Live or Die Trying...

Surfing (sorta) USA - Cool. bought a non-running '51 Ford woodie while in High School for $35 - now many miles from ocean but, still have a shrine at home -

 

Woo Hoo!!! one of my favorite topics!!! great choice Ryan- a lot of cool board haulers here on the HAMB
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=590649&highlight=surfers

 

i wish i could spend that much time at the ocean. hell sometimes i wish the wife and i would move to the ocean. but our families are here and so we stay. especially now as we have recently found out we are expecting our first bundle of joy. the child will be the first grandchild on both sides; so needless to say there are multiple happy people. i guess until the next time i can board a plane and head for a coast i can dream. my ultimate plan is to make my pickup a surf inspired one. although now that there is a baby i feel like a car might be in order. anyways thanks for the imagery ryan. hope you enjoyed yourself and i look forward to hearing about the changes.

 

Since Woodies and wagons are traditional surf transportation, I also love this topic. really dig the RPU with the board out the back. once how they kept the nose down and the board in the bed.

 

I hadn't been to Huntington Beach in almost twenty years until a month ago I rolled over for the day to take the girl and the dogs to the ocean. What a disappointment! When last there the town still looked like the picture of the '33 fordor with the kids sitting on top. Now the whole cool little town is just corporate douche bag box architecture from one end to the other.... Sorry for the rant, but it really hurt to see that.

 

as i read this mornings blog, i was listening to dick dale's terra dicktyl on pandora. how appropriate.

 

I have surfed all over and it is as important to me as cars, perhaps more so, both are passions of mine and a core part of my personality. I can't wait to have my T Coupe done one day and be able to cruise to surf spots. Same with Seabass49 with his 49 Coronet, along with setting it up with a Gasser-esque type look...it will have a roofrack for surfboards.

Sounds like you had a great time on your trip, thanks for sharing!

 

I also love going to the beach and I often try to come up with an excuse to drive the 40 down there. It's only a 3 hour drive for me to the Atlantic so I get down there as often as I can. My dream is to someday retire to the Florida Keys and open a business renting beach chairs and umbrellas to beach goers and drive a woodie to work!

 

I can't wait for the day when I can cruise to check conditions in my '57, then unstrap the 9'-6 and hit it....

Edit:

There are some pretty cool shots on this website:

http://www.eastcoastsurfinghistory.com/480988/home/

And you can glean some images of what they were using to get their boards to the break.

 

that is awesome !! start them young I have been surfing since I was eight years old!

 

Christ.....she's seven already??!! I'm getting old!

 

I got out of my groove and haven't surfed much at all over the last couple of years. I feel very guilty about that. Threads like this help me see the error of my ways. Hell, the beach is only 5 minutes away. When I was self employed for 12 years it was a virtually every day dawn patrol. So many glassy mornings. Can't believe I sacrificed that to take a job with the county. Needed the medical insurance.

 

I guess why Huntington's main drag was soooo sad to me was that in the late seventies and into the mid eighties, almost every weekend was spent running up and down the coast surfing. I was there the weekend in November of '83 when a huge storm took down the old pier. I do miss surfing a bunch though...

 

Hell yes! Me too. I spent yesterday on a paddleboard and while I didn't haul it with my roadster, it was just as amazing as when I'm in the surf on the coast.

 

There's nothing better than the ocean and some hot rods with boards! Now that's livin thr dream

 

I sure would like to pirate your photo of the Surfite for my Roth collection... but it won't let me copy. Need to build that kit someday!

 

My all time favorite surf/hotrod shot.

 

i can't swim clark

 

good luck mark! have a safe trip

 

It's OK Kiwi,

Pull down that old Single fin and ge to C Street. It'll do the Soul some good. I went through the same Phase about two years ago, trust me it'll pass. Evening glass is sometimes just as good as the cold gray light of Dawn.


Tim

 

a shameless plug for the HAMB surfers social group
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/group.php?groupid=23

 

I tried surfing one time. Cocoa Beach Fl. Hit the bottom of the Atlantic in about 10 ft of water. Damn near drown. Looks like fun though. I may not surf but I'll always have a wagon.

 

Love the ocean, but way too old for surfing. Sure would like the roadster p/u though!

 

Ah man...My 8' T&C board is hanging above me as I type this, that board hasn't been in the water for way too long. I need to fix that! I love that your daughter is into to it. My daughter keeps asking about my board. I plan on getting her out there when she gets a little older.

I love image #24! That's a very young Greg Noll on the left and Mickey Munoz on the right!

In response to your ramblings on the surfing;does this mean there's going to be an online journal for vintage surfboards?

 

A great Aussie scene.

 

Anyone see Frankie and Annette?

 

The Aussie owner of this phantom Holden surf wagon states "Woodies are becoming popular down here, but we never had them from the factory so we have to build them from existing model wagons. Mine is a 1962 EK Holden (GM Australia). Rescued from a rotting old garage and driven home, I have used Australian marine ply panels and hardwood framing strips with marine grade varnish."
http://www.oldwoodies.com/gallery-worldwoodies6.htm