A pair of Aces anyone? Black ‘uns?
Now shod with 16" Steelies, as opposed to the 18" Wires the previous
owner (builder?) saw fit to heel ‘her’ with, this chopped up A Sedan obviously
pursues more dutiful tasks for new(ish) ‘Truckster’ Simon ‘Weirdo’ Watts.
Guess it’s cool capacity capabilities are congenial to Caricature Creatives
such as international ‘Stripper’ Simon.
Atlantic cousins rub shoulders. A ‘40’s pick up and ‘50’s
Ford Pilot are pictured here on the Sunday show ground at Knebworth. There
was actually a British company called Reynolds, that for a while, built
a step sided Pilot Pick up. The only photo I’ve seen of a Reynolds ‘truck’
shows a stylish cab, derived from the car directly, but hauling a rather
crude and ‘boxy’ pick up bed. Brit Rodders may recall a much more stylish
rendition on the scene several years ago. It had very stylish
swooping, skirted rear fenders, if I recall correctly. Street Machine featured
the truck at that time. Back when it was ‘The’ British roddin’ magazine.
Wanna know what the main source of roddin’ fodder we got ta forge
rods outta in the U.K. is? It’s the handsome 1949-51 Ford Pilot. This mildly,
very mildly, customised rendition has a real nice graphite grey coat o’paint.
With a splash of vibrant metallic blue to enhance it’s running gear. Period
white wall tyres would have been expensive for any post war Pilot ‘Pilot’.
The plate number on this car indicates (if original), that it was first
registered in Blackpool, Lancashire, in the North West of England. Apparently
in the mid to late ‘50’s several very stripped down ‘big’ Fords, such as
this Pilot, could be seen ‘racin’’ on the streets of London. Anybody who
might know anything ‘bout these ‘chaps’, should get in touch.
Simply one question: "How in the hell could yah muss a cool little
car like this by mixin’ I.F.S. and chillingly cool ‘Guide’ head lamps?
Hey partner. I’ll sell youse a ‘beam’ just so youse lose that eyesore suspension".
A neat ‘hand o’ rods’ here. The foreground Du-tone ’32 sports a
Low Flyers plaque. ‘She’ motors with a Chevy V8 & flashes un-common
(fer Brits at least) ‘Flipper Caps’. Dunno who owns the car but I’ve seen
it at Knebworth a couple o’ times and just recently at the N.A.S.C. ‘camp’
at Great Leighs in Essex. Jerry Wilkinson’s A is squeezed betwixt the ‘Flyer’
and a fairly stock (original steel) A Bone roadster. Perhaps steel wheels
hint at further under hood hops?
X Flyer: This rod is currently up-fer-grabs in Custom Car magazine.
It sports an original (U.K.) Low Flyers club plaque and is said to be the
car previously run by Dave Loder. U.K. magazine ‘Street Machine’ once ran
a cool two-page article on the Low Flyers. Infamous, late eighties, English
hot rod club. Notorious where the Flyers, not least for ‘shit flingin’’
mud upon hapless ‘Street Rodders’, should they have come into range of
‘precipitation’ dispersed by rouge wheel spinning on all too often, soggy
British show fields.
Generic ’32 Ford roadster runs disc brakes up front and also get’s
gow from a none too common Ford V6. The engine was most likely taken from
a Ford Capri, these being around 3 litres in capacity and producing anywhere
from 138 to 170 b.h.p. in standard Ford configurations. A neat dab o’ pin
strippin’ adorns its rad shell. Personally I’d swap these broad radial
shod wheels for sumthin’ taller an’ skinnier.
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