1 of 1 handmade Porsche coupe, Model T Fords, and some old Hondas | Barn Find Hunter - Ep. 41

doing is fun. In fact, on Christmas Day I get that Christmas toilet 2808, so December 25th 928 is correct. It was a Christmas Packard and what was really strange is that I had a fifty-two Packard that I had pulled out of a

barn

recently that had 1,300 miles on it from new from new it still had the original tires it had the most amazing tires I have ever seen. It had a lot of jacks and I sold it at the Gooding auction last year and it went completely crazy because of the originality, but when I looked at the paperwork and the family stuff, it was also delivered on Christmas Day, but in 52 instead of this. so I had to spend ChristmasPackard right away, which was really strange, so now we'll go to the car that attracted us to come here on the first right, okay, this Ford here came from the same place as the Model Ts that They're in the garage and I.

I saw an ad for a Model T. I just got a Model T. It's a Model T. Ford was overpriced, but that was it, so I called the guy and asked him about it and he said, "Well, I ". I have one

model

, another Model T and a Model A, so I want you to take a look at it and was mainly focusing on the Model T. This one didn't put much weight on it. He was sitting in the backyard of a house in Riverside. the grill, the hood, the headlights, the front fenders were all off of it, so it was just the bare frame of the front and it just sat there baking in the sun, but when I started looking at it I realized that, wait a second , there is

some

thing more to that.

I first realized it wasn't just the little original Model A with this old speed center sticker from a store in Riverside when I saw it and was like mmm, okay when I opened the door and you can see the floors outside. of that, they extended the column down a little bit and the transmission there seems to me like it was 30 minutes or trans, yeah, and then I asked you if you have the other parts and, sure enough, the shed opened and there's the grill of the Ford 32. The casing and the flathead motor were just around the corner and you know, I said, "I'll take it.

I have to have it, oh yeah, but the most interesting part was the one I was dealing with with the younger relative of the family when the time came, you know. pay for it and do that, the owner's wife had, you know, she had the documents and I always asked her, you have to ask what the story is, where did these cars come from, who was the owner, what was the deal and this car was from her husband. car and it came from his family they bought it new it was always in Riverside County and he had a twin brother it was Frank and Frank and Fred and they both went to World War II together and they came back together and when they came back and the hot rod was starting, They said, well, we're going to take the Model A and turn it into a hot rod, so they took it, you know, put brakes on it, changed the transmission, but they put it on a flathead later.

The headlights, the 32 grille, you know all the things that were back in the day, you know, there's 39 Ford taillights, that's a standing apron, that's cool, yeah, I thought that's a classy touch, yeah, and then it really funny is me like me. Always ask if there are any old photos of the car you know when you buy

some

thing that has been with someone for a long time and she came up with these beauties, Frank and Fred, these are Frank and Fred with this car and they were probably taken in the Around the 50 and obviously I drove it without the defenders at some point, but that's the car and she remembered seeing the twins driving this thing during local cruise nights and stuff and she fell in love with it the hard way and you.

I could see the twinkle in his eyes, you know, they look so good in that car and sure enough, you know he always called it his hot rod and it stayed there forever and I think he parked it looking at the tags, probably in late the 60's or so and then I took it apart, you know, to fix it, maybe the motor wound up or something, what a story, so what's your intention for this? Well, what I really like to do is make it work. I'm, you know, I have a flat head that was on it, it's been exposed to the elements and Stefan, so I think it's pretty good.

I mean, obviously, I could rebuild it, but I found another flathead from about the same period that's a racer that someone pulled out and what year engine, you know. I'd have to look and see, I think it's like an engine from the late 30's or something, well actually it's a man Jim, so this was the car that Henry Ford introduced after the Model T Edsel Ford continued asking his father, come on. updating this card needs everyone else to come out with more modern cars, we have to update it, so it reluctantly went to the

model

eight after the Model T, so this is probably a 30 or 31, which to model my model passed from '28 to '31, these cars were bred in street drag racing, brought to Bonneville Salt Flats Dry Lakes, this one does not have a grille model, it has a '32 Ford grill and is shaved, so it originally had a top of radiator here and a little emblem and said Ford or a small piece of trim, but the hot rodders wanted it to look clean so they shaved it off and filled the hole and it looks like this has taken it in, it's not rusted.

I can see we are all metal so it was probably used lead instead of bondo so this car was one of the original California hot rods after WWII so it has different headlights than the one on the model. One headlight has later Ford wheels or Mercury wheels as a metal top insert instead of the fabric that 1939 has. Ford teardrop tail lights, which were kind of a hot rod setup from that era, if you look at these stickers here , 1964-65 was the last year this car was registered on the road and for some reason I guess they put these brake lights at Randy's.

I have cool cars. I guess for me this is the one that touches my heart the most. It's all about history, but this one will make your head spin a little for sure, so it's an Abarth part, very similar to this wall sunroof. Wow, that's it. Oh yes, it's a steel body, except for the hood and engine cover. I'm still trying to track down the official history, but the story I've tracked down so far is that it was actually a design studio and construction studio for a trade school in Germany in a town called Kaiser Slaton, which is hard to trace. say, but they were one of the trade schools that began in the days of wagon manufacturing and that still exist today with automotive design and other industrial designs and that something like that, every year they made a class project car, They would start with a design sketch and build it up to a complete car and this is one of those cars, so I think this was around 1960 and I currently have someone trying it. at the school trying to look up any records they have, that school still exists, so the school still exists.

Wow, but it has a Porsche 356 engine and brakes. Looking at the chassis numbers, the chassis is actually a 58-something Karmann Ghia chassis. on the body, with the exception of the handles and small screwed parts, everything was completely

handmade

mm-hmm, you know the German brands, all the details and satellites are Porsche tails, yes, Porsche taillights, 356 taillights, do you think this roof existed? on another car no, I think they had built it, I think everything you know, you look at the structure of the interior door, you look, you know, closure panels and stuff on the inside, they made little reinforcing ribs and they really tried to build a car that looks like a production car.

I'm really intrigued to try to get original blueprints and design elements from the school that I know exist on some of the cars they made, and more importantly, I'd like to go a little further. I want to

find

out. who do these students work with where did they end up when Deponia was a member of this well, to be a great car designer I don't know, it's a really dry car, this starter battery, could you? I mean, I'd love to have this on video. we benefit from the muscle screaming like it should it's loud I don't know if there's enough peace in it but it's been here for a while no it looks dead I'm not getting light but yeah but I'm trying to get, we're trying to get The cars started for these shows when it was possible.

I mean, you could put a battery in it and it would light up. Could you? I mean, if you know that or you have a jumper box or something, yeah, well, let me grab a drum set. It was something else, I mean. If it's not a problem, you know I started a little not enough, so you bought this car and used it all over Europe. Yes, on the seat there is a little photo book that I put together during the trip, which is really fun. look, that's a gasoline engine, that's a gasoline engine, yes, and it's fuel injected, no, it has a carburetor, okay, give it a little bit here and this is the engine you had, this is the engine that I had, yes, no, it's not the one I was, why well,

hunter

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The series is now in its third year and I've met a lot of really cool people and seen a lot of cool car groups, but this may be the most fun place I've ever been to meet Randy and see the silliest collection, right? You know? There's a Lincoln premiere over there and a custom Porsche over here and there's everything else scattered around here that you like, you're the most wonderful car guy, a real wonder to me too and your stories and what you're doing and you know son I think we have a shared brain, you know, it's really been a really fun trip, thanks for coming, so keep looking because you might

find

Randy in your hometown, a little book of photographs from our European adventure in Alfred Alfred , a kind of German. good name was you know Batman's faithful servant was fine and my father