For almost 30 year , Jerry Kugel provided the means for rodders to twit in comfort . Now , with hot rod like the Muroc Roadsters , he helps them ride in style .
Kugel started sell Jaguar independent rearsuspensionkits for live rods in 1969 through his La Habra , California , society Kugel Komponents . He grow legion other hot retinal rod - specific parts over the years , always test them soundly on his own ' 32 Ford buggy first .
Kugel took the development cognitive process one step further in the early nineties , when he began offering stark Deuce roadster based on stretched - wheelbase Zipper fibreglass bodies .
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In 2001 , Kugel upped the ante even further with his stock of full - fendered and fenderless Muroc roadsters . From the outset , the programme was to work up ten of each body style . As of early 2006 , the fenderless cars were sold out and five of the full - fendered cars remained .
Muroc Roadster vendee get steel - bodied rollers with autonomous suspensions ; the customer chooses his ownengine , pigment , and upholstery . The steel bodies are n’t just gunstock reproduction . Kugel attempt out noted raging retinal rod illustrator Thom Taylor and Chip Foose to help design a stylise body , then commission Marcel DeLay at Marcel ’s Custom Metal in Corona , California , to manufacture the bodies .
Marcel and his Word , Luc and Marc , made a straightforward sword - tubing sawhorse for usance as a templet while bending the eubstance venire , then put more than 500 hours of oeuvre into each consistence . All of the panels are steel , except the hoods , which are aluminum . Dan Fink Metalworks stainless sword grille inserts dispatch the tone .
chip shot Foose also facilitate project the frames . Kugel Komponents builds each 112 - in - wheelbase inning from a set of SAC Hot Rod Products rails . Kugel parts can be found throughout each car . Kugel independent front and rear suspension provide a fluid drive , and the DuVall - style windshield frames were developed in - house .
All of this skilled manus manufacture does n’t come gaudy . The highboys run $ 75,000 each , and customer pay $ 110,000 for a full - fendered car .
The car sport here is the property of Nick Barron of Irwindale , California . Nick own Hallett Boats , a high - performance boat manufacturer . Forty year building ultraluxury boats has facilitate him germinate an eye for excogitation . He also own the full - fendered version .
consequently , Nick made every conclusion along the style to completing both cars , and enlisted the help of several people to realize his visual sense . His industry connexion land him a distich of Corvette 350 - Criminal Investigation Command LS1 engine and 4L60Eautomatic transmissions .
Mike ’s Street Rods of Hesperia , California , completed the bodywork and applied the custom - coalesce bright - carmine pigment . Gabe ’s Custom Interiors of San Bernadino stitched the beige leather DoI . Boyd Coddington wheels were used on the fendered car , and a set of Budniks was prefer for the highboy .
singular headlights were select from motorcycle - light manufacturer Joker Machine . Headwinds of Monrovia , California , provide the fendered auto ’s sparkle .
After six months of operose and demand body of work , both railroad car move around out to be jaw - droppingly beautiful . The full - fendered car has the hardware to prove it , too . It won the America ’s Most Beautiful Street Rod award at the Pleasanton , California , West Coast Nationals in August 2001 .
