 1966 to its
demise in 1972 when rule changes, safety
expensive,
temperamental
and a bear to
live with in
a street car.
Naturally, that
attitude didn’t ingratiate them to the
board of the Big Three manufacturers,
but it was a breath of fresh air and sold
magazines. They weren’t going after the
ad revenue anyway, so what the hell.
Split into chapters covering every year
from 1962 and the Chevy 409 to 1974
and Pontiac’s Super Duty 455, it’s packed
with anecdotes, detailed recollections of
the performance and driveability of all
the hi-po factory cars they ‘tested’ (re:
thrashed) and makes insightful reading.
Combine all that with wonderful period
photography, great typography and
layout and you have a unique perspective
on the muscle car era that’ll keep you
coming back time and time again.
concerns and a
general move away
from performance
in America changed
the series forever.
This book is more
than just a list of
grid positions and
winners, though, it explains why and how
the manufacturers became involved, and
gives equal billing to the drivers, who made
the series what it was. As Dodge driver,
Sam Posey, put it, “Trans-Am was the best
test of driving ability of any series of that
era… but it also called for using the car as a
battering ram.”
If you like your racing loud, raw and dirty,
you’ll get a kick out of this book for sure.
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NB: We advise you to double check with organisers that the event or show as listed is still going ahead, to avoid any wasted journeys. To submit an
event, email motorevents@kelsey.co.uk, fax 01733 557235, or write to Custom Car Events, Kelsey Media, PO Box 978, Peterborough PE1 9FL.
MAY
19-20 The Doorslammers.
Santa Pod Raceway.
www.thedoorslammers.co.uk
19-20 Retro Rides Weekender.
Goodwood Motor Circuit, West Sussex.
www.retroridesweekender.com
24 Pro Peak Performance Test &
Tune Day. Santa Pod Raceway.
www.rwyb.com
25-28 The Main Event. Santa Pod
Raceway. www.santapod.co.uk
26 Pick-up Party. Ace Café, London.
www.acecafe.com
26-27 National Hot Rod & Custom
Car Show. Peterborough Showground.
www.hotrodandcustomshow.co.uk
27 Chryslers at Brooklands.
Brooklands Museum, Surrey KT13 0QN.
events@brooklandsmuseum.com
JUNE
1-3 NSRA Fun Run. Great Yarmouth,
Norfolk. www.nsra.org.uk
2 RWYB. Santa Pod Raceway.
www.rwyb.com
2-3 Classic & Performance Car
Spectacular. Tatton Park,
Cheshire WA16 6QN.
www.cheshireautopromotions.co.uk
3 Classic Ford Show. Santa Pod
Raceway. www.classicfordshow.co.uk
6 Hot Rod Night. Ace Café, London.
www.acecafe.com
7-10 Hot Rods and Hills.
Parkfoot Holiday Park, Ullswater,
Cumbria. speedemon32@googlemail.
com / 07766 396477
8-10 Cannibals Car Club’s Hot Rod
Hop. Scald End Farm, Thurleigh, Beds.
07919 020104 / cannibalscarclubuk
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30-1 July Pend dine Sands Hot Rod
8-10 Deva Dubs & Rods. Shrewsbury Races. Pendine, Carmarthenshire.
Showground, Shropshire SY1 2PF. www.vhra.co.uk
www.devadubshow.co.uk
30-1 July Stars & Striipes.
9 RWYB. Santa Pod Raceway. Tatton Park, Cheshire WA16 6QN
www.rwyb.com www.cheshireautopromotions.co.uk
10 CUSTOM CAR SUMMER 2018
A full list of events can be found on the Custom Car website at
www.customcarmag.co.uk
9-10 American n Speedfest.
Brands Hatch Race Circuit, Kent.
www.speedfest.co.uk
10 Mersea Motor Madness.
East Mersea, Colchester CO5 8SX.
Full details on Facebook
15-17 Steel Citty Cruisers’ Rod
Run. Hooton Lodge, Kilnhurst Road,
Rotherham S66 4TE. Joy on 01497
847567 / Ian on 01142 654918 /
email: sccrodrun@btinternet.com
15-17 AACI Open Nationals. Billing
Aquadrome, Northants. www.aac-int.com
16 RWYB. Santa Pod Raceway.
www.rwyb.com
16-17 Bristol Classic Car Show. Bath
and West Showground, Somerset, BA4
6QN. www.bristolclassiccarshows.com
17 Retro Show
w. Santa Pod Raceway
www.retroshow.co.uk
17 Bromley Paageant. Norman Park,
Kent. www.bromleypageant.co.uk
17 Fathers Day y Motorfest.
Barleylands, Billericay, Essex.
www.motorshowevents.com
17 Fathers’ Da
ay Classic Car Show.
Keighley Rugby Union FC, West Yorks
BD20 6DT. andertontony@yahoo.co.uk
22-24 AACUK Summer Nationals.
Hatton Country World, Warwick CV35
8XA. www.american-auto-club.co.uk
24 Performan nce Vauxhall Show.
Santa Pod Raceway.
www.performancevauxhallshow.co.uk
29-1 July NSVA A Truck-In. Westcott
Social Club, Bucks HP18 0NZ.
07960 939105
30-1 July Summmer Nationals.
Santa Pod Raceway.
www.santapod.com
30-1 July Classic Corvette
Club UK’s Nationals Event.
Sharnbrook Hotel, Bedfordshire.
www.corvetteclub.org.uk
30-1 July Tynwald Drags. Jurby
Raceway, Isle of Man.
www.manxdragracing.com /
www.straightlinersonline.co.uk
JULY
1 Trax Donington. Donington Park,
Leicestershire. www.traxshows.co.uk
4 Hot Rod Night. Ace Café, London.
www.acecafe.com
4 Heaven And Hell Custom
Classic Car And Auto Jumble e
Show. Bybrook Barn Garden Centre,
Ashford, Kent TN24 9JZ (5pm – 10pm).
07593 584997 / 07856 511961
5-7 Power Big Meet. Lidköping,
Sweden. www.bigmeet.com
6-8 In The Mood Volume 2. Doncaster
School For The Deaf, Leger Way, Doncaster
DN2 6AY.
Mick Tebbs 07710 438530
7 Saturday Night Special. Santa Pod
Raceway. www.rwyb.com
7-8 Carry On At The Camp.
Wood Lane, Ramsey, Huntingdon.
www.activeshows.co.uk
8 Pre ‘50 American Auto Clu ub Rally
of the Giants. Blenheim Palace,
Oxfordshire. www.pre50aac.com
12-15 Goodwood Festival off Speed.
Goodwood Motor Circuit, West Sussex.
www.goodwood.com
13-15 Dragstalgia. Santa Pod Raceway.
www.dragstalgia.co.uk
14 Party In The Park Car Shoow.
Speedwell Lane Baddersley Ensor CV9
2DT, 2pm-7pm. Details on Facebook
15 Custom and Classic Car, Bike
and Trike Show. Parson Drove,
Cambridgeshire. Look it up on Facebook
20-22 Ph hantoms Street Kru uisers’
Hot Rod Hootenanny. Venue TBC.
Details to follow on Facebook
20-22 Silverstone Classic.
Silverstone Circuit, Towcester NN12
8TN. www.silverstoneclassic.com
22 Kent’s Kit, Custom and American
Car Show. Aylesford Priory ME20 7BX.
www.kentskitcustom
andamericancarshow.co.uk
22 Detonators CC Annual BBQ and
Car Show. Shooter’s Hill, Bexleyheath,
1pm to 5pm. Details on Facebook
22 Damn Yankees Summer Slam.
North Weald Airfield, Essex CM16 6AR.
www.damnyankees.uk.com
24 The Really Retro Show.
Seighford Aerodrome, Staffs.
www.reallyretroshow.com
27-29 25th Mopar Euro Nationals.
Santa Pod Raceway.
www.mopareuronats.co.uk
27-29 Bridlington American, Rod
& Custom Show and Gala. Sewerby
Cricket Club, East Yorks YO15 1EW.
Contact YANCS on 01709 542555 or
07787 915081
28-29 Atomic Festival.
Sywell Aerodrome, Northants
NN6 0BN. www.atomicfestival.co.uk
AUGUST
1 Hot Rod Night. Ace Café, London.
www.acecafe.com
3-5 Doncaster Roadrunner Show.
Parklands Sports & Social Club,
Doncaster DN2 4LT.
www.doncasterroadrunner.co.uk
3-5 AACUK No Name Show. Stoke Prior
Sports & Social Club, Bromsgrove B60
4AL. www.american-auto-club.co.uk
4-5 Festival of Wheels. Trinity Park,
Ipswich. Full details on Facebook
5 Ford Fair. Silverstone Circuit,
Northants. www.fordfair.co.uk
10-12 NSRA Hot Rod Supernationals.
Old Warden, Beds. www.nsra.org.uk
11 RWYB. Santa Pod Raceway.
www.rwyb.com
17-19 Clydeside Cruisers’ Show ‘n’
Cruise. Lochbarr Services, Newton of
Barr, Lochwinnoch PA12 4JB.
Clydeside Cruisers on Facebook
18 Saturday Night Special. Santa
Pod Raceway. www.rwyb.com
18-19 Classic Motor Show. Tatton
Park, Cheshire WA16 6QN.
www.cheshireautopromotions.co.uk
19 RWY
YB. Santa Pod Raceway.
www.rwyb.com
19 Londdon Cartel International.
South of England Showground,
Ardingly, West Sussex.
www.londoncartelshow.com
24-27 Knucklebusters at The Barns
Stonham Barns, Suffolk IP14 6AT.
Knucklebustersuk@gmail.com
31-2 September Victory
Wheeleers’ Hot Rod & Custom Car
Show Weekender. Stansted House,
Rowlands Castle P09 6DX
www.victorywheelers.co.uk
SEPTEMBER
1-2 Kusstom Kulture Blastoff.
Lincolnshire Showground LN2 2NA
www.kkbo.co.uk
1-2 Pokkerstars Drag Fest.
Jurby Raceway, Isle of Man.
www.manxdragracing.com /
www.straightlinersonline.co.uk
1-2 Whe eels in the Field.
Belton Lane, Great Gonerby,
Grantham, Lincs NG31 8PP.
07496 491757
2 Peak Performance Test & Tune Day.
Santa Pod Raceway. www.rwyb.com
2 Ameriican Car Show. Museum of
Power, Langford, Maldon, Essex.
www.museumofpower.org.uk
2 Classiic, Custom Car and
Motorcy ycle Show. The White Lion,
Baldock, Herts SG7 6BJ. 07963 609143
2 Bonne
ets and Bumpers Auto
Show. Herne Bay Junior School, Kent.
bonnets-bumpers@mail.com
5 RWYB
B. Santa Pod Raceway.
www.rwyb.com
5 End off Summer Riot. Ace Café,
London.www.acecafe.com
6-9 FIA European Finals. Santa Pod
Raceway. www.santapod.com
7-8 Thee Growlers Rally 2018
presenttedd by Rob
bbers Dogs.
Manor Farm, Tattenhall, Cheshire.
Search Robbers Dogs on Facebook
7-9 NHRC Flat Caps & Feerrets.
Lepton Highlanders, Huddersfield
HD8 0LX. Russ 07768 071916 / Les
07940 732998
7-9 AACI Open Nationalss. Billing
Aquadrome, Northants. www.aac-int.com
7-9 Goodwood Revival..
Goodwood Motor Circuit, West Sussex.
www.goodwood.com
8 Race The Waves. Bridlington Beach,
Yorks. Full details to follow
9 Kent’s Classic Car Sho
ow.
Aylesford Priory ME20 7BX.
www.kentsclassiccarshow.co.uk
9 A602’s Autorama.
Fairlands Valley Showground,
Stevenage SG2 8RH.www.
a602sstreetandstriprods.com
14-16 NSRA Hot Rod Drrags.
Santa Pod Raceway.
www.nsra.org.uk
16 AACUK Autumn Nattionals.
Drayton Manor Theme Park,
Tamworth, Staffs B78 3TW.
www.american-auto-club.co.uk
16 Route 62 Kustom Sh how.
Pontefract Racecourse, West
Yorks WF8 4QD.Facebook.com/
Route62Kustomshow
21-23 Popstalgia. Bosworth Water
Trust, Nuneaton CV13 6PD.
Full details on Facebook
22 Saturd
day Nighht Spec
cial.
Santa Pod Raceway. www.rwyb.com
22-23 Sywell Classic. Sywell
Aerodrome, Northants NN6 0BN.
www.sywellclassic.co.uk
28-30 Fort Paull Americ can, Rod &
Custom Show. Hull, East Yorks HU12
8FP. Contact YANCS on 01709 542555
or 07787 915081
29 RWYB. Santa Pod Raceway.
www.rwyb.com
30 FordFest. Santa Pod Raceway.
www.fordfestshow.co.uk
OCTOBER
3 Hot Rod Night. Ace Café, London.
www.acecafe.com
6-7 National Finals. Santa Pod
Raceway. www.santapod.com
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the rollcage. The suspension is mainly

Not so small scale
Dear CC, further to Ian Jenkins’ letter
in the June issue about scale model
cars, here are a couple of pics of
the ¼-scale Bentley GT I have been
building.
I started the project after I took
delivery of a fully functioning ¼-scale
Conley V8 engine in early 2015. These
engines are truly amazing, the detail
and quality is perfect, and they sound
great. Check them out at www.
conleyprecision.com. Mine is around
100cc and is fitted with a supercharger
scratch built, whilst the hydraulically-
operated disc brakes are from a 1/5-
scale radio controlled car.
The Bentley is radio controlled and a
video of it can be found by searching
for ‘Quarter Scale Conley V8 Bentley
GT’ on YouTube.
I have built full-size rods in the
past, including a V8 VW Beetle and
a 2.0-litre 2CV, along with owning
numerous American cars, but this
little car is taking the longest to
complete. Still, at least it doesn’t take
up much room.

Small scale
Dear CC, I stayed in a lot this winter and
got a bit retro / nostalgic and bought a
Scalextric, so naturally I had to build a couple
of hot rods. The builds started sounding like
an article in CC, so I thought I’d share the
results. One day I’ll get on with a real one.
Until then, a massive thanks and nod to
CC magazine, along with all customs, cruisers,
rockers and rodders, for making the world a
cooler place.
Keef Bull (46), via email
and twin carbs.
I decided on the Bentley body after
seeing Steve Neimantas’ drag car, and
carved the shape from a large block of
Styrofoam, finishing it off with plaster
filler and epoxy sealer. After painting
it, I sent the buck off to some GRP
guys who took a mould and made a
couple of shells for me.
The chassis is made of 20mm x
10mm box section, and 10mm tube for
Andrew Ballard, via email
> I am truly lost for words Andrew.
Your Bentley is awesome and, you’re
right, that engine sounds spot on.
Those YouTube videos you mention
really are worth a watch, I particularly
liked the Bentley doing a burnout.
Top job Andrew, but I do have to ask
if you have any plans for that second
bodyshell? Ed.

> I’m guessing 46 refers to your age Keef,

so you must now be enjoying your second
childhood. Don’t worry, there’s nothing wrong
with a grown man buying himself a Scalextric,
and your secret’s safe with us.
The pic you sent reminds me of that line
from a TV ad, “the red car and the blue car
had a race.” Ed.

No scale at all
Dear CC, I was pleased to see that my current car, the former HR&C UK project Pop, was
pictured on the Contents page and on p14, parked next to DB’s Pop at the Lakes Run in 1996.
It seems the ownership has shifted south quite a bit as I purchased it from Milton Keynes.
Is it possible to obtain copies of the photographs in question? The Pop has lost the
flames at the moment, but they may well be reinstated in the future. What do readers
think looks best, flames or no flames?
Bob Gibbins, via email

> You know I’ve already sent you copies of those pics Bob, but I didn’t tell you a piece
of the car’s history you may not be aware of. It was owned by Lincolnshire resident and
Pilgrim Roadsters member, Chris Jackson, for many years. Chris bought it as an unfinished
restoration project and finished off the work, which included the switch to a stock height
bodyshell. We’ll let you know the readers’ verdict of the flames or not question. Ed.

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Words and pics: Alan Martin

This year the NSRA had a stand at

the Classic Car and Restoration Show.
The theme of the show is very much
on the practical aspects of building
and restoration, and the NSRA
took the decision to showcase and
explain the process of building a hot Thanks to it already hav
ing received a nod of app
rod to current IVA specifications. from the powers that be,
Gav
roval
pick-up was proudly disp Marathlingham’s Model A
Three vehicles were exhibited: layed on the NSRA stan
d…
Tim Horsfall’s ’33 coupe and Gav
Marathlingham’s Model A pick-up, which
have both passed inspection, along with
Mark Harley’s Pop, which has been built
to comply and will hopefully have passed
inspection by the time you read this.
Add in a couple of information panels
featuring brief snippets from Kev
Rooney’s basic guide to IVA testing, and
enough literature on the subject to fill a
small library, and the steady stream of
interested show goers got the lowdown on
how to build within the framework whilst One of the vehicles …as was Mark Harley’s Pro Street Pop which, if all goes
displayed on the American to plan, will be getting a nod of its own some time soon.
still retaining the hot rod look. Auto Club stand was this
super straight, two-tone
’58 Chevy Bel Air…
showcase and explain
the process of building
a hot rod to current IVA
specifications
Proof of just how good the club’s effort in
this area was came during the National Car
Club Awards, which are held in conjunction
with the show. As well as being highly ...with another being
restored ‘56 F-100 this
commended in three categories, and wit
small block under its h a 403ci
pipping the opposition in another, the flip front.

NSRA received a commendation for Best

Live Demonstration on a Car Club Stand
at the show. Mention was made of the
information available, and credit must go
not only to the car owners and the band
of NSRA representatives, in particular
Hannah Thomas and Pike Murray, but
also to the efforts of Kev Rooney and the
knowledge and experience he makes so
freely available.
Other show exhibits included a couple of
cars that literally stopped me in my tracks..
A full restoration is on the cards for one stock looking
In contrast, this
eelbase panel
of them, and I’ll be keeping a close eye on ’65 Chevy long wh on the Pre-’50
yed
wagon was displa stand. Not quite
progress, as well as hopefully catching up b
American Auto Clu on a pre-’50 club
car
with the original builder to find out what sure how a 1965 though.
stand wo rks
he’s up to these days.
All in all, a great event, which firmly
put hot rodding centre stage in the As Sydney Allard was not just into
contemporary classic car movement. CC drag racing, his company also
developed the Allardette versions
of the 105E Anglia to compete in
Modified Saloon Car class racing and
16 CUSTOM CAR SUMMER 2018 international rallies.
 A real blast from the past.
The John Baldacchino-built
chopped Viva van, now
ns owned by Mike Jordan, took
One of the better practical demonstratio pride of place in the Viva
Sidevalve
during the show took place on the Ford eted Drivers Club’s display.
Owners’ Club stand where memb ers compl
.
the assembly of a freshly painted Anglia That wasn’t the
only survivor on
show though,
although the ex-
Custom Car project
Avenger hasn’t
fared quite so well
over the years.

However, current custodian,

Phil Shaw from Rugby, plans
to restore the car to its former
glory, though is under no
illusions about the state of the
chopped and sectioned ’shel
l.

The last word goes to the team

from the NSRA, pictured here
agreeing on their answers to
those inevitable IVA compliance
questions.

It was good to see the National

Street Van Association had a Allard J2X runs Ard
presence at the show. un OHV heads
’76 issue, the radical on its Ford Flathe
As pictured in the June ad V8.
s were originally
bodywork modification
ies, who apparently
carried out by Pete Farr
car at the show
was reunited with the

Talk about tales of the

unexpected. I didn’t expect
to see a BMW engine when Sue Ayres and Hannah Thomas of the
I peered in the back of this NSRA rub shoulders with celebrities as
Hillman Imp. they collect the award for Outstanding
Club Initiative to Encourage the Next
Generation [Top job guys - Ed]. SUMMER 2018 CUSTOM CAR 17
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 Rainy City Ranch run

Words: Elliott Jones

Pics: Les Golden and
Sarah Cadillac
To use the word inaugural would give
you the impression this was the first
ever meeting of the Rainy City Cruisers
(RCC). In fact, the club has been in
existence since the late 1970s, with
early meetings being held on York Street in
Manchester city centre. The memories of
the early days are still vivid in the minds of
some of the older guard, and tales of Smax
and Odgie’s antics, of Tony Jones’ 429 SCJ
Mustang, and of Moggy Mills’ black Zephyr
still regularly come up at meets.
But the club has evolved over the years,
flourishing with new members young and
old. For some it’s like family, for others
it literally is family, with weddings and
subsequent births forming second, and even
third generation Rainy City Cruisers.
The Old School BBQ Ranch is a new, yet
already highly acclaimed, venture in the city.
It’s the result of hard work and commitment

the club has been in

existence since the
late 1970s
by master craftsman of all things food, Mark
Fairley, and his team. The centrepiece of
what can only be compared to a barn dance
setting is the yellow American school bus
converted into a full-blown catering facility.
Moseying around in his 10-gallon hat,
you’d be forgiven for thinking Mark came
straight outta Texas, but he’s a local boy and
the venture is his way of giving something
back to the community he grew up in.
In the process, what he has given the
Rainy City Cruisers is a perfect new home.
The cruisers of 1960’s LA may have had
Hollywood Boulevard, in modern day
Manchester we have Hollinwood!
I arrived in good time and was greeted by
young Woody exclaiming, “It looks f’in’ mint!”
and a team of RCC stalwarts geared up to
orchestrate the event. In fact, pretty much
the team who put in the hard work to set the
whole thing up: Jeff and Gaz Davies, Derek,
Jase, young Woody and James Reed (sorry
if I missed anyone). I was invited to back
the car into the venue’s entrance courtyard
alongside other club members’ cars.
I then looked on as an eclectic mix of cars
arrived from all across Greater Manchester,
accompanied by a convoy from over the hill
be asked to pull the h
I was honoured to wit
to the en trance courtyard
Mustang in members’ cars.
som e of the oth er
And the man in the hat is the
man
behind it, Mark Fairley, seen
here at
the low key awards ceremon
y.
in West Yorkshire, a troop of familiar faces
from Liverpool who had journeyed across no
man’s land aka Warrington! The Deadbeats
Kustom Klub rocked up en masse, as well as
a whole stream of bikes.
It’s fair to say for a first event, the turnout
was incredible. Rods, Yanks, trucks, retro
British tin, VWs and bikes drew in crowds of
passing Mancs, most wondering what the
hell was going on!
There were even trophies on offer for
The calm before the storm. The
BBQ Bus is the
centrepiece of The Old School
from it emanates mouth-wateri BBQ Ranch and
ng, man-size food.
ed Chevy
es’) recently refurb
Our kid (Danny Jon pretty much stock, but has
ck – it loo ks
310 0 tru under the skin.
a few subtle mods
standout vehicles, handmade by our very
own Derek Gibson, and awarded to, amongst
others: Kevan Swift’s Edsel; Matt Hand’s
Mini Van; Paul Whittles’ Ford Pop; Neil
Macdonald’s Chevy 3100 truck and a very
tidy Camaro SS and VW Beetle.
The next meet on Sunday 20 May falls
just ahead of the 22 May anniversary of the
Manchester Arena bomb, so we will be doing
some fundraising and hoping for an even
better turnout. See you there! CC

20 CUSTOM CAR SUMMER 2018

 Gasser made another
High ridin’ and Highly Strung ’57 Chevy There’s always one! And in
appearance. So cool for a street car, huh? this case it’s club member,
Jeff Davies, in the Klockitt
and Floggitt ’38 Chevy
pick-up.

All types of car are welcome,

Who doesn’t love a ’63 Corvette? This and the owner of this very tidy
desirable piece of ’60’s Americana that Cal Look Beetle returned hom
e
turned up belongs to Graham Knott. that night with an award.

Colin Bennett’s Orange Squash Pop

over from Liverpool brought back
childhood memories to second
generation RCC member Kelly Wood
whose dad, Derek, used to own it.

Dave Cassidy’s V8 milk float

has to be the club’s best know
n
machine, mainly for laying rubb
Likewise, all bikes are welcome everywhere Dave goes!
er
too, and choppers, café racers and
cruisers all turned out for the meet.

Another trophy winner, Kevan Swift’s Edsel. This car is incredible, not
only for its rarity, but for the impeccable condition Kev keeps it in

s yella’ Deuce
Keith Freeman’s ‘pis
pe. Me ane r tha n a shithouse rat,
cou ester.
as they say in Manch

Big Gav’s big job wrecker – the Colin Woods’ old school C Cab at the Old School BBQ
trucks on display were varied, Ranch. Yeah, I know, we don’t really get blue sky
to like that in Manchester!
say the least.
 Brekkie time, OK?
Words: DB
Pics: Zack Martin

On the club’s Facebook page, East

Mids Hot Rods (UK) is described as “A
friendly club for American car, truck,
bike and van enthusiasts. Everything
from classics to modifieds welcome.”
That sounds just like our sort of club then.
On the second Sunday of the month, the
club holds a breakfast meet at the OK Diner
on the A38 between Derby and Burton-on-
Trent. April saw the first such meet of 2018
and Zack Martin popped along on our behalf
to check it out.

cars spanning nine

decades in the car park
We’re pleased to report the club’s
social media spiel is spot on. They really
do welcome everything from classics to
modifieds, with cars spanning nine decades
in the car park.
By the time this issue hits the shops, the
May meet will have come and gone, so by
our reckoning the next gathering will be on
Sunday 10 June.
Don’t take our word for it though, look body styles …whilst the most modern was
e of the earliest
up the East Mids Hot Rods (UK) page on Representing on er was this ’34 coupe… probably this 2017 Mustang.
of car at the din
Facebook to be on the safe side. CC

Being modern doesn’t always mean it’s shiny.

Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat wears a matt black
wrap and sports an appropriate number plate.

Proving his ’57 isn’t just used for

bursts down the quarter mile,
Graham Smith drove out for
breakfast in the Snow White Chevy.

’40 Ford sedan sits nice and low. Check out the Another car displayin
g an apt number pla
unique take on front nerf bars. ’67 Camaro RS. Tha te was this
t paint colour looks and
awesome. ation of stainless
Loving the combin primer and rust on this
om e trim , pat ina,
chr .
’48 Chevy coupe
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CAX6TP 6 333-500mm £28.99 £34.79 CTBJ10* 10 210-525 £69.98 £83.98 CBG8W* (wet) HD 150/200mm £56.99 £68.39 CAT110 ½" Impact Wrench £26.99 £32.39 CFM HP RCVR EXC.VAT INC.VAT
CAX-6TBC 6 400-615mm £34.99 £41.99 CBJ12B 12 200-380 £25.99 £31.19 CAT111 Air Orbital Sander £21.99 £26.39 RACER 9/50P* 9 2 50ltr £289.00 £346.80
CAX3TA* NEW 3 295-395mm £49.98 £59.98 CTBJ12* 12 235-580 £89.98 £107.98 FUEL TRANSFER CAT113 3" Cut Off Tool £18.99 £22.79 RACER 9/100P# 9 2 100ltr £339.00 £406.80
CAX10TP# 10 450-750mm £86.99 £104.39 CBJ15B 15 205-390 £29.98 £35.98 PUMPS CAT117 13 piece ½" £34.99 £41.99 BOXER 14/50P O/L* 14 3 50ltr £329.00 £394.80
CBJ20B 20 217-407 £36.99 £44.39 Ideal for dispensing diesel, light Impact Wrench Kit BOXER 14/100P O/L 14 3 100ltr £389.00 £466.80
2/3 TONNE fuel oils or refueling vehicles
CAT120 43 Piece Air Tool Kit £99.85 £119.82 BOXER 14/150 O/L# 14 3 150ltr £399.00 £478.80
TROLLEY HYDRAULIC Self-priming Includes 2m
CAT121 Dual Action Sander £24.99 £29.99 BOXER 14/200 O/L 14 3 200ltr £499.00 £598.80
PRESSES cable with battery clips, 2m
FROM ONLY
JACKS FROM ONLY delivery hose, CAT123½" Reversible Air Drill £29.98 £35.98 * 110V model in stock # 400V model in stock
£
39EX.VAT
.98
£
139EX.VAT
.98
2m suction hose
£
47INC.VAT
.98
£
167INC.VAT
.98 BEST with foot valve/filter AUTOMOTIVE
SELLER assembly WHEEL DOLLY SET
JACKS ALSO PROFESSIONAL & nozzle FROM ONLY ENGINE AWD1
IN STOCK UP QUALITY STANDS
TO 5 TONNE CTJ3000G Built for tough daily £
FROM ONLY
HEADER
149EXC.VAT
.98 44EXC.VAT
£ .99

use in automotive/
industrial workshops CSA10BB £
179INC.VAT
.98 53INC.VAT
£ .99

MODEL TYPE TONNE EXC.VAT INC.VAT Rotates

CTJ2250LP* Low Profile 2 £39.98 £47.98 * Available with/without MODEL MOTOR MAX FLOWEXC.VAT INC.VAT through 360˚ £
44EXC.VAT
.99
CTJ3000GB
CTJ3000QLB
Pro Garage 3
Quick Lift 3
£79.98
£84.99
£95.98
£101.99
7 pce pin, bracket &
pressing plate kit
DFT12
DFT24
12V
24V
40l/min £149.98
40l/min £149.98
£179.98
£179.98
CES680F Fully tested BIG £
53INC.VAT
.99
to proof load 3" CASTORS PER PAIR
CTJ3QLG Pro Instant Lift 3 £86.99 £104.39 ‡ Adjustable DFT230 230V 56l/min £189.98 £227.98
CTJ3000G Pro Garage 3 £99.98 £119.98 polycarbonate safety Four non-marking castors for easy
CTJ2QLP Low Quick Lift 2 £114.99 £137.99 screen # Economy model EXC. INC. *Folds for movement in confined spaces Heavy duty steel
MODEL CAPACITY VAT VAT storage construction - load rating 500kg per dolly
CTJ1500QULP Ultra Low MODEL EXC.VAT INC.VAT
NEW Quick Lift 1.5 £156.99 £188.39 4 tonne bench# £139.98 £167.98 LCD INSPECTION CES340 340kg £44.99 £53.99 #was
* CTJ2250LP has a 2.25 tonne capacity, has a 10 tonne bench* £198.00 £237.60 CAMERA WITH CES450 450kg £64.99 £77.99 £95.98 BUY NOW
12 tonne floor*# £259.00 £310.80 9mm LENS CES560# 560kg £74.99 £89.99 inc.VAT SPREAD
low entry of only 80mm and includes 2 sockets
20 tonne floor £329.00 £394.80 • 4 LEDs and 5 brightness CIC2410
CES680F 680kg £99.98 £119.98 THE COST 6 SPEE ED
30 tonne floor‡ £649.00 £778.80 METAL LATHHE
ALUMINIUM settings • 1m long,
E
RACING JACKS
RACING J A CK S
50 tonne floor‡ £1299.00 £1558.80
• Inc mirror, magnetic pick £59EX.VAT
flexible camera probe £ .98
PACKALG WITH 12 SPEE
ED
Quick lift Non-marking NEW up and hook attachments 71INC.VAT
.98
ST D
TOOL CHES
CHEST
EA MILL DRILLL
nylon wheels Rubber
CIR18LIC
RANGE - CL500M
contact pad - helps AND TOOLS
S
protect vehicle 18V CRANES FROM ONLY
undersides BRUSHLESS
S FROM ONLY
£
259EX.VAT
.98

CTJ1250AB IMPACT
BEST
£
164EX.VAT
.99 £
311INC.VAT
.98

WRENCHES 450NM
SELLER
£
197INC.VAT
.99
329 HAND CHT624
4
VIDEO
ON-LINE
3 forward and reverrse gears TOOLS
FROM ONLY MODEL DESC. EXC.VAT INC.VAT This great
FROM ONLY FULL RANGE
94EX.VAT
£ .99 £
114EX.VAT
.99 CFC500F 1/2 ton fold
CFC100 1 ton fold
£169.98 £203.98
£164.99 £197.99
value set includes OF ACCESSORIES
£
995EXC.VAT
.00

LOW
£
113INC.VAT
.99 £
137INC.VAT
.99
CFC1000LR 1 ton £219.00 £262.80
CTC900B 9 drawer
chest & CTC500B IN STOCK
£
1194INC.VAT
.00

ENTRY *steel chassis long reach 5 drawer cabinet 430mm between centres Compound slide
CORDED ELECTRIC MODEL with 4 way tool post Power fed screw cutting
ONLY LIFTING ONLY £71.98 INC. VAT Folding and fixed Includes the
85MM MODEL CAP. EXC.VAT INC.VAT most popular facility Forward/reverse lathe operation
frames available Clutch for independent mill/drill operation
CTJ1250AB 1.25T £94.99 £113.99 MODEL DESC. EXC.VAT INC.VAT Robust, rugged construction sockets, spanners,
CTJ1800A 1.8T £159.98 £191.98 Fully tested pliers, drivers,
CIR18LIC 2x 2.0Ah Li-Ion £114.99 £137.99 to proof load CFC100 Oveerload safety valvee Floor Stand Including Suds Tray
CTJ2500QLG* 2.5T £149.98 £179.98 CIR18LI 2x 4.0Ah Li-Ion £179.98 £215.98 wrenches etc £179.00 Exc. VAT/£214.80 Inc. VAT
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PLS195 PETROL JETSTAR £
71INC.VAT
.98
Heavy duty steel construction
POWER PRESSURE WASHERS FANS WASHERS sandblasters for the quick
WASHERS Makes easy work
for washing
CFF18C100 PARTS WASHER removal of surface rust, paint,
CAN DRAW Honda vehicles, patios, 210 Bar FLUID FROM dirt/grease etc. CPSB100
FROM ONLY 3045 psi £5.99 INC.VAT
OWN WATER & Diesel stonework, etc. INCLUDES SANDBLASTING
£
219EXC.VAT
.00
engine models JET7500, 8500 & JET9500
18" BLACK
FLOOR FAN FROM ONLY GUN, DELIVERY HOSE, 4
£
262INC.VAT
.80
in stock 9500 include hose reel
£
39EX.VAT
.98 CERAMIC NOZZLES AND
SAFETY HOOD
PRESSURE ENGINE EXC. INC.
MODEL MOTOR MAX. PRESSURE EXC.VAT INC.VAT
£
47INC.VAT
.98
FROM ONLY
MODEL BAR/PSI HP VAT VAT
Tiger1800 110/1595 2.6 £219.00 £262.80 JS1850 1400W 1523psi £59.98 £71.98 18" CHROME
FLOOR FAN
MODEL TANK CAP.
CW2D 10Ltrs
TYPE EXC.VAT
Bench £39.98
INC.VAT
£47.98
£
139EX.VAT
.98

Tiger2600 170/2465 4 £289.00 £346.80

Tiger3000 200/2900 6.5 £349.00 £418.80
JS1950 1600W
Jet 7500 1600W
2030psi
2030psi
£89.98
£124.99
£107.98
£149.99 CW1D 45Ltrs Floor £99.98 £119.98
£
167INC.VAT
.98

Jet8500 2100W 2610psi £149.98 £179.98 CWM20 22.5Ltrs Floor £139.98 £167.98 MODEL TANK FLOW RATE EX. VAT INC.VAT
PLS195 186/2698 6.5 £439.00 £526.80 FROM ONLY CW40 75Ltrs Floor £159.98 £191.98
Jet9500 2400W 3045psi £179.98 £215.98 VOLUME REQ.
PLS265 260/3770 13 £669.00 £802.80 £
36EX.VAT
.99
NEW
CPSB100 32 litre 6-19 cfm £139.98 £167.98
JUMP STARTS £
44INC.VAT
.39 TAP & DIE SETS CPSB200 63 litre 12-20 cfm £169.98 £203.98
Provides essential home, High quality tungsten steel
FROM ONLY garage and roadside *chrome #black CFF18B100 Supplied in metal ANGLE GRINDERS
£
59EX.VAT
.98 assistance Integral work
light 910 includes air
MODEL
CBF20
SIZE/TYPE EXC.VAT INC.VAT
20" Box Fan £36.99 £44.39
storage case (except
16pce) FROM ONLY
£
71INC.VAT
.98
compressor Long life battery CFF18C100* NEW 18" Floor Fan £39.98 £47.98 FROM ONLY
£
24EX.VAT.99

STARTING PEAK EXC. INC. CFF18B100# NEW 18" Floor Fan £39.98 £47.98 15EX.VAT
£ .99 £
29INC.VAT
.99
CAG800B
MODEL
900
BOOST AMPS
400
VAT
900 £59.98 £71.98
VAT
CAM5002
19INC.VAT
£ .19

JS1100 NEW 500 1100 £62.99 £75.59 TYPE EXC.VAT INC.VAT INC. DISC
BEST & HANDLE
910 400 900 £69.98 £83.98 SELLER GIANT CHT203 16pce Metric £15.99 £19.19
JS1100C NEW 500 1100 £74.99 £89.99 CHT302 24pce UNC/UNF/NPT £19.98 £23.98
BEST
SELLER EXTRA LONG 4000 700 1500 £124.99 £149.99
FANS CHT303 28pce Metric £23.99 £28.79
MODEL DISC (MM) MOTOR EXC.VAT INC.VAT
CAG800B 115 800W £24.99 £29.99
1m LEADS JS12/24 1000 2000 £149.98 £179.98 CHT304 33pce Metric/UNF/BSP £32.99 £39.59 CON1050B 115 1050W £29.98 £35.98
CHT774 37pce Metric £38.99 £46.79 CON115 115 1010W £36.99 £44.39
CAR CREEPERS INSTANT GARAGES CHT527 32pce Metric £46.99 £56.39 CAG2350C 230 2350W £52.99 £63.59
HEADER FROM ONLY CHT776 76pce Metric £64.99 £77.99
• Oil resistant vinyl covered padded
backs & headrests • Swivel castors
NEW £229 .00
EXC.VAT
IDEAL
ALL-WEATHER FROM ONLY
for easy manoeuvrability RANGE £274INC.VAT
.80 PROTECTION
119EXC.VAT
£ .00 BLAST CABINETS
FROM ONLY Blast away paint, DIAGNOSTICS
£
22EX.VAT
.99 142INC.VAT
£ .80
surface rust, scale, FROM ONLY
£
27INC.VAT
.59 HUGE FAN
UP TO 36" burrs, carbon & dirt &
revitalise aluminium
£
£
37EX.VAT
.99

45INC.VAT
.59
MODEL DESCRIPTION EXC.VAT INC.VAT MODEL SIZE EXC.VAT INC.VAT Min. air flow 10cfm
Bench & floor EOBD
CMC36 Car creeper £22.99 £27.59 CAM24 24" £119.00 £142.80 * was £125.99 FAULT
CMC40 With tool storage £36.99 £44.39 CAM30 30" £149.98 £179.98 standing models
ALUMINIUM OXIDE inc.VAT CODE READER
CMC45 With adjustable headrest£29.98 £35.98 CAM36 36" £199.00 £238.80
CMC50 Folding car creeper £49.98 £59.98 CAM5002 24" £159.00 £190.80 POWDER FROM ONLY £ FROM ONLY MODEL EXC.VAT INC.VAT
10' RANGE NARROWER LENGTH CAM6000 30" £199.00 £238.80 £9.98 EX.VAT 109
.98
EXC.VAT EOBD Fault Code Reader £37.99 £45.59
WIDTH GREAT WHERE
SPACE IS TIGHT
UP TO 24' CAM110* 30” £209.00 £250.80 *110V
£11.98 INC.VAT £
‡ was £358.80 inc.VAT
131
.98 CSB20B
INC.VAT
Engine EOBD/OBD2
Fault code reader
£49.98 £59.98

DRILL PRESSES Engine Diagnostic & £99.98 £119.98

Ideal for use as a garage/workshop ABRASIVE CUT MODEL DESC. TYPE EXC.VAT INC.VAT EOBD/OBD 2 Fault Code Reader*
Extra tough triple layer CSB20B Compact Cabinet Bench £109.98 £131.98
Range of precision weatherproof cover OFF SAWS SB30‡ Large Cabinet Floor £279.00 £334.80
bench & floor presses for Heavy duty powder
Fast accurate cutting of ferrous CAR TRANSPORTER
enthusiast, engineering & metals Tough steel guard & base LASHING
coated steel tubing
industrial applications Ratchet tight
Adjusts 0-45° for angled cutting STRUT
FROM ONLY
CDP152B tensioning ZIP CLOSE DOOR CCO14C SPRING COMPRESSOR
£
109EX.VAT .98
• Foot operated hydraulic
FROM ONLY B = Bench MODEL
CIG81015
SIZE (LxWxH) EXC.VAT INC.VAT
4.5 x 3 x 2.4M £229.00 £274.80
NEW £
131INC.VAT
.98
powered • Adjustable for
£
17EX.VAT
.99
5000KG
£
66EXC.VAT
.99 mounted
F = Floor CIG81020 6.1 x 3 x 2.4M £289.00 £346.80 springs up to 350mm dia. &
£
21INC.VAT
.59 CAPACITY
£
80INC.VAT
.39
standing CIG81216 4.8 x 3.7 x 2.5M £279.00 £334.80
INCLUDES ABRASIVE
METAL CUTTING DISC 254mm in length • Yoke travel:
SOCKET SETS
CIG81220 6.1 x 3.7 x 2.5M £339.00 £406.80 340mm • Weight 31.5kg
MOTOR (W) EXC. INC. CIG81224 7.3 x 3.7 x 2.5M £419.00 £502.80 MODEL ROUND PROFILE EXC.VAT INC.VAT SSC1000 ONLY
Top quality chrome £
MODEL SPEEDS VAT VAT CCO14C NEW 115mm
CCO14B 100mm
£109.98 £131.98
£139.98 £167.98
£
109EXC.VAT .98
vanadium steel. 26EX.VAT
.99
CDP5EB 350 / 5 £66.99 £80.39 INVERTER £
131INC.VAT
.98
18 Sockets 8-32mm 32INC.VAT
£ .39
CDP102B 350 / 5 £79.98 £95.98
CDP152B 450 / 12 £149.98 £179.98 GENERATORS PETROL Reversible ratchet LIFETIME
CDP202B 450 / 16 £189.00 £226.80 NEW Produces pure sine wave GENERATORS Comfort grip handle GUARANTEE
FROM ONLY
RANGE & stable power, essential BODY
CDP452B
CDP10B
550 / 16 £229.00 £274.80
370 / 12 £198.99 £238.79 for computers & sensitive 99EX.VAT
£ .98
PG3800
REPAIR HUGE RANGE
CDP352F 550 / 16 £229.00 £274.80 equipment Low noise
£
119INC.VAT
.98
FROM ONLY
KITS CS10BRK
OF RATCHETS,
SPANNERS AND
CDP502F 1100 / 12£499.00 £598.80 Fuel Efficient Eco Honda 89EX.VAT
£ .98
SOCKET SETS PRO360
Throttle 12V battery
charging facility Up
engine £
107INC.VAT
.98
PRO389
PRO 7" SANDER/ models
POLISHER £ to 7 hours run time available 62 PIECE
on 3/4 load 4 stroke 1/2"&1/4"
.98
69EX.VAT FROM ONLY engine ONLY
£
83INC.VAT
.98 £
179EXC.VAT
.98 CHECK FRAME £
59EX.VAT
.98 DRIVE
TYPE WHEN Fast snap £
71INC.VAT
.98 SOCKET
CP185
• Includes hook &
IG1200B £
215INC.VAT
.98 ORDERING connector attachments for quick & easy assembly
Hydraulic pump, ram & hose with various tubes, T SET
& BIT
loop backing padd MAX WEIGHT EXC. INC. MODEL KVA HP EXC.VATINC.VAT pieces & connectors Includes metal case 1/2" TORQUE
and hook & loopp MODEL OUTPUT KG VAT VAT G720 0.7 - £99.98 £119.98
wool polishing IG950B NEW 800W 9.3 £179.98 £215.98 G1200 1.1 - £159.98 £191.98 * Fast action pump WRENCH - CHT141
IG1200B NEW 1100W 12.4 £249.98 £299.98 PG2500 2.2 6.5 £179.98 £215.98 MODEL CAPACITY EXC.VAT INC.VAT 5" Extension ONLY
bonnet. • 1200WW
motor IG3500F 3400W 35 £329.00 £394.80 PG3800 3 7 £239.98 £287.98 CS4BRK
CS10BRK
4 tonne £89.98
10 tonne £149.98
£107.98
£179.98
bar 1/2" -
3/8"
£
23EX.VAT
.99
IG2000B NEW 1800W 19.4 £349.98 £419.98 PG3800DV 3 7 £269.00 £322.80 adaptor £
28INC.VAT
.79
IG2200 2200W 26.6 £389.00 £466.80 PG6500DVES 5.5 13 £499.00 £598.80 CS10SBRK* 10 tonne £154.99 £185.99 28-210 Nm
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■ Words: DB Pics: Robert Crutch

A van down under

I
f you think BIVA is a daunting
prospect, spare a thought for our
cousins in Australia. Over there,
putting together any sort of hot
rod is strictly governed by a myriad
regulations. We know you can’t keep
a good hot rodder down, though, and
people still find ways to build the cars
they want to drive. Take Robert Crutch
from Bendigo, Victoria for instance.
Robert started out with a basket
case ’47 Fordson, or Anglia as they
are known down under. The van has
subsequently been resurrected from the
the best way to describe it is as BIVA
meets building regulations
dead and painstakingly restored and
modified until Robert ended up with
the Pro Street hauler you see here.
That didn’t just mean sorting
the chassis, drivetrain and engine
and jumping in it and driving off
into the sunset though. Far from it.
Maybe the best way to describe it is
as BIVA meets building regulations.
Seems hot rods in Australia have to

26 CUSTOM CAR SUMMER 2018


ed front wings with
Body mods include re-shap
hts and a one-piece bonnet
frenched headlig
er has also disappeared
top. Note the rain gutt
from above the doors.
And talking of the doors, the van’s have been
converted to suicide opening.
be constructed within set-in-stone
parameters that cover such as upward
visibility and brake fade testing, as
well as demanding modern inclusions
like collapsible steering columns.
Newly-built cars, which have not
previously been on the road as a
street rod, are then subject to an SR1
inspection. This is a three-stage process
that involves a full examination during
construction, final approval when
completed and the aforementioned
brake fade test, which can only be
performed by any SR1-approved tester.
Should the car have documented
history as a pre-’49 street rod,
it is subject to the less stringent
We did say the project started off as a
basket case of an Anglia van.
rule book,
Robert may have had to follow the
his annu al dues , but he can now
and pay
street legal.
legitimately say the Anglia is 100%
Power comes from a 6-71 blown, Ford 302
Windsor with Dart heads. That intriguing
looking intake system is a custom made
manifold with four Gas Research LPG carbs.
Crank trigger ignition completes the motor.
Transmission is a Ford C10 auto’ with full
manual valve body.
The van rolls on Center Line Convo
Pros, 6 x 15-inch up front, with the 10
x 15-inch rears being held apart by
a Ford 9-inch axle, which hangs from
coilovers and is located by a 4-bar.
SR2 inspection to ensure it is in
safe, roadworthy condition.
Then there is the registration cost. A
modified car or street rod for private
use in Victoria costs between $700-$750
(£385-£412) per year. On the upside,
there are no restrictions to when or
where a vehicle with Club Permit plates
can be driven (except Western Australia
where a local permit is required) and
no prospect of a roadside check as the
plates denote the vehicle is entirely
kosher. Isn’t that what we all strive for?
Needless to say, Robert’s Anglia passed
The Anglia’s dash just has room for a set of
its relevant inspections and, as you can
Auto Meter Pro Comp gauges and the glove box
see, still looks like a proper hot rod. door, whilst down on the floor there’s a B&M
Thanks for the information Robert. CC Pro Ratchet shifter and little else.
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Not so much a barn find as a behind the barn find, Leif Östberg has
owned this ’65 Barracuda for over 40 years, but only recently gave it a
new lease of life as Sharp Teeth
■ Words and pics: Erik Stigsson

30 CUSTOM CAR SUMMER 2018

 The ’64 / ’65 Barracuda was essentially still a Plymouth
Valiant under the skin, just with fastback styling and that
glorious fish bowl-like wraparound rear ’screen. It flexed a
bit of muscle with the Formula S package in ’65, but didn’t
really make the jump to fully fledged pony car until ’67
when the model was totally redesigned and built to take
Chrysler’s 383 baby big block.

W
hile recreating Gassers,
and ‘barn finds’, may be
hot topics these days, Leif
Östberg from Hassela in
Sweden is far from a newcomer to the
party. In 1977, when Leif was just a teenager,
he got together enough money to be able
to buy his first American car, and when he
found a 1965 Plymouth Barracuda he could
not have been happier. The car looked real
nice, with shiny paint and a motor that
seemed to run good.
However, a keen drag racer even back
then, Leif soon found out that both the
engine and the automatic transmission in the
car had problems. So the first thing he did
was to pull out the transmission and put in a
4-speed manual instead – a more complicated
job than it sounds, due to the amount of
things that had to be changed. That worked
for some time, and cured some of the issues,
but it didn’t take long before the car’s
original base model (not higher performance
Commando option) 180bhp, 273ci LA-series
it was parked until a better engine
could be found
small block engine started to cause more
trouble. Leif was beginning to find the car
less fun to drive, and so it was parked until a
better engine could be found.
That was in 1978 and, while he didn’t
know it at the time, it would take until
2015 before that ‘better engine’ would turn
up, and Leif would start working with the
Barracuda again.
Despite the setbacks with the Plymouth,
Leif never lost his interest in old cars, or
drag racing. A few years later, a 1960 Dodge
became the focus of his attention on the
street, while he kept his drag racing passion
alive first with a 1935 Ford, then with a 1936
Chevy pick-up, both ‘rat rod’-style vehicles.
Gone to the dogs
Talking about racing, one of Leif’s other big
passions in life has been dog sled racing on
snow – a sport that is popular in Scandinavia,

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 As a nod to real mag’ 12-spokes, Leif chose a
l Flake steering wheel,
notice is the Moon California Meta pair of Rocket Launcher 10-spokes, shod with
Dash is largely stock, but what you all in keep ing with the car’s ’60’s vibe. 26 x 7.50 Mickey T Sportsman front runners.
er –
dash-mounted tach and Hurst shift

but probably not so common in the UK. At
the peak of his time in the sport, he had
25 dogs, and when he stopped racing
himself, he trained other people to do the
sport. He still loves dogs, but since those
days his interest in drag racing has taken
over, and for the last 10 years he has been
very active helping out on the local drag
strip outside Sundsvall, as well as racing
himself of course.
All this time, the old Barracuda was
sitting outside, behind the barn at Leif’s
house. It’ll come as no surprise to hear
that where Leif lives it snows a lot during
the winters, and while the car wasn’t
ever covered, the thing that kept it from
rusting away completely was that he put
it on a trailer before it was parked so
Though early Plymouths like
this were never that popular
in the Gas classes, a straight
axle up front has certainly
given Leif’s car a Gasser
feel. Cut rear ’arches
perfectly
frame the
29.5-inch
slicks on
the rear.
it did not stand directly on the ground.
Perhaps subconsciously planning its long
period of inactivity, the carpet had also
been taken out and some small holes
drilled in the floor so no water would be
left standing in the car if the windows
started to leak. As it turned out, that was
a smart move since the car sat behind the
barn for 37 Swedish winters.
Drag strip duty
However, all the time spent helping out at
the local drag strip rekindled Leif’s thoughts
about the Barracuda, and he decided it was
finally time to give the by now sorry-looking
Plymouth new life again.
The car was pulled off the trailer and
taken into the garage for a thorough going
over. It didn’t look too pretty since it was
covered in mould, but initial inspection
suggested it was worth giving the car a
good clean to see if it really was worth
saving. Amazingly, the only significant rust
Leif found was some small areas in the
floor – maybe he should have drilled some
bigger holes? When that was repaired, the
fun started.
Right from the start of the project, the
plan was to build a nostalgia-style drag car
out of the Barracuda, rather than to restore
it or put it back on the street. So Leif built
a rollcage inside the car with a Funny Car-
style driver compartment that is legal down
to 8.50 seconds in Sweden. While he is a
competent welder in his own right, Leif
wisely enlisted the help of a professional
welder for the ’cage as he didn’t want to
take any risks should the car ever turn over.

Putting on a show
Taking a race car abroad to compete is an expensive
business, however you look at it. There’s the price of
fuel, food, beer, the ferry crossing, a trailer…
Not just any old trailer for Leif, though, when he knew
he was bringing the car to England, he wanted to make
a statement and knew he needed something more than a
four-wheel trailer to do that. With his love of 1960’s drag
racing, the answer lay in a ramp truck, and so he located
a period-perfect 1966 Dodge D300 pick-up. Stripping
away everything but the cab from the chassis and,
using the haulers of Don ‘Snake’ Prudhomme and Tom
‘Mongoose’ McEwen for inspiration, he then custom built
his own dragster hauler with an aerodynamic enclosed
front section to protect the car and multiple lockers for
tools, pit equipment and the like.
In these days of modern motorhomes and enclosed
trailers, it was wonderful to see a back-to-basics open
hauler like this again in the pits.

32 CUSTOM CAR SUMMER 2018

 There’s not much to speak of in
the interior, just a single Kirkey
an 8.50-tagged cage that’s a bit aluminium race seat, harness and
Wanting more of a Gasser look for the overkill in a 13-second car.
car, the Plymouth’s original torsion bar
front suspension was removed completely
and replaced with a homemade straight
axle on parallel leaf springs. To strengthen
the modified front chassis legs, a pair
of additional bars come from the ’cage
through the dash and down to the area
ahead of where the shocks now mount on
fabricated brackets.
In fact, the only Mo-part in the whole
front end is the brake discs as the calipers
are GM, the spindles repro ’39 Ford and the
steering arms aftermarket bolt-on pieces.
A total mix you might say, but one that
works and, with the addition of a line lock,
gives the car the ability to do major league
burnouts – something Leif enjoys doing at
every opportunity, as anyone that saw this
car in action at last year’s Dragstalgia will
surely remember.

Look at a stock ’65 Barracuda from the rear and you’ll see skinny 14-inch wheels and The original, easily breakable 7¼-inch
a pitiful lack of rubber. Not so with Leif’s car. A narrowed 8¾-inch axle, 10 x 15s and rear axle in the Barracuda would most likely
21 inches of rubber see to that. have exploded during the first burnout, so
that was also replaced with a narrowed,
and much stronger, 8¾-inch Mopar axle
with 4.56 gears.

360 degrees
Finally, remember we said the car was taken
off the road until a better engine could be
found? Well, for now that engine is a fairly
mild Chrysler 360ci small block, bought as a
rebuilt unit with a similarly rebuilt Chrysler
A833 4-speed transmission to save time
during the car’s rebuild. To the motor was
then added an Offenhauser tunnel ram
intake topped with two Edelbrock 500cfm

the plan was to

build a nostalgia-
style drag car
carburettors, homemade headers that
exit through the front wings and a pair of
vintage Cal Custom valve covers.
Longer-term plans are for something
bigger and stronger in the engine bay, but
the trusty old 360 looks the part and does its

SUMMER 2018 CUSTOM CAR 33


Sundsvall drag strip where he is
Leif giving it some welly at his local
car produced
organiser. At Dragstalgia 2017, the
best of 13.35 at 102mph, and alwa
job nicely for the time being.
When it came to the paintwork, even
though Leif’s two previous drag cars had
been more of the ‘rat rod’ persuasion, he
wanted a bright colour for this car, and a
paint treatment more in keeping with the
period in time he associates with the original
Gassers. So, after preparing the body for
paint himself, a good friend took over and
sprayed the bright orange colour that’s a
close match to the Hemi orange on the
Mopar buffs will
immediately notice
the Hurst pistol
grip shifter
engine block. To break it up, and add an
extra effect, the roof was lace painted with
white, blown through an old net curtain,
and then edged in gold flake. To bring the
effect inside, the same paint treatment
was used on the door cards, too. Finally, to
top the paintwork off, a pair of gnashing
barracudas were airbrushed on the doors
bursting out of simulated rust holes, along
with the car’s name, Sharp Teeth, and the
legend ‘from rust to race’ beneath, which
° The name Sharp Teeth is obvious, but the
‘from rust to race’ logo beneath apparently
isn’t a reference to the car’s history, but to
Leif’s two previous ‘rat rod’ drag cars.
34 CUSTOM CAR SUMMER 2018
you may take to be a nod toward the car’s
history behind the barn. In fact, though,
according to Leif, it’s a reference to his
previous two rusty race cars.
Orange crush
Look inside the car and it’s immediately clear
this is a race car. The ’cage, with its similarly
bright orange and holographic gold tape
padding, catches your eye first and foremost,
but then you notice there’s only one
aluminium Kirkey race seat with a three-inch
harness and precious little else. The original
’65 Barracuda gauges in the dash are backed
up with a giant five inch Monster tach from
an active participant and
Auto Meter mounted front and centre on
a strin g of high -to-m id-13s, culminating in a
ys with a big grin on Leif’s face.
Outright power
figures and quarter
mile times aren’t
what it’s all about
the dash, along with additional gauges for
oil pressure and volts hanging from the
lower ’cage cross bar.
Mopar buffs will immediately notice the
Hurst pistol grip shifter, which, along with
° Open the boot and you’ll find an ali fuel
the Moon California Metal Flake wheel, sits
tank and the battery, both neatly installed
with matching hold downs. Note the cage also
extends down through the boot to the rear
just right in a car like this and place it firmly
in the ’70’s time period Leif was going for.
chassis leg
gs.
ow
Things are more familiar at the rear. Mopars you’ll kn
That’s a If you know your on
narrowed and braced Chrysler 8¾
axle with s ne ve r ca me with leaf springs
4.56 gears hung on uprated leaf Barracuda rsi on ba r arrangement
nif ty to
springs with the front, but a ugh and made
additional clamps to help prevent ditched that tho
The only thing we can’t work out
axle wind up. instead. Leif has ng on a pa rallel leaves
axle, hu
lowering blocks are doing, other
is what those his own straight GM an d Mopar
n of Ford,
than allowing
for increased length rear shocks. with a combinatio en sio n parts.
brake an d su sp
° Leif made the stainless straight out headers ° In the back and putting the power down are
himself, which, unusually, exit through the 10 x 15-inch Center Line Auto Drags with 29.5 x
front wings. 10.5 M/T ET Drag slicks.

looks like it’s just
With no inner wings, the engine
. Plan s are afoo t for a power increase,
hanging in there
y much stock Chry sler 360ci small
but for now it’s a prett
dual 500s up top.
block with an Offy tunnel ram and
covers.
Love those vintage Cal Custom valve
After a 36-year hiatus, the whole project
was put together over one of Sweden’s
famously long winters, and then it was
out to Leif’s local track to see what the
car would do. High 13s was the answer,
but then the car is all steel and, even
though it has a tunnel ram and headers, is
powered by essentially a stock 360 Chrysler
motor. Unlike the smaller capacity but
more potent 340, which was rated at a
conservative 290bhp (though some sources
claim it was anything up to 350bhp in
reality) in its most powerful AAR ’Cuda
/ Challenger T/A form, the 360 is a very
different beast, and even 250bhp might be
wishful thinking for Leif’s combination.
Outright power figures and quarter mile
times aren’t what it’s all about for him
though. One of Leif’s big dreams was to
bring the car over to Santa Pod in England
to race it, and that wish came true last
summer, when he was part of a significant
Swedish contingent at the 2017 running of
Ama
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zingly, de
es
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ite
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ea
avy wintte
err snows, th
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ar survived
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ably
b we elll
edging echo the treatment on the car’s
Lace-painted door panels with gold metalflake
roof, and certai nly make a chang e from plain ali door panels.
Dragstalgia. There were so many in fact that for Leif, we’re told the car is getting a bit
a special Scandinavia vs Great Britain match of a horsepower injection for the coming
race was set up by the Gasser Circus guys, year, so maybe next time we get to see those
and made for a great bit of entertainment Sharp Teeth, there’ll be more to the grin on
for the crowds. Leif’s face than just having fun. CC
Leif steadily improved over the course
of the weekend from an initial 13.76 / 96 Ford’s Mustang may have cornered the pony
to a best time of 13.35 / 102.07 and, while car market, but Plymouth beat it out of the
traps by two weeks with the Barracuda. Those
he was far from the fastest man on track early models were nothing like Leif’s drag strip
in the competition, it was clear he was warrior though, which has been given a tough
having a ball. new look the first generation Barracudas never
While it may not be all about the top end had as standard. Notice the 1 + 2 = 3 pedals
graphic on the rear – a reference to the Chrysler
A833 4-speed manual transmission in the car.
SUMMER 2018 CUSTOM CAR 35
 Dream
drives
S
ince 1970, Custom Car magazine
has been at the forefront of the
custom car scene in this country.
The editorial team behind it has
changed many times over the years, but
Mike and I recently realised that we have
sat in our respective chairs putting dear
old CC together for as near as dammit 12
years now. That makes us by far and away
the longest serving editorial partnership
in CC’s history. That, in itself, is nothing
to write home about, but it did get us
thinking, and so we did some sums.
It turns out in that time we have run
features on over 500 of the most original,
a sort of dream
garage of CC feature
cars if you like
most innovative, most inspiring cars on this
planet, and have thoroughly enjoyed each
and every one of the 500-odd conversations
we’ve had with the owners / builders
behind them. As an aside, it also means
we’ve written and / or edited something
like one million words between us.
High time then that we take a moment
to reflect, and look back at all those
cars and pick just a few that are most
memorable to
us – a sort of dream garage
of CC feature cars if you like.
These are not cars we think are necessarily
better than any others, rather ones that
have a particular allure, or something that
made them stand out to us.
On paper, it sounded a straightforward
task. The reality was far from it. Selecting
just a dozen cars each was no easy task,
and this bumper issue could easily have
become the thickness of a telephone
directory. To add to the mix we roped
in two regular CC photographers and a
former editor to make a couple of choices
of their own, again purely cars that meant
something special to them.
When we got to the final cut, though,
we felt it neatly summed up the
tremendous diversity of cars we feature
within these pages, and the exceptional
quality of cars being put together in the
UK these days. From race cars to British
tin, bare metal to show quality paint, glass
fibre to steel and Hemi through to diesel
power, it’s all here.
We’re sure your personal list will be
different, but hopefully you will see
something that resonates with you in our
Dream drives selection. If nothing else,
we’re certain it will spark some debate
down the pub.
Now sit back and enjoy this trip back
through time and join us in thanking all the
owners of all the cars we’ve ever featured
in CC, not just for building them in the
first place, but for giving up their time and
allowing us to photograph and write about
them in the magazine. We, quite literally,
couldn’t do it without you all.
DB
SUMMER 2018 CUSTOM CAR 37
 Dream
drives
Ian Merryweather’s
Topolino Altered
Featured July 2016
Ian Merryweather gave me the heads up
that he was treating his Topolino-bodied
Altered to a makeover, but that in no
way prepared me for the jaw-dropping
moment when he sent me a picture of the
car. The superlative appearance of the car
is more akin to a trailer queen show car
than a hard-hitting, tyre-smoking race car.
The beauty of Ian’s Topolino isn’t just
skin deep, it also has pedigree. Previously,
the Altered had been known as Vendetta,
and is the ex-Dave Grabham car that was
the predecessor of Freddie’s Revenge.
The body was ’glassed up by Pat Cuss, the
tubes for the chassis formed by Mike
Derry and Roland Pratt of The
Hillbillies fame.
Wanting an earlier look
for the car, Ian had the
wheelbase shortened
to 102 inches and
fitted a drop tube
axle with 4-link
location and re-mounted the Ford 9-inch
back axle.
The body was painted satin black and,
with that, Ian was up and running, just not
that quickly. That all changed though when
Ian got the nod that the ex-Mark Perslow
/ Flashback slingshot engine was up for
sale. A blown 392 Hemi had always been
on Ian’s bucket list, but he never dreamt it
would ever become a reality. Yet suddenly
it was, even though that meant the Altered
needed another rebuild to accommodate it.
The Hemi was installed, along with a Pro
Glide transmission, and the rear axle was
beefed up with a Pro Gear third member
and Strange shafts and tubes.
By now, Ian had become tired of the satin
black paint and felt a ’60’s-style paint
job was needed. The recipe for the paint
includes a silver metallic base coat, followed
by gold, blue, orange and silver ’flake, with
a dash of satin black on the front grille
for good measure. The topping was in the
form of eight coats of clear and a lot of
spit and polish. All that was then needed
was the garnish, which came in the form of
signwriting by the very talented Ron Giles.
At the time of the feature, Ian hadn’t
had the opportunity to run Banzai in
anger, but he’s clocked up countless
quarter miles since. His PB at the time of
writing this is 8.22 seconds at 167mph.
That was his last run of 2017 at Santa Pod’s
Flame & Thunder, though, and he may
have already re-written that at this year’s
Nostalgia Nationals.
DB
The beauty of Ian’s
Topolino isn’t just
skin deep, it also
has pedigree

■ Pics: MannMotorsports.co.uk
Dream
drives

Dave Haskell’s
’34 coupe
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d Nov
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vemb
mber
berr 2007
To me, a fully-fendered ’34
3-window is beauty personified. I
know it’s a personal thing, but in my
opinion the styling of no other car
can touch it. Maybe the fact there
are so few original steel versions in
the UK adds to that appeal.
What boosts the allure of Dave
Haskell’s ’34 is firstly its rock star
heritage, and then the fact that
some guy working out of a shed in
London’s East End had the audacity
to un-chop it. Yup, this particular
coupe’s roof once sat almost two
inches lower than it does now.
Dave is renowned for being a
diamond geezer and a talented
and skilful hot rod builder and, of
course, for his colourful language.
Having acquired the coupe body
from Jeff Beck in the mid-’90s, Dave
mounted it on the rolling chassis
he had already put together for a
’34 roadster project he was working
on. He soon found he couldn’t live
with the coupe’s hefty 4½-inch chop
though so, without further ado, cut
the roof off and added 1¾ inches of
metal back into each of the pillars.
Dave builds his cars solely for one
purpose – driving. Peer underneath
and you won’t find a fully detailed
chassis, instead the, “normal old shit
running gear,” as Dave so eloquently
put it. Translate that into an I beam
at the front, an 8-inch Ford out
back and a 350 / 350 combo, which
continues to work well.
 As Dave told us all those years ago,
There’s probably no such thing “Once I finish a car, I don’t want to get
under the fuckin’ thing ever again.”

as a perfect hot rod, but this The proof of the pudding is in the
eating of course and, as Dave still

comes bloody close regularly uses the ’34 he first put on

the road 20 years ago, that’s good
enough to us.
From the chrome reverse rims with
smooth ’50 Merc hubcaps and wide
whites throug gh to the exqquisite Neil
Tadman-trimmed interior, the car
exudes a distinctive mid-’60’s look. The
filled roof, mildly louvred bonnet sides
and simple exterior trim give the car a
much smoother appearance, but with
just enough detail to keep you looking.
There’s probably no such thing as a
perfect hot rod, but this comes bloody
close. If you ever tire of it Dave, you
know my number…
DB

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Tony Osborne’s Cloaking all that mechanical mastery is

a former race car body, lovingly massaged
car he had hoped for at the outset. Realising
your dreams whatever they may be, surely

’41 Willys coupe back to shape by Home Grown Hot Rods’

body man, Andy Barry, before being
that’s what it’s all about?
Okay, it’s not the sort of car you can
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It’s a fact of nature that blown Willys coupes Despite having previously seen pics of the cell, battery and NOS bottle leave no room
cannot help but look menacing, it’s just the Willys, confronting it in the sunshine when in the boot for shopping bags.
way they are. Tony Osborne, however, went it debuted at the Hot Rod Supernationals We know the coupe wears different
one step further in making his look beautiful was an experience I will never forget. The paint and wheels these days and, once
as well, a sort of deadly nightshade if you car really is stunning, yet totally impractical it gets the new engine we’ve heard
like. What’s more, it’s all steel. in virtually every aspect, which only adds about, I’m prepared to be
Despite it not being the easiest, or to its allure. The windows don’t open and wowed once again.
most comfortable car to drive, with Tony rearward vision is non-existent, but who Bring it on… DB
commenting, “It’s loud, hot, rattly… and cares? Seeing, not to mention hearing,
enjoyable,” it is the epitome of a street- Tony continuously cruising the Old Warden
driven race car. The ingredients read like a grounds it was
recipe for Michelin Star cuisine – a certified apparent he
full tube chassis by Chris Isaac Race Cars, had ended up
9-inch rear axle with Strange shafts, with the
modified Leda front struts, Proline
5000 two-speed Powerglide
and an I.C.E. Automotive-
prepared, blown 540ci
Chevy producing 890bhp.
If Gordon Ramsay built hot
rods these would all be
items stashed ready and
waiting in his larder.
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a street-driven
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Geoff Cousins’ Ford Pop

Featured January 2013

The thing about Geoff’s Anglia is it’s so

much more than it at first appears. Even
now pictures of it pop up on social media
and people say things like, “I haven’t
seen one done like that before.” The
irony being they have no idea what lies
under the demure outer skin from a
single overall shot.
As a packaging exercise alone, this car
is nothing short of breathtaking, as an
example of British engineering talent it’s
a masterpiece and as a modern take on
the venerable Ford Pop / Anglia it’s just
perfect. Keeping it a stock Ford colour,
using a Prefect Bakelite dash (and in fact
the whole Prefect windscreen aperture),
standard sized front wings and all the
original trim, right down to the single
tail light allows it to fly under the radar,
but stop and look inside and you’ll see
the crown jewels.
Inboard cantilever suspension, polished
ali panelling, sumptuous diamond-
stitched leather work and a discreet nod
to the full tube chassis that underpins
the whole car. Add in a hot 355ci Chevy
and Richmond 4-speed manual ’box and
you’ve got the hot in the hot rod, too.
We described this car before as the
quintessential British hot rod, and we
stand by that, but to it we’d add the
word timeless, as we think 20 years from
now people will still be looking at this
car and thinking it’s something just a
little bit special.
Mike Pye
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Andy Bond’s ’56 Chevy
Featured November 2017
Spending as much time at Santa Pod as I
do, it’s understandable that the first of my
Dream drives is a race car. The big problem
was deciding which one to choose. In the
end, I went for the one that has had the
most visual impact of any car at the track
for many years, Andy Bond’s Ugly Sister.
It was a bold move to purchase a well
known, and well presented, former Street
Eliminator-winning car. A bolder move
still to completely transform it, both
mechanically and visually.
Colin Lazenby campaigned the ’56 for
many years before hanging up his race
suit and, whilst the car more than cut the
mustard in its day, Andy knew he needed to
up the ante significantly to be competitive in
this ever-evolving race class. To that end, the
Chevy has been totally rebuilt,
from the chassis, through the
drivetrain and up to the top
of the now twin turbocharged
engine, before being finished off
with frankly incredible paint that
makes it look like it will be the
slowest car on the track.
Far from it, though, as on the
car’s first showing last year Andy
ran an 8.10 / 184, then a personal
best 7.90 / 173. The story was cut
short at the Summer Nationals
last June when the car sustained
significant damage after leaving
the track and ending up in
the field, but thankfully Andy
emerged unscathed and vows to
return, along with his Ugly Sister
of course. I, for one, cannot wait.
Matt Woods
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Full tube, twin-rail design to 25.3 spec

look like it will be the slowest Front suspension

Modified Strange Engineering GT

car on the track struts

Rear suspension
Adjustable 4-link with anti-roll bar
and sliding track locator
Rear axle
Mark Williams 9-inch case with
Strange third member and shafts
Engine
650ci, all-aluminium big block
Chevy with twin 88mm turbos
Transmission
Rossler Turbo 400 two-speed

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into a dedicated race car. By my reckoning,
10 seconds is about as quick as you can go
on the strip and still be able to drive a car
regularly on the street, and that was Blue’s
goal with this Dart.
A serial Mopar head, this was the car With that goal in mind, he didn’t seek the ’70s is a Reilly Motorsports AlterKtion
he’d always wanted to build – an homage out a Hemi ’Cuda but chose to turn a front suspension and Calvert Racing rear
to the days at the very start of the ’70s common or garden grocery getter Dart into suspension, but we e’ll happily forgive Blue
when Pro Stockers were still recognisable a period Pro Stock recreation by taking these swerves from m period as the overall
as showroom cars but, with highly tuned, away very little but adding just the right look and feel of th his car is just so right.
high compression motors, kicked butt on amount. Sublime colour choice, carefully There have been n a number of excellent
racettrackks across Ameriica and
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huge, brand-loyal following. Rather than Gyro slots, original flake steering wheel built over here, bu ut early Pro Stock-style cars
just recreate one of the better known and Stewart Warner gauges, Stahl dash- like this are few annd far between, and that’s
factory-backed cars, though, Blue set out mounted tach, Art Carr shifter… even the what made this car a stand out as far as I’m
to build a car the way a privateer racer Detroit Hustle name is right on the money. concerned. Love it.
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1971 Dodge Dart
'Glass bumpers, bonnet, doors, boot lid,
front and rear aprons and front wings,
12-point rollcage
Paint by Pete Rivers, signwriting by
Jeff Brown
Suspension:
RMS AlterKtion bolt-in front suspension
with poly bushed A-arms,
manual rack and pinion
steering, adjustable
coilovers,
Calvert Racing CalTracs,
split mono springs and
9-way adjustable dampers,
narrowed and braced
Chrysler 8¾-inch axle, 4.10
gears and d Chrysller Sure Griip
Wheels and tyres:
3.5 and 11 x 15-inch Fenton Gyros,
Moroso 7.10 x 15 Front Runners,
Hoosier 29 x 15.5 Pro Streets
Engine:
511ci Chrysler big block
Dual Pro System 750s on Weiand tunnel
ram, Chrysler race dizzy, MSD 6-AL
ignition, 11.6:1 compression
Estimated 500bhp
Transmission:
Chrysler 727 Torqueflite, steel drum,
billet servos, manual valve body,
3,800rpm converter

the overall look

and feel of this car
is just so right
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Dave Rothwell’s the front doors five inches to lowering modest, and that’s a word I’d use without

Standard Flying 12
the windscreen height by one inch and hesitation about Dave. He’s built other cars,
widening the rear wings a similar amount. and there may still be more to come, but
All without so much as a single sketch. to me this car is Dave Rothwell’s high water
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He also designed and made all the mark. And there are very few people in this
chrome trim, from the bumpers, through country capable of lapping at his heels.
We’ve described Dave Rothwell in the past the door handles to the rear lights, Mike Pye
in many ways – visionary, obsessive and just and yet everything looks like it could
bloody clever, and indeed he is all these have been there from the factory.
things. But like many on the tortuous line In my experience, the most
between reality and genius he is troubled. gifted car builders are
Thinking back I remember how Dave stood often the most
looking at his creation in the studio pointing
out flaws that were imperceptible to anyone
else. He’s a perfectionist, but one with the
ability to both create perfection and yet be
unable to see it in what he builds.
To me, this car is a tour de force of British
engineering, combined with a carefully
chosen selection of high performance car
parts from around the world: a Volvo V70
five-cylinder motor, Toyota Supra 5-speed
gearbox, Nissan Skyline front struts,
Mitsubishi Evo brakes and a Hillman Imp
steering rack. Oh…
Matt Langbant ended up buying this
car and driving it everywhere, testament
to both the build quality and the well
chosen components used.
It’s not the running gear you
notice when you look at this car
though. It’s the sublime colour
palette, which extends through
the chassis components, the
exemplary panel fit and
the way it sits down over
an equally measured set
of 18 and 20-inch Budnik
wheels. Then you find
out it was a frumpy four-
door car to begin with
and realise just how
much subtle re-working
of the body Dave did,
from lengthening
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Rob Rashbrook’s
Prefect estate
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to say, Rocket Fuel 5-spokes aside, Rob
Rashbrook’s 107E Prefect estate looks
like it rolled off the Dagenham, or at
least the E D Abbott production line
in Farnham, just as it is now. Nothing,
however, could be further from the truth.
Starting with the four-door saloon
that had been sat rotting away in his
garden for a few years, Rob set about
‘Farnhamising’ it. Armed with just a vision
in his head of how the finished car would
look, and with the original metalwork
suitably braced, Rob removed much of
the original rear bodywork and fabricated
a new steel support frame. Then, using
a combination of the front portion of
a 100E roof panel, the 107E’s discarded

Functional,
practical,
understated,
useable and
unique
boot lid and plenty of fresh sheet steel, he
hand formed the estate car conversion. All
in just four months. After that he tackled
the rot, replacing the floor, inner and
outer sills, rear wheelarches and all four
door skins.
Not content with creating a bespoke
estate car body, Rob decided the Prefect
should be as much of a driver as it is
a looker. To achieve that, he slotted
a 105E axle under the rear of the car
hanging from leaf springs, with three-inch
lowering blocks, Gaz shocks and anti-
tramp bars. The front struts were switched
for a pair from a 2.0-litre Capri, fitted
with adjustable spring platforms and a
strut compression kit. To ensure the front
track wasn’t too wide, Rob relocated the
strut towers inwards meaning g the Mk2
Escort steering rack needed narrowing
three inches to suit.
Power for the phantom estate comes
from a 2.0-litre Pinto mated to a Type
9 five-speed manual ’box. Note how all
these major mechanical components
are by Ford, emphasising Rob’s strong
allegiance to the badge.
Functional, practical, understated,
useable and unique. As one offs go, Rob’s
Prefect estate really is one-of-a-kind.
DB
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Andy ‘Fadster’ Hadfield’s

Twister Jago T
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Robbie Williams sang, “Let me entertain

you,” and that’s just what Andy ‘Fadster’
Hadfield does. In many ways, he’s the
consummate showman, and hot rodding and
drag racing is all the better for that. Long,
smoky burnouts and wheelstanding launches
are Andy’s trademarks, but there’s so much
more to him, and the car, than that.
Andy bought the Jago-bodied Model
T ready built, although at the time it
hadn’t been on the road for a couple of
years. Since then, he’s spent the last 13
years improving things and making it
considerably quicker over the quarter mile
than it ever was. Andy has never lost sight
of the T’s street car origins, and it still gets
regular road use, although these days it
needs a carb and tyre swap first.
Despite being so at home in front of
a crowd on the quarter mile, amazingly
Andy had never visited a drag strip until
2006 when good friend and fellow hot
rodder, Keith Freeman, gave him a ride to
the Nostalgia Nationals at Shakey. That was
all it took. Andy swallowed it hook, line
and sinker and was back at the track that
September, this time to run his T at the Hot
Rod Drags. carbs. That package produced a best time
Despite stopping too early, as he wasn’t of 8.80 seconds at 158mph, a full four
quite sure where the finish line was, Andy’s
first pass was a respectable 12.8 / 98. Back
seconds quicker that the first ever run.
All that is old hat for Fadster now,
7.70 seconds at
then Andy had a B&M 250 blower bolted
on top of the car’s 400ci small block Chevy,
though, as directly in his line of vision sits
a 540ci blown alky motor, giving Andy
178mph. Not
but that was soon junked in favour of a
6-71 Weiand. Nitrous came next and, by
around 2,000 horses to play with. Twister
has so far run a best of 7.70 seconds at bad for an old
the time we ran our feature, along with a
plethora of chassis and suspension updates,
178mph. Not bad for an old Jago that Andy
can still go to the shops in, eh? Jago Andy can
Andy had slotted a Dart Little M block
between the chassis rails. A brief engine
Ever the entertainer, Andy is expecting to
run deep into the 7s this year. Let the show still go to the
shops in, eh?
spec included forged pistons, ali heads, that begin all over again...
Weiand blower and twin Edelbrock 600cfm DB
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Carl Frith's ’33 Ford coupe
Featured May 2012
Where do I start with Carl’s ’33 Quite simply,
one of the best, most well conceived and
thought out hot rods ever built in the UK.
If you’re turned off by the fact it’s not
painted, then look past the beautifully
chopped exterior metalwork and focus
on every other single part of this car. It’s
nothing short of incredible.
We see a lot of cars in this job, but I can
honestly say there have been very few that
have literally stopped me in my tracks.
I’ll confess here I kept a tiny thumbnail
pic of this car in progress that I found on
the internet on my desktop as a constant
reminder to look out for the finished
thing, and when it finally arrived I wasn’t
disappointed. In fact, I can still remember
the first time I set eyes on it, pre-lettering, at
Avon Park. I couldn’t take my eyes off it.
There is just so much beautiful
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workmanship in this car it’s hard to take it forget. It’s raw, noisy, hot and
all in in one sitting. But it’s more than that, uncompromising, yet it can be driven on the
it’s the way the car sits, the aircraft fasteners street and, while it would be a stretch to say
used throughout and the thoughtful choice you can easily hold a conversation over the
of different finishes – no chrome, just nickel, combination of blower whine, gear drive
zinc and colour and black powder coat. It’s and straight cut Winters quickchange, it
like an exquisite antique cabinet, and every remains remarkably civil.
time you open a door, or a drawer, you’re Carl sold the car several years ago now, but
greeted by another surprise. it’ll forever live on in my dream garage as
The handmade fuel tanks still blow me Carl’s ’33, the car that took my breath away.
away today, but the biggest thrill comes Mike Pye
when Carl opens the bonnet and reveals
the 6-71-blown, ’57 vintage 392
Hemi that puts over 500bhp
through a Chrysler four-
speed manual ’box.
I’ve been lucky
enough to be taken for
a drive in this car, and
it’s a ride I’ll never
just so much
beautiful
workmanship
in this car
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a reason for this choice as the Fordson model Fordson. black gloss and
itself. Ginner is one of those larger-than- Fast forward six years and the previously more power. The
life characters and spending a few hours non-descript van has a full tube chassis, current engine displaces 585
with him, Terry Howes and a topless model Strange-influenced axles and suspension cubes, which pushes the dial up
in a photographic studio in Derby was an and a Steve Schmidt 540ci big block Chevy to 940bhp. Ginner is now running the
experience I will never forget. Even the producing almost 900bhp. Ostensibly, it van in Super Pro as well as Outlaw Anglia,
visit to the sandwich bar to fetch lunch was built as a street / strip car, but you’ve which helps both him and his crew gain a
was not without incident. more chance of Donald Trump imposing more varied experience and to date his PB
I could just as easily have chosen Paul
Bacon’s Cosmotron as that was shot on the
same day. Sorry Paul and Kirsty, spending
it’s the reversing back at
time with the two of you was just as
enjoyable, it’s just I’ve known Ginner
75mph after the burnouts that is
longer I guess.
Ginner has evolved in the scene over the
just mental
years. Initially, he became known for the
quality street cars he built both for himself an arms ban than you have of seeing this is 8.4 seconds, which is more than credible
and for others, many of which have Fordson trundling down the A45. in our book.
graced these pages. Then he crewed on When we ran the feature in 2012, Ginner But, for sheer entertainment value, it’s
the legendary Al’s Gasser and it was that was still finding his feet with the van and the reversing back at 75mph after the
which ultimately led to what he describes had run a best of 10.1 seconds. Since then, burnouts that is just mental.
as his journey into the unknown, following the van has gained some flames over its DB
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Tech spec
Chassis: Wheels / tyres:
15/8-inch CDS tube chassis by Wayne Allman, Intergalactic Weld Racing – front: 3½ x 15 with 145/65-15 Continentals; rear:
Custom Shop 15 x 15 with 28 x 18.50-15 Hoosier Pro Street radials
Front suspension: Engine:
Strange Engineering struts and custom fabricated chromoly
585ci Steve Schmidt full race big block Chevy
bottom arms
Transmission:
Rear axle:
Narrowed Ford 9-inch with Strange ali centre section, spool and Mark Al’s ’Glide
Williams shafts Body:
Brakes: 1948 Fordson with radiused rear ’arches, steel roof insert, ali rear
Front – Strange discs / calipers; rear – Wilwood discs / calipers doors and front end panels
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Andy Saunders’
1937 Cord 812
Featured May 2018
A ’32 or ’34 Ford is my favourite hot rod,
but a Cord 810 / 812 is my favourite car
of all time, and I’d travel a long way just
to see a genuine one in the metal, so
seeing and being offered the opportunity
to photograph a customised one was an
incredible experience for me. The 1930’s
Art Deco location just made the
whole thing mind blowingly
awesome. So much so, I’m
still struggling to get over
it now and fear no other
photoshoot will ever
come close!
Back to the car
though. I could have
stood looking at it
all day – I guess I’m
fortunate that being a
photographer you get
paid to do just that – but
for me this was more akin
to a religious experience. There’s
something about the styling of these cars
even in stock form that is almost other
worldly, and the fact you could have
something like pop-up headlights on a car
made in the 1930s is just incredible.
What Andy has done with this car though
puts it on another level. Until he showed
me some of the ‘before’ pictures I didn’t
realise how bad this car had been to start
with. It would make a stock restoration an
impressive achievement, but to set out to
re-design such an iconic car is something
I think only a few people in the world
could do successfully. I think Andy’s got the
proportions of the car absolutely perfect, the
way the roof has been shortened and flows into
the rear deck, the extension of the rear wings,
it all just works together and looks like it came
from the factory that way. That’s a hard thing to
achieve with such a radically customised car.
Sitting in the car was an equally surreal
experience. It’s just so tactile, and the

to set out to
re-design such
an iconic car is
something I think
only a few people
in the world could
do successfully
mixture of red and polished metal contrasts
wonderfully with the greys used outside. I
don’t think I could see myself ever driving this
car, I’d be too worried about it, but I dream
about driving it, and isn’t that the whole
point of this feature?
Matt Richardson
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John Byng’s Ford Pop
Featured February 2015
On the face of it, John Byng’s ’55 Pop
looks a nice, tidy, well put together hot
rod. Subtle body mods include a filled
roof, shortened front grille and marginally
widened rear wings, with the bodywork
being coated in Honda Ionised Bronze.
Painted steel rims and powder coated
Model Y bumpers continue the clean and
simple theme.
That theme continues through the
inside, where black vinyl trim is lifted
by some neat Art Deco touches to the
dashboard.
What makes it my personal pick of the
Pops, though, is what nestles under the
bonnet. John originally bought the car as
an unfinished project but, as he also has a
blown LS1-powered Moggy Minor, he had
no intention of keeping the Rover V8 it came
with. His plan was for a reliable long distance
cruiser, and an economical one at that.
The Pop’s spec now reads narrowed
Sherpa rear axle, double wishbone IFS
the definition of not following
the crowd
and a Rover LT77 five-speed transmission
mated to a 2.0-litre MDi / Perkins Prima
TD motor. Yup, that’s the turbo diesel that
originally saw duty in a ’92-’94 vintage
Austin Maestro. The originally transverse-
mounted engine was converted to north
south configuration by switching to a
Sherpa engine back plate and bellhousing.
Some hot rodders might deride the
use of a diesel engine, but we think
it’s inspired, and it suits John’s purpose
perfectly. Although low on horses, 116ft.
lbs of torque comes in at 2,500rpm, giving
the Pop modern car driveability, and
55mpg is the norm. It’s no surprise then
that we come across John and his Pop
at virtually every event we attend, and
he’s also done a tour of Poland in the
car. As far as I’m concerned, this car is the
definition of not following the crowd, and
is all the better for it.
DB
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Jon Webster’s
slingshot dragster
Featured January 2016
Of all the dragsters we have featured
in the last 12 years, the reason I chose
Jon’s Hephaestus slingshot was twofold:
firstly, it’s absolutely beautiful, there’s no
denying that; secondly, and perhaps more
importantly, the thinking behind how it all
came about.
Jon’s company, Webster Race
Engineering, is well known for its chassis
and dynamic race car work, and when Jon
saw how much enjoyment people were
having running cars primarily for fun at the
Dragstalgia events he saw an opportunity
to offer an affordable, nostalgic-looking
slingshot dragster package. This enabled
him to have a go himself and, at the same
time, inject a level of repeatability to try
and help grow the scene in this country.
Both Jon’s and Kim Bishop’s cars debuted
at the 2015 event and proved it was
possible to build brand new slingshot
dragsters totally in keeping with the spirit
of the event, but using modern technology
and practices to offer quick, safe, simple to
run, tuneable dragster kits.
The mid-’60’s-style, ’chute pack body is
’glass to keep costs down and the 180-inch
wheelbase, SFI 2.4 chassis uses classic torsion
bar front suspension, spoked wheels with
no front brakes, mag-style rear wheels and
a Ford 9-inch back axle. It’s built to accept
pretty much any motor and designed to
be run at competitive level by a very small
crew with minimal experience.
Safe, stylish and legal to 6.50 seconds,
all for 21 grand (2016 price). Just add your
choice of engine and transmission and go
racing. Inspiring stuff.
Mike Pye
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[a] quick, safe, simple

to run, tuneable
dragster kit

Tech spec
Nostalgia slingshot dragster 22 x 2.5-inch ET Front slicks
WRE glass fibre ’chute pack body Radir 15 x 12 Windowed Slots
Paint by Wayne Nicholson, design by Power Race Graphics, 31/13.0-15 ET Drag slicks
lettering and pinstriping by Neil Melliard, Prosign Engine:
Chassis: 509ci big block Chevy
180-inch wheelbase, SFI 2.4-spec, chromoly Marlin block, Dart PRO 1 heads, Crower rockers and cam,
Mark Williams torsion bar front suspension and spindles Mallory Superman 2, 20% overdriven Littlefield 8-71 blower,
WRE fabricated 9-inch rear axle with 3.30 gears Enderle manifold injection
Strange Engineering rear disc brakes Transmission:
Wheels and tyres: Two-speed Powerglide, JW Transmissions case, 1.54 first gear,
Hayden Enterprises 17 x 1.8 wire wheels Mark Williams drive coupler
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out from a choice of 500 was next to
impossible, so I just had to go with myy gut
feeling and choose the one that first came
to mind. That car was Steve Roberts’ 300E.
I liked this car for a few reasons. Firsstly,
I'm partial to 100Es and 300Es, having had
several of them over the years from 30 02
Ford powered to 1200cc Datsun motorred.
Secondly, it has a 2.0-litre Zetec, and th hat’s
rig
ght up p myy street. In fact,, Steve and I
had a good chat at the Supernats last
year about the motor as I put a turbo on
the one in my Bonneville car and he was
planning to add one. Thirdly, the build d
quality is stunning.
To me, this car is everything that is
great about British rodding. It’s subtle,,
even though it’s got a ton of clever
modifications, it’s built with ingenuity
rather than a cheque book, and it’s a
true piece of British hot rodding historry,
tastefully updated with the times. I lovve
the fact Steve kept the original signwrriting
from its Bodgit & Scarper days.
I’d have this car in my garage any day,
and with that motor I wouldn’t have any
qualms about jumping in it and driving it
at every opportunity.
Kev Elliott
a true piece of British
hot rodding history,
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Being asked to choose a favourite car
from all the shoots I have done for CC
over the years was a big ask. There
are so many to choose from and the
more I look back through the more
that stand out. The cars are just so
cool and the people are always great
to meet, it’s the owners that make
CC one of my favourite magazines to
work for.
However, I’m going to pick Trevor
Cowell’s Pontiac GTO, which I shot in
December 2007 and which went in
the magazine in June 2008, partly as
it was the first time I met Trevor and
we've become good friends since (I’ve
shot five or six of his cars now, use
his TJ Motors garage all the time and
used his wife’s Transit diesel-powered
Chevy Fleetline for a vintage glamour
shoot last year that placed in the top
three in a Royal Photographic Society
competition and was in a national
show). What made the shoot really
memorable though was the massive
rolling burnout Trevor did, which
started on a quiet country lane and
finished on a motorway overpass, all
while hanging out the side window
grinning!
I’m more of a classic Rover owner
than a muscle car guy, but the sound
of the Pontiac’s 500bhp (with an
additional 125 shot of nitrous) fuel
injected motor on song has stayed
with me. The fact the car has been
improved in every other area too
– fuel injection, mega disc brakes,
adjustable coilovers, six-speed
gearb box, 4-llink
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classic Two-Lane Blacktop looks from
the outside makes it just about the
perfect muscle car for me.
Matt Richardson
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the massive
rolling burnout…
which started on
a quiet country
lane and finished
on a motorway
overpass
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the paint colour

would make it
a challenging
assignment
 Mark Dedman's
1952 Chevy pick-up
Featured March 2012

My second choice of Dream drive

couldn’t be further removed from
the first. I really have a thing about
old American pick-ups, so jumped at
the chance to shoot Marc Dedman’s
’52 Chevy, despite knowing the paint
colour would make it a challenging
assignment. Strictly speaking, it’s
not actually Marc’s truck though, as
he bought it as a 25th anniversary
present for his wife, Sharon. Now
■ Pics: Matt Woods there’s food for thought.
The pick-up was bought as
a sort of unfished project and,
aided by fellow hot rodder, Trevor
Gardiner, over a two-year period of
evening and weekend work, Marc
completed the build to meet his
exacting standards. All the running
gear came from a 1970 Camaro
donor car. The 10-bolt rear axle uses
leaf springs with lowering blocks,
and the front clip has been treated
to a big brake kit. Anti-roll bars are
fitted front and rear.
The 307ci small block V8 has been
dressed up but left stock internally
and the gearbox is a TH350
automatic. Wheels are 8 x 18-inch
Boyd Coddington Duels fitted with
255/60 Toyo Proxes S/T tyres.
Body modifications are simple,
yet effective. The dashboard, kick
panels and engine bay have all
been smoothed out, the bonnet
has been de-badged and the
back end enhanced by a rolled
rear pan. This uncomplicated and
clutter-free approach continues
inside the cab. A couple of Dakota
digital gauges, a polished Flaming
River steering column topped off
with a Billet Specialities Banjo
wheel, and a Trevor Gardiner-
donated Vauxhall Zafira bench
seat. That’s about it really.
None of this featured in Marc’s
original plans for the pick-up
though. His thoughts were to
upgrade the engine and running
gear whilst leaving the bodywork
shabby. It was Sharon that convinced
him to do things the other way
round, and that’s what really makes
the truck stand out from the crowd
these days.
Matt Woods
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It’s often said that you can’t re-invent Hans-Peter’s car at a rod run it makes me Together with
the wheel, or that there’s nothing new, stop and look, again. And smile. What this aluminium
everything is recycled. When it comes to hot car does is prove you can build a theme fabricator
extraordinaire, Al

pure class and a treat for the eye
rods that’s largely true, but then every now
and again a car comes along that re-sets
your way of thinking.
To do that with a ’glass ’32 roadster
takes some doing, yet every time I see
car without it turning into a theme park,
and you can successfully meld different
eras and types of car into one homogenous
package, but to do so takes a level of
restraint not many people are capable of.
Stevens, Hans-Peter has
created a car I would describe as Britain’s
answer to the Doane Spencer roadster,
the car widely considered to be the most
beautiful Deuce roadster of all time. It’s a
bold claim, but then this is a bold car.
What sets this car apart is the fact it
forged its own path, not least in its use of
 ■ Pics: John Colley

a 2.4-litre Datsun straight six from a 240Z,

together with its 5-speed ’box, and a Volvo
back axle. The high compression, twin-carb
mill sounds quite unlike any other hot rod,
and the deft use of design elements from C,
D and E-Type Jaguars give its unique look.
Like the Doane Spencer car, it’s not just
about the look, with 4-bar suspension front
and rear, disc brakes all round, a rear anti-
roll bar and Koni coilovers this car was built
to drive. The end result is pure class and a
treat for the eye.
Mike Pye
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built to look right, to run

right and to run reliably, too

Tim Garlick and Perry Antoniou's Nostalgia Funny Car

Featured November 2013

Everyone has their favourite type of
drag car, and for me it has always been
Funny Cars. There’s just something
about the recognisable, full-bodied
race cars with close to Top Fuel
potential and a distinct element of
unpredictability that do it for me.
But it has to be the old ones, not the
modern jelly moulds that owe nothing
more than a pair of airbrushed headlights
to the cars they depict. There may be
hundreds of them gathering dust in barns
across America, but not here in the UK,
so re-lighting the Nostalgia Funny Car fire
came down to a few dedicated individuals
prepared to put their money and expertise
into re-enacting the glory days of British
drag racing.
As always in any class, one car rises to the
top as the one to emulate, to try and beat,
and Tim and Perry’s car is that one. Built by
the talented team at I.C.E. Automotive, this
car wasn’t just built to look right, but to
run right and to run reliably, too. And ever
since its debut at Dragstalgia 2013 it’s done
exactly that, going on to become the first
European Nostalgia Funny Car in the fives.
As with all successful race cars, it’s the
overall package that gets the job done, and
Apache has it all, from its period perfect ’77
Firebird body, through the mind-bending
paint by Brickfield VWs and Neil Melliard to
the purposeful chassis and running gear by
I.C.E. Automotive.
Like Jon Webster’s slingshot, this is a
thoroughly modern interpretation of an
old style of car, built with safety paramount
and the latest drag race technology
onboard, run by a team who know what
they’re doing. Key is that team also
understand and appreciate the period in
drag race history they are recreating.
If I was ever in a position to own a nitro
drag car, Apache would be it.
Mike Pye

Tech spec
Nostalgia Funny Car
1977 Pontiac Firebird glass fibre body
Paint by Phil Norman, design, lettering
and graphics by Neil and Marcus
Melliard, Prosign
Chassis:
SFI Nostalgia Funny Car-spec, 118-inch
wheelbase, chromoly, chassis fabrication
by Steve Green
Torsion bar front suspension
Strange Engineering 9-inch Ford with
4.11 gears
Wheels and tyres:
Cragar Super Trick front wheels
Moroso front runners
Weld Racing 16 x 16 Alumastar Pro
beadlocks
34.5/17.0-16 Hoosier drag slicks
Engine:
426ci all-aluminium Hemi
Keith Black block, stage V heads, Sonny
■ Pics: Matt Wood
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Bryant crank, MGP rods, JE pistons,
Comp cams cam, 19% overdriven BDS
6-71 blower, Enderle Bug Catcher
injection, Rage 1,400gpm fuel pump,
single Mallory Superman
Estimated horsepower on 88%
nitromethane: 2,200bhp at 8,250rpm
Transmission:
Two-speed Lenco, 1.41 low gear,
Titan three-disc clutch, Trick Titanium
bellhousing
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Russ Pepper’s ’32 coupe interior takes things to a whole new level,
too. The pearl white diamond pleated vinyl,
gained wings and running boards. It’s
still the same car, it just looks and sounds
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the Lokar swan-neck shifter topped off As our tastes change, why can’t our cars
Russ Pepper certainly set the standard with a skull knob and ’flake steering wheel follow suit?
in 2011 when he brought out the first are surpassed only by that chromed dash. DB
Brookville bodied 3-window coupe to hit Pure opulence at its very, very best.
the roads in the UK. What’s more, he was When it comes to the engine, however,
man enough to have it painted green! that is perhaps even more opulent than the
Russ readily admits to having a liking for interior. The built and extremely well dressed
steel, although he’s not a purist, so when 331ci Chrysler Hemi wears a Weiand 6-71
Brookville announced they were going to blower, which sucks fuel and air through a
produce a 3-window coupe he simply had brace of 525cfm Demon carbs. Transmission
to have one. As he told us at the time, is a 600bhp-rated TH350 auto’.
“You put a bit of paint on it, and who’s Nowadays the coupe has been
going to know the difference?” tamed a little. The Hemi has lost the
Encapsulating 1960’s American show blower and the
car excess, the build style really works body has
for me and shows the cynics that
not all ’32 coupes running dropped
I-beam and 9-inch Ford axles, and no
fenders, have to look the same.
Being the UK arm of R&R Hot Rod
Imports, it was a given that Russ
would go for Radir wheels, in
particular 4 and 10 x 15-inch
Bullet Spokes, with those
whitewall tyres adding to the
overall build style.
Peering through the
window reveals the
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a mid-10-second / 130mph street car

Spencer Reynolds’
Mk2 Zephyr
Featured August 2014
Ford really hit the nail squarely on the head
in 1956 when it launched the totally restyled
Mk2 version of its Z-car range. Add in a Harris
connection and it was virtually a given that
Spencer Reynolds’ Zephyr would make my
short list of Dream drives.
When Spencer bought the car it was
painted red and ran a 302ci Ford V8, but
it has evolved over the years since. That
evolution was pretty gentle to begin with:
4-link rear axle location, strut front end –
that sort of thing. It then dawned on Spencer
that such mods didn’t cut the mustard when
it came to the quarter mile times he really
wanted to run.
That’s when the jump was made to a full
tube chassis. Spencer’s original plan was to
run the car in Street Eliminator but, by the
end of the seven-year rebuild, the series had
moved on so much that he realised the car
would be nowhere near competitive. He was
hoping for a mid-10-second / 130mph street
car though.
When we featured the car Spencer had
owned it for 29 years, and his name is still
on the registration document, so by my
reckoning that’s 33 years now. What’s more,
since we last spoke to Spencer he has run a
best time to date of 10.7 seconds at the Pod,
and that looks set to improve further once
he’s got a handle on the nitrous controller.
Good man. Great car.
DB

Tech spec
Mk2 Zephyr street / strip car
Body:
Glass fibre wings, doors, bumpers, front
valence, cowl induction bonnet and boot lid
Chassis:
CDS tube by CC Racing
Engine:
408ci Windsor by I.C.E. Automotive.
Power: 524bhp / 526ft.lbs of torque at
3,700rpm
Transmission:
Alders-built C6 with modified reverse pattern
manual shift and trans’ brake
Rear axle:
Hauser Racing Ford 9-inch with 4.11 gears
and 35-spline shafts
Front suspension:
Leda Capri-style struts with Chris Isaacs Race
Cars hubs and steering arms
Wheels and tyres:
4 x 15 and 14 x 15 Center Line Convo Pro
with 165 Firestone F560 front tyres and
31-18.5-15 Hoosier Quick Time on the rear
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yes, it’s an unpainted car, but to
me Dave’s car is one of the best
Hot Rod, the movie-inspired Willys
coupes around.
Dave is another of those quiet,
unassuming car builders who, in my
opinion, doesn’t ever get it wrong.
He’s well known in heritage Vauxhall
circles but on the side has had his
hand in more of ‘our’ kind of cars
than we probably know about,
including the superb Two-Lane
Blacktop clone ’55 Chevy of Rob Ellis.
This was the car he built for
himself, though by his own
admission he’d have been better off
starting with the worst steel body
known to man, such was the mess
the British-moulded body was in
when he bought it as an unfinished
project. It’s testament to Dave’s skill
and determination that, over the
best part of 10 years, he persevered
and turned it into a hard charging
street cum strip car.
It’s the detail work in this car that
really cemented its place in this list.
Sitting on a gloss black chassis with
integral rollcage, every nut, bolt
and component has been fitted with
an engineer’s eye, with sometimes
unlikely components – like Rover P4
front shocks – seamlessly integrated
into the mix.
It was never built as a show car,
but Dave clearly only has one level
of build quality, and a great eye for
the incidental details that make a
great car stand out from the good
cars. The period perfect interior in
this being a case in point.
With a dual quad 454 Chevy and
close ratio Muncie M22 gearbox,
this Willys has the go to back up the
show, regularly running deep into
the 11s at over 125mph, and always
driven to the track and back.
Dave may not yet have reached
his goal of a 10-second street car,
but he has achieved that rarer
goal of building the almost perfect
compromise between a street car
and a race car, all wrapped up in a
package that simply says Hot Rod.
Mike Pye
■ Pics: Dan Pullen

the almost perfect

compromise
between a street
car and a race car
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Graeme Rust’s ’47
Alvis Woodie
Featured January 2017
Anyone who can legitimately say the
build components of his car include
milking machine valves, a £5 charity shop
suitcase, brackets for London bus hand
straps, copper from a 1896 brewery still,
the bomb arming system from a Bristol
Beaufighter and gauges from a Mk4/5
Spitfire deserves a place on anybody’s list
of Dream drives in my book.
Checking out the interior trimming and
the fabric list is equally as oddball: golden
eye python skins, fabric from a Sopwith
aeroplane and a combination of water
buffalo, alligator, iguana, dodo (real) and
ocelot (fake). Even the steering wheel is as
off-the-wall as the rest of the car, a 1927
Neville ‘Fatboy’ wheel, which partially
slides up out of the way for ease of access.
The car itself, a 1947 Alvis TA14 / Jones
Brothers shooting brake to be precise, was
a true barn find, and is believed to be the
only survivor of 45 ever manufactured. The Woodie is Graeme’s first ever ground-up
build took Graeme 10 years to complete,
such was the sorry state the car was in after
hot rod build. From the off he planned
for a build style the likes of which had
years of neglect. never been seen before, and he’s certainly
The entire wooden structure has been achieved that goal.
replaced, with some subtle redesign thrown Graeme describes the finished product
in for good measure, and the metalwork as a mix of steam punk and Jules Verne,
lovingly restored to its former glory. with a bit of gentlemen’s club for good
Even the choice of engine is far from measure. That sums it up perfectly.
usual, a 1950’s-vintage Buick V8 with Rover DB
heads and a Whipple blower
The rolling stock is somewhat
more conventional though
– US-sourced IFS, an
underslung Volvo 240
rear axle with LSD and
all round disc brakes.
Air bags on each
corner sit the Alvis
in the weeds when
parked up yet give
the comfortable ride
Graeme appreciates
on his long drives
from Cornwall.
Amazingly, the
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Warren
Gillingham’s Corsair
Featured November 2009

If I’m honest, I don’t particularly like

Corsairs, but I do like what Roy Pitter
does a lot. He’s one of those UK hot rod
and custom bike builders who keeps
to himself and systematically turns out
great looking rides.
Roy has come a long way since he
first built this car in his mum’s garden,
and he found the perfect person for its
resurrection in Warren. Like me, Warren
had long been an admirer of Roy’s
work and eventually the two did a deal
whereby Warren took over ownership
of the car, while Roy got the gig to
rebuild it in the way he’d wanted from an understated and
the start, but didn’t have the funds or
knowledge (his words) to do the first
time round.
eminently useable
What I love most about this car is the
overall approach, which can be applied
British muscle car
to pretty much any car you can think
of. The bodywork is close to stock, just
smoothed a little, de-chromed, with
the bumper tucked and the panel gaps
finessed. Even the colour is 1970’s Ford
Highland Green.
But underneath, it’s a whole different
ballgame. All the original Corsair
running gear has long gone, and the
way this car sits over a staggered set of
17 and 18-inch Budniks is down to Roy’s
engineering ability and discerning eye,
along with a combination of Mustang II
front suspension and coilovers all round.
A 37ci Jon Barrett small block Ford sits
up proud in a meticulously smoothed
engine bay with a Tremec TKO500
behind it and a Currie 9-inch behind
that. There are four-pot Wilwood brakes
all round and a Wilwood pedal box but
no power steering, no air ride, nothing
that takes away from the full manual
driving experience.
If you want to pigeon hole it, it’s
probably best described as mild Pro
Touring, with restraint. Every upgrade
is considered and thoughtful, which
has resulted in an understated and
eminently useable British muscle car.
One that not only hauls arse, but stops,
handles and fits in a UK-sized garage
or parking space. What more could you
want out of a custom car?
Mike Pye
■ Pics: ctpimaging.co.uk
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John Kellet’s ’32 coupe

Featured September 2010

Asked to describe the archetypal hot rod, it’s a

fair bet some, or all, of the following phrases
will crop up: Deuce coupe; Chrysler Hemi;
roof chop; multiple carbs; dropped beam;
cheater slicks… Yep, John’s ’32 5-window
is the archetypal hot rod all right. It’s not
his only hot rod, and certainly not the only
hot rod he’s built, but it’s by far and away
our favourite one. It’s not perfect – there’s
no headlining and all the chop welds are
visible inside for starters – but that’s part of
its charm. It’s also part of its history, which
is said to go back to the 1950s, when it was
first rodded. Hell, it was chopped over half a
century ago now.
What this car has in spades is attitude, real
hot rod attitude, the kind you just don’t get
on a car built from all new parts. From its
brooding stance to its understated black with
just a hint of chrome finish, steel wheels with
blackwall tyres and its tri-carbed 354 Hemi up
front, this car has got it all. It’s noisy, raw and
just a little bit dangerous, the kind of car you
wouldn’t want your daughter going on. In
other words, exactly the kind of car we’d all
love to own.
A founding member and president of the
Originals hot rod club here in the UK, and a
member of the Bean Bandits and Immortals in
the USA, there’s no doubting John’s credentials.
He’s been hot rodding his whole life and has
built up an enviable list of contacts, both here
and in the States, and that’s how this car came
together, both over there and then eventually
over here.
What this car represents is John’s hot rod
soul, and that’s something you can’t buy. It’s
also precisely what, to my mind, makes this ’32
a stand out.
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of car you wouldn’t want your daughter going on
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Keith Atkinson’s
’32 sedan
Featured October 2009
Unpainted cars aren’t to everyone’s
liking, but there’s no denying
the naked truth of them and,
considering his hot rod pedigree,
this ’32 is far removed from Keith
Atkinson’s previous cars. Can you
believe it, a car from the Atkinson
stable that’s not smothered in
‘Akkie Orange’? Except it was, only
he stopped at the rolling chassis
and underside of the body.
It’s a brave step to reveal 80+
year old bodywork like this,
especially as the car has been
chopped, but it stood up to close
scrutiny. All credit to Keith for
that, and for me the contrast
of a fully detailed chassis and
unpainted body really works.
The already chopped Tudor
came from Michigan via the
internet and was subsequently
worked on by Wayne Streams,
whilst the rolling stock is pretty
much de rigueur for a fenderless
street rod these days. Up front
there’s an aluminium I beam, out
back a Ford 9-inch, while under the
bonnet was a not-so-usual 502ci
big block Chevy, fully detailed the
Atkinson way of course.
The sedan rolls on 4½ x 15-inch
Halibrand front wheels and 10 x
16-inch ET Fueler rears smothered in
31 x 12.50 Hoosier Pro Street tyres.
When we ran the feature
Keith commented the sedan is,
“The best driving hot rod I’ve
ever owned.” It’s also the one
that required the least amount
of polishing, eh Keith?
DB
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Tim Holmes' altered
wheelbase Polara
Featured October 2017
Not everybody ‘gets’ the altered wheelbase
thing. To some the cars look plain ridiculous,
to others no doubt it’s an irreversible
modification that means the cars can never
be put back to stock again. But to others –
myself included – they hold a strange allure.
I’m too young to remember the Factory
Experimental (FX) cars the first time round,
but any student of Funny Cars knows they
were the exhilarating forerunners to the
class, and had their heyday between 1962
and 1966, when they were the hottest, most
entertaining, most exciting cars on the strips.
Being based on a ’64 Polara 500, Tim’s
car falls slap bang in the middle of this
period, and has been built to epitomise the
style, albeit with a bit more subtlety in the
exterior treatment. Who doesn’t love a vinyl
roof
on a race
car? It’s in the details, though,
that Tim always gets his cars right, and this
one is no exception – from the ali delete
plates in the dash through the rare optional
engine-turned side trims to the factory-spec
overspray on the chassis. It’s like someone
restored Frankenstein’s monster, and made
a blinding job of it.
The best bit is it’s got the goods under the
hood to back up the look too, with a 630bhp,
540ci, Indy SR-headed Wedge with dual 750s
on an A&A cross ram. With a beefed 727
Torqueflite and Dana 60, it’s a consistent
10.80 machine without breaking a sweat. It
probably could go quicker but what I really
like about this car is Tim’s attitude to it.
He’s a hardcore
drag racer, one of
the team behind the Mopar
Euronationals and a regular competitor on
the strip, both in Nostalgia Superstock and
Gasser Circus, but he’s also just a regular,
stand-up guy who is committed to his car.
Hell, anyone that is prepared to sell a car
to buy the right intake manifold has got their
priorities right in my eyes.
Yep, I bloody love this car.
Mike Pye
 it’s got the goods
under the hood to
back up the look

Tech spec
Altered wheelbase A/FX tribute
1964 Dodge Polara 500
Paint by Tim Holmes
10 / 6½ inch axle relocation and 10-point rollcage by Dale
Snoke
■ Pics: Steve Sharp Suspension:
Dodge A100 van front axle and suspension
Mopar Super Stock rear springs
Wheels and tyres:
4.5 x 15 Cragar S/S, M/T Front Runners
8.5 x 15 Chrysler steels, 29.5-15 M/T slicks
Engine:
540ci Chrysler Wedge by Dave Billadeau
Mega Block, Eagle crank, Scat rods, Indy SR heads, mild roller
cam, 10.75:1 compression
630bhp and 680ft.lbs of torque
Transmission:
Beefed Chrysler 727 Torqueflite, Turbo Action J converter,
Dana 60 axle with 4.10 spool and Strange shafts
 Dream
drives

Stuart Lober’s ’32 Ford

Featured December 2010
Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be. All
fashions are cyclical, and other clichés.
What’s true is we are currently in the
grip of a return to traditional values, at
least as far as hot rods, custom vans and
choppers are concerned. And the beauty
of recreating something is it gives us the
opportunity to re-write it too, to cherry
pick the best bits and build on them.
Knowledge, welding technology, parts
availability, even tyre technology have all
improved beyond all measure and, while
hot rods can be built to look ‘period
perfect’, they are often significantly
better than the cars they seek to emulate.
You only have to look at how many
traditional hot rods have been given the
eminently sensible upgrade to a 5-speed
’box for example.
But then along comes a genuine time
machine, a car that was actually built
in the mid-1950s and, through good
fortune, has been preserved as a window
on the past. Stuart’s ’32 5-window is just
that – a car that, bar a replacement set
of wheels and tyres, hasn’t been updated
since it was first hot rodded and remains
in incredible condition. So the paint is
chipped in places, the flames are a bit
amateur looking, and there may well be
things about the car you would personally
change, but it was exactly what Stuart
was looking for, and he intends to keep it
just the way it was built.
It’s been verified as having been built by
Ed Mullens, a member of the Marin Coupe
and Roadster Club, whose cars were used
during the filming of American Graffiti.
This car wasn’t in the film itself but, to us
here in England, it offers a unique insight
into hot rodding history, and deserves to
remain like this for eternity.
Mike Pye
 a unique
insight into hot
rodding history

■ Pics: Nick Grant

 Dream
DREAM
Drives
drives
Lee Wright’s Fad T
Featured November 2014
There I was, innocently strolling round the
campsite at Old Warden one Saturday when
it hit me smack between the eyes. Talk about
a knockout blow. I was confronted by three
or four guys tinkering with the engine of
this cartoon-esque creation. It was one of
those instant eyeball-rubbing moments as I
struggled to take in what lay just a few feet
in front of me. Surely it could not be real?
Maybe in the halcyon days of the CC shows
at Olympia and Ally Pally this might have
been a conceivable concept, but in 2014?
Nah, this was bonkers, and on so many levels.
Words were muttered, introductions made
and it slowly began to dawn on me I wasn’t in
the midst of a psychedelically weird dream.
It transpired that Lee Wright was the man
behind this absolute folly, a car that at the
time was not registered, and never would
be. Nor did Lee have any intention of ever
driving the T on the road, and thank god for
that. To start with, you can’t exactly sit in it,
and if you could you would never see out of
it. Then there are the front brakes. Or rather
there aren’t as it has none.
But that was all irrelevant to Lee, he had
achieved what he set out to do 25 years
previously, which was to build a tribute to
those show-stopping show cars of old, and
all credit to him for that.
Given that, the tech spec is also irrelevant
as everything was chosen for its visual
impact, rather than its performance
enhancing capability. For the record though,
the engine is a 468ci big block Chevy
topped off with a Weiand 6-71 blower and
a brace of Predator carbs. The tube front
axle is linked to a VW Beetle torsion bar,
the rear axle is a narrowed 9-inch Ford
hung on a 4-bar, the front wheels are
17-inch motorcycle rims, whilst the rears are
monstrous 15 x 15-inch Center Line Convo
Pros smothered by 33 x 21.5-15 Mickey
Thompson Sportsman rubber.
The ’glass body began life as one of Ed
Wimble’s ’15 T high back bodies, but has
since been chopped, sectioned, widened
and lengthened so the top of the roof now
sits just 35 inches from the ground. Did I
mention this car is bonkers?
DB
 ■ Pics: Dan Pullen

■ Pics: John Colley

a tribute to those show-

stopping show cars of old
 Blood brothers
So Cal T
he LA car scene is already
overcrowded, with multiple
than 200 vehicles were pre-registered for
the show held adjacent to the historic Queen

Diaries
events happening on top of
each other every weekend. It’s difficult,
therefore, to throw another into the mix
unless it’s for
Mary in Long Beach [that’s the ship by the
way, not a real queen - Ed.].
Unfortunately, some bad weather rolled
in, but it did not

Ex-pat and
a really good
cause. a traditional hot rod dampen the spirit of
the event that raised
former CC
editor, Tony
Enter Trace
Edwards,
and custom car show enough blood to help
save the lives of 82
well-known people. More Blood
Thacker, livess
originator of the successful Ink & Iron shows. Drives are planned, with a return to the
in California Trace’s concept was to host a traditional hot Queen Mary in August when hopefully the
these days, rod and custom car show to raise awareness weather will cooperate. You can learn more
and shares of America’s daily shortage of blood. More at www.blooddrivecarshow.com CC
Diaries duties
es
s
with Kev Elliott.
This month Tony comes
across a great way of
drawing blood.

Heavily channelled Deuce pick-up ticked

all the boxes, from its dropped grille to its
cheater slicks on chromed 5-spokes with
bullet centre caps.

tored rail job owned by

Shades of ‘TV’ Tommy Ivo in this stack-injected, Buick-mo
Cherktow who drove the
Zac Ryno (real name!). It was originally owned by Merek
Mooneyes dragster in England in 1965.
The ’64 Ford Falcon Past Gas Gasser is owned by Bib Heiman.

These old, short wheelbase, ‘dog sled’-

style dragsters from the late ’50s are
popping up all over the place. Originally
the Scrima-Adams-Smith Antique Doll
dragster, it sports stacks and Offy heads.

We’ve seen it before in these pages,

You don’t see many of these but you can never get enough
1950 Mercedes-
Benz 170S convertibles, let alon
e rodded ones, of Diana Branch’s Deuce Tudor,
but you have to admit Joe Aldu complete with ‘Stupidbaker’ V8 and
enda’s Chevy-
powered ride is cool. Seems 5-speed tranny.
odd nobody in
Europe tried this.

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 You don’t see too many ’62 Ford Galaxie convertibles customised in this
style, but flamed nose to tail it got your attention.

rolled right
If it had a crest, Brian Dominguez’s ’49 Chevy could have
Frenched
out of George and Sam Barris’ shop on Atlantic Boulevard.
about right.
lights, floating grille bar and Caddy sombrero ’caps – it’s all

I’m not a big T coupe fan, but

Alex Carlos’ ’27 T Penny Hem
The six pack of Strombergs atop i had it goin’ on.
that Hemi was enough to make
Show organiser, Trace Edwards, always goes the extra mile, and his me like it.
tribute to Barris Kustom City was super cool.
Dave Roach won the ‘Respect
This ’47 Merc of Dave Tradition’ award, presented
by Troy Ladd of Hollywood Hot
Chavez was built in the
Rods, for his 409-powered
style of an early Barris
Kustom such as Jack Deuce Tudor.
Stewart’s ’41 Merc and
Cliff Rockohn’s ’47 –
simply cool.

Originally from Gisbourne,

New Zealand, Craig Hopkins
of
Kiwi Kustom Upholstery, and
a
member of the Lords Car Club
,
now operates his business from
Perris, California. His ’38 Ford
pick-
up runs a 350 / 350 combo and
American Racing Salt Flats whe
els.

We’ve seen Tom Branch’s Studebaker-powered roadster several times before, e,

but can’t get enough of it with its dulled mag wheels. It deservedly won the
e
Best Hot Rod Roadster award.
Despite inclement weather, the Blood Drive attracted a wide range
of cars, from early-style rods and customs to Gary Paolucci’s all-too-
flat ’65 Impala Super Sport.

This well detailed and chopped

’30 Model A coupe on Deuce rails
is owned by Peter Rodriguez, a
member of the Throttle Kings.
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 Look through the windscreen and you’ll
see Wayne – all hair and heavy metal.
I like to see this car as the sensible
daily foil to his altogether more insane
weekend car – the Mental Breakdown
Split Screen Bus dragster.

Ramble on
Wayne Allman’s Hudson / Nash Ramble er Cross Countryry
y Custom Station
Wagon is like a reflection of Wayne e himself – not traditional, not
contemporaryry,
y a little bit surprising
g and definitely custom, baby
■ Words: Mike Pye Pics: Bryn Musselwhite

I
t takes a special type of person to
choose a car as a project that there is
no known owners’ club for, no parts
availability, no aftermarket and, well,
not a great deal of interest in really. But if
you’re familiar with Wayne’s back catalogue
you’ll know he’s not your average hot rodder,
if there even is such a thing.
In the early 1990s, when everyone was
lowering, de-chroming and painting their
Beetles in pastel colours, Waayne built a
chopped, pillarless, Pro Stree
et Beetle with a
narrowed rear end, huge me eats and a v-d
front bumper. That, and loo oking like a roadie
for Black Sabbath, immediattely confirmed
him as a maverick in the VW W scene. That
car later gained a full tube chassis, a big
block Chevy and wild gold ’fflake flames
over purple ’flake paint. “I’ve got loads of
Metalflake kicking around. And I mean real
old Metalflake, not any of that new stuff,”
he says with a glint in his eye.
Though his taste in cars is as broad as his
grin, he stuck with VWs
VW
W and built Mental
Breakdown. We say VW W as it looks a bit like
a Split Screen Bus from certain angles, but
it’s really a 2,000 horsepower, rear-engined

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 The engine in
Humphrey is
heads, Keith a 355ci small
Black pistons, block Chevy w
Scat rods, Co ith World Prod
balanced, set mp Cams rolle ucts Sportsm
at 10 r rockers and an big valve
Behind it is a :1 compressio a Crane cam.
drag race-spec n and puts ou It’s internally
Powerglide w t around 350b
ith manual va hp.
lve body and
trans’ brake.

the interior trim of its cars

designer, Helene Rother, to give
Nash commissioned noted female Chris Vining's combined efforts.
ld approve of Wayne and
feminine appeal. We think she wou

dragster cloaked in a largely handmad de
Split Screen pick-up body. Again, not your
‘average’ dragster. Conventional is no
ot a
word you’d use to describe Wayne.
Hauling arse
Alongside all that, Humphrey – as his
1955 Nash Rambler Cross Country Custom
Station Wagon is affectionately know wn – is
rather, well, sedate. There’s no mistakking
it’s a Wayne Allman creation, the colo ours
alone give that game away, but it’s ta ame
in comparison to his other car. That saaid, it
hauls arse a lot harder than it looks lik
ke it
should, thanks to a 10:1 compression 355ci
Chevy with big valve heads and a trio of
Strombergs, backed by a full tilt Powe erglide
with manual valve body and trans’ brake.
“The ’Glide is a bit much for the car really,
and those carbs will be coming off at some
point. I’m looking for something more
groovy to put on him…” muses Wayne
during the process of our chat. “Maybe
[I] just wanted a regular car to drive
twin turbos … but then I do also own a 6-71
blower…” There’s an extended pause, and
for a minute I think the line’s gone dead.
“…or a friend has a Paxton blower…”
This is how Wayne’s mind works. He
works alone as the appropriately-named
Intergalactic Custom Shop and has an
enviable ability to knuckle
e down an nd get shit
done, but it’s a rare day when there e’s not
another project going on in his head d as well
as the one he’s working on at the time. Like
an Art Deco bar, for example.
With Humphrey, though h, he just wanted a
regular car to drive. “Whe en I sold th
he Phunky
Phantom, I was building Mental Bre eakdown
and was planning on spen nding the money
on bits for that, but then I had one of those
I don’t have anything to drive moments, and
saw this is an advert in the
e back of Custom
Car.” That was in August 2005.

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full name is a reference to the seats
The Cross Country bit in the car’s
a double bed.
and the rear drops down to make
doing Route 66… or stuck in traff
A drive home on the hottest day of
the year through central London traffic
with the heater stuck on full convinced a
by then three-stone lighter Wayne that
it hauls arse a lot harder than it
looks like it should
Humphrey – he’d already been named
by that point – was a good’un, so he was
pressed into daily driver duties in stock
form. That lasted two years until the
trunnions wore out, at which point the
thorn in the car’s side became apparent.
“You can’t get anything for these cars –
nothing,” states Wayne. “All you can get is
NOS, or second hand, and there’s not a lot
of that.”
Rubber lover
When it came to the restoration, the
bodywork side of things wasn’t a problem
– shaping metal is what Wayne excels at –
and, fortunately, a replacement windscreen
The rocket in the back window was
laser cut by Whengparts to match the
one on the roof. It looked a bit chubby
though and, as some people thought it
was a Christian fish, Wayne engraved it
and now reckons it’s more Wallace and
Gromit. “Nothing’s ever very serious
around here,” he says with a grin.
. The front slides forward
“For stop ping off and having a kip when you’re
ic on the M25,” as Wayn e put it.
came with the car. It was things like
window rubbers that proved to be the
real headache. “I spent far too long
poring over rubber moulding catalogues.
It took months, and…” At which point he
listed all the random cars that eventually
provided the correct profile rubbers he
needed for the car. “Even the felt guides
and scrapers are just a little bit wider
than all the regular off-the-shelf stuff you
can buy. That was the hardest part of the
whole project.”
Though it was a California car originally,
it wasn’t a rust-free one, and leaving it
outside for five years in sunny old England
° Front wheels are stock Mk2 Jag steels with
165 Michelin wide whites, rears are 8 x 15 Wheel
Vintiques with 235 wide white radials. Full wheel
’caps came from Miles at JackHammer.
“It would be better with some more modern
tyres on the front – the Michelins were NOS, but
they’re crap.”
° The racy bonnet ornament of a naked
woman lying face down and flying forward
was, unsurprisingly, an optional extra when
this car was sold new in America in 1955.
didn’t help, so Wayne had his work cut out
just making the car solid again. “I wouldn’t
say he was in good condition to start with,
he was in okay-ish condition. Everything
was at the point where it was not quite
good enough to keep.”
Rather than list all the bits Wayne had
to re-make here, we’ll simply repeat his
summary of events: “If you cut him off at
the pillars, everything above is original,
everything below I made.”
 Talking of original, all the stainless trim
has been painstakingly restored by Wayne
and all the original chrome re-chromed
beautifully by Electro Plating Contract
Services in Tewksbury.

Sod’s law
At one point Wayne started making a
custom stainless grille for the front as the
Mazak original was too far gone to restore
and then, typically, the law of sod turned
up an NOS one on eBay when he was half-
way through the job. £300 landed here,
too. Result.
Surprisingly, given the way the car looks,
there are very few modifications to the
exterior, and that was the whole point.
“It kinda looks stock, but it isn’t,” grins a stock one alongside to compare it to. Even the roof rack and roof rails that sit on
Wayne. The rear wheel tubs are way bigger Inside, Wayne’s touches are evident in the the gold flake roof have been painstakingly
than they were originally, the floor now fabricated ali surround on the Hurst Quarter restored, and the accessory side mirror came
has a transmission / prop hump it never Stick shifter and the engine turned dash on the car.
had before, the lower rear wings are now panel, which proved the perfect place for
removable and it’s been de-badged, but the Power Glide emblem he’d had hanging ’Flake king
you’d never know any of that unless you had on his workshop wall for years. Ah yes, the paint. Wayne does his own
paintwork, and he doesn’t do stock colours
nt white vinyl and purple but, as he was building Robin Read’s new
combination of semi-matt pearlesce
Interior is a pleasingly restrained s throu gh the head lining, while purple dragster at the time, space was at a premium
il. The vinyl continue
chenille with diamond stitch deta Chris Vinin g at Custom Coach
exterior colour combination. in his workshop so the white base was laid on
carpet picks up on the two-tone and mad e a lovel y job of it.
Trimming in Evesham did the work by James Russell at Custom Motor Bodies in
interior window mouldings
with the chroming and had all the
Wayne admits he went a bit mad have been pain ted. Birmingham. You didn’t think it was straight
done as well, which would originally white though, did you? It’s a Honda pearl
with gold MicroGlow in it.

I’m looking for

something more
groovy to put
on him…
The purple is Suzuki Blue Berry, the same
colour incidentally as the Phunky Phantom
was painted. It’s a modern mica metallic,
which Wayne then added ’flake over the
top of.
The roof is where his personality really
shines though. “If you’re going to be
Intergalactic, you’ve got to have a rocket."

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 And so the rocket design – not an Art
Deco cock ’n’ balls as I suggested – was
masked out, with flames coming out behind.
Then Wayne paid a trip to the Birmingham
Rag Market for some lace curtains. “The
guys there kept asking how big my windows
were, so I had to show them a picture of the
car. They’d never seen anything like it,” he
chuckles.

If you cut him

off at the pillars,
everything above is
original, everything
below I made
Armed with several different lace
patterns, the roof was approached with
first silver flake, then House of Kolor Pagan
Gold Kandy. The lighter areas where the
lace and fine line tape was are the white
base showing through the Kandy, the darker
areas are the Pagan Gold basecoat. There
are four different sizes of flake in there and
several coats of lacquer to finish it off.

Daily driver
Wanting to continue using the car as a daily,
Wayne fitted a restored Jag XJ6 front clip
with air bags and a narrowed VW Type 25
steering rack. At the rear there’s a narrowed
Ford 9-inch on a Wayne-made parallel 4-bar
with Panhard rod. And another pair of bags.
Was it a complete kit? I asked. “I don’t
buy a kit for anything, I just pick up stuff I
think might be useful one day when I see
Ramp shots show the car’s white underbelly. That front suspension is Mk2 Jag XJ6 with air
it. And when you build race cars for a living
bags, the rear axle a Ford 9-inch on a stainless 4-bar with air bags ahead and tube shocks
behind. Behind that is the air tank, then the compressor, then a box for the spare wheel and you tend to have odd bits and pieces kicking
the air ride valves etc, and finally the twin truck air horns – “great for scaring people and around. That’s why Humphrey’s got 28-spline
to really get your point across.” Moser axles and a factory Ford limited slip
diff. I found that in the box of old diff bits
I’ve got. £70 for a new set of discs and it’s
great for burnouts.”
It’s all well and good a car looking nice
but, if you’re actually going to use it every
day, it has to drive nicely too, and in this
country you need things like a heater
and working windscreen wipers. As such,
Humphrey has working gauges, the original
Buffer fact: these cars were originally badged
vacuum-operated windscreen wipers and as Nash products, but when Hudson and Nash
a Mini heater matrix inside a modified box Originally, the dash had a chromed steel infill merged in 1954, some were re-badged to sell
behind the dash. panel, but Wayne made this engine-turned through Hudson dealerships. Humphrey had a
panel and found the perfect home for a ’54 Rambler R here originally but, as he’s a Hudson,
Chevy Power Glide badge. “I’ve heard people Wayne made him a Hudson horn push.
It stays nice and say it’s a Hudson Power Glide,” he says with a
grin. “Then there was the guy at the Bulldog
Behind that is the original Rambler speedo
with Auto Meter internals behind the fuel and
flat through the Bash who insisted it was an Aston Martin
station wagon.”
temperature gauges. To the right is an unusual
1960’s PI rev counter, mounted on what was
the original gear selector arm.
corners and is kind
of firm, but comfy turned out though. I did 1,500 miles in him
last year, and most of that was just driving
conversation without the line, “Did I tell you
about…?” sneaking in there somewhere.
to and from work, and going to local butty And like one of Terry Gilliam’s animated
“It was built to drive, not to show,” says runs and the like. He’s just a nice little thing moments that broadside you when you’re
Wayne. “So it’s all sealed, Gravitex’d and to live with.” watching Monty Python, you never know
painted underneath. In hindsight, white A chat with Wayne is always time where it’s going to take you. But you can be
probably was a mistake, but it’s a nice place well spent, but what I love most about sure of one thing – it’s always going to be
to be, and you can see what you’re doing talking with him is you can never have a Intergalactic, man. CC
when you’re under there.
“It also drives really quite well. It stays
nice and flat through the corners and is kind ind
of firm, but comfy. If anything the exhaust
is a bit too loud, but the engine will easily
make 350bhp, so he goes pretty well.”
Remember, Wayne’s other car runs almost in
the sixes, so anything is going to feel slow
compared to that.
“I’m really pleased with how Humphrey

Kandy and ’flake roof

is a real treat for the
life are four different eye. Bringing the lace
size flakes, House of Kol , fine line and rocket
or Pagan Gold and silv motif to
Honda pearl white bas er Metalflake, all ove
e with additional gold ra
Metalflake MicroGlow
.

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The Intergalactic blast off

Wayne says the Rambler wasn’t a good
car, it was an okay car, which means pretty
much everything was there, but pretty much
everything wasn’t quite good enough to re-use
during the restoration. New floors first…
The car had a virtually flat floor before, but the
addition of a V8, Powerglide, 9-inch and a sump-
scraping lowering job necessitated it have a
transmission and prop’ tunnel this time round.
That hump in the driver’s side floor is to clear
the under-floor master cylinder and servo.
Due to the kick up over the rear axle, the rear
seat back had to be cut down four inches.
Wayne designed and made the seat riser to
look like the base of a 1950’s American fridge.

ed in the
More repair metalwork was need
ls were
front inner wings. Louvred pane
the exhaust
made and let in to give some of
heat an escape route.

Complete new inner and outer

sills had to be made, and Wayne
couldn’t resist punching some
flared holes in them. You can’t
see them now as they’re beneath
engine-turned sill plates.

It’s all functional, but there’s some real artistry

in the metalwork. Look at those lovely curves in
the rear sill closing panels, which… for a car,
When no replacement parts exist
them.
you have no option but to make
wheeling
…mate up with the lower rear wing panels Helps if you’re a bit handy on the
Wayne made. They’re now removable, with two machine of course.
Dzus fasteners in the rear door shuts, so the
axle doesn’t have to be dropped to remove a
rear wheel.

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Ta da! One brand new lower tailgate. It’s not
a stretch to suggest this handmade panel is
better than the original one from the car. The
panel fit was unlikely to have ever been this
good on what was an entry level car in 1955.
When you’re 50, you need a heat
er and demister
in your daily driver! Wayne used
part of the
original heater box and fabricated
the rest to
clear the Chevy motor. To go with
the interior
stitching, pressed diamond pleats
feature here...
…and on the top of the radiator. Wayne bought
an off-the-shelf core, and then made the
diamond pleat top tank himself.
Always with an eye on this being a regular This shot gives a better idea of the kick up over
driver, that recessed box in the floor behind the rear axle necessary to get the car to sit this
the rear axle is to carry a full size spare. It also low. Neat scallops out of the crossmembers are
houses the valves for the air ride system. for exhaust clearance.
Part-way through the interior work at Custom
Coach Trimming in Evesham. Note the wheel
tubs are about twice the height and twice the
width of the originals due to bigger wheels
and the car’s radical ride height.
The same white vinyl as is on the seats was
used for the headliner, too.
I don’t buy a kit
Here’s the roof masked up and ready for
for anything, I just the ’flake, lace and Pagan Gold to go on.
Though you can’t see it here, there’s already
pick up stuff I think Metalflake gold MicroGlow in the white, which
is itself a modern pearl. As Wayne says, “If
might be useful one you’re going to be Intergalactic, you’ve got to
have a rocket, right?”
day when I see it
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 Timing it right
Some projects never get finished, some take years to complete,
and some take no time at all. Two out of three ain’t bad
■ Words: DB Pics: Steve Sharp

I
magine the scene, a couple of east
coast hot rodders head off on an
adventure to bag a piece of classic
American ’40’s tin. That sounds like the
stuff American road trip movies are made
of, but the reality is it was a guy from
Hull who travelled with his mate from
Grimsby to collect himself a wreck of a ’46
Ford woody. Maybe more B movie than
blockbuster then.
The guy from Grimsby was Carl Powles, a
name that has appeared quite a few times
in these pages in connection with either
his own cars or ones he’s built for others.
That particular road trip happened around
15 years ago when Carl accompanied Steve
Fletcher to collect the wreck of a ’46 Ford
woody from ex-CC staffer, Clive Prew, and
Roger Hamilton, who had imported the car
from Uruguay.
Whilst there, Carl spotted
the woody’s travelling
companion, a ’33 Ford
sedan body. Clive and
Roger told him the body
was for sale and,

fix it, Carl left the low mileage

Adopting the theory of if it ain’t broke don’t
it a jet wash and a lick of paint.
Ford 4-pot EFi motor well alone, just giving

108 CUSTOM CAR SUMMER 2018

with a price tag of just £750, they didn’t
expect it to hang around for long. Carl’s
response was instant: “You’re right there.
I’ll have it.” Okay, so it was literally just
the bodyshell, but it was still a snip at that
price, even more so considering the great
condition it was in.
The time is nigh
Those that are familiar with Carl will know
he’s not one to hang around, so why did
it take 15 years for this particular project
with a price tag of just £750, they didn’t
expect it to hang around for long
to hit the streets? From the outset, Carl
intended the ’33 to be a long-term project.
By that we don’t mean a project he started
and then took an eternity to finish, that’s
not his style at all. Rather, one that he
wanted to do, but just not quite then.
As such, the body went into storage
until the time was right to get stuck in and
transform it into the family cruiser you see
here.
The project was always in the back
of Carl’s mind, though, and during this
period of seeming inactivity he was busy
collecting the parts he would need to see
the build through to fruition. You know,
all those little but vital bits and bobs,
like a set of wings (repro ’glass versions
in this case), running boards, front end
sheet metal, interior and exterior trim and,
of course, running gear. Much of it was
SUMMER 2018 CUSTOM CAR 109
 Pic: Carl Powles
How about this for some East Coast Hardcore?
still in his works hop. Figuring that three cars is enough, the
the ’40 Ford convertible that’s
Modified is currently up
sourced during various trips to the States,
the plan being that when everything on his
extensive shopping list had been ticked off,
that would be the time to start the build.
That and finishing all the other builds he
had lined up in the meantime.
Eventually, though, early in 2017
Carl decided the time was ripe and the
collection of parts he’d amassed was laid
out before him in his workshop. Then, less
than eigght months later, the comp pleted
sedan made its debut at the Steel City
Cruisers show over the August Bank
Holiday weekend. Yup, just eight month hs
to nail it all together, although Carl did tell
us he was held up a bit during that time e
110 CUSTOM CAR SUMMER 2018
gear ratios are somewhat limited.” A pair
of adjustable coilovers complete the rear
axle installation.
Carl’s own design of front crossmember
supports a Mustang II IFS, along with the
power steering rack, as he had drawn a
blank when trying to buy an off-the-shelf
item. All the American manufacturers he
you can’t fit a
power steering rack
on a ’33 / ’34 Ford…
tried told him the same thing – you can’t
fit a power steering rack on a ’33 / ’34 Ford
as it will foul on the front end bodywork.
Carl’s current fleet, though not including
Undeterred, Carl designed his own
bracketry, and says that with care one can
for sale if you’re interested.
be made to fit, and works really well linked
to a Ford power steering pump. Americans
as he stopped for a while to build a ’34 eh, w
eh, what
hat do
do they
they know?
know?
Tudor for a friend. Oh, and there was also
the Model T Modified he imported and
restored, too.
In the frame
The backbone for the build came in the
form of a set of American Stamping
Corporation rails, which Carl has boxed and
added his own homemade crossmembers. A
triang
gulated 4-bar arranggement locates one
of Carl’s favourite components – a Volvo
rear axle. “They’re cheap and cheerful,
come with disc brakes and can handle 50 00
horses,” he says, adding, “but they are
getting harder to find these days, and th
he
 Making the most of eBay and swap
meets, over time Carl collected all the
ancillary items he needed to complete
the build, including lights, door handles,
bumpers and front grille.

somewhat unusual though. A friend had
bought a written-off vehicle and Carl
could buy the fuel injected, 2.0-litre,
DOHC Ford I4 engine from him as long
as he took it out himself. Nothing wrong
uneconomical repair due to the cost of a
replacement windscreen. We did say this
was all a bit unusual.
The bonus for Carl wass it was a genuine
33,000-mile engine, whicch he knew had

dismantling a hearse was an eerie experience

with that you’d think, but Carl said he
needed a good scrub down afterwards
as dismantling a hearse was an eerie
experience. Before you ask, the hearse
wasn’t written off in an accident, but
had been vandalised and was deemed an
never been raced or rallied. To make life
simple, he also removed the wiring loom
and ECUs from the dono or car. The only
slight negative was the engine was mated
to a 4-speed auto’, but he could live with
that, or so he thought.

The bonus of a sedan is there’s plenty of room

for the grandchildren. More leather work from
Barrie Stemp covers the rear bench seat, which
this time Carl made from plywood and foam.
his
Carl has every right to be pleased with how
first attempt at a headlining turned out.

Grateful dead
When it came to engine choice, Carl knew
exactly what he wanted – a four-pot Ford.
“I’ve got a 327 Chevy in my ’33 pick-up
(see CC January ’09) and there will be a
small block in the ’40 Ford convertible I’m
currently building. I simply don’t need
another V8-powered car.
“You featured my Model A roadster
pick-up alongside the Elijah’s truck,
and that ran a 2.0-litre DOHC from a Ford
Mustang II IFS features stai
Sierra, which returns 38mpg on nless steel top and bottom
arms and a power steering
despite Carl being told he rack,
a long drive. That’s what I want from couldn’t fit one within the
confines of a ’34 Ford fron
t end.
the sedan.”
The source of a suitable engine was
SUMMER 2018 CUSTOM CAR 111
1
 The sedan rolls on 15-inch polished
American Salt Flats, the fronts wearing
155 R15 Firestone F560 rubber and the
rears 255/70 15 Nexen Radial A/Ts.

As with all his projects, Carl did all the

body prep himself, but this time went one
step further and painted it himself, too.
When asked about the colour he simply
says it’s, well, blue, before adding, “I’ll
paiintt the ’40 the same collour. I’ve allways
wanted a matched pair of cars.”

Lambo leather
Whilst the leather trimming was one of
the few jobs Carl didn’t tackle himself,
he was still a major player when it came
to the interior. First off, having a specific
colour in mind, he imported some hides
from Germany. They are actually a colour
more commonly used in Lamborghinis, and
came with a price tag to match. To recoup
some of that outlay, Carl fitted the carpets
and headlining himself, commenting it
wasn’t as hard as he thought it would be.
“It was the first headlining I’d attempted. Just to make model year identification even
more difficult, the ’33 body is fitted
with ’34 front end sheet metal.

I bought some Mohair-type curtain lining

ment
orks column, whilst the scratch built instru
A ’39 Ford steering wheel tops off the Limew
r white-faced gauges.
panel house a complement of Stewart Warne
from a local haberdashery, stitched it up
and fitted it in. It was surprisingly easy,
and I’m really pleased with it. I’ve already
done another one since then.”
Sticking with the inside of the car,
despite all his attempts Carl hadn’t
been able to source a replacement
for the missing glove box door. Also,
needing a panel in which to house the
instruments he bought a sheet of guitar
scratch panel from eBay, and covered
the pllain steell door he’dd madde withh
it, finishing it off with stainless steel
edging. With the gauge panel sorted
in a similar way, the dashboard was
completed in readiness for wiring.
Carl readily admits electrics are not
really his thing, so it’s fortunate he knows
a couple of people who know their way

112 CUSTOM CAR SUMMER 2018

 around a fuse box. The bonus being
the wiring was completed whilst Carl
was away on holiday, Marcus Truman
sorting the electrics for the engine
management systems and Jimmy McCann
handling the rest.
Eerie-mess
As mentioned earlier, the sedan’s first real
run out was to Sheffield last August Bank
Holiday, though things didn’t go exactly
to plan. If you’ve been paying attention
you’ll recall the donor hearse gave up
its auto’ ’box, the one thing Carl wasn’t
altogether happy about. That unhappiness
was compounded when the trans’ ate its
oil pump that weekend.
One option was to take the gearbox
out and rebuild it, but Carl decided it
had already out stayed its welcome, so
took the opportunity to ditch it. Besides,
a manual ’b box would be better suited for
the caravan towing he had in mind.
It was a bold move fitting a totally
different gearbox in a car he’d literally
only just got on the road, not least
because the switch from auto’ to manual
On the way home, the three
[grandchildren] in the back fell asleep
involved adding a third pedal. Fortunately
– or was it forward planning? We
wouldn’t put it past Carl – the transmission
tunnel cleared the bellhousing on the
MT75 5-speed ’box, so all it neeeded was
a new crossmember to hold it in place.
And a new propshaft. And a clu utch pedal,
and all its associated linkage. Carl makes
the job sound like a walk in the e park:
cool and this useable in
No wonder he’s smiling, building a car this
ement.
less than eight months is a remarkable achiev
Careful planning, tyre choice and
adjustable coilovers have allowed Carl
to build just the right degree of rake
into the sedan.
Keeping with the Ford them
e, the front bench seat cam
fit before Cleethorpes-bas
ed Barrie Stemp Upholstery
“I just machined up new bushings and
hung it off the brake pedal. Keeping the
clutch cable operated kept it all nice and
simple.” More like a gentle stroll in the
park then Carl.
So Carl, apart from that initial set back
what’s the car like to drive? “It’s just
like driving my daily really, and returns
35+mpg, which is exactly what I was after.
“I use all my cars, but that makes me use
this one even more. It’s only been finished
a few months but I’ve already clocked up
a fair few miles in it on trips to the coast
with the grandkids and the like. I went
to the YANCS show in Hull last weekend,
but I guess when I too ok four grandkids to
Whitby sums up the ca ar best. On the way
home, the three in the e back fell asleep.
e from a P100 pick-up. Carl
cut and shut it to
handled the Lamborghini
leather trimming.
I did say it behaves like a daily driver.
“The plan is to take it over to this year’s
Euro Nats in Sweden, unlless I get the ’40
finished in time of course e.”
As for any further plan ns for the ’33, Carl
has only a couple, apart from driving it of
course. Firstly, he needs to re-locate the
handbrake as it’s currently tucked away
under the seat. Fine with h the auto’ but not
exactly hill start-friendly with the manual
’box. Then there’s that an
which is driving him mad
nnoying rattle,
d. At the time of
writing, he was pretty sure he’d traced it
down to the exhaust, so we don’t expect it
to be annoying him for much longer. Like
we said, Carl doesn’t han ng about getting
things sorted. CC
Thanks
Marcus and Jimmy for the electrickery, and my
wife, Mandy, for simply being so understanding,
as she always is.
SUMMER 2018 CUSTOM CAR 113
The time frame

loads up the body he’d just bought. This picture was taken in 2003.
Aided by Fletch and a forklift truck, a rather youthful-looking Carl

Th
he chassis started off with a bare pair of ASC rails,
The bodyshell then whhich Carl boxed and added crossmembers to…
sat
gathering dust wh
ile
Carl gathered parts
, and
felt the time was rig
ht
to build the car.

…such as this scratch built IFS crossmember…

suspension is hung.
…from which a Mustang II-based

An axle from a Volvo 240 was then slotted underr the rear
114 CUSTOM CAR SUMMER 2018 of the chassis rails.

The Ford 2.0-litre engine and
automatic transmission were
fitted as a single unit.
The bodyy was then lifted off so Carl could
fabricate and fit the rest of the chassis
crossmemmbers.
Carl also fitted the brake cylinder and servo at
this time. If only he’d known he would soon be
changing that gearbox…
Although the ex-Uruguay body was
incredibly good, inevitably it needed some
remedial work.
The body was then
fitted, along with the Carl ran a piece of sheet steel through his
front end sheet metal, bead roller to form the right profile for a
to check all was as it patch panel…
should be.
…then cut it to the exact shape of the
metal he’d previously removed…
…and welded it into place.
Proof that Carl’s just as adept with the
sewing machine as he is with his welder.
The finished and painted chassis rails part way
through final assembly.
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Owners Manual Book, Sales And
Service Organisation Book, Original
Tool Kit And Spare Wheel, Extra’s
Ordered Were Rear Aero Foil -
£247.00, Also Air Conditioning At
£1619.50, In Very Good Condition.
Please call 02380 766870 (T)
348 SPIDER
1994, £64,995. Comes with V5C
Registration Document, import
certification and MOT certificate
valid until March 2019. A genuine
low mileage example with less than
37,000 miles showing since new.
Please call 01590 612999 (T)
MONDIAL QV
1982, £33,995. QV 2.9 V8. Finished
in immaculate gun metal grey
with black hide. The car had been
in a museum collection in Italy for
a number of years before being
imported to the UK by the previous
elderly owner in 2012. Period
correct Michelin TRX tyres. . Please
call 01485 541526
FORD
PRO STREET 100E
1959, £15,000. 400hp 383 SBC,
Hauser Front clip and narrowed 9”
Ford LSD. Good parts throughout/
receipts. Solid body, garage stored,
serviced and drives superbly.
Run 250 miles. Please call 07807
167993.
TAUNUS CORTINA 1.6L
1976, £1,600. Champagne Gold,
solid car apart from the rear arches,
good interior, runs and drives but
brakes need attention. Please call
0033 606411291, France.
JAGUAR
XJ6
1971, 60,000 Miles, £17,995.
Finished in immaculate Old English
White with black hide. Car is now
fully recommissioned and ready for
the road again Please call 01485
541526 (T)
XJS
1980, 56,000 Miles, £2800. 5.3
MK1 v12 automatic mark 1 metallic
blue, electric windows, alloys, air
con. Very rare needs some work.
Average condition. Please call
07515 210361
XJS
1991, £8,995. Presented in silver
with a full black leather interior.
Although showing as a Category
C, there was only damage to the
near side front wing and front
bumper. Since its arrival with us,
sister company New Forest Classic
Cars have repaired the damages
and made good the paint. All
works completed here have been
photographically documented. A
new MOT will be issued upon sale.
Please call 01590 612999 (T)
XJS
1991, 113,089 Miles, £23,000.
The car is perfect under any
circumstances having had a
regular maintenance and care.
The car didn’t need to restored.
Only two previous owners, never
had crashes, everything is original
and reliable like day one. Prestige
and uniqueness fit together. LHD
automatic. Please call +393 28835
6727, Ferrara, Italy.
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XJS CELEBRATION MERCEDES-BENZ MGB ROADSTER TRIUMPH
380 VITESSE CONVERTIBLE

1996, 111,000 Miles, £22.500. A

very nice Jaguar XJS Celebration
convertible AJ16 engine new
timing chains, front suspension,
brakes and windscreen. Sapphire
Blue cream leather upholstery all
in very good order any inspection.
Please call 01460 53025
LOTUS
ELAN SERIES 1
1980, 44,000 miles, £36,995.
Finished in it’s original and
immaculate Thistle green with
unmarked green cloth trim. Comes
with Hard top and Soft top electric
windows and Mexican hat alloys.
Full service history and MoTs etc..
Please call 01485 541526 (T)
PAGODA 280 SL
1966, £13,750. Tartan red ,full
black leather red piping, rebuilt
engine and overdrive gearbox,
previously restored with photos,
recent hood/ tonneau,fitted
minilite alloys,nice history
file,recent reliable trips to
France,great driving car,excellent
paint work,nice chrome work.
Please call 07737 174200.
MGB ROADSTER
1969, 75,000 Miles, £8,500.
Genuine Vitesse mk2 Convertible,
ff Overdrive. Rebuilt 2002 with off
body. Rust free. Rebuilt Engine
and gearbox. Servo brakes, alloy
wheels, stainless twin exhaust.
Historic registered and MoT
exempt. Please call 07833 896970
VAUXHALL
CHEVETTE

1969, 27,000 Miles, £79,950. Hard

1964, £47,995. Having recently
undergone a full restoration,
this desirable Lotus Elan Series 1
has covered just 200 miles since
rebuild. Presented in its original
and legendary colour, Lotus
Yellow, the vibrant exterior is
complimented by black textile
upholstery and a new black soft
top. Please call 01590 612999 (T)
ELITE
And Soft Tops, Automatic, Power
Steering, Finished In Unmarked
Brilliant Signal Red With Tan Hide
Interior, Always Garaged, Lady
Owner, 27,000 Miles, Superb
Example, Left Hand Drive, 1969, H
Reg. Please call 02380 766870
MG
MGB
91,000 miles, £7495 ONO.
Chrome bumpers, cream leather
seats, walnut dash, garaged all year.
Present owner 15 yrs. Bodywork
excellent, lovely condition, MOT
Aug 18. Tax exempt. Please call
07500 066991
MINI
MAYFAIR
1982, 27,000 Miles, £4,250.
In Henna Red. All in original
condition. Fitted with a stainless
steel exhaust system. Runs superb
with no rust, all perfect bodywork
and interior. Lots of spares
included. All MoT’s till June 2018.
Please call 01924 375786, West
Yorkshire.

1978, 43,000 Miles, £7,999.
Comes with service history, two
keys, manual, electric windows
and alloy wheels. Lots of service
bills and old MoT, last MoT with no
advisory. Please call 02380 766870,
Hampshire.(T)
1978, £6,500. Superb coachwork,
excellent mechanics, o/d, w/w,
recon. l/free engine, electric
ignition, hard top, new seats and
hood, upgraded cooling, discs and
rear suspension, year’s MoT. Please
call 07709 283149, Surrey.
VOLKSWAGEN
GOLF CABRIO
1993, 41,000 Miles, £4750. Rover
green, MoT till April 2019, many
new parts and much work carried 1982, 58,500 Miles, £1,600. 12
out, currently sorn. Please call month MoT, good runner. Please
07591 906984 call 01282 459656

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46 years ago
when...
…CC brought you its first, and only yI
believee, World of Wild Wheels. Sorrt of a
best off album, or CC’s greatest hits. In the
intro, Mike Hill proudly proclaims, “th he
streets are alive with hot rod, T-bucckets,
buggie es, choppers and rodded prod duction
cars. Th
he drag strips have boomed with
wilder machinery, backed with quiccker
ETs… [a and] we’ve set out to show you
what’s hap ppening now – in Britain..”
All but twoo pics were the work of
CC’s dear old friend, Roger Phillipss,
who was respo onsible for the vast
majority of sho oots in CC in its early
y owned car manufacturers who tend to
years. Mo ore than just a coffee table
picturee book, though, CC’s World of
Wild Wheels was a magaz zine within
Alex Scottts’ Lil’ Queenie Morris ignored Mickey Bray’s
addvice of steering clear of racing tyres on the street, had
a hoppe ed-up Corsair V4, 2000E ’box, fat Revolutions and
flared ’a
arches. “Positively no filler anywhere on the car,”
wee said. Hmmm.
28 CUSTOM CAR SUMMER 2018
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a magazine, covering in some form all
the subjects that were part and parcel
of CC’s armoury in the early ’70s.
As well as all the full page colour pics,
there was a piece on getting started in
drag racing and a handful of mini features Bi
Bik
Bikes were a bbiig partt off th
the actti
tion in th
the earlly 70
70s,
on such as John ‘Dicky’ Bird, the Oblivion and heree’s Ray Feltell’s 9.75 / 145-running overbored
650 Triumph.
Avenger Funny Car, a GP Buggy, John
Dodd’s Beast and Mike Key’s Foto-Fantasy T.
Meanwhile, TT took k us on a trip, a
chopper trip, and we e explaine ed th he
difference between Stock k Cars, Su upe
ersto
ox,
Hot Rods and Midge et racers, alll very
British forms of accessible motorsport att
the time, before culminating in a round
up of the ’72 UK drag racing scene.
We particularly enjoyed Mickey Bray’s
piece, titled What’s hot-roddable? Bearing
in mind this was written in 1972, in it
he comments that 99% of cars you’ll see
in American rodding mags are Fords, How fashionable would this Econoline be today?
yet those same cars are “practically all Beaujanggle Custom Shop in Manchester was clearly
unavailable in original form at home.” on top of the
e van craze first time round.
ag
great
reat a
addition
ddition tto
o any British
h
rodder’s llibrary
rodder’s ibrary
However, cast your net wider as “street “the fo our-door variety must not taake
rods don’t have to be American based – preced dence over the two-door” and notes
just tinged with American thought.” “choice is up to the individual as rodding
If Pops, A40s, Morris 1000s and is pureely a projection of personality.” Wise
rare even then Model Ys didn’t do words indeed, and still relevant today.
it for you, think Pro Stock. “Britain If yo
ou can find yourself a
is luckily blest [sic] with three US- copy of CC’s World of Wild Wheels,
it’s a great addition to any British
show American style in their models rodderr’s library, and a wonderful CC-
- Fordd, Vauxhall and Chrysler.” tinted glimpse back at how things were
Withh all suggestions, he adds the caveat: in 1972 2. CC
Marc Treuttlein’s Comp Coupe. Topolino body, Chevy power.
Love this. Shame about the H*T C*R sticker.
“The UK’s first real plastic fantastic,” we called The
Hillbillies’ Transcontinental flopper. Sadly, it was crasshed
soon afterr it made its debut.
 Nobby Hiills’ Hemi-powered Houndog 5, with Movin’
Mike Huttcherson at the helm, at speed.
Aside from the wild card Triumph 1800, Mickey Bray’s
take on popular cars to hot rod still resonates today.

Love thiss incredible shot of Mister Six himself,

Dennis Priddle, the first man into the sixes in Europe.

Swede, Larrs Torngren, may have snagged the e cover

spot with his Wild Honey Altered, but king off the
class was undoubtedly the Stones’ Chevy-pow wered
Tee-Rat, att this point running 8.6s all motor.

Bu
But giivin
givin
But g vin
ing them
them
hem a run
he run fo
for
for the
hei
hei
eir mo
one
ne
n ey was
as
Fred Whitttle and his blown 392 Hemi-powerred
Shutdown n. What we want to know is how Rog’ Back on the street, Foto-Fantasy was one of Mike Key y’s
grabbed this shot, or is he really standing on a earlier efforts, and soon after he’d become an integra
al
ladder in front of a fuel Altered doing a burrnout? Sho
Sho
hot on th
he
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str
treet
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et bu
but fa
but arr ffro
rom sttre
re
ree
ett le
le
leg
egall, Sno
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now
ow Biird
rd part of CC as a dependable freelance photographer.
did the show circuit for a short while but was apparently
re-bodied and became Dave Prior’s Texas T.

Hot
Hot
ot Ro
Roddss b
by
yaan
ano
notthe
no th
he
err name. CC
ame
me CC wa
was heav
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nv
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with
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k Cars in th
the ’70
’’7
70s, att one Another earlyy Brit flopper, and another car driven by
y
point even sponsoring its own team. Here Cliff Maidmentt and Barry Lee are the subjects of our Rog’s camera. Roy Phe
elps, the old Fibre Glass Repairs Ford-powered d
Mk1 Cap
pri

Beastt by name, andd bea

ast by nature. Joh
hn Dod
ddd’’s Pro Stockk was awesome for a very sh hort periiod
d off Liik
ike th
he custom van fad d, th
he whholle ch
hopper thhing
g has
27-litre Merlin-engined be
ehemoth, with bodywork tiime, but cars were just too much for sponsorship- come ro ound full circle, too. In his piece in this mag TT
by Bob and Roy Phelps and a radiator by... er, we’rre le
ess UK pockets in the ’70s. Keith Harvie’s 11-second suggested cars were passé and choppers were where
not allo
owed to say. Camaro epitomised the class. it was at.

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