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Maurie
Evans
mentioned casually to a friend of
his back in 1985 that he wouldn't mind building another hot rod one
day, now that he had kids and was spending a lot of time hanging
around the house. News travels fast in hot rodding circles, and about two weeks later Maurie received a phone call
from Ronnie Wilson on the Gold Coast, saying he had heard that Maurie was thinking of
building a '32 and that Ron had a '32 chassis, a Model A front cross
member and a '32 grille for sale. So Maurie brought them home in a trailer
after Valla 1986. Maurie took those parts, plus a narrowed 9 inch diff, and a dropped I-beam axle with transverse spring to Warren Goodall, who set it up as a rolling chassis; Warren boxed the chassis, fitted the Model A front cross member, custom made centre X member, four bar, brake booster, ran all the stainless steel brake lines and fitted the engine mounts for the Chev 350 motor and TH-350 trans. At that stage Maurie didn't have a body, but continued hoping that something would turn up. When the chassis was half finished, Warren introduced Maurie to Neil Pope who had a genuine '32 roadster body he was thinking about selling; Neil had heard of a '32 coupe body for sale and as he had moved to a colder part of the country, he was thinking a coupe would be more practical. A couple of weeks later Maurie owned the roadster body. As a matter of fact, he had it all loaded in his mate's van before he enquired about the price! |
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Maurie then took everything to Dave Hart, who
virtually built the car from there. Maurie would call around every
evening after work and they would go over the project, how he
pictured the finished roadster, and Dave would make his suggestions.
Maurie wanted it to be the '32 roadster that he would have built in
1972 if he had had the wherewithal.
It was Dave's suggestion to look for something
different for gauges, so Maurie imported a set of Classic gauges
from the States; they were so good that Maurie become the Australian
distributor for Classic Instruments.
Accreditation: The Editor, and Maurie Evans |
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