Remember back in middle school when your English teacher told you that speeling wuz importnant? Stephen Salata recently found that out when he discovered that the car he recently bought – which he believed was built by a man named Robert Rader when Stephen submitted it to the Lost and Found column in Hemmings Classic Car (HCC #71) – was actually built by Robert Roeder, a Mack employee from Emmaus, Pennsylvania, who in the late 1940s set to customizing his 1934 Ford with a channeled body, 1940 Ford fenders and parts from various Studebakers, Macks and Packards. Thus, Stephen now knows a little more of the car’s history, compiled over on Kustomrama.com, and he plans to soon visit Roeder’s brother and widow to find out more about the car’s history.
Stephen also wrote us to let us know that the car’s now undergoing a restoration, and that he plans to wrap up the restoration in time to display the Roeder at the Detroit Autorama later this month.
