Within the last couple of years we have lost both of these magazine alums. Tex Smith with the screwdriver, was a HOT ROD staffer for years before venturing out on his own, to help start both Street Rodder Magazine, and Rod Action Magazine back in the 1970s. On the right is Bill Neumann, who was editor of Rod & Custom when this shot was taken in 1964, and went on to found Neuspeed in Camarillo, California, in the 1970s. The former Smith 1934 Ford Phaeton they are admiring survives, currently in the stable of Mel Taormino, who has owned the tub for almost 50 years. The Olds was yanked in the late-1960s for small block Ford power, and the car has been completely rebuilt in the last few years to its current black and bad persona.
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