Hot Rods 1960's period correct hot rods

Any body have photos of the john souza t,,

 

This photo certainly captures the "whole" sixties idea of hot rods/street rods!!! From baldies and beauty rings to slots and Americans, with more flake thrown in!

 

Blimey i've just creamed myself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Any shot with the door shut?

What a gorgeous car

 

Look at how young the crowd was. It would be cool to see them in the same location as then.....then again maybe not, time has a way of doing it's own body work.

 

So Cal was the epicenter before the 60's and it is to this day. I was lucky to have been able to make numerous excursions to the LA scene in the 60's, from my home in the Midwest.

Doug, were you at this Early Times gathering in about '68? It was in a big parking lot along the south side of the San Bernadino Freeway and we just happened upon it and pulled in. Buckets just don't get any badder than Ted Brown's.



Here's a current build I like a lot.




My Impala with the Uncertain T.

 

Most of the cars that people think are "60's" style these days aren't. Most of them sit waaaay too low, and a lot of cars in the 60's had fenders and were on a rake. And not EVERY car in the 60's has supremes and pie crust slicks, in fact most didn't.

 

I'm trying to show off Edell's coupe to a friend in an email, but it won't copy/paste. Any idea why? I saw it in Santa Maria, and my friend is curious as to what I thought was the baddest car there. Thank you

 

I understand that this is an old thread, but I have a question about the sixties hot rod builds.
Let me first explain that though i'm new to Hot Roddin I'm not new to custom cars. As a matter fact my first word was "Mom" and the second was "Car"!!! Dad didn't mind to much, cuz dad was next. I was 4 yrs old when I went for my first ride in a duece coupe for my birthday!!! Getting to driving age mini trucks was the coolest thing(fads come and go). Then moved to lowriding and bombs!
So now I've just bought my first lil Hot Rod, and I'm UPSIDE DOWN and INSIDEOUT with excitement!!! I bought a lil T sedan and want to take it to a sixties style.
So gettin to my question. As I study this and many other threads, I see a lot of mismanaging of wheels and even hub caps with steelies. Can some explain this? cuz it's what I'm about to do with my lil T. Thanks!!!

 

Back in the 60's, most backyard hot rods had '40-'48 front brakes with 5&1/2 pattern; the rears used were mostly '55-'57 Chevy or Olds. It was hard to come up with perfect matching wheel sets. Unless it was a bucks up build (most weren't).

 

Watch it, you might upset those rockabilly posers who are re-living a time that never happened. You know, the ones that don't even know what real rockabilly sounds like.

 

If you really want to know search around for old Hot Rod, Rod and custom mags. This will give you an idea of what was considered the upper crust of Hot Rodding. This will not necessarily show what the normal folks were building except maybe in the for sale section in the back

 

My Dad started this car in 1959 finished it in 1961

 

Here's what a home town friend was driving to high school in '62. Not a great picture due to its age. '49 coupe with a hopped up flathead. Just what I want to put together except with the hopped up 324 Olds sitting in my garage.

Lee

 

3 window Deuce built by my best friend in the late 50s early 60s

 

Mine's a relatively new build, but I tried for an early 60s look by reminding myself of the model cars I did at that time - lotsa chrome, bright paint, white interiors and decals.



Dave

 

I have just been through this thread & it is indeed quite cool.
Unfortunately plenty of the pictures are no longer on the thread, just red X over an image.

Bump this to the top to continue.

 

December 1959
Hello,

Since the ***le says 1960’s, the photos have to be narrowed down to the 1965 era or earlier, back to 1960. This photo was taken on December 31, 1959, but was a type of hot rod build we would see throughout the 1960-64 teenage years. Whether or not the candy apple red roadster made it to a 1960-65 magazine remains to be seen.

During our teenage hot rod years, from 1960 to the time I drove away to college in 1965 was an oddball time. The drag racing scene was going through some changes and we could see the end for the “little guy,” in the future of racing. The sponsors were the key to building big time, big bucks race cars or if one knew of a big name, added the name to the sides of the race cars for sponsorship money.

It was a race to see who was sponsoring the race cars from the last remaining gas coupes/sedans cl*** compe***ion to the top fuel dragsters. Names from everywhere were now labeled on the sides, nose, tail and every fender of an old drag race car.

Jnaki

But, in the street hot rod scene, names were rarely seen and the bright colors from the 50s started appearing on daily drivers, like Candy Apple Red to highlight the hot rod or custom sedans/trucks.

Then, throughout the early 60s, the color was popular on a lot of builds.

One 1956 Ford Truck in our own neighborhood was started in the late 50s and finished into the 1960 time period, became a very popular color that took off in the custom car/hot rod builds. It was a deeper Candy Apple Red Color called “Tahitian Red.”

For the custom folks, it was lowered, bright paint, offset by chromed reversed rims, all white tuck and roll upholstery done in Long Beach and chopped. A true custom truck for the times... YRMV

 

Besides the exterior appearance of the cars, the running gear changed also. In 1960 many old Fords
were still using early Ford transmissions. By 1965 that was no longer the case.