Isky and His Roadster, Part 2
Let’s wrap up our look at Isky … the man, the car, and the business in this issue’s closing feature.
“Every time we went out and drove the car or ran it for top speed we learned a lot about what worked and what didn’t—remember we were still teenagers attending the colleges of hard knocks.” Style or styling wasn’t initially important, so he ran the car with no grille, only a radiator mounted up in front of the Flathead V-8, which is what it looked like when he road tripped to Mexico. He finally decided the car needed a face, but didn’t want to go the common routes of either a polished brass model T grille shell or 1932 Ford shell and grille; Isky wanted something totally unique for his car. He recalls, “Back then you could buy nearly any grille shell and insert for $7 to $8.” While trolling a junkyard the nose of a car caught his eye, an early ’30s Pontiac. He liked the shape and detailing of the grille, but didn’t want to run a
