![]() Yet details such as the Mooneyes steering wheel and So-Cal Speed Shop dash and gauges elevate the cabin. I gave myself an internal high-five.)Īlmost everything is fabricated or crafted from scratch, including the roof bars and reinforcements. (Side note: I’m proud to say I guessed the taillights correctly. The taillights? They’re taken a ’59 Cadillac and recessed into the Model A’s c-pillars. Those little holes along the tops of the windows and roof? That’s where the original vinyl top would be fastened, nailed or stapled to the Model A’s internal wooden frame back in the day.īelow that, the weld line where the roof pillars were sectioned, left exposed in order for rust to develop and tie in with the car’s natural patina. It’s genuine patina from the mid-’60s, where the car was used to advertise a garage in a little village called Hazlet in Canada.”Īs is the way with custom cars, there are interesting details everywhere you look. “One of my favourite details… probably the patina on the car. What isn’t traditional is the sign writing adorning the patina-riddled body. “I wanted to keep it fairly traditional to 1940s/’50s hotrod styling with my own touch of enjoying low cars, so I tried to make it as low as I could,” Ricky added. A nine-inch channel (dropping the body ‘shell’ relative to the floor), five-inch chop top and four-inch front axle drop all contribute to the Ford’s aggressive, low stance. “It’s inspired by Bonneville Salt Flat cars of the ’50s which have heavy roof chops,” Ricky explained as we looked over the car at Rollhard 2023. Though the body sits on a 1928 Model A chassis, this is far from a ‘standard’ Ford Sedan. “My dad already had the body flat-packed in the back of the shed, so it made sense to use it.” “It started as a project during our Covid lockdown,” Ricky told me. After years of their own cars, building hot rods for friends, and throwing some magazine covers into the mix, we land at Flying A Speedshop – Kelvin’s own garage – and the wild machine you’re looking at today. American metal has a very… middle-aged reputation about it here in the UK. Younger crowds tend to mix in European and Japanese car circles, those vehicles being cheaper and more accessible to most.įortunately for Ricky Dunn, AKA ‘Hot Rod Rick’, hot rodding runs in his blood. His parents Kelvin and Rebecca are no strangers to it, having been into customs for as long as Ricky can remember. So imagine my intrigue, back in the dark days of 2019, when I heard that a friend of some friends had decided to build his very own hot rod at his dad’s speed shop in Wales. I may be known amongst my peers for a love of blue and white roundels, three-pointed stars and Stuttgart crests, but the truth is that American muscle kicked everything off in the first place. Forget Brian’s Skyline. Deep down, my automotive passion lies with Americana.
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