Solid & Striped
You’ve probably been following the progress of the Lokar/Street Rodder Road Tour 1934 Ford coupe throughout the year. The stunning black and gray 1934 Ford 3-window is finally finished, photographed, and revealed right here.
“It seems like just yesterday that we set out on the highway in a blue 1933 Ford coupe with white racing stripes.” –Jerry Dixey, Road Tour director, 1996-2020
In 1996, the idea of building a street rod and driving it all over the country wasn’t really that radical; that’s been the point of the street rodding since the earliest days. But Street Rodder magazine commissioning a car built entirely from aftermarket parts and then putting it on the road for three months was definitely ambitious.
That very first Street Rodder Road Tour car was a beauty—a Redneck fiberglass-bodied 1933 Ford 3-window coupe, built at Lobeck’s Hot Rod Shop in Cleveland, Ohio. The eye-catching paint job was a combo of PPG Bonneville Blue and a couple of wide white racing stripes running the length of the car. The coupe would have been a smash hit on the car show circuit, trailered from venue to venue for pampered celebrity
