Cedric Meeks' 1931 Ford

Cedric entering the beach in Pismo during 2016 West Coast The Race of Gentlemen. Phoro courtesy of Cedric Meeks.

Cedric's Ford as it appeared after he completed the build in 2017. Photo by Wes Allison, courtesy of Hot Rod Network.

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1931 Ford Model A roadster owned and built by Estranged car club member Cedric Meeks of Portland, Oregon. Cedric found the car bone stock in Stan Ochs yard, and Stan told him that it was the body that Dee Wescott took molds off to make his fiberglass roadster bodies. Cedric's dad, Russ Meeks, worked for Dee in the 1960s, before he worked for Gene Winfield.

The same day as Cedric bought the roadster, his dad and some friends came over, and they began stripping the car down. They removed the hood, fenders, and running boards, and about a week later Cedric installed a set of bent-spoke Kelsey-Hayes wheels and straight pipe.

After driving the roadster like a prewar hop up for six months, Cedric sold it to buy his dad's old 1956 Chevrolet Nomad. The roadster went to a guy who worked with Russ. About a year later, in November of 2015, Cedric bought the roadster back.

Early in 2016 he decided to enter the roadster at the first West Coast Race of Gentlemen in Pismo, California. The previous owner had installed a dropped front axle. Cedric swapped the original rear end for a Halibrand quickchange, and he installed a 1939 Ford transmission. A Model B four-banger with a Miller-Schofield overhead-valve conversion was installed. The engine was also hopped up with dual Stromberg 81s, a Thomas intake, and a Charlie Yapp exhaust.

The body of the roadster was painted in a custom-mixed green hue that was based off Kevan Sledge's 1940 Mercury. The car was completed just in time for the 2016 Crusin' Nationals Santa Maria. In October he raced it at The Race of Gentlemen in Pismo.

While cleaning TROG off the car, Cedric decided that he wanted to take it to the Grand National Roadster Show. He also wanted it to be 100 percent finished for the show. That meant fabbing a hood, building top bows for a new top from Guy’s Interior Restorations, swapping out the tires and wheels for the whitewalls and Olds caps seen here, and then having Mitch Kim pinstripe the car, inside and out. The build was completed early in 2017, and it made its first public appearance at the 2017 Grand National Roadster Show.