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I grew up in Greenwood, Indiana and my dad worked for Indiana Bell Telephone (AT&T). He attended every race from 1948 through 1965 as a teletype...
The stanchions bolt to the body and then the frame bolts into the stanchions. When you see them up close its kind of self explanatory... The...
To me, the stretched cowl looks like a hybrid between the '23 and the '27 cowl. It actually resembles some cowl shapes of other cars like Nash or...
OK, I just discovered this thread and I'm a little late to the discussion. I built my first T-bucket frame in 1968 out of 4 inch channel iron....
I raced at Indy Raceway Park from the late part of the 1969 season to the opening of 1973. This is my '56 Chevy in 1970.
Tommyd - I lived out by Center Grove. I had a blue & white '56 Chevy, then a yellow '55, then a black '58 - all dogs! Then I finally got a '60...
Nice stance and it looks like a wicked salt-flats car, but you may have to be careful where you drive it. Some states have minimum windshield...
US-31 in Greenwood, Indiana 1964 to about 1970. Jerry's Restaurant and the Kitchen Drive-in on US-31 and the Dog N Suds downtown. Used to see...
Growing up south of Indianapolis, I used to go with my dad to Peanut Sledge's junkyard near Bargersville, Indiana. There was a cool looking black...
An old friend once said,"If I can't USE it I don't WANT it!" I have subscribed to that idea ever since. I built my coupe from the ground up 100%...
A couple of years?? After you've been here a couple of years you won't want to go back to the frozen north. We drive our hotrods and ride...
I grew up in central Indiana. My parents were racing fans and took me to Sprint Car, Midget, and Stock Car races from the time I was...
Bought the body (in pieces) in July '03. On the road (in primer) in March '05. Painted April '06. Interior finally finished October '06.
Flatheads look cool, no doubt, but they are ancient technology. Spend a fortune on the flattie to improve its performance and you might get 150 -...
I don't remember what my first car model was. I had been building model airplanes for quite a while before I discovered model cars... One early...
I saw my first Quarter-midget race in about 1956 or '57 when I was 8 or 9 years old. Hot Rod Magazine ran a whole issue dedicated to the sport in...
Several years ago ('93 - '94?) a friend of mine had his kids involved in Soap Box Derby here (Titusville, Florida). There aren't any suitable...
I remember the Soap Box cars. I had an older cousin who attempted to build a car, but he never finished it. Six or seven years later I begged for...
I grew up in Greenwood, Indiana (just south of Indianapolis). My dad worked for Indiana Bell Telephone as a teletype repairman. Every year from...
What video? Where's the link? My dad took me to see the "Hell Drivers" when I was about 12 years old (61 now). I've always thought it would be...
Somebody can correct me if I'm incorrect here... If memory serves me, after the failure of the Miller-Fords of 1935, Henry Ford washed his hands...
There's a guy that shows up at some of the local cruise-ins here that has an old survivor from the '50's. It's a '37 Ford coupe with a wicked...
I've been driving this '31 coupe for 3 years; it's been painted and upholstered for two, but they're never really done, are they? The sedan...
I love old race cars, especially the old Indy cars. In my opinion, it was the advent of rear-engine cars that eventually ruined Indy car racing......
I'll be 60 in a couple of months... When I was in the 6th grade, my older sister checked Hot Rod out of the high school library and brought it...
I'll be 60 in March; been playing with cars since I was a child. My favorite is the coupe I have now. I've had several hotrods and race cars (oval...
Here are a pair. Not chopped and not gonna be... The red one was originally hotrodded in 1956. The cream one (mine) was built in 2003-06.
Both fenderless, but not chopped... The red one - "Katzass" - was built in 1956. I used to ride around in it with a friend of mine in 1965-66....
Looks good either way. I run a hood on my coupe because I live in Florida... where it rains A LOT. As far as mirrors go, I believe at least a...
I'm afraid I'm guilty of crunching up a few '55 & '56 Chevies that way, but back in 1969 -73 you could buy a '55 or '56 Chevy or Ford for $100 and...
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