Hot Rods The Real Hot Rods,blue collar guys, hard earned squeezed dollars, No Frills that started it all!

Around 1955.....

 

A guy in Dallas I met who had this in 1953. Pretty lucky kid.

 

Same car 65 years later... The Medley Coupe Dad is restoring.

 

After seeing DAD rip around in that A V8 Coupe... and his ear to ear grin after the Trophy runs, made life good again!

 

I came across this picture that fits. I'm having difficulty identifying the engine and the hub caps, can anyone help?

 

Gonna guess olds on both

 

Thanks for the reply Tim, .... I don't have a program to "sharpen" up these old photos.
I really love this Coupe.

 

My buddy has a set of caps like that on his hot rod right now and they are olds, the motor looks olds or caddy to me but I don’t know either we’ll enough to identify it off the exhaust manifolds. Figure it’s got olds caps maybe it go the engine too! Wouldn’t be the first time

 

The car that bit me hard….my dad would put me in this while we worked on tractors an such in the machine shop. South Dakota mid to late 50’s I’m 66 this year. The dash survived, the steering wheel has been replaced, the original is now a wall hanger

 

Where in South Dakota out of curiosity?

 

Hudson

 

Holy cow lol I grew up in Hawarden

 

I was actually born in Hawarden, Doc Larson slapped my butt.

 

Small world haha. Tempted to have a buddy who lives there go get a shot of that garage today

 

I think it’s all gone now. On another note, I went back ten years ago (maybe more) and found the original hood sides gas tank and front splash pan

 

That’s crazy! Wonder what’s there now. Did you know Ron Sorlye? He was in Hawarden with a heavy chopped 5 window with… maybe like a 6 carb nail head? Been a long time since I’ve sat and talked with him. Not 100% he’s still around now that I think about it.

Dennis’s Saum’s mega chopped 3 window came out of the same rough time period and he’d found it in Ponca. Fun to imagine real hot rods cruising Sioux county in the 50’s

 

More examples of what I'm talking about in this thread ...

 

Non pro built rods. Real hot rodder built.

 

Whole lot of Rocket Oldsmobile engines in those cars.

 

Tough on a guy who never grew up seeing a lot of channeled hot rods. There were some but I didn’t lean towards them at all. Maybe being over 6’ had something to do with it.