Flame Job '32 Ford
By noderel:
Dick Munz's all-steel 1932 Ford three-window has a paint job that sets it apart from the rest of the pack. The yellow flames seem to flicker against the shiny red finish on the little Deuce coupe.
Hot Rod Hall of Famer Tom Prufer built the all-steel car. He's the hot rodder who began the nostalgia drag racing movement in the early '80s with the formation of the Nostalgia Drag Racing Assoc. Prufer is also the author of a book called How to Build a Cheap Hot Rod, although this red Ford - part of the RVM Classics collection - looks anything, but cheap.
Veteran builder Ron Attebury built the car's chassis and he's been doing chassis over 40 years. In the '80s, Ron turned his attention to putting together street rods that are as much about highway reliability as they are about performance. Attebury's street rods (as well as his custom parts) have been on the market for years and have earned his customers awards and recognition.
Attebury Street Rods' has the experience and knowledge that helped produce some of the fastest dragsters of their day, as well as some of the finest street rods of today. That same experience went into creating the flamed Ford.
As for the flame, you can blame Rod Powell for those. He was responsible for the graphics that helped this car make the cover of Rod & Custom magazine in June 1999. Powell isk nown in the hot rodding sport as "the keeper of the flame."
As a kid, Powell grew up watching the work of Dean Jeffries, Von Dutch and Larry Watson. Little did these artists know that this California kid with a passion for custom cars and dragsters would become one of the best-known flame-painting artists in the world.
Under the car's flamed hood beats a 427-cubic-inch General Motors big-block V-8 that gives the coupe really great performance and makes it was Dick Munz describes as "a real hot rod."