The beauty of doing up a car from around the 1930s is that you can interchange parts with other cars from the period without necessarily (negatively) altering the look, the desirability or the cool factor of your creation.
Also, the more of it you build yourself (by hand and well), the bigger the question mark it raises above people’s head when they see it, and if you’re the owner, you probably want the attention and like repeating the building process over and over again.
That surely is the case with the wooden-bodied hotrod you see in the Drive video posted below. It’s the result of many hours being put into a 1926 Hudson with the intent of turning it into an oddball surf wagon by Ben McCloy and Scott Satteria of Jack Dick Custom’s in Martinez, California.
It features a full custom makeover both inside and outside, with plenty of hand-created details that always draw a crowd when it pulls up.
It not only looks really unique, but it’s also pretty quick off the line, with around 400 hp and fat tires at the back – spritely starts are probably the thing it’s best at, other than drawing an excessive amount of attention.
By Andrei Nedelea
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