Art & Inspiration The passage of time.

This doesn't happen overnight. HRP

 

Back in the 30's when kids had a work ethic and wanted a job. HRP

 

Time had been hard on your Model A.

 

This is my dad at 81 years old. He had just completed 15 hot laps in the V8-60 Kurtis midget he raced in 1947, 48. It's been 20 years since dad passed. He's gone, but the midget he built in late '46 is still alive and well in the Justice Brothers Museum, exactly as it was built. It is truly a survivor of time.

 

HEY you little bastards. Get the HELL off my deuce...or I'm gonna shove those newspapers up your...

 

^^^^^^License Plate says 1936... Car is pretty beat for such a short time, damn paperboys!

 

Passage of time the 3 stages of your life. 1) brag about what good piece you got last night, 2) brag about what a good dinner you had last night, 3) bragg about what a good CRAP you took, and finally out of the planet you go. Check your bragging index and you'll know where you are.

 

Ahhhhhhhhh yes."Time and tide wait for no man".
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

 

I remember putting tire black on my running boards, oh shit! that was 60 years ago.

 

The two layers of black paint is mostly gone on this old T roadster. The signage remains (even better on the other side) and there's only one small rust hole.

 

And I'm beginning to look like that running board rubber

 

A '40 Ford with 48,000 miles is now 80 years old and it averaged 600 miles a year. I've owned my '40 Chevy 41 years and have put right around 180,000 miles on it - average just over 4,300 a year. Have redone it completely twice. Puts some perspective between the two cars.

 

Man that headlight bar looks just like the one I made back in the early 70's for my A sedan. Bottom bolt go's in from underneath.

 

My father used to drive this in his youth.

 

Two beauties

 

Mark, that was a cool sedan, do you know where it is n0w? HRP

 

Thank you sir for posting the long version of this one....

 

That sounds traditional...

 

That's a great photo. BigO

 

84 years & lots of Kiwi shoe polish. Spent its first 35 years on farm with dirt & gravel roads.

 

No I do not. Last time I saw a picture of it they put chrome wires on it and it did not look good IMO.
Only automatic car I ever built. It was a great car that you could drive cross country without an issue.

 

A registration I found for my Uncle Jimmys Oldsmobile from 1952.




A letter sent from my Great Great Grandmother (in Ireland) to my Great Grandmother the year she got married. 120 year old envelope that I had in my hands a month ago.



Cliff Ramsdell

 

My roadster, must paint it one day.

 

DAGO, don't paint that baby she is PERFECT just the way she is. Your roadster is what a HOT ROD looks like. Keep the faith down under. Dennis.