Rooster Rodeo, Coyote Pass & Bob's Oil Well

[Bob Boze Bell]

February 1, 2013

Much calmer in our chicken coop after Betsy The Chicken Lady and Tom Augherton had a rooster rodeo a couple days ago and carted off four of my five roosters. Lost two hens from over use if you know what I mean and I think you do.

The first of two hens killed "in the line of duty."

 

Working on a variety of fronts today. Here's a little study I whipped out this morning before I came into work today.

 

Daily Whipout #117, "South of Coyote Pass"

 

Speaking of Coyote Pass west of Beale Springs and Kingman, Arizona, I want to illustrate Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassaday plowing through the back roads of America and on one of their many trips they are driving a 1947 Hudson, I believe it is. Found this old photo on the cover of a new book—"History Along The Way: Stories Beyond The Texas Roadside Markers" by Dan Utley and Cynthia Beeman:

 

Besides the great service station in the background—Bob's Oil Well—and the two babes on the front fender, is this, in fact a Hudson? I'm not too good on those forties rides. Thanks.

 

"Neal's soul was wrapped in a fast car, a coast to reach, and a woman at the end."

—Jack Kerouac, "On The Road"

 

 

[Stan H]

BBB

I believe that is a '47 Pontiac "sedanette"

 

http://www.carnut.com/show/00/spf/nat416.jpg

[JimB]

BBB

I'm with Stan on that...

The Pontiac has the roof line of the Chevy Aerocoupe:

http://www.rmauctions.com/images/cars/DS10/DS10_r085_03.jpg

and the Hudson was more like this:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3015/2770863080_0635bc68c1.jpg

[anthony martin]

  Bob,

   Stan is right,but it could just as well be a "46 or"48.What I can say with certainty is that it is the deluxe model,probably a Silver Streak-note the three chrome strips on the lower fenders.The 1946 and 1947 Hudsons had a weird grille with a kicked in center.

[Bob Boze Bell]

Thanks guys. For some reason I was thinking the Hudson had a bathtub roof line, no? Here's a Hudson 1947 Coup, thanks to JimB:

[Jim Holden]

We had a '49 Pontiac "Straight 8" as our first family car in Edmond, OK.  I believe, based on my memories, that the car in the pic is indeed a Pontiac.  That "fastback" style is very distinctive  BTW, I crashed that Pontiac into a telephone pole, while temporarily distracted by several pretty girls, and suffered no injuries.  There was 8 feet of telephone pole under the car.  I always attributed it to that massive Straight 8 Engine in the front - I was 15 and my Mom got so mad at me she left to visit my Sister in California for a month....Ouch!

[Bob Boze Bell]

Jim, I think you can safely file that mishap under "Driving While Erect", which when you think about it, is how we all drove in those long ago days.

[Jim Holden]

The 1946-47 Hudson was a more traditional car.  The design changed in 1948-49 and onward to the more "fastback" look below.

[Bob Boze Bell]

Got it! Yes, that is the body style I remember (the bottom bathtub version). Thanks. So, it seems odd to me that Neil Cassaday and Jack Kerouac are slamming down the roads of the west in that top car. Just seems a bit gangsterish to me, and not at all James Dean-ish, doesn't it?

[Jim Holden]

Yea, the older car is definitely more "Bonnie & Clyde", while any of us in the '50's would have killed for that 1949 Hudson, with the classic white sidewalls and the "skirts" on the wheel wells in the rear.  That "bathtub" design was all the rage....with our white t-shirts, cigs rolled into the sleeves, our jeans and white socks with Penny Loafers (no tennis shoes in those days!).  
Although I usually wore my "motorcycle boots" (sometimes called Wellington Boots) as you usually could find me riding this - the one I had was a 1949 darker green. (God Bless James Dean):  

[Stan H]

Jim

wonderful bike,,, I rode a TR Bonnie,,, and wore "engineerer boots."