Feeling Old? Guess what this car is.

[Black 03 Z06]

Keith can't play, he is too quick.

 

[Keith Tedford]

Not too quick. Just old enough to remember this stuff from back when.

 

[Riley P]

That is wicked! I love the roots blower on the Flathead.

 

[Ntmd8r]

Riley,
is it a flathead ?

If so, then why the rocker covers on the heads?

 

[buckhorn76]

looks like the barris car from a beach boys album.

 

[buckhorn76]

That is wicked! I love the roots blower on the Flathead.

not a flathead, it's an olds engine.

 

[buckhorn76]

Riley,
is it a flathead ?

If so, then why the rocker covers on the heads?

ardun heads have valve covers. they were designed and produced by corvette father zora arkus duntov. sort of a hemi style head, they really woke up the flatties.

 

[nascar03]

looks like the barris car from a beach boys album.

Good spotting Doug..This is the Little Deuce Coupe....

.

Graham

 

[Black 03 Z06]

Bingo. We have our winner Buckhorn 76 (get back to work Doug!). Bonus points to Graham for actually having the album for the Beach Boys "Little Deuce Coupe". Hard to believe that the one year only 1932 Ford is still the iconic hot rod. Beautiful cars in design.

This 32 was owned by Clarence "Chili" Catallo from Michigan who bought the car in 1955. Bill Wanderer built the 324" Olds engine for it. The Alexander brothers, Mike and Larry (some great custom cars and trucks from this pair) also from Michigan did the original custom modifications. Chili took the car to California sometime later and legendary custom builder George Barris chopped the top and repainted the car into the iconic blue shown in the album and photos above.

Chili drag raced the car a few times turning a best of 12.9 at 112 mph.

Still a beauty. Well done guys.

 

[Keith Tedford]

12.9s was pretty quick for a street car back in those days. The Beach Boys knew where it was at between cars and surfing.

 

[nascar03]

Black...
Thanx for the car info. That's cool stuff.

Keith.. I'm not sure that any of the Beach Boys could surf.?

Graham

 

[Keith Tedford]

They may not have surfed but they seemed to know what was popular out there in those days. Then there was Ronnie and the Daytonas and others who were into the street scene with their records. They were great times.

 

[buckhorn76]

the only member of the beach boys that surfed was dennis wilson. ronnie and the daytonas were a little known florida band that the head of the pontiac division, jim wangars, hired to record l'il gto for promo. the beach boys had wanted too much money to do it.

 

[Riley P]

What's an Oldsmobile?

You know, I didn't even notice the valve covers until looking at the car a second time and even if I did, I would not have known it was an Olds motor. Good info guys! You learn something everyday!

 

[VINDIC8R]

looks like the barris car from a beach boys album.

Very well done!!! I had to whip out my vinyl copy of Little Deuce Coupe. I thought I had seen this buggy before.

Bravo!

 

[Kerf]

Black...
Thanx for the car info. That's cool stuff.

Keith.. I'm not sure that any of the Beach Boys could surf.?

Graham

Dennis was supposedly a pretty good surfer, the other guys......not so much.