Bos and '29 Ford At Bob Hardee Photo Shoot 1961

The skirt may have mentioned, at some point on this blog, that this spring friend and customer Paul Bos and his wife Sallie are packing up their stuff to get the hell out of Idaho for warmer climes. In doing the packing, Paul came across these professional photographs of himself and his roadster taken in 1961 by Bob Hardee, a popular California freelance hot rod photographer. Paul told us he was tooling around in his roadster, "making the scene" in southern California when this bus driver pulled up alongside of him and said, "Hey kid, you want your car in a hot rod magazine?" This guy told Paul to do the shoot he had to, "get a hair cut and buy some white slacks." "I really wanted to be in the magazines, so I did what I was told even though I wasn't sure who he was and I only wore jeans and a dirty tee shirts. The barber cut my pompadour and I went to Sears for my first pair of dress pants," said Paul. He soon learned this white-pants-loving bus driver was hot rod photographer Bob Hardee. Paul's story made Hot Rod magazine. Cover of Hot Rod magazine, August 1961. Paul and the red roadster are near the bottom of the picture.

The car also made the first volume of Hot Rod Yearbook which show cased the finest hot rods on the planet in 1961.
(I know it's not a very good scan of the Yearbook page, but I didn't want to risk breaking the binding.)

Here's what it reads - At 21 years, Paul Bos is an old timer. This is his sixth road rod. Chassis refinement list: '32 front suspension, '40 brakes, '56 pickup steering box and '40 rear end with 4.44:1 gears, all FoMoCo branded. Born in Hawaii, Bos drew from nine years experience in hot rodding, wisely selecting '29 Ford-Chevy V8 combo as not only a good running team but shrewd investment as well. Stock body was wisely retained, enhanced by Jeep lights, Ford wheels; 15x5.90's, 8.20's.

This was just the first of many magazine articles written about Paul and his hot rods.