TRJ Issue #86

The Life and Times of at Ganahl
We pay tribute to the late Pat Ganahl through our recollections of his family along with a few thoughts of our own. His untimely death only seems to accentuate the breadth and quality of his body of work as a hot rodder and writer. It is indeed quite a legacy. Also included within the tribute is a mini feature on Pat’s last build, which is a ’33 Ford Fordor, which he built in collaboration with his son, Bill.

Delayed Delivery
Ray and Terri Bartlett’s Ford-powered ’40 Ford sedan delivery has been decades in the making, but was well worth the wait. At first glance it appears to be a stock bodied resto-rod that has been fitted with mag wheels. But the more you look the more you see. Subtle yet extensive body modifications include the addition of longer Tudor sedan doors.

Who’s Roy Jones?
For years many of us enjoyed the sumptuous artwork that adorned the Bob Drake catalogs and calendars. But few of us knew much if anything about Roy Jones, the late hot-rod artist responsible for the work. We take a deeper look at his body of work and try and answer the question of just who was the enigmatic Mr. Jones?

Method in Madness
Ryan Reed builds a Deuce for Larry Jacinto and we show it in baremetal. It is a chopped highboy based on a Brookeville three-window body and it is perhaps Ryan’s best effort yet. It represents his fanatical pursuit of the ultimate hot-rod coupe and includes some of our favorite componentry from the Winters champ quickchange to the polished five-spokes, Firestone dirt-trackers and plenty of louvers.

The Print Collector
Dick Gerwer is a life-long hot rodder from central Pennsylvania. His first car was a hand-me-down ’49 Ford Club Coupe and he has owned a string of fat-fendered Chevys including a ’40 coupe that made the cover of Street Rodder back in the late ’70s. In more recent times Dick has developed a reputation for his outstanding upholstery work. But what we mainly concern ourselves with here is his amazing collection of vintage car show programs, which date back more than three-quarters of a century.

Back with a Bang
Jim “Jake” Jacobs has long been a staunch proponent of the back-to-basics school of thought regarding hot rodding. In fact, he has been at the very forefront of that movement since he began the restoration of the old NieKamp roadster back in 1970. In this article, however, we focus on his latest effort, a fenderless old-school ’28 Ford roadster powered by a Chevy four-banger. Jake’s innovative mind, intrinsic sense of tradition, flawless fabrication and hours-upon-hours of spray-can detailing come together in his 21st century take on a 1940s-style street and lakes roadster.

Kandy Kustom
Brad Grimes was a muscle car and fast boat guy who inherited a latent love for old-school mild customs and a 1951 Chevy Styleline Deluxe from his father. Over the past decade or so Brad and his wife Penny have fully embraced the Chevy and the mild-custom world in general. The result of which is this rebuild of the old Chevy he inherited from his father. It is inline-six powered, coated in candy red and outfitted with a host of traditional custom touches.

Track Roadsters
Greg Sharp explores the wild and wooly world of ’40s and early-’50s track roadster racing. Greg made it clear from the start that he didn’t intend for this article to be a history of track roadster racing, but to be an opportunity to share some images of these roadsters in all their glory. Of course, with Greg being Greg, this “non history” traces their roots back to the days of Ed Winfield in the 1920s.

Do Quickchanges Rob Horsepower?
In this installment of our Parts is Parts series we tagged along as Winters Performance set out to see if quickchange rearends really did, as some have claimed, rob horsepower. The theory is that the addition of the spur gears would add additional drag to the rearend. The results are interesting to say the least.