| This 1936 Plymouth was bought on e-bay out of Dallas Texas. It's black and turquoise in color with a grey cloth interior. The engine is a Chevy 327, with a turbo 350 tranny and a 10 bolt differential.
It is an award winner with the "People's Choice at Jimmy Carter Benefit Show. It also has taken 1st place at Haxton Co. Old Fashion Saturday Night.
After flying to Texas to get the car, the car lost the alternator and battery in B.F.Kansas! It was towed 40 miles to Grainfield Kansas where it had a new battery and alt put in by the local tow truck driver and Napa owner. Butch told me that the tow truck driver also had a wall of shame with pictures of various broken down hot rods. Butch mentioned that he knew several owners of those hot rods that had issues.
A little extra from the old site...
Q. What is your name?
A. Butch Lapp, wife Tracy, and kids - daughter Jamie 16, son Jake 12, stepson Jim 15, and stepdaughter Jessica 20.
Q. How many years have you been a ColoRODan?
A. I have been with the ColoRODan's for five years
Q. If you own a classic automobile, what kind is it? Describe it.
A. I own a '36 Plymouth coupe which is turquoise and black in color. It has a 327 Chevy engine and a turbo 350 transmission with a GM 10 bolt rear differential. The interior is gray tweed with AC/heat, digital dash and a CD player.
Q. What made you want to join the club?
A. I started working for Mike Wells in His machine shop. He had a '37 ford coupe, and I had been working on a 40 Chevy sedan. He invited me to attend a meeting and then a friend of mine, Tim Seger, joined. I purchased a drivable '37 ford coupe off of eBay and joined soon after also.
Q. How did you get interested in classic cars?
A. I have always like cars. I guess I’m not sure why other than my grandfather and father were always working on ours and I would help them. My Grandma said that when I was little I always said I would own a Blue Camaro. Well, when I was 17, I bought a blue '67 Camaro from Hezz Performance in Sterling, Colorado. It had a straight 6 and three-speed manual converted to a floor shifter. It was a fast little car. I would race some of my buddies on the dump road in sterling. They had small blocks and I would be right there with them at the finish line. I later took the 375 hp 327 and turbo 400 out of my moms '67 Chevy Caprice and rebuilt them and put them in the Camaro with the help of my grandfather. That made it scoot! The police agreed. (Spent my 18th birthday in jail — don’t ask!)
Q. What was the first car you owned (or thought you owned)?
A. The first car I had was my Mom’s hand me down '67 Chevy caprice. (At least it was a 2 door) It was a nice first car. It was brown with a black vinyl top. It didn’t take me long to burn up the new Michelin tires my dad had put on it. (Boy was he mad!) It was a power braking monster! I would go buy used tires at the junk yard and mount them in my high school auto mechanics class and smoke them until they would blow up. My dad had seen me one night leaving the McDonalds parking lot in Sterling, burning out with studded snows on. He said sparks were flying. (dumb kid!) He was so proud - NOT!!!
Q. Describe a fun time you’ve had in a car.
A. Fun times when I was in high school and everyone cruised up and down Main Street in Sterling. There would be cars two wide bumper to bumper all night. I sometimes would put 100 miles on my car in one night just cruising.
Q. What is the most memorable car you’ve ever driven
A. I would say my '28 model A sedan. It was a fun car and the rice boys would always try to get you to race. Having tags on it that said SMOKDYA didn’t help I guess.
Q. What do you do for a living? Describe a typical work day.
A. I am currently a model maker machinist at Maxtor. I create small and intricate parts from blue prints. Usually out of aluminum, stainless steel, and plastics.
Q. What is your family like?
A. My family is a typical “combined” family. My wife Tracy is the Weld County Jury Commissioner. We have known each other since we were babies. Our fathers went to school together in Iliff, Colorado, and then when they both got out of the Air Force, we lived next to each other in Tracy’s grandma’s rental houses. We went from grade school through high school in the same schools. We never hung out together in school. She was a cowgirl and I was a party animal/car nut. Then fate brought us together again when I was buying some cowboy boots at corral west ranch wear store in Fort Collins. She was working there at night and we started dating and got married in November.
Q. What is your garage like?
A. A big mess! Tracy’s grandma passed away, and so did my dad. So we have a lot of excess stuff right now. I have plans for a shed in my future or a sale!
Q. What is your funniest memory from being in ColoRODans?
A. I would say the year we were at the Goodguys show in Colorado Springs and it was blowing and snowing. We were trying to keep two canopies with side curtains from blowing into New Mexico. It was colder than a well digger's you know what and where. We had them tied to Mike Wells' and Jim Arnold's pull trailers and duct tape holding it together. Plus someone had a propane grill in the middle burning to give us some heat. I ran into town and bought some more propane and a pair of gloves for each of us. We were the only ones out there with our canopies up. Is that a good thing or maybe we are just stubborn idiots! Never say never to us.
Q. What is your dream car?
A. I would say like a majority of street rodders, probably a '32 or '34 Ford three window coupe with a huge big block.
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