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There’s practically nothing additional intriguing than area scorching rod heritage. As a human being who’s passionate about the previous, I enjoy pondering back again to a distinct time in this identical place. What variety of automobiles ended up obtaining developed? Who was building them? Recently, I have been chipping absent at a San Francisco-based mostly Jalopy Journal function that I’m truly enthusiastic to share with you in the coming weeks.

That article has me wondering about local scorching rodders. To be perfectly truthful, I haven’t encountered too many in the previous 7 many years. I’ve crossed paths with plenty from surrounding parts, but the ones who have truly designed and driven hot rods in the metropolis restrictions are handful of and far between. I did, nevertheless, meet just one while buying 1932 Ford axle bell jack stands for the duration of the early levels of my Model A build. Here’s how it went down.

“I spotted these jack stands on Craigslist a few months ago and tonight I eventually acquired them. I bought them from a gentleman named Nick who lives in the Monterey Heights neighborhood. The story goes that back again in the 1950s and early-’60s he was a member of the Pitmen (?) vehicle club in this article in San Francisco. In these days, he drove a seriously channeled, pink Deuce roadster with a 59AB flathead. I questioned him if he experienced any pics and he shook his head. ‘We just did not just take a lot of photos of things back again then.’”

I’m not a betting gentleman, but I’d wager that there weren’t also quite a few pink ’32 Fords managing all over Northern California in the course of that era. The far more I research, the a lot more I imagine he may possibly have owned the Johnny Weston roadster but did not know it by that name. It checks all the bins. It’s closely channeled, it’s flathead powered—and it’s pink (Tropical Rose, according to Andy Southard’s Warm Rods of the 1950s book). Johnny was based mostly out of Richmond, California, which isn’t far from San Francisco.

Though I have no solutions to supply you at this time, I do have a trio of pictures from the late Rudy Perez. I’m not confident when I’ll see Nick again but, when I do, I’ll demonstrate him this car and it’s possible it’ll stir up some memories. I can only hope so.

—Joey Ukrop

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