History Anybody got good shots of their Dad's old cars?

Awesome thread!

Old pics... That the people posting actually know the stories behind! Love it!

 

Is that '57 still in your family after going coast to coast?

 

Here is my dad. He had to sell it because he could not afford the insurance.





This is my grandpa looking at him thinking what are you doing?

 

Great pictures modelacitizen

 

early - my Pops is the lil tike


Spring,1963 Pops with his '50 Ford (he ended up wrecking it into some parked cars)



Fast forward some - Pops with his new GTO



OH yes, this one is classic - we have all been here before:

 

This is the only pic i have

 

This is a great idea, you guys have some awesome old pics!

Here is some of my Dads old pics. Sorry for the bad quality of them, some of them I took pics of his pics with my old camera phone when I was visiting him in AZ. He dosen't have a scanner, or even a computer.

35 or 36 Ford Phaeton that he bought when he was 15 for $10:




47 Plymouth convert that I was hauled home from the hospital in when I was born:



48 plymouth coupe that he had in the mid 50's:




Duece 4 door that he had in the lates 60's:





52 Siata Daina cabriolet that he bought in '68 and dropped a 289 4 speed into out of a wrecked mustang. All aluminum, poor mans Cobra, never beat in a street race:



I was able to locate the Siata, tracked it down thru the magic of the internet hoping maybe I could buy it. But unfortunately some one shipped it back to Europe. Here it is now in Holland:

 

While my Dad loved me having a SBC powered Model A Panel Delivery, he wasn't into driving a hot rod himself. So, when I was 16 in 1967 and I got my Model A, he went and bought this new 1967 GT500.
He loved this thing. He kept it up, never a speck of dirty and loved keeping the engine bay all clean and shiny. He changed his own oil and stayed under the car for hours cleaning the chassis and suspension. He really babied it until my mom and he were in an accident in her Galaxie and she was killed in 1972.
He lost all interest in the Shelby and it just sat until he sold it in 1974 for $2400...and it was still mint condition.
It was given a total restoration a few years ago at Orlando Mustang in Florida and was sold for $229,000.
He died in 2002, so he didn't know that his old car was still out there, but he'd be mighty pleased to know that his baby is now owned by someone who is enjoying it today.

 

My dad in 1958 and then in 2010 at the age of 85.

 

Killer thread - keep 'em coming fellas.

Rat

 

THanks. That picture (plus the driver and the stories) changed my life forever. haha

 

same here...

 

My Dad and his cars thru the years.
That would be me sitting on the passenger fender and me the tallest guy with the sailor hat. My younger brother with my Dad and his '40 Chevy Sedan

 

Nice!

 

Here's a couple of my father's, he's A H.A.M.Ber ,I'll see if he will post more, the 59 Anglia I learned to drive on that car was his around 65-72, the Opel was 1970 -1978,
the willys was his partners, He did the chassis work, that was around 62-66 ran B/G
the Nova was a customers they built around 69, thats all I have of his on my computer but he has been building cars for around 58 yrs and still is he has a 39 ford coupe with a Hemi, a model a sport coupe that he turned into a roadster, Nicely! and a purple 1948 ford f1 and he is still working on his own cars He had a Metalflake red 55 with a 389 pontiac radiused rear wells back in 63-65

 

Muttley- that DeSoto is pure sex! I am on the hunt now to find one and build it just like that! What a thing of beauty.

 

Here's a photo of Dad's '42 Hudson he bought in 1946 when he returned home after WWII.

 

Mazooma- it is a sad story to hear about your mom and what happened to your dads car after.

 

This would have been me also but in an equally vintage Mercury and while waiting in a traffic jam to get in DisneyWorld I got a little bored in the
backseat and kept pushing down the cigarette lighter till it was way to
hot to touch and the windows and AC quit workin and yes I'm thinking
he would have killed me had I not waited 20 years to let him in on it...

 

My Dads old Galaxie at Fairfield Illinois Dragstrip in 1970. That is my older Brother with the cool shades and no socks.

 

Here's my dad and his 56 chevy in the mid 60's.

 

Here is just a couple of the ones my dad had...

Mom and Dad with his Plymouth:



Dads 55 V8 Vette, earliest car I remember:

 

My pop's first race car, built in '66/7 I believe. I'd give damn near anything to get ahold of it. Last I heard, it was sitting in a garage in the San Gabriel Valley.

 

Not sure what it is but something that Dad put together to hill climb.

 

Dad bought this 41 ragtop when he got back from the Army Air Corps in 1945.
It was alleged to have the loudest pipes in the Yakima Valley in those days with twin steelpacks.
He dated my mom in it and they brought me home from the hospital in it.
I'll have to hunt for photos but other interesting cars he had were a 52 Olds Super 88 two door coupe, a 57 Buick Roadmaster, and a 57 Olds J-2 tripower four door hardtop that was solid black.

 

Oh man... that reminds me of the trip to yellowstone the next year. Same car and we were stuck waiting on people to 'not feed the bears' which caused a traffic jam. I kept playing with the the cigarette lighter, but i pulled it out and got fixated with how it would (yes... i really did this and am somehow still alive now) burn perfect little circles in the leather on the back of dad's seat.

He smelled the smoke, pulled the car over and would have pulled my head of like a small rabbit in pure rage if my mother had not intervened. That reminds me... i need to go visit my mom tomorrow and tell her how much i love her again.

True story.