Hot Rod: The Rancho Deluxe Roadster
The year is 1947, an ex-serviceman returns home to Southern California. His old ’32 ford roadster is removed from the shed...
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Words: Ben Thomas Photography: Luke Ray
The year is 1947, an ex-serviceman returns home to Southern California. His old ’32 ford roadster is removed from the shed, and the guts of a wrecked ‘39 Mercury sedan are transplanted in, giving more power, braking and top speed, essential for the dry lakes racing career he will embark on. He outfits the motor with products from the growing speed equipment industries’ catalogues, and races his car against fellow car club members, and the clock. The car also serves as daily transport for him in the mild SoCal climate, the loud twin exhausts upsetting the locals still not used to the returned soldiers’ need for peacetime thrills.
The era immediately following WW2 in Southern California was the timeframe and inspiration for me to build an accurate recreation of a stripped down, dry lakes racing, late Fourties street roadster, something of a time machine, so that a drive down the street or across the state could become a journey back sixty years.
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Very nice!