Art & Inspiration Traditional images that need no explanation.

Eddie Ford of South Muckelford, Victoria with his Aussie bodied 34 5W which ended up in green metalflake, running a 272 Y-block , 3 speed and 56 Ford rear and those 58 Chev tail-lights. Fred Steele sent Eddie a 58 Edsel "horse-collar" and he fitted it into the 32 shell and ran it on this car.

 

Procession up the main street of Narrandera, New South Wales for one of the early Aussie Street Rod Nationals.

 

and 1/2 are tourists--driving on the wrong side!

 

"Idles a little Ruff"

 

Weird, that address comes back to a house in a housing tract.

 

I thought I was the only one who looked up random old addresses to see what is there now.

 

do you same fellas look at the old ads and try to phone them?

 

A reply to the above two posts, YES! I always look up old addresses. Sometimes I even explore the neighborhood on Google. Don't tell anyone, but I have been known to call old ads, and yes I've had some success, no long forgotten 32 Fords though.

 

I don't call up old ads but I often look up addresses from old photos or advertisements. I also like to "drive around" older neighborhoods on google maps. one fun thing to do is drive around cities like Detroit, then click on the images showing previous years and see how many buildings have fallen down, burned up, or just disappear.

 

Snider must have run his shop out of the garage behind the house and that wouldn’t have been unusual in the ‘50’s. Zillow says the house was built in 1909! That picture of the coupe looks like it may be running a Cadillac, I think Hungerford and Burns started with a flathead, then the Caddy.
Here’s another picture of the car.

 

Any port in a storm

 

With respect to a follow-up on old addresses, seems I recall a story of an abandoned 32 garaged in an urban renewal area of Sioux City & moved to adjoining property prior to demolition & later rescued, not sure if true.

 

My address is the last house in a residential area, it is also the only house on the entire length of the street that is zoned business.
The original owner owned all the land around the house. To the west side of all of his properties was a State Highway. He built several buildings that all became businesses along the highway. There is a side street that runs to the west of my house that divided the business properties from the residential properties. The owner lived in the house I now own. One of those businesses needs a storage building to use as a warehouse. The guy cut a corner off the property the house was on, and built a large storage building for the business to rent, but the city made him zone the house as a business property. That is how my property became a business zoned property, and was the primary reason I bought it. I ran my welding shop out of the garage for 18 years. My original plan was to build a building on the side yard, but it just never happened. Over the years, every time the city hired a new property zoning inspector, they came to me telling me I couldn't have a business in a residential zoning. Every time, I had to explain to them my property zoning, some were pretty nasty, but every time I was correct.
Sometimes old addresses have interesting backgrounds.