History Redheaded stepchild

Hey Don, I see those TENN plates. Is that a Chestnut Hill backdrop? Could that 2 lane be 411? Really cool pics.

 

.........Good eye! It's actually Rt. 92 just 1/2 mile off of Rt. 411 in the tiny hamlet of Chestnut Hill in the shadows of the Bush Bean conglomerate.

 

Here was my "Ugly Duckling". Built it about 9 years ago. It went to the west coast for a while and is now back on the east coast from what I hear. Loved to '52 - '54 body style.

 

My very first car was a '53, my dad bought it because it was the last year of the flathead V8 (239 c.i.). I drove it around the dirt roads behind the Esso station but had to sell it before I was old enough to drive so I never got to take it out on the road. I have too many "irons in the fire" at present but, perhaps, the day will come when I'll chase that memory.

 

One of the cool cars in my high school was a 54 skyliner about 3" off the ground full lake pipes painted candy apple red. This is not it but the color and the stance is about right. https://www.flickr.com/photos/1grandpoobah/14392788529/

 

When I see a 53-54 4 door, I think of Joe Friday driving one in the black and white first edition of Dragnet from the 1950's. See it every once in a while on one of the stations that play old stuff like that, way before my time.

 

I've had a number of 52-54 Fords. Never a 4 dr, cpe or convert, anbout 50/50 sedan and Ht. The first one in 61 and the last in 13. This is a pic of the one I had for about 3 months in 13 and what the new owner did after he got it. It have a Nova sub and a 350/T-400

 

I always liked '54s as they were the smallest and lightest body that you could bolt a larger Y-block or FE into. I owned a convertible 50 years ago, but never got it on the road as I was 19 and flat broke; though I had an Olds 303 and Hydro mocked up in it.

 

Drove the wagon to a couple of cruise ins yesterday, gotta 100 miles on it. Saw this at one and thought of this thread.






Bones

 

A few from Kalamazoo this weekend

 

It is a 1953 Ford Ute from of course Australia, I bought it to run XO Production at El Mirage and Bonneville, but things change, I grabbed sheet metal and dash from a 53 Merc to convert it to left hand drive, but now I am looking a straight axle and a gasser for something to do when land speed sucks, like now.

 

Come on HRP it is a 53 Ford, Ford sent down convertable frames with running gear, front clip and doors, the rest was made in Aus, it has 40 Coupe oval rear window and weird Austin tail lights.

I could find a donor car for the front clip, but found a really cheap 53 Merc for the metal and dash.
So I guess you could be right,,, its not 'really' a Ford anymore,,,, sorry

 

HRP replied to my question.....it was not about your ute

 

back up

 

I got my first ticket drag racing a 54 Fordamatic Victoria with my brand new stock 61 4-speed Corvair Monza. (I think the cop caught up with us while the race was still going. I won, and I told the cop so.) Any way, hours later in the early morning I ran into the Ford guy with the Vicky and he wanted me to pop the hood (deck) to see if my 'vair was modified. I did – he said I was a liar as it had two carburetors.