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Customs What car first got you excited about customs or rods as a kid?

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by patrick66, Oct 27, 2009.

  1. sololobo
    Joined: Aug 23, 2006
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    My Dads 48 Ford Deluxe Coupe, it was black, sunvisor, blue canvas folding window sunshades, chrome swan hood ornament with blue plastic wings that lit up, lowered in back, blue dot taillights, dual exhaust with smitttys, white walls, trim rings and small caps with all lettering in blue on the small cap. I was spell bound at night with the dash lights and "the radio" playing The Mills Brothers or listening to Jack Benny, we were in tall cotton! man what a great memory. ~Sololobo~
     
  2. missysdad1
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    I was in the 7th Grade in the frozen Northeast when, in the dead of winter at the tiny newsstand at the back of the Kennebec Fruit Company store, I saw my first for-real custom car. I've not been the same since.

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    This is the car that did it for me then...and still does! :D:D:D
     
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  3. Moriarity
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    Sonny la Roc's pearl of shangri la 55 chev

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  4. My sisters boyfriend had a 41 Ford convertible, lowered,shaved,decked,skirted,channeled,twice pipes,and white tuck and roll. Rags
     
  5. sluggish
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    As a young kid my dad always had some pretty cool cars as well, and my uncle had a junk yard and he only lived about 4 houses away. Me and my cousins used to play in those old cars day in and day out, rip out the seats to get spare change, shoot our pellet guns at them and just plain treat them like crap. He would get a coule running for us and let us drive them around the field. We were anywhere from 5-10 years old so I'm sure they were all governed with a block of wood behind the throttle linkage. I remember being excited when the crusher would come because that meant we would be getting a bunch of new cars to play with shortly after. Wow, almost makes me cry to think of all those classics I saw get crushed. The car I remember most from any of the car shows I went to as a kid was the Shelby Cobra. It was red with white stripes, I was about 5 yrs old and thought it was the sexiest car I had ever seen. I wanted one ever since that day and just recently finished building my replica. It's not red but it sure is fun. Thanks for posting this topic, brought back lots of great memories of old rides my dad and uncles had when I was young.

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  6. Slim Pickens
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    55gasserkid that picture is a riot. Lucky you. For me, around 1965 (I was 10) a guy around the corner had a 55 tbird he customized in his garage. He would let us hang around and watch and occasionally hand him a wrench or whatever. Candy Apple Red. Red and white interior, leather trunk with a bar and TV. I think his name was Billy Barto (northern jersey)
     
  7. Jay Tyrrell
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    Ya man! Everytime I look at it Iwonder what was going on with my hair back then! lololollol
     
  8. First car I remember, my Dad's 49 Ford!
     
  9. dudley32
    Joined: Jan 2, 2008
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    my dad's 29 roadster...but then I went to the shop where they were working on my dad's 37 ford phaeton and the guy had a 61 ford starliner round track car...
    427 and he cranked it for me !!!

    It was over.....d32...
     
  10. Hotrod95
    Joined: Jun 15, 2009
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    I believe the first car that got me interested in this hobby is my dads/ moms 1968 mustang! This has been shown before but still here it is.....

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  11. 11 years old,
    Lived next to a circle track racer in Bakersfield running a '59 T-Bird.
    I was a pit crew 'member'.
    Good memories right there.
     
  12. Capt.Mike
    Joined: Sep 6, 2009
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    My 49 Old's. At 17 this was my ride. No A/C, no P/S or P/W. Just a big 303 V8 and a 4 speed Hydo-matic from the factory. It rode like a tank and turned like a truck but I loved it.
     

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  13. simon g-s
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    Was more into dirt bikes as a kid with free access to 1000acres of farmland. A local guys big bro got a yellow superbird and got me a few rides, I was besotted. Been V8's evr since, not a Hemi YET though.
     
  14. 51 mercules
    Joined: Nov 29, 2008
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    Here is what got me started.I forgot about until I found it in a box of old toys my dad had in had in his garage when he passed away a few years agoI also found my old slot cars and hot wheels case.
     

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  15. Shawn M
    Joined: Sep 10, 2008
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    '59 Impala convertable model car I had as a kid, I just feel in love with those fins. Thats when I got the desease.
     
  16. I always liked old cars as a kid. When my older brother (57 Heap) started building his first 57 Chevy I was hooked. When I turned 14 I got a 57 Chevy pickup and I still have it 28 years later.
     
  17. Ed Roth!
    James Dean Merc
    Hotwheels
    50's Hotrod movies
    Magazines...
     
  18. CruZer
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    I was 12 in 1959 and I got a radio for Christmas and started listening to WPTR and WTRY in the Albany area. I met a kid at school who was driving his older brother's 1953 Ford 2dr hardtop. It was flathead with dual Smithy and a stick shift on the column.It was a custom in progress. It had a frenched grille shell opening in front. It was nosed and decked and had 1955 Merc tailights mounted upside down. It was in black primer and the older brother had gotten "into" horses. In particular,a black stallion named Midnight. So, this younger brother had the car most of the time.

    He and I became friends because I was so car crazy, I wouldn't leave him alone. He showed me how to comb my hair into a D.A. and his older buddies kind of adopted me into their gang. I was in hog heaven. This was a small town and the only trouble we ever got into was smoking at the dance at the local Catholic School.(The Nuns caught us but the older guys sheilded me behind them and I didn't get caiught.)

    This '53 was a clapped out junker ,but man, I thought it was the neatest car around. The springs and shocks were so bad that it sat right on the ground and the rocker panels would scrape the blacktop when he threw it into a corner.

    The kid finally rolled the car over on a back road and that ..... was that. It was totaled, but I'll never forget that car and the roar of that flathead on a back road at night.
     
  19. '35 Ford slantback
    '50 Lincoln
    Both built by a friend of mine.
     

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  20. Toqwik
    Joined: Feb 1, 2003
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    The car I now own got me started. My uncle boght it for my cousin when he was born in 58. Thought this 31 coupe was the coolest car ever. Fast foreward to Nov 08 when my cousin called me up saying he was getting a divorce and needed cash. He gave me a non-negotiable price that was rediculously low. I was all over it, driving thru 6 states to get the carcass of this car. Willl take many years to get it back on the road, but I got my dream car..............
     
  21. Killer punch was watching two nice mild custom FJ Holdens ( the ones like EFFIJY ), one fire engine red, one sky blue, cruisin' slow into town- side by side.
    You need to understand Holden held 40% (near as dammit) market share so they were EVERYWHERE.
    But these two were different. Low, slow, clean & smooth, sure- footed looking, like growling, prowling cats- ATTITUDE.
    I was nine.
     
  22. 296ardun
    Joined: Feb 11, 2009
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    Dave Mitchell's bright red '29 roadster pickup, parked in front of his Mitchell's Muffler Shop in Pasadena, CA...was probably 5 or 6 when I first saw it, never forgot it...later, when working at Blair's, stopped to make a muffler pickup at Mitchell's, and found the car abandoned in back of the shop, top in rags and upolstery shot, faded paint. Asked to buy it, but the guy said "Dave won't sell," so thought I had seen the last of it. But it is apparently either restored or cloned (hope it's the former), picts on Don's Hot Rod page under the Pasadena Roadster Club run...great to see it again.
     
  23. White Trash Renegade
    Joined: Oct 28, 2009
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    Hub Harness' 1960 Buick 'Cinnamon'. I saw that car at the Starbird show here in Wichita in probably 1990 or 91 and that was it!
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    (Got this from Buickbelle's photobucket, thanks.)
     
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  24. Model cars........specifically the Lil Coffin, Ala Kart.......I was a model plane builder but discovered model cars at 11-12yrs of age......WOW!!......these model cars have chrome bits and rubber tyres!!......Hey!........these are real too........thats how I got into 1:1 scale.......andyd
     
  25. Landseer
    Joined: Aug 19, 2006
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    This was the start of it for me in the mid 60s. Specifically, the blue one, except with red AJ tires.
     

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  26. Mac_55
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    i was born in 1980. and in 1984 my dad had a black primer 57 2 door ardtop that i vaugely remember. the car that started it for me was a year later in1985 . Dad needed a new car after selling the 57. I remember standing on the front porch in the dark waiting for him and mom to come home in the new ":HOTROD" lol . in pulled a sinister black 58 nomad wagon on rallys with a 327 and dual glass. I can clearly remember running off the front porch and asking my mom when she got out of the car "does it have pipes coming out the side?" at 5 years old thats what defined a hotrod for me lol , zoomies. Anyways i can remember dad taking us kids out on friday nights and making a few laps threw our small town , I can remember him clutching it at every car tht went by seems like and racking off those glass packs. I fell in love with that car . I actually kept tabs on it up until about 4 years ago . A man came down from mt zion and offered my dad more than what he payed for it and dad had to let it go , the guy bought it for his son who apparently couldnt drive and wrapped it around a telephone pole a week after owning it . The car sat behind the guys dealership up until a few years ago , it was sold to a man down in texas or alabama to be used for parts.
     
  27. The Munster mobil, got to sit in it as a kid, approx. 1966 or so. Had to have all the car models I could after that.
     

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  28. Boyd Who
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    I was 5 years old in 1968 when Mattel released Hot Wheels cars. The one that caught my eye first was the Hot Heap (T roadster). The rest, as they say, is history! :D
     
  29. Dirtroad
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    It was around 1960, my father rented our driving shed to some guys from a Weston car club. ( the name exacpes me, Old Age hitting me) One of the guys had a 49 Chev fastback full custom. He was killed in a car accident. The Chev sat on our farm for 2 or 3 years. It went to a garage in Bolton and sat there for a few more years. I wish I knew what happened to it after that.
     
  30. <o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com<img src=" images="" smilies="" redface.gif="" border="0" alt="" title="Embarrassment" smilieid="2" class="inlineimg"></o:smarttagtype>In the spring of ’56 or ’57 my parents took my brother and I to the movies in <st1><st1:city>Joliet</st1:city>, <st1:state>I</st1:state></st1>L. There was a line outside the theatre waiting for the next feature. My brother (9) and I (11) were becoming bored and restless and my folks were trying to keep us calm. That worked for a while but eventually we were getting out of control. Suddenly we heard a rumbling noise that echoed off the buildings on the narrow downtown street. Looking toward the source of the commotion I saw a car approaching very slowly up the street. It was low and black….loud and sinister. I was frozen on the sidewalk, slack-jawed – my life forever changed. I watched in stunned silence until it was out of sight.
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    That image has never left my mind. I know now it was a ’52-’54 Ford convertible (rather new at the time). Flat black, chopped, with a white top (up on a warm day) and lowered with skirts. I figure it must have been a work-in-progress, probably being road tested after a winter of toil.
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    Needless to say, my brother and I were pretty quiet for the next few minutes. I looked up at my Dad and he had this weird smile on his face. Dad, a gear head, died in 1960 (42). Years later it finally dawned on me…that weird smile. He totally understood the situation. He saw the exact moment his sons were “hooked” and he approved!
     

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