Wanna see some really old pics?

I've been meaning to do this for a while and finally made the time. The cars in these pics are a couple from my Dad's past. The first is of his Plymouth convert. I think it was a '48 and the pics were taken around 1955. The young lady in the passenger seat is my Mom. Dad was about 17 at the time, he's now 70. My mom was 15 then. The car was about the shade of pink as a strawberry shake.

 

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Very nice! THank you for sharing!!

 

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Here's a few of a coupe he built around '63 or so



Sweet shop, eh?

 

The finished car as near stock


That's my uncles original (not restored coupe) on the left

 

Here's my favorite version, it had a full-tilt flathead, 3/8 x 3/8 that came from a dragster in the San Jose area. It had two 97's and Fenton headers



See that nipper by the rear wheel? That's me

 

Very cool.

Thanks for sharing.

 

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Great pics. . .

 

By '66 a 312 Y block had replaced the flattie and my Dad flat-towed it to St Helena (about 200 miles) to a freind who painted it the same color red (Poppy Red) as the new Mustangs




Now I had a little bro to share the spotlight with

 

Way cool to see pix from back in the day. I like the shadow of the photographer in some of the shots, you can see that the camera was the kind that was held down in front of the person, not up to the eye! Hard to think that A's were cheap and plentiful once. America was a lot more innocent then..

 

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These pics were taken (according to the date mark) in April 1967. Ten years later, after Dad and I rebuilt it, I drove this car to high school. It hasn't run now in about 20 years. My brother recently bought it from Dad, so we'll see what happens from here.

 

Man, that's incredible!
Usually people will have only one or two pics of cool stuff like that from back in the day. My family weren't into cars so the only pics I have with any cars show only a door or fender.
That's neat, thanks for posting them. Anybody else got some?

 

Those are some cool pics. I have taken a few pics of my kids in my car so they could share them with there kids when there older (they are 7 and 3)

 

Besides the car, the neat things in the pics are in the background. Look at the pic of the painted frame leaning against the wall and you'll find a "port-a-wall". It's basically a fake whitewall that you could have installed on the inside of the tire so you'd have whites on both sides. The bead of the tire held in in place. The shot of the car in the alley shows a dropped, shaved '54 Ford behind Dad's coupe. That was Dads driver, and it's the car I came home fomr the hospital in in '62. The shadow of the photog was my uncle. The coupe sheetmetal was all scrounged for free. Every single bit of it was gotten from old car dumps that were scattered around. It was not Dad's first try at a hot rod. The first one resulted in a scrapped body when he tried to channel it. He had no idea what he was doing and ruined the body. He didn't even try to save it, he just went back to the dump and got another one and made it full fendered.

 

Cool stuff! Thanks for sharing.

 

Unfortunately, just the flathead Plymouth 6. It did have split manifolds and Smittys, but the Olds hub caps were just because the builder (not my Dad) liked the smooth look.

 

BTW, just for comparison, look at the pic showing my brother and I in front of the coupe. That's the same guys in my avatar. Some things never change...

 

Those pictures are the kind of thing I like to see. Real history and the cars are nicely built to boot.

 

Cool Dad.

 

wow nice pictures and story! thanks for sharing

 

Photos like that are priceless. Thanks for sharing them!

 

Where were these pics taken?

 

At the time, my Dad was a forklift driver for Pacific Lumber Company in Scotia, Ca. This was their air-drying yard at the time, where Dad worked. He retired as the head mechanic a few years ago.

 

awesome pics and story

 

Cool pics, but they arent really old, just old...

 

I have family that lived in the Ukiah/Calpella area and it looked like any number of mills in the area.
The cone shaped metal building in the background of the color pics was the tip-off!

 

Those are some awesome pics.

 

Oddly enough, the company that bought Pacific Lumber last year (I work there as a machinist) are based in Calpella, and the pic in my Avatar was taken last summer at the annual car show in Ukiah. Small world.