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Oh mamma!! Those were the days. Big swoop -- love it. Jags, Delaheys (?) and that ilk. And beasts to drive, I think. Simply another world.
That is just magnificent! Why can't cars have an element of artistry anymore? Efficiency isn't everything, you know.
@Lane Anderson posted:That is just magnificent! Why can't cars have an element of artistry anymore? Efficiency isn't everything, you know.
Not my jam, Lane, but you do you.
... and since it doesn't belong to anybody here -- I think a 987/981/718 Cayman is much more handsome. Or an R8. Or a Gallardo. Or any one of several dozen other cars built in the last 15 years.
Oh I like-the R8 and Cayman/Boxster/718 as well, along with a number of other cars. Still, I love the coach-built cars or the 30s and 40s and I believe automotive design reached its high point in the 50s and 60s. In the 60s GM produced some beautiful and distinctive cars.
Just as I don't universally love everything penned in the last 30 years, I don't care for all of the cars of the 30s and 40s either.
This one, for example, does nothing at all for me. I suppose it starts with the teardrop fenders, but there's nothing about it I find appealing. This car incorporates all of the things I don't like about over-the-top Art Deco design in one overwrought mess.
I love me a Model A, and I think the domestic commercial trucks of the era are the bomb. More is generally more, but this is just "too much more" for this busted up pipefitter's taste.
Every pot has a lid. You do you.
Whoops, got some beauty in my eye as I beheld this gem. I love it. It's not perfect. I don't care for the rear end treatment - really, putting the licence plate in a hole? But, the overall effect is great and it's nicely done. Bidding at $114k with 10 days to go.
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I love this one
And where I live the SPEED Bump capital .. this would help… 
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@Stan Galat posted:Just as I don't universally love everything penned in the last 30 years, I don't care for all of the cars of the 30s and 40s either.
This one, for example, does nothing at all for me. I suppose it starts with the teardrop fenders, but there's nothing about it I find appealing. This car incorporates all of the things I don't like about over-the-top Art Deco design in one overwrought mess.
I love me a Model A, and I think the domestic commercial trucks of the era are the bomb. More is generally more, but this is just "too much more" for this busted up pipefitter's taste.
Every pot has a lid. You do you.
Fwiw the body on this one is modern. Just styled and built as if in 1936. I suppose one could nit-pick the frenched marker or the proportions of the rear fenders as compared to the front, but I wouldn’t. 
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Citroens -- I'm gonna pull a Galat on these: never cared for any of them. This phase of French auto design does nothing for me. I do me.
I like the art deco style more like my Hot Rod buddy Randy Grubb it with this creation. It was hand built in his garage in Oregon. The Bentley has some nice features, but I'm with Michael about the hole for the license plate thing.......
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@Butcher Boy posted:
Now I could rock that one through the drive through at McDonald's
@Michael Pickett posted:Now I could rock that one through the drive through at McDonald's
Me Too !!!!! It was a fabulous build. Randy is a true self taught craftsman. He did everything but the upholstery. He sold it at Barrett/Jackson to a collector in Arizona.
@El Frazoo posted:Citroens -- I'm gonna pull a Galat on these: never cared for any of them. This phase of French auto design does nothing for me. I do me.
Here are a few French car that might do it for you..........
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@Butcher Boy posted:I like the art deco style more like my Hot Rod buddy Randy Grubb it with this creation. It was hand built in his garage in Oregon. The Bentley has some nice features, but I'm with Michael about the hole for the license plate thing.......
Did this car get driven or just a pure show car?
@LI-Rick posted:Did this car get driven or just a pure show car?
Yes Rick it did get driven. Not a lot that I know of but it runs and drives just like all of Randy's cars.
Randy mainly built it as a calling card for the work he does and had hopes of making some money selling it. I first saw it a The Goodguys Car Show in Pleasanton, Ca. where he had driven it into the Fairgrounds. He did trailered it down from Oregon to the show. But it was driven around the fairgrounds all weekend.
The only car that Randy ever built that was not road worthy was the "Tank Car" that he built and sold to Jay Leno. The motor was a Continental tank motor, air-cooled. It was one of Randy's first builds. The cars was not built for the freeway, but Leno drove it at freeway speeds and windowed the block. It stopped traffic on the 405 for hours cleaning up the huge oil spill. Luckily Randy had a few spare motors and Leno hired Randy to work with Leno's crew to get the car so it would be more freeway friendly. They did a rearend change, rebuilt the new motor and balanced it, added huge brakes and better steering. An Allison transmission was added and after all that Leno rented a race track and drove the cars to 120 mph. It is still one of Leno's favorite cars.
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@Butcher Boy posted:Randy mainly built it as a calling card for the work he does and had hopes of making some money selling it. I first saw it a The Goodguys Car Show in Pleasanton, Ca. where he had driven it into the Fairgrounds. He did trailered it down from Oregon to the show. But it was driven around the fairgrounds all weekend.
The only car that Randy ever built that was not road worthy was the "Tank Car" that he built and sold to Jay Leno. The motor was a Continental tank motor, air-cooled. It was one of Randy's first builds. The cars was not built for the freeway, but Leno drove it at freeway speeds and windowed the block. It stopped traffic on the 405 for hours cleaning up the huge oil spill. Luckily Randy had a few spare motors and Leno hired Randy to work with Leno's crew to get the car so it would be more freeway friendly. They did a rearend change, rebuilt the new motor and balanced it, added huge brakes and better steering. An Allison transmission was added and after all that Leno rented a race track and drove the cars to 120 mph. It is still one of Leno's favorite cars.
So cool! I remember seeing a TV show about it. Wasn't it called the Blastolene, or something like that?
Try navigating the drive through with those ….
The "Blastolene Special," I believe.
Boyd Coddington did a few art deco cars, like his take on a Delahaye called the "Whattahaye". It's pretty charp...
@Gordon Nichols posted:Boyd Coddington did a few art deco cars, like his take on a Delahaye called the "Whattahaye". It's pretty charp...
Marcel Delay built the body , Marcel was the master of coachbuilding and a really nice guy when I visited his shop.'
I saw the BaT Bentley at fantasy junction in December. It threw me for a loop, as I never seen this Bentley before. I asked Fantasy Junction the Coach builder. That’s when he informed me that it was actually designed in the 90s.
What photos never seem to convey is the scale of these cars. It’s massive.
@imperial posted:Marcel Delay built the body , Marcel was the master of coachbuilding and a really nice guy when I visited his shop.'
Marcel and Luc did the chop top and wheel wells on my Model A years ago. Great guys, sorry he is gone. They turned it around in two days plus all the window moldings.
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@Lane Anderson posted:The "Blastolene Special," I believe.
Yes Lane that the name Randy gave it. Randy and one of his buddies built 2 BIG CARS, One was Big Bertha, Randy built the Blastolene Special. They were known as the Blastolene Bros. Leno named it the Tank Car because the motor came from an Army. Tank.
The "blastolene" name was because when it was started, it would shoot a flame out the exhaust pipe some 20 ft or more till it was warmed up. Randy had to put red cones out and tell people to stand back when he fired it up.
I am swooning about all this swoop. Love me some swoop. Maybe even better than some beehives. Saw a Delahaye, Best in Show, at a concourse up in Oregon a while back. Simply magnificent.