Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Story and Video
http://www.fordinthenews.com/ford-explorer-gets-reinvented-with-lego-bricks/
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
When this experimint in marketing went belly up in the mid seventies,
Aquacar's West Coast facility rounded up all the bankrupt dealer inventory
and stored them on a lot about 3 blocks from my house. You could have
bought one for pennies on the dollar. I should have bought one, but there
was kids, mortgage, braces, etc, etc, etc..............................................
Ain't that a familiar "tune" in the car world?
Monday, November 30, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
I once had an old "beater" truck with 6 different colors (including rust).
This beats it. I counted 8. 2 different kinds of wheels and 3 different
brands of tires. 2 different mirrors. A true classic.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Thursday, September 03, 2009
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Monday, July 27, 2009
1994 F-350 Turbo Diesel Crew Cab
Nice Body........Ugly Camper
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Monday, June 08, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
A 1930 Ranchero??? Who said the Ranchero and El Camino
were the first smooth, auto bodied pickups with integrated bed?
Check the tie rails. They were re-introduced on the 2002 Ranger.
Then, in the early sixties................................
A truck, not car bodied, integrated unibody pickup.
Notice, no bed to cab gap or seam. Mas cool, hey?
1931 Town Car Delivery
You'd guess this was a custom fabricated job, but it was
a standard Ford commercial work truck. I'd never seen
one till the other day. So neat!!!
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Filed in the "Way Cool" category
Link to more pics: http://www.autoblog.com/photos/blastolene-hemi-trike/1314360/
Labels: I've been thinking about getting a bike??????
Monday, December 15, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Sunday, November 23, 2008
As I prepare to write this story about how I got into cars and hot rodding I almost can’t believe it.
Mine was truly a different generation.
I was in my mid-twenties when I went to college. During a conversation with one of my professors I mentioned how surprised I was at how many “adult” students were still living at home and even had their parents driving them to school. He said that one dynamic of an advanced civilized society, such as the U.S., was that the maturation period from adolescence to adulthood kept getting longer. In effect, the vestiges of boyhood remained long after boys should be conducting themselves as men. That would explain all the twenty-somethings we see hanging out at malls, in baggy pants riding skateboards, while thirteen year olds in backward countries are soldiers.
The die was cast for me before I was nine.
Hop Up magazine changed over to Hot Rod magazine in 1948. I would have been six. I remember the change. I don’t know what other boys read. I devoured car magazines. Hot Rod. Car Craft. Rod and Custom. (The same magazines I just bought as a gift subscription for my twelve year old grandson)
The summer of my tenth birthday I told my Dad that I wanted to buy myself something special for my birthday with the money I’d saved doing odd jobs and that I’d need his help with it. Raking leaves, delivering papers, setting bowling pins and caddying golf served me well and by August I’d amassed the princely sum of about $100. A lot of money in those days, especially for a kid.
On my birthday my father asked me what I wanted. He expected an answer like a new Schwinn or Huffy Flyer bike, a single shot Stevens 22 caliber rifle or a small black and white TV for my room. I said, “Dad, I want a car.” Mom and Dad were speechless. After explaining ‘Ten Good Reasons’ why nine year olds don’t buy cars, (Dad had ‘Ten Good Reasons’ for everything. Everyone usually gave up around #7 and Dad almost always got his way), I explained that he could use it to drive to work since we a one car family. On weekends we could work on it together. It would a great father/son project. He could teach me all about cars and during the summer we could leave it at Grandpa’s farm and I could work on it there and drive in the fields. Besides, it was my money. I’d earned it.
She was a 30 Ford Tudor sedan, cost me $75.00 and she was beautiful!
We went straight to Grandpa’s and build ourselves a workshop in the corner of the barn. The first project was the seats. The upholstery was tattered, the padding in shreds and the broken springs poked Dad in his rather ample posterior. After removing them we found the frames and springs were too rusted to repair. Grandpa suggested replacing them and he introduced me to my second Hot Rod Epiphany in as many days; the junk yard.
After much searching and measuring we went home with a pair of seats from an Essex. They not only tilted forward, they moved forward and back on tracks. We measured, drilled and mounted the seats. To reinforce the thin sheet metal floor to keep the bolts from tearing out, Grandpa cut pieces of 2 x 4’s that we covered in barn tar and bolted under the floor. Hot Rod Epiphany #3; the Bedrock of Hot Rodding, American Ingenuity.
We rebuilt the motor and transmission. We replaced the wood spars in the top and running boards. The rubber in the roof, running boards and floor came from conveyor belt discards from Grandpa’s work, turned good side out. It looked as good as new.
Grandmother and I redid the entire interior replacing the frieze material with a hard weave, heavy cotton duck material. Given the right needles and a lot of patience, a Single treadle sewing machine can do leather harnesses. The trick is to make a BIG table around the machine so you have a big surface to lay large pieces on. You have to crawl on your hands and knees to reach the hole where the operator sits. I learned to make patterns, dye fabric, make welting and sew upholstery. Grandma’s Singer has done a lot of upholstery over the years and sits in a corner of my living room.
Eventually it got a dual carbs, split exhaust manifold, and dual pipes. The wire wheels were replaced with steel wheels and 32 Ford V8 hubcaps. They took a liking to me at the junk yard and many better pieces of trim and metal found their way onto the A. The manual wipers were replaced with electrical units from a Lincoln. Copying a mod I saw in a magazine, I replaced the curved headlight bar with a sharply angled straight one and mounted it upside down. That made the main cross piece pass very low across the radiator. I then mounted flat lens, oversize head lights to give the front end a look like an imported limo. I did this all myself. Very cool for its time. I learned to weld, solder, braze and paint cars. I also learned how to drive.
During the school year, the car was at home and Dad drove it to work. During the summer it was at Grandpa’s with large wooden blocks strapped the pedals. The blocks and a pillow allowed me to drive. I spent hours bouncing around the fields and back roads of Darke County Ohio.
I kept the car for 4 years until epiphanies #4, #5, and #6 hit me in rapid succession.
A hot rod is a work in progress, never finished.
You’ll run into another car you can’t live without.
You can’t afford both.
to be continued....................
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
2010 MUSTANG PIX LINKS
LINKS TO GALLERIES AND PRESS RELEASE:
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/17/la-preview-2010-ford-mustang-finally-unveiled
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/17/2010-ford-mustang-revealed-on-fords-own-website
http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2010-ford-mustang-teased
MUSTANG VIDEOS
ROUSH VS SALEEN SHOOTOUT
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ROUSH 427R TRAK PAK
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Monday, November 03, 2008
A MUST SEE.........FOLLOW THE LINK......NOW!!!!!!
http://oldfortyfives.com/CarsWeDrove.htm
Saturday, November 01, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
Saturday, October 25, 2008
2005 CORVETTE
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
TRUCKGUY SHAKES UP 2008 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
DETAILS AT 11:00
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Saturday, October 11, 2008
I grew up in the 50's hot rod era. Flames were just about the coolest thing you could do
with paint. There are a lot of wild flame jobs out there but a basic flame job on black still about the best there is. This is way cool. Check out other great car art from this photographers galleries.
http://richardsmallphtography.com/