Thread: Bo Jones

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Bo was (is?) a talented guy and may have had a hand in any number of cars over the years so it's hard to say whether you've got a real deal Bo built or just a pretender. But let me take a shot at giving you some info to sort out your thinking. In the link that John posted above are two lakes style roadsters that he is known to have built for himself (not including the orange T sedan he built for his then wife as a daily driver and a 37/8 Buick coupe that followed the orange car). The orange roadster is his most famous, and last I heard was owned by Roy Brizio in his "museum" along with the matching sedan. Both the orange cars were built back in the early '60s, were powered by Chevy II drive trains. The roadster was the front portion of a '27 touring, narrowed, not a true roadster body........not that that is a problem. Sidebar on saying the sedan was his then wife's (they divorced later) daily driver, I know this because I loaded groceries into it when she did her weekly shopping at the store where I worked after school. The white car with scallops was built sometime in the '90s by my recollection. His niece communicated with me 10-12 years ago on here when I had written up a small story on the orange cars that she stumbled across. Her comments were that he built the white car to somewhat recreate the earlier car, and again he used a narrowed '27 touring front section. Now, your car pictured has a "normal" roadster body. You didn't mention if it was glass as most are, but either way, it's not a touring front section so that brings into question if it's a Bo built car. I suppose it would be possible that the white car was rebodied, but why? My guess would be that someone built the car you have as a tribute similar to the original car because that orange car set the standard for lakes roadsters from the get-go...............the definition of iconic.