For a gallery of it at Sema, with many close ups of the exterior lettering: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/11/legendary-stone-woods-and-cook-willys.html
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Stone woods and Cook Swindler II was at the Grand National Roadster show
For a gallery of it at Sema, with many close ups of the exterior lettering: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/11/legendary-stone-woods-and-cook-willys.html
Natl assoc of WHAT cars? Here's another banana, and another profile comparison of factory to race banana
Notice the differences in the 2 race cars, that Petty's was customized to race against all other "STOCK" road runners yet is obviously a ringer, the wheel wells are better, the c pillar looks smaller, looks like about an inch chop, and the rear tires look set back an couple inches, the truck looks more horizontal too.
For the Jr Johnson "yellow Banana" of fame : http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-junior-johnson-made-1966-ford.html
A Westergard customized 32 roadster was found and they tried to sell it on Ebay, reserve not met at $72k
Harry Westergard modified cowl and Auburn dash. Cowl mods are from a 1937 Cadillac LaSalle All work done in lead. License plate was recessed. Has a 1946 ford Flathead. Via: http://autoculture.org/?p=443Jay Leno talks to Don Prudhomme about the 70 Hemicuda and transporter
I'm sorry, the videos were pulled by Vimeo or whoever had hosted them
For a photo gallery of Don's hemicuda and transporter that I took at SEMA: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/11/don-prudhommes-funny-car-hauler-1967.html
I also recommend you take a look at Tere's post, Don invited her to hop inside the hauler as he showed her how it was restored: http://justacargal.blogspot.com/2009/11/sema-celebrities.html
Tony Nancy ad and racing mask kit I had no idea he sold... wonder what one of those would go for on ebay?
When introduced it was said " Coming up next is a man who never had an ugly car, and never had an ugly girlfriend"
Trivia, how was a quarter mile chosen as the length of a dragstrip?
From Wally Parks:
We took some new (1949 model) cars down, and as part of the the regular Motor Trend road test, we ran these experimental runs. The purpose of the thing was to find out just how far you could race the average car that was available at the time before you had to start getting stopped. We had a runway down there that I think was 4700 feet long. We had probably 20 different cars running, of all types, including some dry lakes cars; and we found that if we extended the acceleration distance more than a quarter mile, some of them couldn't get stopped at the other end. It was on that basis that we (later) established the quarter-mile as the official (NHRA) competition distance.
Hot Rod Magazine Nov. 1978
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We took some new (1949 model) cars down, and as part of the the regular Motor Trend road test, we ran these experimental runs. The purpose of the thing was to find out just how far you could race the average car that was available at the time before you had to start getting stopped. We had a runway down there that I think was 4700 feet long. We had probably 20 different cars running, of all types, including some dry lakes cars; and we found that if we extended the acceleration distance more than a quarter mile, some of them couldn't get stopped at the other end. It was on that basis that we (later) established the quarter-mile as the official (NHRA) competition distance.
Hot Rod Magazine Nov. 1978
Von Dutch at work
The top two are from: http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com and the bottom two are from http://www.flickr.com/photos/coop666/sets/72157600205897719/
You may not know what this is, but it's famous anyway... Johnny Cash, "One Step at a Time"
I effing love this photo, I had no idea they put one together! To explain, I put in in this video so anyone who doesn't know what I'm going on about can understand and enjoy the humor
Via: http://thenewcaferacersociety.blogspot.com/
The best interview of Von Dutch I've read, and you've never seen it before, Feb 1956 Car Craft
There. I just saved anyone who wanted to read this about 10 dollars from not buying a copy on EBay. You know, I just hate when someone will sell you something they won't share. Is that a problem?the interview is referred to here: http://books.google.com/books?id=nV0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=Von+dutch+interview+car+craft+February+1956&source=bl&ots=ffbUYg63JR&sig=rqstNEvbXx8YKtMSXldrZKbw0-A&hl=en&ei=xiEbS8exC82InQeL16nSAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false in the interview in Los Angelos Magazine article, "Triumph of the Wheels"
For another interview I haven't looked at yet: http://www.tcarlson.ca/vondutch.html
Tommy Ivo's bucket T, on tv and in the movies... on the strip too, where it was a consistant 11 second 1/4 miler
Above: the same issue had this photo of Norm and his Kookie T, Norm was telling Charles Coburn about the particulars of the T
He even built the early 322-cubic-inch Buick nailhead V-8 engine, thanks to inside tips from the late Max Balchowsky, a man known for building some of the most potent Buick V-8 engines in the world. Among Balchowsky's stable of Buick-powered cars were the infamous Ol' Yaller road racers.
Ivo had heard about Balchowsky and visited his shop in nearby Hollywood seeking advice. Eventually, Balchowsky showed Ivo how to set the bored-and-stroked engine (it eventually stretched its eight holes to 402 cubic inches) to use one of three induction systems: a dual-quad manifold, the quintessential six-pack of Stromberg 97s, and the Hilborn fuel injection that has become the car's trademark over the years.
Ivo's desire to race netted him and his T-bucket several Top Eliminator awards at the San Fernando Drags and later at Lions when it opened in 1960. The car was dependable for 11-second elapsed times and a top speed of 119 mph. Not bad for a street car, but then, when you really get to the bare bones of the matter, a T-bucket is nothing more than an engine stand on wheels anyway. You know, a dragster.
Despite its reputation at the drag strip, in those days Ivo's T-bucket had an equally mean reputation on the street and on the screen. Being a prodigy child actor, Ivo had numerous contacts in the film industry, and when hot rod movies became popular during the 1950s, it was only a matter of time before Ivo's T served as a movie prop. In this case the hot rod served as the hero's car in the 1956 movie, Dragstrip Girl. Ironically, Ivo played one of the heavies in the movie, and the script called for him to steal his own car!
Perhaps the crowning glory for the reconstruction project was its white pinstripes. As he did with the original car back in 1955 for Tommy Ivo, Von Dutch also striped the restored car for Jack Rosen. Regardless of how close the new stripe job is to the first the Dutch laid down, according to Jack, this was Von Dutch's final stripe job. He passed away a short time later.
Images from http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/2009/05/24/the-great-1950s-t-bucket-rod-rivalry/ and the August 1957 Car Craft