Pink Roadster Perplexity | The Jalopy Journal The Jalopy Journal

There is practically nothing a lot more intriguing than nearby incredibly hot rod heritage. As a person who’s passionate about the earlier, I appreciate thinking back again to a different time in this exact position. What kind of cars had been having constructed? Who was making them? Recently, I’ve been chipping absent at a San Francisco-dependent Jalopy Journal feature that I’m genuinely enthusiastic to share with you in the coming months.

That posting has me imagining about regional scorching rodders. To be perfectly truthful, I have not encountered also many in the past 7 yrs. I have crossed paths with a lot from encompassing parts, but the ones who have essentially built and driven very hot rods within just the city boundaries are few and considerably involving. I did, nonetheless, satisfy just one although acquiring 1932 Ford axle bell jack stands all through the early levels of my Design A construct. Here’s how it went down.

“I spotted these jack stands on Craigslist a couple months in the past and tonight I ultimately bought them. I bought them from a gentleman named Nick who lives in the Monterey Heights neighborhood. The story goes that back in the 1950s and early-’60s he was a member of the Pitmen (?) automobile club here in San Francisco. In those people times, he drove a closely channeled, pink Deuce roadster with a 59AB flathead. I asked him if he had any photographs and he shook his head. ‘We just didn’t take a whole lot of images of stuff back then.’”

I’m not a betting person, but I’d wager that there weren’t as well numerous pink ’32 Fords managing around Northern California throughout that period. The far more I investigation, the far more I imagine he might have owned the Johnny Weston roadster but didn’t know it by that name. It checks all the boxes. It is closely channeled, it is flathead powered—and it’s pink (Tropical Rose, according to Andy Southard’s Very hot Rods of the 1950s reserve). Johnny was centered out of Richmond, California, which is not much from San Francisco.

While I have no responses to offer you at this time, I do have a trio of images from the late Rudy Perez. I’m not guaranteed when I’ll see Nick again but, when I do, I’ll clearly show him this vehicle and perhaps it’ll stir up some recollections. I can only hope so.

—Joey Ukrop

 Pictures from the Perez thread, which is loaded with heritage.