Ok..I searched and couldn't find anything, so here goes. I want to see pics of Custom styled trucks...Any truck say '47 and up...Ford, Chevy, Dodge, Stude, International, etc...anything from mild to wild...I really dig the wild custom stuff though, like the R&C Dream Truck, and the Kopper Kart. P.S. here's a pic Customcory drew up for me, my ol' '60 F100 all custom like
My '58 Apache, photos courtesy of HankCash Its for sale in the classifieds..... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=301498 .
Hello, We grew up in an old house close to several large industrial tracts in the Westside of Long Beach. Our homes were across the big cross streets of PCH (Oxnard to San Diego) and Santa Fe Avenue that runs from inland to the L.A./L.B. Harbor, 12 miles of industrial/old housing tracts. We saw all sorts of hot rods and cruisers, but the most popular vehicle were trucks. Pickup trucks for daily use to school and work. The plumbers, gardeners/landscapers, welding shops, auto parts shops and of course the many hot rod/drag race speed shops/manufacturers in the whole Westside Long Beach area. Jnaki So, many years later, we still live in a different area that is near a fairly, modern industrial area, as well as an older industrial area that has been around since the 1950s. The newer buildings house everything from Medical, magazines, surf clothing companies, to dance studios and car repair shops. The older industrial areas are primarily car repair/car build shops, with some surf industry shops thrown into the mix. But, no one can drive through the industrial tracts without seeing a cool old hot rod truck or two, despite the modern times and buildings…YRMV
Any of the old popular 50-70 magazines might have the custom chopped 55-57 Ford F 100 truck Tahitian Red is the color... Hello, This is a request for those that have a large collection of old custom car/rod& custom/hot rod and other magazines from the late 50s and 60s. My first introduction to custom cars was a chopped 56-57 F 100 truck. It was chopped at an angle to allow clear vision out in front, but slightly lower in back. It was not just a custom truck, but one painted a bright Tahitian Red that stood out from blocks away... In an internet search, this is as close to the exact memory from those 1955 to the late 1998 year we sold the house. If memory serves me right, no other custom truck we saw back in those days, or during our teenage/20 something days had a chopped truck that looked like that. Tahitian Red was a popular custom car color and this truck was parked on the main street of the Westside of Long Beach daily. It was right in front of a business the owner had set up and for us, it was a daily custom car show every time we visited the area. Here is another version I found, but there was no history or information. The original Westside of Long Beach custom truck had white tuck and roll upholstery done at a small shop near the neighborhood Mobil Gas Station. The Tahitian paint was also done locally. Chrome reversed wheels and a custom grille rounded out the “custom” truck look. It was lowered and sat nicely along the curb in front of his shop. Jnaki One summer day, I was hanging around the gas station having one of their “frozen” cokes from the odd ball machine. The owner was a fanatic about cold cokes and sometimes, he loaded his cold bottle holder machine with ice and that made it twice as cold. Our cokes had ice floating inside and that made it that much better. When I was finished, the mechanic out back came up to the front and told the owner he was going to drive the truck he finished working on, back to the customer, just a couple of blocks down the street. I knew the truck and asked if I could go with him. Both the owner and mechanic knew our dad and were friends with our parents, too. So, they agreed and I got my first ride in a custom chopped truck as a little kid. On the way back, we walked past the old Foster’s Ice Cream place and he bought me a softy cone for the last block back to the Mobil Gas Station complex. Note: Similar in overall style factors, but chopped and in a Tahitian Red. So, if anyone would like to have a relaxing search day or two going through those custom truck magazines, if you find a story about the Long Beach truck, we can exchange a set of original digital films of drag racing from the 50s-60s for your own collection for a copy of the truck and story. They would be digital editions of my original films, separated into categories, not random, like the You Tube J NAKI channel films. YRMV Even obscure magazines like this old Petersen version… Note 2: If I had kept my collection of old magazines, it probably would take me too many boxes during our many house moves and limited garage or attic space to store them. I donated them to several local high school auto shops while those classes were still the hot topic for teenagers. Those H.S. Auto Shops are still fighting for survival and there are a few scattered in all of So Cal. (If anyone would like to donate their stacks of magazines.,)
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