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A Date with Dad's Deuce.(Column)
Byline: Curt Catallo
Clarence "Chili'' Catallo's first car was a 1932 Ford DeLuxe Coupe. It had been a veritable flowerpot behind a gas station across the street from my grandparents' market in Taylor, Michigan, when he bought it in 1955. Of course, that's not how I saw it. As a kid, I saw it as the pearled and candied House of Kolor Oriental Blue beast on the cover of the Beach Boys album hanging in a dusty corner of the garage. I saw my dad's first car for what it had become-the Little Deuce Coupe.
I knew, early on, that the guy whose hands were tinkering with the three Stromberg 97s on the album cover was my dad. While he didn't have a shrine built for his first love (apart from an apple crate of dismantled Autorama trophies), he referred to being cropped out of one of the most famous album covers in history by saying he was "three inches from being famous.'' For Chili, it was always about the coupe, anyway.
It was a car my dad took through every incarnation and which in turn became him incarnate. When the bell rang at Dearborn High, he would make a bee-line for the Alexander Brothers' shop in Southfield, Michigan. If the Alexander Brothers had ...
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