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The California Kid is a customized 1934 Ford three-window coupé built by Pete Chapouris. The '34 was on the cover of Custom Rod in November 1973, along with a similar coupé built by Jim Jacobs. [a] It attracted the attention of television producer Howie Horowitz, [b] who wanted it for a TV movie, "The California Kid". [1]
The simple three-main-bearing crankshaft attached two connecting rods to a single crankpin, one rod from each cylinder bank. As with other crankshafts, static and dynamic balancing was performed (as this video on the Ford flathead V8 shows). The short crankshaft proved quite durable in comparison to six-cylinder engines when roughly handled.
The forerunners to the hotrod were the modified cars used in the Prohibition era by bootleggers to evade revenue agents and other law enforcement. [7]Hot rods first appeared in the late 1930s in southern California, where people raced modified cars on dry lake beds northeast of Los Angeles, under the rules of the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA), among other groups.
These "hot rods" came in two body styles, the more common 5-window and the rarer suicide door 3-window. The iconic stature of the 1932-vintage Ford in hot rodding inspired The Beach Boys to write their hit 1963 song "Little Deuce Coupe", which also was the name of the album it appeared on.
An unconventional Foose hot rod project was a custom roadster modeled after the Alfa Romeo Carabo coupe. The Carabo was a wedge-shaped concept car that was exhibited at the 1968 Paris Motor Show. [1] [8] Fabricating a large portion of the car, Foose transformed a crash-damaged 1972 De Tomaso Pantera into a roadster-version of the Carabo.
The 1933-36 Willys coupés and pickups were very popular gassers. [1] The best-known would be the 1933 Model 77. [1] Only 12,800 were sold in 1933, 13,234 in 1934, 10,644 in 1935 (including a new panel delivery), and 30,825 the company's final year, making it a puzzle why it became popular: it was neither cheap nor plentiful.