cowboy76
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After reading some interviews from old hpt rodders back in the 1930s, it was said that guys would buy white "butcher's caps" because they were cheap, and after they got dirty they'd throw them away and buy new ones.
The only "white" caps I see in photos in the books I have dealin with hot rodding on the dry lakes of California during the 1930s and early 40s are white "Newsboy" caps,....no other caps that are white at all.
The only other caps are beanies, usually wool ones to keep warm in the early morning and late evening hours when they'd camp out there.
Is anyone else familiar with this terminology? I want to know I'm either correct or msitaken here,...and then learn from there on in. Thanks!
The only "white" caps I see in photos in the books I have dealin with hot rodding on the dry lakes of California during the 1930s and early 40s are white "Newsboy" caps,....no other caps that are white at all.
The only other caps are beanies, usually wool ones to keep warm in the early morning and late evening hours when they'd camp out there.
Is anyone else familiar with this terminology? I want to know I'm either correct or msitaken here,...and then learn from there on in. Thanks!