In 1962 Bob sold the Tweedy Pie to Ed "Big Daddy" Roth. The contract was sewed up, but Bob backed out at the last minute because he did not want anyone else to drive his beloved car. Before they decided to use Norm Grabowski's Lightning Bug, they wanted to use the "Tweedy Pie".
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While Bob owned the car he was contacted by the producers behind the 77 Sunset Strip TV series. He was not member of any club, and decided to make up his own club called the Orange County Ignitors in order to show off his creation. In order to show the Tweedy Pie at different shows, Bob had to belong to a club.
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Wanting to keep the car up to date and fresh for the next show season Bob decided that it was time to upgrade the car. Photos from the Disneyland Car Club Day and Autocade shows that Bob by then had swapped the flathead in the Tweedy Pie for a 1957 Chevrolet Corvette engine with a single four-barrel carb. Later the same year it was also featured on the cover of Rodding and Re-styling December 1959. September 5th, 1959 the Tweedy Pie won the "Best Roadster" award at the first and last Disneyland Car Club Day and Autocade. In the first episode of Car That Ate My Brain 2 Piero De Luca gives you a history lesson about the famed Tweedy Pie as he sits down with Eric Johnston, the stepson of original builder Bob Johnston. In this series, we tag along with Piero and his friends and see the clone come to life over a 2-year span. Revell and Roth turned the car into a famous model kit and influenced many selling over 11 million units to date. Car That Ate My Brain 2 follows filmmaker, hot rod historian and builder Piero De Luca of Mad Fabricators in his quest to build a replica of the car known as " Tweedy Pie" a 1923 Model T Ford roadster made famous by Ed "Big Daddy" Roth. Ĭar That Ate My Brain 2: Episode 1 Tweedy Pie History. In 1958, a couple of years after the car was finished, Bob had Ed Roth pinstripe the car. Bob's roadster was upholstered by Lee Garofolo of Lee's Golden Needle in Garden Grove, California. Dick also did a lot of the metal work on the car. Bob's nephew Dick Johnston painted the car in Bob's garage in Bellflower, were he lived before he moved to Anaheim. The car was painted with more then 40 coats of lacquer using a vacuum cleaner. Once the bodywork was done, the car was painted in a one off mix, copied from a Union 76 oil called Royal Triton Purple. The gas tank on the car was from a 1941 Willys. Bob was a instrument mechanic at one of the local airplane factories, so according to Ed Roth who later bought the car from Bob, the car was fit with "the best gauges known to man". The wheelbase on the altered deuce frame was reduced to 84 inches. Bob widened the body of the car 3 inches, before he channeled it over bobbed 1932 Ford frame rails. Maybe you can pick up your new midengine Corvette while you're down there.Tweedy Pie is a 1923 Ford Model T Roadster originally owned and built by Orange County Ignitors member James Robert Johnston aka Bob Johnston of Anaheim, California between 19. 31 and runs through December 2020, so you’ve got plenty of time to plan a trip to Bowling Green. 20-22), and it lasts longer than the concours’ single afternoon. Plus, the NCM’s show doesn’t require a blue blazer or a straw boater hat to spectate (we doubt many will be donning that particular uniform at the East Side Rat Reunion, slated to take place on the grounds Aug. But the addition of the memorabilia makes this a deeper look at the man's life and influence.
This isn’t the first time Roth cars have gathered in recent years: A collection was displayed at the 2018 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, of all places. The museum is working together with Roth's widow, Ilene, to put it all together, which means seldom-seen Rat Fink ephemera (including his tuxedo) will be there for the faithful to revere. Plus-and this is very cool-the museum will present the silkscreening equipment Roth used to print his infamous T-shirts. More than just cars, the exhibit includes a selection of vintage Roth merchandise, from keychains to model kits. Plus, Gary Reid’s Bubble Ray Corvette, which has more than a touch of Orbitron to it, will be on hand as an example of cars following Roth’s example.
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