Jocko Johnson Streamliner on eBay

[4-barrel Mike]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Hot-Rod-32-Ford-Flathead-Bonneville-Streamliner-SCTA_W0QQitemZ200232650886QQihZ010QQcategoryZ10076QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Mike

[aircap]

Wow. Never seen that one before.

[Bville701]

That's pretty cool.

I wonder how this person got the car?

[Dave Haller]

Wow, if I wasn't so caught up in my own deal I'd have to seriously look at buying that piece.

[pookie]

I am going to question the ebay sellers claim that this car was crafted by Jocko Johnson. I could be wrong and will welcome the correction, but I think the car was built in the late 60's early 70s' and "Jocko" was long gone from racing by then. The front wheel drive and use of chrome moly tubing are also afactor in dating the car. The body design is from that 70's and later design used quite a bit then. Jack Costella's 1st Neb Thureum[spelling in latin is tough}car body has that look, but is from fiberglass and is on the roof of his shop last time I looked. I think "Jocko" built some of his cars from aluminum, I am going to say 2, maybe 3 but I'm not sure. The "Jazzy Nelson dragster, Garlits wynncharger and perhaps Dean Moons car. I do know he built glass  bodies, and I have heard he still has the molds. This is all from memory and from a guy who can't remember what he had for lunch today so cut me a little slack. But if anyone out there has the real "skinney" I sure would like to know. Thanks Mike R.

[willieworld]

robert jocko johnson was a head porter he built  and owned the car that jazzy jim nelson drove-- the car was constructed from fiberglass--  the next car he built was made from aluminum finished in 1964 and driven by emery cook known as the thunder car  i read that in a book somewhere  willie buchta

[Dean Los Angeles]

Jocko's latest
http://outside.away.com/outside/magazine/0899/9908jocko.html
http://www.kerosenebomb.com/html//29palms.html

[Ratliff]

I am going to question the ebay sellers claim that this car was crafted by Jocko Johnson. I could be wrong and will welcome the correction, but I think the car was built in the late 60's early 70s' and "Jocko" was long gone from racing by then. The front wheel drive and use of chrome moly tubing are also afactor in dating the car. The body design is from that 70's and later design used quite a bit then. Jack Costella's 1st Neb Thureum[spelling in latin is tough}car body has that look, but is from fiberglass and is on the roof of his shop last time I looked. I think "Jocko" built some of his cars from aluminum, I am going to say 2, maybe 3 but I'm not sure. The "Jazzy Nelson dragster, Garlits wynncharger and perhaps Dean Moons car. I do know he built glass  bodies, and I have heard he still has the molds. This is all from memory and from a guy who can't remember what he had for lunch today so cut me a little slack. But if anyone out there has the real "skinney" I sure would like to know. Thanks Mike R.

Some structural upgrades were done by Gene Burkland to the car on eBay several years ago.

The 1958 drag liner driven by Jim Nelson was a fiberglass body. The car on display at Garlits' museum is the original chassis with a recreation of the body.

The car sold to Dean Moon was an aluminum body.

The Wynn's Liner (Swamp Rat #17) was another fiberglass body.

Also on display at Garlits' museum is a conventional slingshot Top Fuel dragster with a full streamliner fiberglass body by Jocko.

[Stainless1]

Dean, cool articles..... Thanks for the links

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Thanks, Mike, for posting links, not entire articles.  You get two attaboys today.

[Seldom Seen Slim]

I must admit that I erred -- first time since that once, long ago, when I thought I was mistaken.  Anyway, I just got this in a PM from Mike:

"I merely posted the link to the auction.  DEAN posted the article links."

So much for attribution to the wrong person.  But hey, I tried. . .

[LSL]

Jocko and Joanie Johnson called me yesterday about this streamliner on eBay. I have a bunch of photos taken during the construction of the "liner by Jocko but don't know how, or if they can be loaded to this forum discussion.  Jocko began building this 'liner at his shop in Capistrano Beach and almost finished it at his new shop in Twentynine Palms before it was taken away on Easter Sunday 1988 by George Cromer. Jocko and I are working up a full report, but the core of the story -- according to Jocko --  is that although Cromer paid for most of the parts, he simply ran off with the car and never paid Jocko for any of his labor.

[aircap]

I noticed it brought almost $26,000 for the winning bid.
Wanna bet it shows up in the tech line this August?

[Glen]

It needs a lot of upgrades including a 4th or 2nd. rear wheel to run as a car.

[Ratliff]

It needs a lot of upgrades including a 4th or 2nd. rear wheel to run as a car.

It's got four wheels.

Somebody would have to check to see how long it's record stayed on the books, but for many years the Summers brother "Polywog" held an SCTA C/Streamliner record even though its wheels didn't even form a trapezoid, as its rear wheels were all on the same track. The "Polywog" was grandfathered through so many rules changes it ended up holding the C/Blown Fuel Streamliner record at 308.941 mph even though that class didn't even exist when the Summers brothers built the car!

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