Old School (old) Guy Returns to Rods

[Flatheadguy]

Hello All
Well, it's been the mid-50s since I built street rods and hgung around with the "wrong crowd" (parents definition). Model A HiBoy, 32 Frame, Flathead, Columbia 2 Speed....WHY DID I SELL IT?
ARRRGGGHH!!
Anyway, here I am again. A 1939 Ford Deluxe Tudor. Yeah, flathead. Heads, cam, carbs, headers and so on. Basically stock body. Also building a 27 T roadster.....yup, flathead.
Originally from Boston and with Florida and California in between am now located in Grant, Nebraska. Got a shop here at the airport. Aircraft type person. A&P-IA and DAR. If you fly you likely can decipher. Built a number of airplanes too, from plans.
Actaully, anything mechanical turns me on. Everything else is just the in between stuff ya gotta do to live.
That's about it.
Bill flatheadkid@yahoo.com

[FarmFresh]

Got any pics of your cars. Post a build up on them if you can.

[Zombo]

welcome.

[oldebob]

Welcome Bill. Sounds like we hung with the same crowd that tee'd ny folks off. Sanford Me. and Charleston RI. drags in the mid 50's . Out here on the West Coast now after career in Aviation. Got back into this after quite a absense . Search my post "27 on 32" . Headers of Haverhill 56-62.

[38FLATTIE]

Bill, welcome from colorado! Dad was a a&p and r&e lifer at united. I had a pilots license before i graduated high school. Grew up in western nebraska. Good to have you on board.

[Midwest Rodder]

Welcome from MO

[KKustoms]

Howdy Bill.....from a fellow Nebraskan

[Flatheadguy]

Will post as soon as I can dig out pix and put on disk. Of course, I then need to figure out how to post pix here. Thanks for the note.
Bill

[Flatheadguy]

Hello "oldebob"
Yeah, Sanford...NETA. Yetman, Willet, Sidebotham...Orientals, High Winders....those were great days. Actually, I flagged at Sanford before my dad found out. Miss those days, but they are memories and helped to make us what we are today...."vintage motorhead geezers".
Thanks for the words.
Bill

[Flatheadguy]

Thanks for the welcome. I look forward to heading to Good Guys next year. If you are going tobe there look for the 39 Deluxe Tudor...."Guacamole"....my wife's name for it due to color.
Bill

[Flatheadguy]

Thanks for the welcome. Great poster......"cup of......" LOVE IT!!

[Flatheadguy]

And howdy to you. Thanks for the welcome. Will post a bit of news every now and then. This is a super site for all kinds of info. And, my memory banks are not what they used to be. I need a bit of nudging every so often.

[HotRod33]

Bill you must be a slow learner because here you are hanging out with the wrong crowd again.......welcome to the hamb from st louis...........

[Rich Venza]

Welcome from a one time Nebraskan. I'd like to also invite you to check out the Old Farts' Social group here on the HAMB. I'm sure you will find not only your generation, but guys & a couple gals who are just as nuts as you are about traditional hot rods.

[Flatheadguy]

Welcome from a one time Nebraskan. I'd like to also invite you to check out the Old Farts' Social group here on the HAMB. I'm sure you will find not only your generation, but guys & a couple gals who are just as nuts as you are about traditional hot rods.


"Old Farts"? How insulting!! I don't feel or look a bit over....uh, wait a minute. It's early morning, one coffee down and into the bathroom to shave. Uh, who is that guy staring back at me in the mirror? I spun around real fast...okay, as fast as I can at this age, looking for who was standing behind me. Nobody. DAMN!! Is that ME? I didn't look like that last night...did I? Where'd those wrinkles comes from?
ARRGGHHH!!
Damn good thing this electric razor doesn't have a blade!!

Thanks for the invite....I'll do it. See ya there.

Bill

[Rocky]

welcome from Omaha. Sounds like you'll fit in here....lotsa Nebraskans here too. And LOTS of flatheads, including mine.
Rocky

[Tman]

Velkommen! Just North of you in the Rapid City area.

[ThunderRoad Garage]

welcome from those of us youngins' who missed out on the old days. love to hear stories and see pics. be careful in here, its a rowdy bunch.

[Flatheadguy]

Thanks for all for the welcomes. You may want to retract them when you get to know me. (smiling) I have met a lot of local car guys....well, within a hundred or so miles. After all, I am now located, not in the middle of nowhere, but I can see it from my front porch. I am amazed at the number of VERY cool hot rods (and street rods) and customs here in the area. I look forward to runs, meets and so on. We have started a club and definitely will convoy to as many as we can attend this summer.
Let me know about anything happening within a couple hundred miles of NE Colorado.
Thanks, again, to all
Bill

[chopnchaneled]

Welcome from Buford,Ga. how the hell did you wind up in Neb. after Fla.????
spent a couple of years there in omaha, pretty serious winters.

[Tman]

Thanks for all for the welcomes. You may want to retract them when you get to know me. (smiling) I have met a lot of local car guys....well, within a hundred or so miles. After all, I am now located, not in the middle of nowhere, but I can see it from my front porch. I am amazed at the number of VERY cool hot rods (and street rods) and customs here in the area. I look forward to runs, meets and so on. We have started a club and definitely will convoy to as many as we can attend this summer.
Let me know about anything happening within a couple hundred miles of NE Colorado.
Thanks, again, to all
Bill

Whay part of SW? I know a couple Ne guys

[Grandadeo]

Welcome from Florida. That was one good looking A. Very similar to what my son is building now.

Lee

[Flatheadguy]

welcome from those of us youngins' who missed out on the old days. love to hear stories and see pics. be careful in here, its a rowdy bunch.


Watch out for "Old Farts"......we originated rowdy and are classified as professionals.