Roger Honey's 1950 Chevrolet

1950 Chevrolet coupe owned by Roger Honey of San Diego, California. In 2015 Roger told Kustomrama that a fellow named Gordy in El Cajon helped him restyle the coupe; "There was an older body man named Gordy that lived next door to my aunt Margie out in El Cajon. I would go over and talk to him about body work & paint work when I would visit her. During our conversations I told him what I wanted to do to my Chevy but was still in high school with a part time job and didn’t have a lot of money. He said he liked my car interest enthusiasm, and that he could help me out with the small stuff when he had time, but I would need to help him. We nosed and deckedit one Saturday using lead, I was like a frigging sponge soaking in as much info as I could. I bought the paint at his cost, and did all of the sanding and prep work, we used old newspapers to mask the car off. I was in hog heaven doing body work, helping on my Chevy, and he sprayed it at the body shop one Sunday morning. My old man highly encouraged me, that means yelling at me, to sell that damn hot rod 40 Ford and stop putting money in it for all of that drag racing I used to do, and put my money into something reliable, like a nice stock car. He told my mom that the kid has finally come to his senses when I bought the Chevy, I had it for a 3 week until I had enough money to lower it. In one weekend it went from a stock height 50 Chevy to an in the mud, mud ride an 1 ½ off the ground. I remember driving up in front of my parent’s house one Sunday evening just before dusk and the old man was standing in the front window watching me drive up. My sister said he was so pissed off when he saw what I had done to the Chevy he threw down the Sunday paper and Yelled to my mom; "That God Damn kid will never learn", but It was my money that I had worked for and he couldn’t say much about how is spent it. He didn’t talk to me for a month after that."