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  1. rfraze
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    Russ B, About that inspiration:
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    These 2 sedans definitely convinced me to go with a 32 sedan over any other year or body style that can accommodate passengers.
     
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  3. doinbad
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    from celina tn

    a henry j called the penny pitcher it was copper in color and ran at the red boiling springs drag way in early 70s i always loved that car! wish i had a pic of it.
     
  4. Back in 1959 (I was 16) one of my best high school friends came
    driving up in a faded maroon 1947 or 48 Plymouth convertible, which had a Dodge
    truck V8 in place of the old flathead six. The car belonged to a guy who worked for
    my friend's Dad at his filling station. We cruised around town on a few occasions
    in that borrowed ragtop......I thought it was really cool how the top came down right
    behind the door glass, with no rear quarter windows.

    I don't know what ever happened to that old maroon car, but after college and starting
    a job in sales with a large company, I began looking for a similar vehicle. Finally found
    the only restorable one in the area hidden in a garage at a small salvage yard 75 miles
    from home. Bought it on payments and brought it home in June of 1973. Had it ever
    since. Mine is still a six, and I still love the style (at age 71).
     
  5. nunattax
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    it has to be jim rockfords 74 pontiac firebird esprit.i was 12 and you didnt see cars like that on the road over here then.cool pi with the coolest car.ive had a gra(love) for american iron since inc a 77 sporty and a 75 stroker shovel,71 vette ,98 vette and the 38 truck
     
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  6. ...Moody-Jones car, Don Nowell's , a couple of local cars inspired my 37 (last pic)
    323850-64nationalsindy-moody-jones-cgs.jpg nowells 37 gas.jpg luckys 37 signed.jpg hunnert08.jpg 37 coupe 5-10 011.jpg
     
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  7. Donald A. Smith
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    Hey Driver Hi from Don in Brook Indiana
     
  8. CalGasser
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    Love the Gasser inspired looks! Don Nowell and the Moody car definitely nails it. If I couldn't have a Willys, I'd find myself a 37 or 38 Chevy and build it like one of those cars.
     
  9. CalGasser
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    An inspiring ride! SR2-1.jpg
     
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  10. Muttley
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  11. ^ The 3rd pic -
    Left front tire damn near off the ground, no helmet, driver leaning way up to grab 2nd.
    That's a zen moment if there ever was one.
     
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  12. CalGasser
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    Ah yes, Nicholson, Sachs & Sons had some very cool '65 Cyclones. Those FX cars inspired me too!
     
  13. CalGasser
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    Another inspiration.
     

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  14. YBNORML
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    I don't have any pics or anything. It's more of a childhood memory.

    I was about 10 or 11 and the whole family was camping at a local campground. There was a guy who would come into the ice cream shop almost every day, he was driving what a think was a late 20's or early 30's Model A Tudor. It was awesome. Flat black, no fenders, I think it was chopped and it was wicked loud. The kind of loud that you could hear him leave for about five minutes.

    I've spent all of my car building years up till now building mini trucks and lowrider 67-72 Chevy trucks. Now that I've finally decided to throw what I've learned into building a Hot Rod, this was the only body style that really interested me. Had to be a Chevy version though;)
     
  15. Just a few that have inspired me. 361797 (1).jpg 1 Charlie 4.jpg 86ef8933.jpg 1 Charlie 4.jpg 86ef8933.jpg
     
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  16. Same here. In the early sixties, when it wasn't yet the classic we now all know and love, my father owned a beater 1957 Chevy coupe. That car stuck in my memory, especially years later when some fellow high schoolers' dad had a hot rodded 57 he let the boys drive from time to time. I've driven a Cadillac for over twenty years, so I chose a classic Caddy. I purchased this 55 almost a month ago, and have spent the last few weeks getting her registered, titled, plated, cleaned up and tuned up.
     
  17. CalGasser
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    Hey Mikey, the 554 Coupe gives me a woody... What's the orange Coupe, a Mopar? Cool ride also!
     
  18. JT Apperson
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    from va

    S&S Racing Team out of Falls Church, Va. The yr. would be 1961-62. Dave Hales and Fred Bear running 55 chevys and Gene Altizer in his 31 Plymouth. Pork Zartman in the Filty Forty Willys. I have a 56 Chevy 210 w/292 Inliner and have a blast at age 72.
     
  19. 0ldracer
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    JT, You mean these guys??? Hard to believe they could inspire anybody!!! (smile)

    31PLYMOUTH.jpg DHFEBAquasco1962.jpg FF63BGS.jpg York 2005 group.jpg
     
  20. Ned Ludd
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    The '31 project is the culmination of my attempts to combine three things out of my youth:
    1. Tom Daniel's box art for the Tijuana Taxi, seeing which in a toy shop window at the age of 7 is what started it all:
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    2. Captain Woolf Barnato's 6½-litre Bentley:
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    3. Stan Mott's "wereBugatti" T41 in Cyclops' Night Out:
    [​IMG]

    The Minor came later.
     
  21. LOU WELLS
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  22. 302GMC
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    I loved looking at pictures of antique cars in magazines when I was little ... then, at around 8 years old, dad took me to the wrecking yard one Saturday. I heard my first Plymouth 6 with the manifold split ... instant HOT RODDER !!!
     
  23. CalGasser
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    luke doolin's "50" in "thunder road."
     
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  27. CalGasser
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    Another inspiration.

    IMG_0881.JPG fischer.jpg
     
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  28. Is this the Gene Altizer campaigned '31 Plymouth? Who is "Weasel"? 207554-1281284468-03fa813ce11b5daf65b3b80fb7560544.jpg
     
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