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- Here's my Coon Tool Toothpick. (that's what my Grandma made my Grandpa call it) He was a surveyor for the county and wore it around his neck...
- I'm 78 and still actively building cars and trucks. My first legal car was this 1940 Pontiac Business Coupe purchased in 1958. It had a straight...
- I'm going to bump this back to the top since I found the one I have. I read through the whole thread and didn't see one like it. Of course my...
- Thanks everyone. I think I'm doing my share in keeping things headed in the right direction. I'm still building stuff....:) As far as the music...
- I don't watch any TV except the weather at 4:15 in the afternoon. I also don't do naps. I do spend too much time on the computer looking at car...
- Just posted this on YouTube. The last of the old pictures I have. Some of them are not the best but they are like me... old and wrinkled. Tic...
Thanks Glenn. Wife and I have a lot of fun driving it. Ownership is now at 61 years this June and I still have the same wife too.... :)
I did go to the Rollin' Oldies Rod run a few times. I don't know a lot of guys down there. I still go to their cruise nights once in a while. Here...
I knew Don. Nice guy. I bought some '40 parts off of him too, for my coupe. Tic
I knew a lot of the guys that raced there but I didn't know Don. That might be his car. There were a few '38 Chevy coupes but not too many '37's Tic
Thanks "gentlemen" for the kind words.... "roddin-shack": I bet your cars picture was the one that was blank. Only one bad picture out of the...
Thanks for the kind words guys. I have a picture somewhere of my friend Bills son sitting in that pedal car. It also had a Rat Fink shift lever...
- I don't know if we have any old drag racers on here or not. The pictures in this slideshow were taken at the Greater Des Moines (Iowa) Drag...
Thanks Guys! Glad everyone is enjoying them. For some reason we never took a picture of what the wife and I drove down there. It is a '27 Ford...
Here is my '39 and my friends '40. Tic[ATTACH]
- I had a bunch of pictures that the wife and I took at the first Street Rod Nationals in Peoria, IL in 1970, so I decided to post them in a...
It was parked in the corn crib out at the farm before the wife and I were married. I tried to buy it off of him but he wouldn't sell it because of...
Thanks for the replies guys. It does have big and littles on it, it's just hard to tell sitting in the grass. This pic shows them a little better....
- I haven't been on the board for quite a while and I finally have the '36 Ford in my avatar on the road again. My Father-In-Law gave me the coupe...
- Just wanted to bring this thread back and post a couple more pictures of the '32 Ford two piece door lock. The first picture is of the lock...
- Knoxville, Iowa nostalgia races about 2004. I think this car was wrecked a couple of years later. Tic
OK I'll join the fun... I tried it with a Mason jar (canning jar) and a low setting. I sprayed the jar with conductive spray paint and it did cut...
Junkyard Dog 32: < Good Luck... and let us know if they're caught and who they are. That way we can avoid ever dealing with them... or maybe so we...
Thanks for lookin' out guys... Von Rigg Fink: < they would have needed a trailer or a truck..no one saw nothing?> I figure they probably had a...
- Some of you may remember this engine. It was listed in an auction last fall in Iowa. The guy was a good friend of mine and I bought the '34 Ford...
- This one was in a garage that burned. Pretty decent truck before. Tic
- Don't know how well this will post up as it isn't the best pic anyway. If you look under the car in the second picture you can see the flywheel,...
Taken in '06.... I've had the '36 since 1960. Yep, 48 years. Tic
Our '39 Ford Tic
Thanks Max. I don't plan on taking it apart... Tic
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