Living Art

CARTOON. All of Lance Sorchik’s projects start out as whimsical drawings. This off-the-hook cargo hauler was on hold for 14 years while Lance and Diane built a new home, tied up loose ends on their other hot rods, and concluded respective careers as high-school art teachers (their day jobs for 30-plus years). Upon retirement in 2009, they exhaled and pulled out their checklist. Item Number One was assembling the pile of parts destined for a daily-driver parts chaser. They’d envisioned it two decades earlier, while blasting cross-country in their Jersey Suede ’34 coupe at speed—stripped naked to survive a monster Midwest heat wave. “It made a big difference and helped us survive the ordeal,” Lance recalls of rodding in the buff. “The chop is so radical on the coupe that no one could see inside it, anyhow, so, what the hell?”

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Photo Gallery: 1929 Ford Truck – Living Art – Hot Rod Deluxe Magazine