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Horton Hot Rod History #7

More pictures from Terry Maxwell… check out the other gallery in the History section.

Terry “Zeke” Maxwell is an old friend of Paul and Dorothy’s. Terry built the Pinto motor in the track T that’s in some of these pictures, but he’s probably more well known for his performance Camaro business, Zeke’s Automotive Performance, as well as SLP. He’s now working with John Scotti Muscle Cars.

Recently, he started adding some old pictures of the early days in Montreal hot rodding… specifically the Wheels of Time car club circa 1974 or 1975. The highway shots were taken on the road from Montreal QC to Waterdown ON (about an 800 mile round trip), which would happen frequently.

: John Lepine

Horton Hot Rod History #5

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Someone paid top marketing dollars for pink and green caps. I wonder what’s happening these days that we’ll look back on and chuckle…

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Here’s Paul with the ’40 basically how it looks today. He looks pretty much the same too, if you were wondering.

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Paul & Dorothy Horton being inducted into the Canadian Street Rodding Hall of Fame, 1994.

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Dorothy now has a flat screen monitor and a black phone. She is still using the same calculator, and these pictures are still up in the Welder Series offices. This picture was taken in the first Horton Street Rod Parts location in Breslau, in the late 80′s.

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Yours truly chillin’ with the Root Bear. Is it weird that I still remember this? I was a lot more excited than I look in the picture… maybe I suddenly recognized the implications of being captured on film wearing socks and sandals.

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St. Paul Nationals, July ’89.

Horton Hot Rod History #4

This edition is going to focus on the two hiboy roadsters built by Paul Horton and Lloyd Stewart in the mid 80′s.

Chris Horton ready for a ride in the rumble seat. Looks like he got a bug in the teeth!

Pinched and bobbed frame rails with turn signals in the end, contour cut leaf spring liner… this is just a clean front end!

Hand formed 2×5 rails flow with the contour of the body, and also notice the front bars end at the hood line – the same way we still do our hiboy front four link kit.

Lloyd, Paul, and Dorothy with the ’29… probably at a show in SW Ontario.

The ’29 and ’32 in front of our old shop “up on the hill” in the same town we’re still in – Breslau, Ontario.

Paul and Lloyd, I think just after finishing the ’29. I say that because there’s still a tire sticker on the front tire, and the license plate isn’t “HORTON” yet.

Dorothy Horton driving in to Missouri with family friend Michelle. I bet the sticker is worn off the tire by now…

An unfortunate end for the ’29, but a fortunate (I use that term loosely) outcome for my brother and I. I think I mentioned this story in another post, but it’s worth repeating. We ALWAYS rode in the rumble seat on short trips as well as some longer ones. It was really fun – we could see the road wizzing by and feel the air through our hair. For this particular drive (a local poker run), my brother and I requested to ride with family friends in their ’48 Ford. It’s not too far of a stretch to wonder what you would be reading now if I had been in that rumble seat that day. You can barely see battery cable dangling out of the trunk in this picture; the battery was found way down the road. What you can’t see is the rumble seat lid (the seat back). Thankfully, Paul didn’t get hurt too badly…his leg got a bad bruise where it hit and bent the B&M shifter handle, and my mom only had a few broken ribs. The accident happened after a distracted driver in a late model T-boned the ‘29 on a highway.

Horton Hot Rod History #3

CSRA (Canadian Street Rod Association) member: Christopher Horton (my brother), age 1-1/2. 1977

The ’23 was sold – the almost twice-monthly ritual of driving to runs in Ontario with Paul in the ’23 and Christopher & Dorothy in the late model grew old! A ’46 Ford was purchased in Louisville in Spring ’77.

It started like this in a garage in Montreal.

He’s really serious!

Mini-showroom and product display, Breslau Ontario, early 1979.

Circa 1984?

Horton Hot Rod History, part 2

Captioned by Dorothy Horton:

All our honeymoon pictures are like this!
Frame Grinding
If there was only a quality street rod shop in Canada… shouldn’t have to grind these welds.
27 T 01
Finally! Our track ’23 T built in Montreal – 1975
27 T 02
Driven to Louisville KY & many runs in S. Ontario from Montreal, 1975/76
Montreal to Louisville 01

Montreal to Louisville 02
Montreal to Louisville… camping, no top, Dorothy pregnant, Paul got pneumonia.

A Little Horton Hot Rod History

I came across these scans tonight and thought it would be fun to post them, just for you to see some of what the family’s been up to for the past 30+ years.

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One of “the twins”, a pair of trick hiboy roadsters built in the 80′s by Paul Horton and Lloyd Stewart. This ’32 is still seen at Louisville.

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Paul & Dorothy Horton with me in the ’29 in the mid 80′s.

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The same ’29 on hand formed 2×4 rails matching the contour of the body. This car had an unfortunate end in a cemetery after being T-boned during a poker run. You can call it luck if you must, but for some reason my brother and I (who ALWAYS rode in the rumble seat) asked to ride in a ’46 sedan with friends. After the accident, the battery (strapped down in the floor of the rumble seat) was found way down the road. I don’t call it luck.

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A ’23 T Bucket that kind of started the whole parts business. This car was built in a Montreal garage by Paul and Dorothy Horton. There are tonnes of trick parts on this car!

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The current (well, it hasn’t been on the road in three years) ’40 Sedan is the car I remember traveling to events in as a kid. With over 90 000 miles, we made quite a few!

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The 1935 Chev built between the cherry tree and the apple tree in Paul Horton’s parents back yard.

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My brother and I before we were made redundant by pin-ups. I’m the cute blond making the bird face.

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