The Story of an old roadster California over the years | 2011 Southern CAlifornia Pictures and text by Randy Pimpler A Hot Rods Online Photo Expose 5ImagePage.html 5/15   |      What I'm hoping to be able to find from my appeal here, is anything that anyone might know or recall about the car, especially regarding the history prior to 1962. Is it possible, there's someone still out there who might remember the hot rod origins of this roadster? I hope so. Don Streiff told me that all he could remember was that he had purchased it from "a fireman in uptown Riverside, CA. Here are a few highlights in the roadster's history that I know of: July 1962: Rod & Custom, Rod Test, photos by Randy Holt. 1963: Speed Tuning & Trouble Shooting, by Hot Rod Magazine, photos by Bob D'Olivo. 1964: pictured with Tom McMullen's roadster on the covers of two LP Albums by the Astronauts, "Competition Coupe" and "Rarities", photos by Ken Whitmore. 1982: featured in a series by Tom McMullen entitled "Old to New", covering the transformation of it into a state of the art hiboy street rod, two installments were published, March & April, then nothing after. Fortunately, they never finished it. 5ImagePage.html 5/15   |      ©1994-2002 Hotrods Online ® All Rights reserved. No Images or text may be used without prior written authorization.