Looked like a 34 hot rod, with a 427 cammer, so it was bought at a swap meet... when the new owner stripped it down to check it out, discovered it was built on a stolen Shelby Cobra chassis

found in the book Shelby Cobras Fifty Years, photos by Jeff Burgy

Spotted this on the way to work.... it was a good day

Hot Rod finally published some cool rat rods and hot rods, 2 months after I posted this photo, you can read about it in this months issue of Hot Rod Magazine

Here is the 1936 IH truck bodied, Mark Sax owned, but built by Chris Watkins of CNA Performance from Oct 8th http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/10/rat-rod-with-50s-coronet-tailfins-cool.html

Look at pages 30 through 33, Feb 2012 Hot Rod

Hot Rod Magazine finally covers some pinstriping (About time!) they have ignored it for about 40 years

Hot rod Feb 2012 issue

Manuel Cisneros pinstriping http://www.cisnerospinstriping.com/ and my galleries of his work http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/08/great-kustom-that-belongs-to-one-of.html and

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/07/great-looking-harley-terrific.html

David Allen Garcia designs http://www.kustomrama.com/index.php?title=D.A._Designs

Craig Fraser http://ebooksfreedownload.org/2011/04/kustom-pinstriping-techniques-with-craig-fraser.html 

Cool photos from Saint of Los Angeles, who found them everywhere (sources not cited)

 

http://saints-of-la.blogspot.com/ and you can see that some photos have watermarks from their sources, but not all, and if you go to Saints, you won't find these images unless you click on the "Read More" after every post photo

the Don Lee special, built by Frank Kurtis. Ford body and chassis, Cord fenders, Offenhauser engine

This is the Don Lee special, built by Frank Kurtis in 1936. The other four "Don Lee Specials" are posted in different posts and without much finesse http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/Don%20Lee

 Tommy approached Frank with a project. He wanted the best looking and fastest hot rod in Southern California… and he wanted Frank to build it.

Frank thought the Cord was a smart look and Tommy agreed. Frank felt a Cad motor would be appropriate, but Tommy balked. He wanted the best of the best and that meant this car was going to get a 318-inch Offy. A direction was set and work began.

Frank started with a 1936 Ford chassis and Cord front and rear fenders. From there, the car just blossomed into something VERY unique and VERY fast

Don left millions to his son Tommy, who at age 45 jumped from the 12th story of the Wilshire hotel, leaving 10 million to potential heirs to fight over

Tommy’s roadster ran on the dry lakes of Southern California with limited success. Improvements might have been made and potential realized if not for a tragedy that happened just prior to the war. On an intersection in Hollywood, CA, Tommy was t-boned by a truck and he was badly injured.

Tommy lived the rest of his life in a great deal of pain. He tried to play through and continued buying a number of hot rods and race cars as well as a few fighter planes (p38). But the joy of speed just wasn’t enough to overcome the pain.

On January 13, 1950, Tommy had his driver take him to the dentist. He got on the elevator and went to the 12th floor roof. He then jumped to his death leaving behind a 10 million dollar fortune, a huge automobile and aircraft collection, a radio station, and a television business http://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=7365

These are screen shots from the 1940 Harpers Dry Lakes racing video that Dave from http://www.seabrighthotrods.com/ just added to youtube

Comparing the above photo with the last photo below that shows this car in street form vs racing form, I don't see a door handle or hinge in the above racing form

notice that the street exhaust is different from the racing exhaust

these last two images from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=7365

For the other Don Lee Special that I posted this summer http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/06/don-lee-special.html

1940 Harper Dry Lake SCTA racing home video from a 8mm camera thatSeabrightHotRods.com Dave's uncle brought in

And credit to Travis http://perichbrothers.blogspot.com/2011/12/first-100-unearthed-hot-rod-video.html
 for getting the screenshots, and Santa Cruz Dave for getting the home movie digitized and share with everyone! Dave's website is http://www.seabrighthotrods.com/

Thanks Travis!

if you get a kick out of dry lakes hot rodders, check out the color photos from 1947 and 1948 that have turned up on the internet last year:
 http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/04/looks-like-el-mirage-in-1948-they.html
 http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/04/back-to-1948-and-el-mirage-im-excited.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/02/chris-at-speed-seekers-foudn-more-1947.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/02/on-lake-in-48-oh-wonder-and-amazement.html

The Dynaliner returned to SEMA, it is a thorough tribute to hot rodding... great details to admire all over

check the spreader bar, it's a Ford wishbone! Now... that, that is very cool! The grill has 32 teeth

Bitching hood prop!

 SCOT supercharger? I didn't get a close look, but I think so

 I dig the speedometer 6 in one guage set, the cool steering wheel, the ashtray, the timing stopwatch, and the "Speed King" drum set gas pedal (posted that a couple years ago http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=dynaliner)

cool trunk stuff...

Read about all the cool trunk stuff at http://www.streetrodderweb.com/features/0704sr_1932_ford_highboy_coupe/photo_01.html

Damnit. Want one.

proper looking hot rod. Right on.

Todd William's '30 model A pickup built by Jason Graham Hot Rods, just got a 2 page spread in Rod and Custom January 2012 issue, and was at the Del Mar Goodguys this past weekend

airbrush painted grill... who but drag racers have those? and check out the interior! Top notch!

wow. That is a new kind of Suede and Chrome... airbrushed chrome

The Gherkin of Troy Howard made the cover of Rod and Custom, and got a 4 page feature! (Feb 2012 issue)

Here it is at the Grand National Roadster Show in spring 2011
a full gallery I took http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/06/gherkin-drew-lot-of-admiring-looks.html

Quick look at the upcoming awesome cars I'm going to post galleries about in the next couple weeks