Tony La Mesa's '32 Ford roadster became special to me once it was painted in its current emerald green with white interior and Corvette V-8.
Driving cross-country in a hot rod is good. Driving to the Street Rod Nats is great. Doing it all in the Doane Spencer/Neal East Deuce highboy roadster is priceless.
The line between sports car and hot rod was erased with the advent of the Deucari and hot rodding has never looked back.
If there can be such a thing as a quintessential hot rod, then the McMullen Deuce highboy roadster will be found as the definition in any rodder's dictionary.