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The Rolling Bones Hot Rod Shop consists of three guys ... Keith Cornell, Ken Schmidt, and a young hot rodder who works with them Chris Chabre. Keith and Ken built two deuce 3 window coupes in a style that represented the best of the late forties, early fifties hot rods to them and they caused quite a reaction in the rodding scene... soon they were getting requests to build their style of hot rods for others. Next thing they know... they are a Hot Rod Shop ! Then in mid 2006 they get a call from Larry Erickson asking if they would be willing to build a pedal car for charity to help celebrate the Anniversary of the Deuce. As it happens, Keith’s oldest son was diagnosed with childhood leukemia at age 2 and he is doing fine now at 6 year old ... so given these circumstances they could hardly turn down this offer.

Ken says “We build Traditional Hot Rods in an old barn ... and to be honest, when we hear who the other nine builders were... we were pretty intimidated. Dave Boule, however, assured us that each builder was chosen because of their different styles and so we simply did what we do on the big cars and built it with the same frame of mind that rodders did so many years ago. We used some of the same old parts they did. We have a roadster that we race at Bonneville and we sort of did a version of that car. “

We made the axle out of early Ford I Beam Shock Arms, The spindles out of 32 Ford Mechanical Brake Rod Levers, the side steering Drag Link and the Rod from 32 Ford Brake Rods. The chrome backing plates from Horn buttons, the three Zoomie pipes on each side because it’s Flathead powered. Side steering bubble from a 37 Ford tail light, the dash from an old piece of aluminum, the real SCTA Timing tag from our racing car. We stretched the wheel base, lowered the car and trimmed off part of the bottom. We put on a push bar and roll bar and topped it off with an aged down lacquer paint job and the same racing number that we run with our roadster. We had a friend Peter Schmid make us some louvers, Dori DiPasquale made us a tonneau cover and rolled and pleated seat. Artist George Alfonsin did the Anniversary logo for the grill and Sculptor, Bruce Decker donated one of his skulls for the chopped grill shell. Just like the ones we put on the Hot Rod we build.

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