Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance winner probably isn’t the best way to introduce anybody in a rod magazine. But our pal Bob Owens isn’t just any ol’ body, either. Hell, sometimes he ain’t even Bob. More on his ’32 Ford roadster.
“Flattop,” as his friends know him, owns a Deuce that placed Third in the Historic Hot Rods class at last year’s event. Now, if the irony in that isn’t obvious, we’ll point it out: Concours typically isn’t the place for owners with working-class nicknames. But Flattop is, in fact, an heir: He presides over Owens Salvage Company, his family’s ancestral wrecking yard in the rolling hills east of Amarillo, Texas.
If you’re historically minded, you likely recognize the car from its spate of publicity it got in the early ’60s. tested Ian Cusey’s Jade Green Deuce in the July ’62 issue. Then it appeared magazine’s 1963 special .
