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Editor's Bench:
Hilo Hot Rod Legends
Follow up
By
Danny
Sachs
Honolulu
Streets Magazine.
Hilo,
Hawaii. Its been a month since I posted Hilo Hot Rod Legends
and
the Road Devils Connection and hope you enjoyed it.
While I was compiling the story, I
spoke to some of the greatest guys I have ever met
from Hawaii over the phone and want to thank everyone for their time, patients, and
remarkable kindness they showed towards me a complete stranger who
called from out of the blue to ask a bunch of questions (repeatedly)
about their past and a questionable 39 Ford custom that was built
some fifty years ago.
Heres briefly how the whole story
came about.
I got an email with a small picture
attached from John Plummer, a close Road Devil car club associate,
who said the whole club was looking for a 1939 Ford custom
convertible that might have been built in Hawaii sometime around the
1940s and asked if I knew anything about it.
From that point on, I began to dig up bits and
pieces of what looked like a good story for Honolulu Streets
magazine. But with each additional piece of information I was able
to find, the more I realized that there was much more to that 39
than just a great story.
Anyway, if you happen to read it, I think youd agree that the folks involved are all heroes
one way or another, and I want to again thank each and every one of
them starting with John Plummer. If it werent for John, I would have
never known about the Road Devils Hawaii chapter in the
first place or that cool 39 Ford. Thanks man.
Then, there are those very polite and
engaging Big Island folks who made the story come alive.
MAHALO TO:
Joe Correa - Hawaii Road Devils
car club creator, for photos and lots of details.
Joe and Elaine Correia
pictures and info.
Larry Ignacio for lots of
info and vital phone numbers.
Robert "Papio" Kaluna for
supplying photos, much of the story and great conversation.
Tony and Paula Rodrigues for
confirming the whole story, photo scans and a generous offer.
Mahalo, I wont forget it.
And thanks to Paul Maddox the editors editor for
adding his "2’ in colors."
Aloha
a Hui Hou,
If it happened on the streets of Hawaii,
you just might hear it first in Honolulu Streets.
Hawaii's Hot Rod and Automotive News Magazine.
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