Some old street rod pics from the 70s

Hello,
Thought you might enjoy these old photos my parents took in the 70s.
Some awesome old 70s pics taken by my parents at a few local (London, Canada), Columbus and Waterdown shows.

Some amazing tin in these shots. Hope you enjoy.

http://picasaweb.google.com/100300324725269528000

 

Those are great pics man! Thanks for sharing em with us.

 

Thanks for the walk back in time, I liked it. Thanks for the pics.

 

wow...what memories...i was at columbus at that event...it just got sent on to about six other guys that were there.and we thought we looked g o o o o o o d too!!

 

Man,I remember those days,,bell bottom pants,cowboy hats,long hair and being skinny,,and cars riddin' high and real wide tires,,,and no rat rods!

We have come a long way in styles but they were great times,,thanks for the stroll down memory lane. HRP

 

Thanks for sharing those.
In the Columbus pics, at the bottom is a orange '41 Plymouth conv. It belonged to the late Don Carpenter who was a member of Cincy Street Rods. It's still running around, in black primer, and I usually see it running around at Louisville.

 

gotta love the 70's! saw a couple magazine cars (and a van) in those shots.

 

In the pics from 75 Can nats, The photo #1,and in row 4 ,black 32 5w was and is mine. Had a sbf,now loaded flathead and Kelseys. Thanks for the memories. Dick

 

Wow! That 5w is a great looking car - awesome that you still own it!

 

I remember this 48 Ford at Gatlinburg one year, I took half a roll of film of it. It had a Carson Top Shop tag in the headliner, that was a perfect car back in the day. The 3 window is a N.C. car and is perfect from one end to the other. I drooled on these two when I was younger. Good memories, you use to see some of those Canadian cars at the Nationals South in Winston Salem.

 

Man! Talk about memory lane !,.... There were three of us living in the Detroit / Ann Arbor area that were building similar Deuce 3/W coupes,... I ended up selling mine needing paint, Ron Baynton & Dick Bailey had coupes that were kissin cousins.

These two pictures are of Dick's 3/W from Ann Arbor,... what a great car!

 

Nice pictures! Thanks for posting. This car is still around. I've seen it in Pennsylvania several times over the years. Very cool period graphics, lots of road rash. A true survivor!

 

Pics from when I got started.
Was way different back then.
I loved the Nationals in St Paul, but have grat memories of the ones in Colombus.
Thanks for the pics.

 

Bitchinn..... Thanks for the trip back

 

Dick Baily's 3 window was one of the cars that really got my attention as far as this stuff goes! Still cool to see again all these years later. The channeled '34 fordor is Skip Redio's I believe. The other I saw in the collection that rang a bell was a candy red '25 "T" coupe with true spokes. That was a big deal car up in Canada, I remember the article in HOT ROD about it. Actually, I saw lot's of cars in those photos I remember.

 

Thanks for posting those. Say what you will, but at least people weren't afraid to be different and take some chances back then.
I know that for a lot of the younger guys who weren't around then, those cars are a bunch of ugly street rods, but for me, it was a walk down memory lane, and it felt great!

 

Thanks man! I love the reversed hoop deep dish cragars on the green 55 and the red 56 h/t ............Ive got a new set on my old 55 and Ive got it sittin up pretty good.
Thats the vibe I dig....

 

street is neet !!!!!!!!! thank you for taking the time to scan all those pics!! recognised a few cars from here in mass.

 

this car was in a recent thread here.....

 

one thing I noticed about the 70's pics, there was only ONE HOT ROD with wide whites in all those photos, a full fendered model T coupe. wide whites are overused and abused these days.

 

great pictures. it is interesting to see pictures from that era also.

 

That was good.... Thank you for sharing!

 

With exception of a few 4drs cars in the pics, it definately shows how unpopular owning a 4 dr rod was back in those days.

I remember my backyard neighbor and his older brother, back in '76, bringing home a late 30's (I believe it was a dodge) 4 dr that they had pulled out of a farmer's field (it had all the original drive train, glass and interior, and they even got it running).
They got it for $50.00, and three hours of digging mud from the under carriage, 'cause the farmer told them "nobody wants an old 4 door, and I need to plant where it sits".

Hell, if my memory serves me I believe myself, and alot of guys in the neighborhood, even questioned the wisdom of bringing home a 4dr..., of course now I realized my misstep (see my 4 dr avatar).

 

Nice pics

 

Must have taken a minute to scan all those. Loved them! Thanks for posting!

 

A flashback to my misspent youth. Thanks for posting.

 

excellent. thanks for sharing

 

Was it? do you have any info? Im kinda curious,
It looks like the Limelighter, but diffrent and w/ an half assed fade job

 

BADASS> Thanks. Slim

 

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