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At
my Gramma's house in Temple City, Ca, as a kid I used to catch
Horn Toads...I thought they looked really neat, kind of like
very small dinosaurs. I used to gently stroke their horny
little bodies and watch them nod off to sleep as their eye
lids closed. So naturally, many years later, I thought a neat
name like Horn Toad could apply to a wild show rod design.
The genesis for this design started with a sketch I had done
in one of my Sketchpad articles for Rod & Custom Magazine
in the '60's. The idea popped up again some years later when
I was hot and heavy into the Monogram design programs. I very
much liked the Poncho Slant-6 motor and played with it by
laying it over to the right at about 45 degrees, and adding
cool looking exhaust headers and adding Weber Jugs to the
intake manifold. The windshield 'A' pillars were designed
to have that "horny" look and were connected to the doors...the
whole assembly tilting forward for entry/egress. My "Ultra"
wide wheels and low profile tires provided the "far-out" look
I wanted.
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