Hot Rods The car that changed your life!

The movie cars of AG And TLB, the Willys in Hot Rod, and X almighty!

 

The car that changed my life is my grandfathers 1937 Ford pickup. I remember riding in it in 1956, then he parked it by the barn. I pretended to drive it until I got old enough to find hotrod magazines and realized I could fix it and drive it . I still have it

 

I have two-

Doug Anderson's Boogie Woogie

I grew up and still live in a very small town in upstate NY a population of about 800. There were a handful of old cars, a few street rods, and 10-15 oval track stockcars. (Yes, 10-15 stockcars in a town of 800.)
My dad worked on many of those racecars and built several stock car chassis.

By the mid 90's dad was burned out on working on everyone else's racecars, and I was becoming interested in period correct hot rods.

About that time I started seeing a cream and red scalloped chopped and channeled 30 A coupe, white walls and period correct small block Chevy it would drive through town about 2 or 3 times a year
It was often traveling with a chopped and channeled early 60 style 30/31 A truck purple with flames multiple carbureted Nailhead.

There were no cars like that is this area, after about 4 or 5 years I was finally able to catch up with the car and the owner/builder Doug Anderson.

That was the first period correct hot rod I ever saw in person! Doug lived about an hour away he and I got to be friends,

Doug passed in 2022....




as I have gotten older I gotten back into oval track with vintage racing and Charlie Jarzombek's Bug major influence on my build!

 

10943699_10203682089796347_2284603393024878785_n by onetrickpony posted Oct 22, 2015 at 12:03 PM

I'm pretty sure it was this Model T roadster pickup.

 

That’s awesome! I remember when you bought it.
Can’t wait to check it out in Oct!

 

My grandfather's 1957 olds holiday coupe , white over red with the J-2 option , I was 9 when he pulled in the drive to show it off , lasting impression .