Ever been to a movie where two warring factions are suddenly faced with a common enemy so they stop fighting each other and join forces for victory? Neither have we. The point is that Craig Fitzgerald and I have buried the crankshaft and are working together to try and figure out the history of a very unique and old homebuilt hot rod that we found at the Gates Salvage yard in Hardwick, Vermont. We told you about it here on BangShift yesterday and even showed you some video of the whole scene. Craig put together his own story on BestRide.com the blog that he steers and we have linked to it below.
What Craig did in his story is cool because he went scouring the inter-webs for examples of homebuilt sports cars from the era we think that this one is from and he found a lot of compelling stuff and event some plans that are not identical to this car but pretty close, especially in the methods and materials suggested for use by the builder. Stuff like electrical conduit and other material. Both of us are of the opinion that this car was built to a set of plans…we just don’t know where they are.
Read Craig’s story at the link below. We honestly want to dig up whatever information we can on this car. There has to be a cool story, some old photos, and whatever else floating out there that show this car when it was the apple of the owner’s eye. Spread the word!
Click here to see Inspector Clouseau Craig’s BestRide.com Story
I think Craig’s on – er, ONTO something. Looks mighty suspicious. Of course it would NOT be identical to the sports car in the article given that these were all one-offs and each builders available stockpile and ideas were bound to be a bit different.
VERY cool find!
Dan
I’m stumped on the fenders, but that decklid sure looks a lot like a ’38-’41 Ford sedan trunk lid. Which would put the flathead into context. Plans may have been based on a Ford sedan donor?