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Issue #4

The Pink Rod

Archived 2006

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 4: VERNE HAMMOND'S '34.

Hot Rod stories. I happen to love them. It's the kind of thing that makes my heart race and my ears perk up in anticipation
It's basically what I live for sometimes. Yeah, I love a good hot rod story.

While attending the Lehigh Valley Timing Association's 50th anniversary in Allentown, Pennsylvania, I ran across a car that I knew had a few stories to tell. It just had that look. Sure enough, owner Mike Mohn told me a great story of
perseverance that spanned decades.

Let's go back to 1953 and meet a man by the name of Jim Balasky. Jim had just purchased a "slightly used" 1932 Ford three-window coupe, a stocker with full fenders and a flat head. A couple of years went by, and, since a stocker wasn't Jim's idea of a good time, he proceeded to strip off all unnecessary sheet metal, install a hot Olds motor, and paint it a brand new Ford color for 1955, Tropical Rose.

Read the rest of this article in ISSUE 4: VERNE HAMMOND'S '34

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