There are many
examples of unusual hiboy body styles, and some carry it off better
than others. This '32 Tudor appears to have succeeded.
Greg Parker drove his jail-bar pickup all the
way from Logan City, in Queensland. The pickup gets to most of the
regional & long-haul runs.
Joe Camilleri's chopped & channeled '30 A coupe
looks like a holdover from the '50s.
Another purple coupe, this time we have Brett
Huxley's outstanding '34 3-window, which is a fine example of the
purple coupe species.
Most buckets are Model T Fords, and are not
outrageously performance orientated. This Chevy needs a huge wing to
keep the rat motored bucket on the deck.
Len Case's very smart T-bucket also has a 1915
style brass radiator, but uses more of the Kooky Kar type of styling
to get its message out.
Canberra's Allan Cooper found time between his
volunteer duties as one of the repair shop crew, to prepare his
timeless '32 Vicky for the Show & Shine. Good on you Allan, and all
the volunteers.
Matt Joyce's channeled '32 uses a pickup
body with old-timey scallops plus flathead power, which equals an
outstanding street rod.
When a Model 40 ('33 or '34) Tudor is set up
properly, the amount of air that can blow through the car is about
the same as a Phaeton - cool.
Butch Leitch's WA based '32 highboy came a very,
very long way to get to the Nats, and the blown Hemi powered stunner
stood out in the crowd.
Having Dave Hart's much modified '33 parked
beside Peter Gregory's stock bodied '34 provides a rare opportunity
to compare the two styles
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Take an 81 year old Ford sedan, cut 4" out of the
roof, paint it red, and you are some of the way towards having as
nice a rod as this Model A.
Ken Hiatt, from
the Dragens club, cruises around the show grounds in his distinctive
early A roadster - the one with the huge weenies on the rear.
The accessories on Joe's Chevy are mostly period
correct, though the 3 deuces might hark from the '60s.
Wide whites, hairpins, stock bodied, with open
engine bay, this red '30 coupe typifies one of the more popular
styles.
A peek down the lines of the buckets, or the
bucket line.
How better to smarten up your T-bucket than to
run 6 carbs, in a homage to the earliest T-buckets in movie land.
The detailing on this bucket is extraordinary.
Would you like a rare '34 Vicky? Rob Schumack
will sell you this sweet piece of work for around $65k, which
includes the nostalgic SBC with triple carbs.
Tubular headers snake down under this stock
bodied '32 Victoria, revealing a performance potential not often
associated with Victorias.
The orange '34 Tudor looks a lot like the car
that Geoff Knape had a few years back, with some small differences.
The scalloped paint scheme is redolent of a
bygone age - or it was. There are many variations on this theme;
this chopped '30 coupe looks great in tan & burgandy.
The late afternoon soon made the bright colours
fluoresce to a degree, ensuring that this deuce Deluxe coupe stood
out from it's contemporaries.
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One of the more visually striking '34 roadsters
around, young Andy Colalillo's first rod is a fabulous piece of
work.
Showing a great use of colour, this 2-tone hiboy
coupe uses just the hood top, thereby exposing the SBC for all the
world to see.
Purple would appear to be the perfect colour for
this hiboy deuce coupe. The lakester style headers set it apart from
similar rods.
If you had a '34 Dodge, what would be the most
appropriate engine? A Hemi, of course, which is exactly what we see.
The tasteful use of brass places this T in the
1915 era, which is not a bad place to be, in bucket land.
While they are both black with flames, the T in
front is a roadster, rather than a pickup, and one uses a mammoth
rat motor for grunt, whereas the other opted for blown mouse power.
Exactly the same, but completely different.
Johnny Rainbow has had his fabulous '34 Vicky on
the road for a couple of years now, and has loved every minute of
it. Look for him at a rod run near you.
The 'scoop peeking through the hood' look is
still as popular as ever, even when the hood is limited to the top
panels.
There were quite a few original bodied model 40
Tudor's at the Nats; this one had a similar wheel treatment to the
car on the left - red steelies with wide whites.
There is is again, though this time the scallops
are finer, and the grille shell matches the scallop colour.
This was the coupé corner earlier in the day,
though most had moved on by the time we got these two very
dissimilar chopped coupes together - a '34 3-window, and a '28 Model
A.
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