ANDREW'S BLUE DEUCE

A second-generation hot rodder’s first hot rod...

- AL O'TOOLE

This beautiful blue Deuce is second-generation hot rodder, Andrew Nosworthy’s first hot rod, but he has always been keen to help his dad, Michael work on his cars whenever he could. After being around hot rods his whole life, one day his dad said to him, “Lets build you a hot rod, give you something to save up and work towards.” Andrew admits he wanted to build a coupe but with the roadster body available at such a bargain price, how could he say no to an all-steel roadster?

The opportunity to travel to the USA as a teenager resulted with Andrew starting to collect parts for his own hot rod and then he started the build-in 2011. The body was shipped to Melbourne not long after the 2007 LA roadster show, it was one of three bodies sent over, one for Andrew, one for his dad and one for his uncle, Scott Nosworthy. The body had slight surface rust from being shipped over so it went straight to the panel shop where Andrew got to strip it down back to fresh metal and then had the body primed, as it would sit for years to come. This hiboy Deuce roadster was unveiled at MotorEx 2019 and was finally registered in January this year after a well-deserved break from the build.

“I always had the intention of having the car finished for when I went onto a full licence, but just before I got my licence, the laws changed from three years on P plates to four, so with that the overall need of the car changed. I wanted a 500 plus horsepower engine so I could go racing and I wanted to make sure this car was going to be built right first time round. I made the decision to take my time, get things right and build the best quality car that I could, something that would look good, sound good and have more then enough power.