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Being able to spend alot of time speaking with Ian, I've got a pretty good handle on what's happened to it during his ownership. I did learn that he bought it, pretty much as pictured, from a fellow class of 1954 Bell Gardens High School graduate, Don Streiff. I was able to make contact with Don and learned that he only had the car for a couple of months before selling it to Ian somewhere about March of 1962. His wife didn't like driving it and she couldn't lock it up at work. At that time, it had a hopped up flathead in it. Don said he didn't do a thing to it. Ian almost immediately installed the first of several 283s, and it was the subject of a Rod Test in Rod & Custom magazine very shortly after. So, I've got it traced back to about February of 1962, but by then it was already a finished hot rod, painted a '50s Plymouth green, with a hopped up flathead, bobbed rear fenders, '39 taillights, chrome BLC headlights, chopped windshield, juice brakes, 15" Mercury wheels, and baby moons. It also had a vintage dash panel with S-W gauges and had a dash-mounted hand pressure pump for the fuel system. Being a finished, painted car, driving around the streets of southern California, surely someone else out there knows more about it. Return to Hotrodsonline.com Return to Virtual Rod Run Page
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