![]() Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse World of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck Land of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion, mickey mouse, heroes, text, logo png 650x421px 232.75KB.Bowser Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, bowser, heroes, super Mario Bros, carnivoran png 2716x3620px 1.65MB Nintendo Bowser illustration, Super Mario Bros.Mickey Mouse Walt Disney World Disneyland D23 The Walt Disney Company, mickey mouse, heroes, disney Princess, fictional Character png 600圆00px 379.76KB.3 Super Mario 3D World, Block, angle, heroes, super Mario Bros png 570x550px 279.23KB yellow cube, Super Mario 3D Land Super Mario Bros.Mickey Mouse Illustrator Digital illustration Illustration, Monster Mickey Mouse, comics, heroes, logo png 600x777px 224.48KB.Mickey Mouse Cartoon The Walt Disney Company, Mickey window background, Mickey Mouse club house, template, computer Wallpaper, grass png 4200x2700px 4.95MB.Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse Cinderella Castle Minnie Mouse Silhouette, mickey mouse, heroes, text, logo png 1013圆97px 35.14KB.There are flecks of Oregon mud and holes from cutoff wheel sparks in Missouri. I’ve worn it while riding my chopper, racing my roadster and just about everywhere else one can wear a hat. It kept me out of the sun at the RPM Nationals one week and at The Race of Gentlemen the next. It’s traveled with me across the country time and time again. Since then, the hat has become part of my regular uniform. When it was all said and done, we had a quintet of RF Hats. With music playing, snacks and drinks in rotation, and chunks of felt flying, it was a party that I’m sure Large Father himself would have dug. On a late summer evening, me, her, and my brother sat down at a picnic table in my brother’s backyard in Lansing and got to work. That gave us even more time to customize.Īnd customize we did. I had figured we would handle assembly when I arrived back home but, much to my surprise, she had already finished the basic forms by the time I walked in the door. Felt, pens, markers, scissors, leather laces, and some really good fabric glue. Old ads, snapshots, artifacts, you name it. Without hesitation, she dove right in.įirst, she collected inspiration. “Let’s make them when I get there!” I said. I called my mom-a master seamstress-and introduced the idea. I remember reading about them in The Rodder’s Journal and Pat Ganahl’s Roth book when I was a kid, but I had never seen a real one.Īs luck would have it, this plan was unfolding as I was preparing to leave for Michigan. These hats were sold in the Missouri Ozarks and other popular tourist locations back in the ’50s-’60s. Silly hats? What kind of hat would a hot rodder wear? There was one clear choice: a “Rat Fink Hat,” a la Ed “Big Daddy” Roth.Īlthough their exact origin may have been lost to time, rumor has it that they’re based on the old felt souvenir hats like the one below. I thought back to our phone call from more than a year prior. Being the great friend that he is, he agreed. ![]() Seeing that I only have a one-car garage here in the city, I reached out to David about teaming up and wrenching on it at his shop. Once I got the car running and driving, I began thinking about the next steps. ![]() Later that summer, I started stitching together my Model A roadster. Nonetheless, I took that tidbit of information and stashed it somewhere deep in the back of my mind. “If we’re going to work on your car at my shop, we’re going to need silly hats.” That’s a direct quote from my pal David di Falco from the spring of 2020.
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