The name stuck. People knew him as Cookie, and when he raced at the Antique Nationals in the 1970s, his flathead-powered ’27 T, which had been built by Bean Bandit Joaquin Arnett, was named Cookie Monster. That’s also why a furry, blue, goggle-eyed Sesame Street character lives on the floorboard of this ’32 roadster.
Deuce roadsters are precious things these days, and this one is too, but not just for rarity or collectability's sake. This roadster has been in the Lind family since Cookie bought it in the late 1950s. His son Jeff is now the car’s caretaker, preserving it as his dad would have wanted.
“When he finished all the bodywork, he painted it in black primer,” Jeff tells us, pointing at the early-’60s-vintage paint still on the car today. “He said, ‘If I painted it, it would be too final. Then what would I do with it?’”
On his deathbed in 2011, Cookie made Jeff and his brother, Rick, promise not to paint the car. “Make it a highboy, do whatever you want, just don’t paint it,” he told them.
Jeff laughs, “Rick once had a nightmare that Dad visited us, and he was pissed because we had painted the car banana yellow.”
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة July 2020 من Hot Rod.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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