Any history help for this Roadster/Lakester?

[Bebe]

Hi all,

My name is Bebe. My Dad is Don Canepa of Watsonville CA. Some of you may have known him. Well, I'm sorry to say, he passed away in January. However, he left us some seriously fun stuff.

We are struggling with identifying this Roadster/Lakester and some folks over at the H.A.M.B. suggested that this site would be helpful in piecing together the history of it.

I would be most grateful for your assistance or direction.

What I know:

It's Yellow
It's a #36 car
It may have been built by Carl Kershing (sp?) in Salinas
It may be a 1926-27 model T with a 23 turtle deck - louvered
It may have been run in Bonneville in 55--56-57
It's not for sale

We are hoping to find photos or stories about it. Our plan is to possibly put it back together, as it was my Dad's project he did not get to complete.









It's a basket case now and we have most of the parts. The Wayne Head for it is registered at 12 port history on inliners, that's where we got the information we have now.

We are excited to get started on it.

Thank you,


Bebe

[Tman]

Glad you made it over here! This board moves a little slower due to size but I am sure you will get some answers from this crowd!

[38flattie]

Hey, it's the rootbeer girl!

Welcome to the board, and good luck on your search. Shoot Glen a PM-if he doesn't know, he can probably point you in the right direction.

[Bob Drury]

  Bebe, the first thing you need to do is call Gary Cope who lives in Auburn, a long time Bville racer and record holder with a GMC motor.
  Gary is a great guy (don't tell him I said that) and his phone number is ........ get this, (530) 8898GMC.
  p.s. His other great love (besides his beautiful wife) is Early Olds motors which is the 8898 in the phone number.
  double p.s.   He is a beer moocher, so be forwarned..............

[55chevr]

BeBe,
I sent the link from the hamb to Glen ... now he can see it first hand ... Joe

[Glen]

Joe, I will get to it right now the house and my office is tore up getting ready for new carpet so I can't get to my files.

[55chevr]

Glen - you have earned the reputation as the historical expert on all things Bonneville ...

[Bebe]

Hey, it's the rootbeer girl!

Welcome to the board, and good luck on your search. Shoot Glen a PM-if he doesn't know, he can probably point you in the right direction.

That's right! And you better not stiff me on the Tommy Knockers 

This is getting really exciting 

[Bebe]

  Bebe, the first thing you need to do is call Gary Cope who lives in Auburn, a long time Bville racer and record holder with a GMC motor.
  Gary is a great guy (don't tell him I said that) and his phone number is ........ get this, (530) 8898GMC.
  p.s. His other great love (besides his beautiful wife) is Early Olds motors which is the 8898 in the phone number.
  double p.s.   He is a beer moocher, so be forwarned..............

Good! we have lot's of Beer  I'll give him a call.

Bebe

[Bebe]

Can I ask a 'dumb" question? since I have only seen this car in the trailer...is it a rear or front engine?

It looks front to me...but I don't know what the hole is for in the read deck lid.

I have a bunch more photos, I'll post them.

[Bebe]

[Peter Jack]

Front engined. The hole in the deck is probably for a fuel filler.

Looks like you have a really nice start for a restoration project.

Good luck with it!

Pete

[Bebe]

Question is - Preservation or Restoration....?

[Peter Jack]

Why not assemble all the parts you've got before you make a decision? That way you'd know what parts you need and the scope of the project before you start a full restoration.

Peter

[Moxnix]

Preservation.  But that's just my opinion.