In art class he sculpted a clay bust of Will Rogers that he cast on school. Bill often skipped the academic classes to spend more time in both shop and art classes. He couldn't afford one, so he ended up building his own, using his skills in the machine shop to fabricate the necessary parts. ĭuring the Great Depression Bill was enrolled in art and shop classes where he excelled. When Olav Kvipt worked with Bill back in 2013 he told him that one of his dear childhood memories was hunting frogs with a slingshot. In 1932, when his mother was settled, Bill and his brother moved to Detroit to join her. Bill’s widowed mother, Willie Jane Chandler, moved to Detroit for work while his grandmother raised him in Jackson, Tennessee. Soon after Bill's release from the hospital, his father, Edward Hines, died of tuberculosis at the age of 36. 31 Cars Featuring Hydraulic Lifts by Bill Hines.30 Cars Restyled or Painted by Bill Hines.26 Detroit Autorama Builder of the Year 2005.And it cured my spine, my humpback," Bill told Vaughn. In an interview with Autoweek, Bill told Mark Vaughn that he stayed in the hospital at what they called the Sun Camp for two and a half years to cure his humpback " They put me on a board, put me in the sun in the morning, I would stay there all day, then they would take me in at night. That helped his condition, but it didn’t cure it. Eventually, he had two vertebrae removed. Unable to walk he had to crawl in his early years. It was bent at unusual angles, and it kept him leaning way forward instead of standing straight up. He had a twin brother named Edward Robert, and a sister named Elizabeth Gertrude. William Chandler Hines was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1922. Michigan wasn’t big enough for the little man with the big ambitions, so it didn’t take a long time before Bill went West to pursue his dreams in California. Bill Hines was one of the last of the original lead slingers, and his career can be traced back to a rented garage in Ecorse, Michigan in 1941. He goes by many names and is also known as Wild Bill, the Leadslinger, or the Godfather of Hydraulics. 2016) was a legendary custom car builder. Long live Kustomland! Price: $19.99 - Check availability on Amazon.om.īill Hines (03.23. Custom by Paint - Made in Bellflower - A tribute to traditional custom cars of the 1950s.
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