Hot Rods Let's have our own 87th anniversary event for the 36 ford...

Someone on the HAMB owned this one in the sixties, these pics were posted a few years back. God I LOVE this...

 

On again, off again, getting there slowly when funds are allowed

 

Nice car, neat old rail bridge in the background too.

 

Beauties all. As I recall, the hemi powered 5 window was featured in a mag., possibly HRM, in the early 60s.

 

Breakfast this morning:


Look what else showed up!!!

TWO genuine Duesys!! Best of all, they are driven! The owner cautioned me that gas mileage was a bit weak at 9 miles per gallon. I tried to get him to go with us to the LA Roadster Show. He said he thought the car would make it but we would have to have a tanker gas truck follow it!!

Anybody else have such company this morning? They're not 36 Fords but I hope nobody minds. The HAMB community is about flexibility and sharing.

 

Friends from Canada that stop by when they are in the colonies...

 

Great from any angle to me!!
That's four convertible sedans and one phaeton.

 

Wow, Al, you're hangin' with some upscale folks.

 

^^^^^I'll say; would definitely be an eye-opener so early in the morning!

 

I had to add this picture that I found elsewhere on the HAMB chicks thread:


Looks a lot like mine did before it got updated.
I think she has driven that old Ford before!
Dang! I don't see a wedding ring. Maybe it is hers... or her boyfriend's!!
Neat picture, no matter what.

BTW, a friend of mine owns BOTH Duesys and I understand he and his helpers built both cars. I'm sure both took quite a while.
Best of all, they are driven! He is just another car guy if you met him. He believes in having fun with your cars as much as anybody else and enjoys these two. They are presently building a 57 Chevy coupe that is wicked!
We never know what he'll bring to breakfast but it is usually interesting.

 

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I have always been a 36 ford fan. I have three of them . A roadster, A threewindow, And a fivewindow. I will try to post some pictures. They are all in my file on this site.

 

.....................Waiting patiently.......with all due respect to Larry.

 

^^^I was thinking the SAME thing, Don!

He's further west... maybe it takes longer.

 

Here are pictures of my three 36's.

 

Can I join the party? My 35 that is making the transformation slowly to the right year.

 

threewindow, it was worth the wait!!!
All of them look great!
Thanks for taking time to find them and share them.


32coop, welcome aboard!! Now that I think about it, I think my first 36 was a 35 that got updated like many got updated many years ago.

 

My first '36

 

Done the 50 Year deal in 86'.
Here is a picture of me and my old Boss and work mates in 1986 I think.
I was 17 or 18 at the time and My boss had this 36 V8 for a while.
They were sold here in NZ new but not many left on the road like this one was so quite rare in our country still..
His gas station was a small Caltex shop or the outskirts of Christchurch, New Zealand and Caltex was celebrating 50 years in NZ since 1936.
So we had the old 36 sign written for the occasion as it was 50 years or so birthday for the car as well as Caltex .
Was a cool old shop hack to go get the fish and chips at lunch time for the crew and fun to hack around in for a young chap.
Good times they were. .

 

Speaking of right hand drives, here's a picture of one taken at the Moonshine Festival in Dawsonville, GA last fall.

Tony has had the car in the Charlotte area for some time and drives it! I believe that is the rare and elusive "Pines" trim on the car. Rare hubcaps, too. Runs like a top!

 

Russ, who owns this coupe, flew up to see me from Atlanta twice to help me reduce my 36 Ford parts inventory.
At the Moonshine Festival, I spotted him and we talked awhile and I later found his car. He had his family with him and they were thoroughly enjoying their old Ford! Car was running well and he was still making progress.
Ya gotta drive 'em!

As I recall, it had the special open air chicken wire top option on display that day.

 

At the Dawsonville Pool Room.

 

Here's my 36 that I just sold after many years, it will be heading to NZ soon.................

 

^^^Sure is a nice one! Somebody in NZ is going to be happy! I sold a 36 cabriolet project to a fellow in NZ a few years back.

 

Al, Do you know much of the ownership history of this cabriolet project that went to NZ? I ask because a fellow that I knew in Southern Maryland once owned a burgandy Cab that was a project. He sold it as a project shortly before he tragically died in Ocean City, Maryland around 2001, I believe. It then went to another fellow near LaPlata, Md. who still owned it (in project status) when he passed away in Dec. of 2010. Just curious....Thanks, Don.

 

It is the same car. I tracked the history down when I got it. I intended to build it and did add an engine, Trans, and an old folding top that was correct for the car.
But, as often happens, I found the green cabriolet in NY via another 36 Ford owner pal. He was so strong on the car that I took his advice and got it. That is when I offered the burgundy one for sale.
Story was the car was used in Redskins parades but I'm not sure about that aspect.

 

..............What a small world indeed, Al. Can't speak to the parade thing but, the car was built as a sort of Redskins tribute car I believe by a fellow named Bobby Grubb who used to be a NASCAR official on a local track basis. It passed through other owner(s) before his brother, Ronnie acquired it in the 1990's as a running, driving car. I actually drove the car once around 1994 or so. Ronnie had the car to a number of people doing some "wrong" stuff to it and it wound up sitting in pieces in his food catering truck for a number of yrs. Shortly before his death he sold it to Jim Rison near LaPlata. You must have acquired it after Jim passed in 2010. .....Don.