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Issue #45

Fat Bastard – 1948 Anglia

By Michele ChambersArchived 2016

No photograph survives for this story — the Internet Archive never captured the magazine's photography for this page. This is the preview the magazine published online; the full story ran in Issue # 45.

Story & Photos by Daron Gray

The Anglia pictured here is the byproduct of a lifelong hot rodding obsession. Mike Bryant, a.k.a. Raw Man, is the guy possessing the addiction. Raw Man started building cool hot rods in his early teens and immediately fell in love with the process as well as the cars. At 59 years young, he’s still going strong. He finished this Anglia last year and is currently building an altered wheel base ’57 Ford as well as a 1963 Falcon. Raw Man does all of this from his small shop in the corner of his backyard, just as he always has. No fancy tools and or high dollar building, just a strong desire to build something cool from old parts.

Raw Man brought the Anglia home in his truck. It arrived as a body and the frame rails only. He immediately began scouring the local shops for some used parts.

Read the rest of this article in Issue # 45

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