1929 Ford Model A Custom Hot Rod Roadster

1929 Ford Model A in The Lively Set, Movie, 1964

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1929 Ford Model A Custom Hot Rod Roadster

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vilero ◊ 2010-09-30 19:25	Cars Used in the Movie Eddie Dye's 1929 Ford -- Last edit: 2010-10-23 20:34:37
rhinobalsa ◊ 2013-06-15 21:29	That was the body Gil Ayala used to make the Eddie Dye Car in 1951. You can tell by the shock mounts. My dad James Fuller bought all the custom parts except the shock mounts and the hair pins in the 1965 at the Long Beach swap meet. He said he the body had so much bondo in it it wasn't worth saving and besides it was already a movie car in its new incarnation. We restored the Eddy Dye car in Santa Barbara over the next 20 years and took it to local shows. Don Orozco was an old friend of my father and made several attempts to buy the car but my dad wasn't interested although being a very generous man did say he would let Don Copy the nose since he fancied it so much and he had already allowed another car Builder Richard Woods to make a mold of it years earlier. In 1991 we took it to the show at Pomona. We were showing the car to Tim Allen and his builder Dan Mohl? When Tom Branch showed up with the the movie car. He was so excited to see the car because he had been trying to sell his for some time but people weren't collecting 60's rods yet and it was in need of a lot of attention ( rust and Bondo falling off). I told him he should call Don Orozco to see if he would buy the car. He did and Don bought the car. It appears Don took the few remaining custom parts from the Eddie Dye car along with the vin (the original body etc went in the scrap pile, the body and everything else on Don's car is perfect) and made a beautiful copy of the original nose and windshield off of our car. When a friend of my dads told him Don was telling people he had the original Eddy Dye car my dad laughed and said the joke was on him, he wrecked a perfectly good movie car to to make a copy of his. The movie car would now be worth more more had Don not destroyed it. Gary Fuller -- Last edit: 2013-06-16 02:45:07

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vilero

◊ 2010-09-30 19:25

Cars Used in the Movie

Eddie Dye's 1929 Ford

-- Last edit: 2010-10-23 20:34:37

rhinobalsa

◊ 2013-06-15 21:29

That was the body Gil Ayala used to make the Eddie Dye Car in 1951. You can tell by the shock mounts. My dad James Fuller bought all the custom parts except the shock mounts and the hair pins in the 1965 at the Long Beach swap meet. He said he the body had so much bondo in it it wasn't worth saving and besides it was already a movie car in its new incarnation. We restored the Eddy Dye car in Santa Barbara over the next 20 years and took it to local shows. Don Orozco was an old friend of my father and made several attempts to buy the car but my dad wasn't interested although being a very generous man did say he would let Don Copy the nose since he fancied it so much and he had already allowed another car Builder Richard Woods to make a mold of it years earlier. In 1991 we took it to the show at Pomona. We were showing the car to Tim Allen and his builder Dan Mohl? When Tom Branch showed up with the the movie car. He was so excited to see the car because he had been trying to sell his for some time but people weren't collecting 60's rods yet and it was in need of a lot of attention ( rust and Bondo falling off). I told him he should call Don Orozco to see if he would buy the car. He did and Don bought the car. It appears Don took the few remaining custom parts from the Eddie Dye car along with the vin (the original body etc went in the scrap pile, the body and everything else on Don's car is perfect) and made a beautiful copy of the original nose and windshield off of our car. When a friend of my dads told him Don was telling people he had the original Eddy Dye car my dad laughed and said the joke was on him, he wrecked a perfectly good movie car to to make a copy of his. The movie car would now be worth more more had Don not destroyed it.
Gary Fuller

-- Last edit: 2013-06-16 02:45:07

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