Wow! After all that, this part of the show was great fun. Dave Lukkari brought his well traveled, 100k+ mile, modified A roadster with the venerable SCOT-blown Ardun flathead from California. Dave said that he probably had around 120,000 miles on this engine, starting back in the 70’s when it powered his unique, flip-body Crosley sedan, with the 32 ford fenders molded onto the outside. Interestingly, this same engine was in Autorama 31 years ago, in that Crosley. As always, the trophies are handmade and display a lot of creativity, which is way cooler than a store-bought award could ever be. The cars are alphabetized as well as I could, since some were impossible to identify. An interesting trend was the increased number of cars done more typically like they might have in the 50’s and 60’s. By this I mean they were actually completely painted, sometimes a little orange peel would be seen, but probably like more cars really were. Everyone would do anything they could to get paint on their car, including using vacuum cleaner powered, or electric bug spray guns. Certainly clear/candy coats weren’t affordable to most people. These same cars had very nice, serviceable vinyl, interiors. They weren’t overstuffed, super tight vinyl, and may have even been home made; but at least they were complete, like a real car! The blue 32 Chevy coupe is a great example of this.
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