The Beginning of a Hot Rod
It was one of those nights that gets permanently burned into your memory banks and is crisply remembered every time you think about it……
One night I got a call from this really nice guy that I’d only met once. He gave me a phone number for a guy named John who had ’30-31 Coupe. I gave him a call from work that day, and made arrangements to come check it out that night.
It was a warm night, as we pulled up to our destination I saw a well-used ’30-31 coupe body set atop a rolling Model A frame in the driveway of an old garage, bathed in the glow of a neon sign that proclaimed “HOT ROD GARAGE”. That is when I met Randy and John, two more people who made a difference in the way I think about hot rods and people in general.
I have learned a whole lot since then, and I spend a lot of time at work on the internet, just absorbing information. I’m really trying to have the Coupe roadworthy by the Paso Robles Memorial day show. The car will be far from pretty when I get it going, but it will be mine, and I’ll work on it until it is juuuusssst right in my head.
When I brought it home, 6/13/05. The coupe was battered, it had been rolled a long time ago, but the price was within my means. Of course, it came home with me, starting the whole project. There’s a couple bullet holes in it, too