Waiting Its Turn

INTENTIONALLY HIDDEN FOR DECADES, THIS HISTORIC AND PRESERVED EAST COAST HOT ROD WAS LOST UNTIL DAVID SIMARD FOUND IT.

- TIM BERNSAU

There’s a rod shop about an hour west of Boston called East Coast Custom where David Simard and his team build hot rods for customers. The Leominster, Massachusetts, shop also features a spectacular barnful of David’s own iron, traditional prewar Fords mostly, collected over the past several years and in various stages of progress.

We’ve talked about David Simard’s East Coast Custom before. On our website last year, we featured a 1933 Ford five-window coupe called The Devil’s Coupe, a surviving ’30sera hot rod that had been out of commission for more than 50 years before being revived and put back on the street in perfect period unrestored condition.

If The Devil’s Coupe had a brother, it’d be this channeled 1933 roadster—another perfectly preserved piece of hot rod history—with a pedigree just as impressive and a personality just as wicked as the coupe.