No album cover car photo can top the shot of the stacked headlight beauty on The Beach Boys' 1963 release "Little Deuce Coupe". Many of Detroit's styling advances first appeared on custom cars and hot rods, only to be copied by the major design studios. A few years after this album hit #4 on the national charts, stacked headlights became a Pontiac trademark. Check out this '65 Catalina:
The Deuce on the album cover belonged to Clarence Catallo, who as a teenager in Detroit bought the car for $75. Clarence eventually moved to Southern California and went to work for George Barris. The album cover photo was originally taken for the cover of a 1961 edition of Hot Rod Magazine. An excellent investigation of the Ford's history and cultural context is available at the New York Times: Surfers Met Rodders, and a Genre Was Born . We recommend you click.
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