{"id":394,"date":"2016-10-04T19:33:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T03:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/?p=394"},"modified":"2016-11-13T10:42:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T18:42:43","slug":"flatheads-liven-up-palo-alto-concours-delegance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"Flatheads Liven Up Palo Alto Concours d’Elegance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Old hot rods, especially if they have any notoriety, are the trendy new marque on the lawns of concours d\u2019elegance events. We know they\u2019re bitchen, but does recognition from the blue-blazer crowd add to anything to their cool factor? It really doesn\u2019t matter. In the end, we\u2019re all just car guys and an event like Palo Alto provides us an opportunity to ogle machinery we don\u2019t often get to see. (We were also treated to a free lunch and beer).
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While many concours cars travel in trailers, our crew opted to meet at oh-dawn-thirty and drive to the show. That\u2019s Gary\u2019s roadster, Jesse Nichol\u2019s Clay Slaughter-built pick-up, and Dave Wilkerson\u2019s \u201939 woodie.
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It\u2019s funny how you can go to a show, walk past a couple of hundred cars, and only a handful will knock your socks off. This BMW did it for me.
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What is it about the late 30\u2019s era cars? Ford or foreign, they all seemed to be experimenting with streamline design \u2013 a few, like this \u201939 BMW, with delightful results. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

More of a boulevardier than a racer, this Speedster featured wide whites and bigger, comfier coupe-style seats. Chick magnet? Do the whitewalls work?
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We\u2019ll give you a pass on those cute little Italian driving shoes \u2013 maybe<\/em> — if you\u2019re climbing out from behind the wheel of a business man\u2019s express like this one.<\/p>\n

Off in a corner, near the porta-potties, was our<\/em> neighborhood:
\n\"\"<\/a>I poached this photo from Todd Olson, HEMI32<\/em> over on the HAMB<\/em>. His pics of the event are extensive, you can see \u2018em all here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jim Palmer was our host and the organizer of the flathead cars for the event. His Pacific Gunsight Special<\/em> is a historic dry lakes car and winner of a number of coveted hot rod and preservation awards.
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This \u201929 roadster was being shown by the builder\u2019s son. It had a lot of custom work done, including the Chrysler grille and the unfortunately bobbed fenders. The cowl and windshield work were outstanding. Check the dual wipers (and ignore the late model steering wheel).
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The \u201937-ish Special below was built by the 91 year old gentleman in the tan hat behind the car. Started in the 1940\u2019s, it runs a wild V860 with an electronic fuel injection system of his own design. Check the \u201940 trans (on its side), the quickie, and the home-built IRS. Steve Moal recently completed the bodywork.
\n\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Walt Nakamura\u2019s flathead Cadillac-powered Meteor Special<\/em> belonged to his dad. It was stashed away for safe keeping by friends when his family was hauled off to an Internment Camp during World War II.
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John Mumford brought out both his \u201936 roadster and a \u201932 three window. Amazing the advancement in design and styling in four short years.
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This guy had an old Ford panel truck full of vintage heads and manifolds. This Schultz Triplet<\/em> intake caught our eye, check out where it was built.<\/p>\n

Richard Munz was out from Wisconsin for the June events, he brought a couple of race cars including the famous Platypus<\/em>.
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Doug King\u2019s T roadster was originally built by Frank Schonig for the lakes. It featured Ardun heads and lots of engineering innovations, including a unique independent quick-change rear end.
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The\u00a0Woodies on the Wharf<\/em><\/strong> event was the day before Palo Alto, and I have a lot<\/em> of photos from the day. I\u2019ll get them up online for you guys this week.<\/p>\n

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Old hot rods, especially if they have any notoriety, are the trendy new marque on the lawns of concours d\u2019elegance events. We know they\u2019re bitchen, but does recognition from the blue-blazer crowd add to anything to their cool factor? It really doesn\u2019t matter. In the end, we\u2019re all just car guys and an event like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shopnews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1I3Pf-6m","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}