Skip


This is Skip's '34 four door sedan. The engine is a '53 Chrysler 331, bored out to 354 cid with '54 heads. Topping it off are four Stromberg 97s and K&N air filters. The most unique feature of this unique ride is the paint. It is Kandy Apple Tangerine over Cinnamon Firemist and gold flip-flop pearl over Ford white. The ribbon is opaqued Kandy Apple greens, blues, reds, oranges, purples, and yellows over the pearl base. The paint theme, "Ribbon of time", starts on the front door with a pair of period caricatures from 1934 in the form of Laurel & Hardy and W.C. Fields to correspond to the date of manufacture of the vehicle. On the rear door, corresponding to the owner / builder's date of birth, is a depiction of 1945's atom bomb explosion on Hiroshima, Japan. Over the rear fender and a surfer riding the crest of the ribbon and a young couple silhouetted against the sunset as seen on contemporary greeting cards popular at the time of the paint scheme's application in 1972. On the rear of the vehicle is a version of John Petre's painting entitled "Overpopulation". Both sides of the car are identical to within 1/4 inch.


This is Skip's other car. It is Tex Smith's old Walter P. Chrysler 8 passenger sedan. Skip purchased the car in '86.



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