Bill NieKamp,'29 Ford roadster.

Classification: Rod
Constructed by: Mr. Bill Niekamp
Circa: 1950
Current Owner: ?

NieKamp was a painter at the L.A.

Chrysler plant when his street/lakes roadster won the first AMBR trophy in 1950 (hence the '50 Chrysler Blue color). Channeled over '27 Essex frame rails with A crossmembers, the body has the driver's door molded shut and the passenger's lengthened, A plus the beautiful track nose, hood,R and belly pans formed by Whitey Clayton, an unheralded metalman who later worked in the Bill Stroppe shops. NieKamp raffled the car off in the mid-'50s to help an injured lakes racer, it was later fitted with a Buick V8 and candy paint, then stored in a barn, where Jim Jacobs discovered and rescued it in 1970. He fully restored the car, as chronicled in R&C, and drove it to the first Street Rod Nats in Peoria. We need an update on this car if anyone can fill us in or tell us the present owner.

 

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