Buch - Rodders Journal - No. 27

In this issue, we show the bare metal version of the '36 Ford 3-window coupe that acclaimed builder Cole Foster is building for Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett. Pat Ganahl shows us how Cole envisions the finished product, and also talks to Hammett, who has some unconventional ideas about merging his interests in hot rods and guitars. Also, we took studio shots of Alan Button's '32 Ford 3-window coupe. Between starting a business and raising a family, the Missourian spent twenty years building the full-fendered, chopped coupe with its early '60s look incorporating polished Halibrand wheels, and it's one of our favorite deuces ever. Then there's an honest, original hot rod, built by a man named Tom Orren in Waco, Texas, and unceremoniously put in a barn after it was beaten in a street race. The '29 Model A roadster remained there for more than 40 years. Now it is on the streets again, and because the roadster hasn't been restored it offers a fascinating glimpse into old hot rod style. And Jay Fitzhugh takes a retrospective look at the art of Gus Maanum, who documented the dry lakes races in a distinctive style he called “action drawings.”