Hot Rods What you see today??

Yesterday afternoon, Eastbound I-90 just east of SR 306 Mentor, Kirtland, Willoughby Hills area of Ohio

 

Hello,

We were on the move yesterday morning and at night. In the morning, we were on our way to the harbor. Over in the on coming traffic was an Orange/Yellow custom Ford Pickup truck (possible circa 55-56) headed toward San Diego. It was early, so we thought they were going to the Cars and Coffee show by having an early breakfast before the festivities began.

The traffic was light and the paint was what stood out from a long distance away. Being a custom truck, the contrast was there with a nice looking color against a field of white/grey/black surrounding cars of all kinds, not hot rods.

Since we were going in the opposite direction and everyone was going at a fast rate of speed, the camera was not available this time. Usually, I can see ahead and the color certainly would tell me something is coming our way. But, driving was intense. It was a nicely done truck.

The weather was a dull grey drizzly type of morning and lasted all day. The light drizzle lifted, but it looked like "Seattle" weather all day. The marine layer was thick all across the coastal areas. It is a weather pattern that does hit and stay in sunny So Cal. So, we don't always get the great Blue skies contrasting to the Blue ocean and waves.

Jnaki

So much later in the day, we were headed North on the I-5 freeway and it was just starting to get dark. Everyone had their headlights and we were all going freeway speeds. Because most of the cars were in the mild color range, it was a simple mass moving forward.

All of a sudden, this same Orange/Yellow pickup (we saw earlier in the morning) was parked on the side of the freeway. They were parked off of the shoulder in a fairly wide dirt area (away from the fast moving mass of cars) with the hood up and there was a guy leaning into the engine compartment.

It was a long day and very unusual to see the same custom Ford Pickup Truck around 7:30 in the morning and almost the same hour, much later in the same day, 6:45 pm. We were busy all day and my wife was worried that such a cool looking truck had some problems to make him pull over with others going past him at 80 mph.

Hopefully, there was a AAA tow truck was coming up behind us on the last on ramp we had just passed. The Orange/Yellow Custom truck would have needed a flatbed truck as it may have been too low to tow in the normal method.

 

Out shopping for parts today, this was in the parking lot

 

In the parking lot at the Senior Center

 

Nice sunny day, free food and drink, nice cars.... life is good

 

More of this in the custom thread.

 

Seeing this one makes me feel that not every tri-five needs to be rodded.
Just like with Corvettes, it's nice to see a really popular car in its natural
state every now and then.

 

Tonight, was our clubs monthly cruise in and this 1960 Chrysler 300 drove in. It is in the process of being restored and that is why the bumpers, and some other parts were missing. Chrome takes a while and specially if you have huge bumpers to do.

 

This is a '65 so it should be HAMB okay. Posting to highlight the steering column and the rear seat. Slick for 57 years old.

 

Went to get a Hair cut. Barber pulls up in this.

 

Somerset, KY 4/23/22.

 

More Somerset 4/23/22.

 

From our local cruise in today. This is the first one for the year.

 

As a '64 nut, this took a little while to figure out. '63 Fury with a '64 nose. Whew, glad that's over.

 

at the local Piggly Wiggly pickin up supplies. .

 

This is an absolutely bitchin truck. My photos do not even come close to doing it justice. I have posted more in the low rider thread and the dashboard thread.

 

Another Friday night get together, with nice weather.