Good Guys Pacific NW Nationals

[Fletch]

Went to the Good Guys event at the Western Washington Fairgrounds in Puyallup Washington earlier today. Slept in but managed to make it there with 10 minutes to spare before entries closed for the Model Contest. There were over 200 models entered, I took a total of 4 and came home with 3 awards including Best in Show for my '37 Ford Panel Delivery.



This was the biggest car count for the event ever with 2,000+ entries. Some of the car were just screaming to be added to the future projects list, such as these:







My Favorite from the Show:

Hosted on Fotki

Link to the Album:

public.fotki.com/dcfletcher/automotive/cruises--shows-2010/good-guys-pnw/

[Kit Karson]

I really miss going to that event! Thanks for the pics, Brother!

[demonhunterfan]

Hey Dave-- Congrats on the wins, especially the Best in Show! Good to see the old 37 again. Awesome looking rides! Love the paint on that 32 Chevy


Any mo' info on this one?

Later and God bless

[Fletch]

Jul 26, 2010 0:50:50 GMT -8 demonhunterfan said:

Hey Dave-- Congrats on the wins, especially the Best in Show! Good to see the old 37 again. Awesome looking rides! Love the paint on that 32 Chevy


Any mo' info on this one?

Later and God bless

John, the '39 Coupe goes back to the mid '50s, it has been on the cover of Hot Rod magazine as part of the magazines Bonneville coverage. It was our feature car at the Portland Roadster Show in the late '90s. It has been several colors over the years. The coupe is now owned by Don Richardson from Aberdeen Washington. The Richardsons run a Body/Rod Shop and have several high quality rods that they attend cruises in.

Here is the coupe at last years Billetproof without the numbers on the doors.

Hosted on Fotki

There is an album on my Fotki that has a few photos of the coupe, I have probably 100+ print photos of the car that still need to be scanned. It is without a doubt one of the classiest customs I know of and get to see on a regular basis. Btw, it's no trailer queen as it gets driven to every event. They had to wash it before putting it on display for the Roadster Show.

public.fotki.com/dcfletcher/automotive/coupes/richardsons-39-coupe/

The chop is pretty straight forward, the section is actually taken from below the bottom door hinge so the body didn't have to be "stitched" back together. The rear fenders were widened by 1.5" raised on the body by about 2 inches. The taillights are cut into the rear bumper which is a widened Desoto bumper, the splice in the bumper is covered by a early '50 Chevy license surround. Somewhere in the early '60s a Corvette 327 tri-power replaced the original flathead. It still runs the 327 today.

I guess the start of this coupe needs to make it's way back to the bench as it's sat in a box for 10+ years.

Blessings

[demonhunterfan]

Thanks Dave. I guess seeing the numbers on the door caused me to think it might've been, at one time perhaps, a 'stock car' racer, or even a salts flat runner. I probably saw it on, or in, Hot Rod, over the years. Might make an interesting salt shaker model, eh?

Pretty cool info on the bodywork, how they just kinda removed the bottom section and lowered the body into the fenders. Surely they had to then 'section' the hood, right? to get it to fit. Almost looks as if they lengthened the hood a bit and kinda rotated the grille forward and down a bit. Whatever they did, it looks way cool. Thanks again fer the info.

Later and God bless