Thread: A little piece of history.

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The interesting thing about hotrods with a history is nobody expected them to become historic. Therefore, they were not deliberately preserved. Many of them were dismantled and lost or changed over and over until very little of the original was left. Because of that, the few that have survived intact speak of an era that is long gone and will never be again.

The car in the pic below was first built (as a hotrod) in 1956 and has a long history. I first encountered it in 1964 and it is the car that inspired me to build my coupe. Except for the headers, it is visually the same as it was the first time I saw it. In June of 2006 I drove my coupe to Indiana so I could photograph the two cars together, the culmination of a 40-year dream.

I'm glad to see that roadster survived; it's a beautiful example of rodding as it was and a very lucky find for someone.