Hot Rods Wow...22 years ago...

Sounds like you’ve been inside too long Mr. Norwell. Hehe.

 

No kidding...55yrs ago I had LOTS of hair...not so much today, but still hot rodding!!

 

Do you still have a beer in your hand? I hope so.

 

LOL Bob, yeah me too. 1969...lots of hair 55 years ago. Not much left anymore...but still hot rodding too.

 

Hey you look pretty young, Who you let drive your car

 

Back then I was a ........oh wait I still am.

 

17 year old pot smoking, beer drinking long haired hippy with a loud obnoxious hot rod...pretty much check all the boxes for the local cops.

 

Summer of 1966 with hair and wanting a Gasser looking ride I took the front bumper of my 55 Buick to get "the look" or so I thought.
I worked in the Renton Wa Boeing plant that summer bucking rivets on the window panels for 727 Jets. Dang, that was 59 years ago.
That Buick is still one of my favorite cars that I ever owned though.

Then years later in 1988, I had my 51 Merc that I bought when I was 16, sold a couple of years later and then bought back for 10.00 and my buddy and I towed it home with the 55 Buick and it sat until 1980 before I got to work on it. I was in the camp ground behind the Puyallup fair grounds a bit heavier, a little less hair and pretty damned happy.
Dang this photo is 36 years old

 

You, and me both Jack! Check, Check, and Check. Hot Rod'n Hippy's

 

40 years ago.

 

Pretty sure this one is from right at 36 years ago. This was just a pickup I was fixing to paint. All my own cars from years ago were OT... No comment on the beer drinking, pot smoking, long haired hippy driving obnoxious stuff status other than it might have described me at the time as well. Seems this thread could make us all start to feel old...

 

Man your old Jeff!

 

At least all the pics have been in color…well, other than Chris’s. He must be really old.

 

Hahaha!!

 

You love us!

 

Video is 59 years ago, red roadster 26, and dragster current. I still have my hair, but my head looks like it wore out 3 bodies !
https://www.google.com/search?q=mar...xjCAzIJCAYQRRg7GMIDMgkIBxBFGDsYwgPSAQkxMzU4aj

 

Oh, and apparently I was wrong on the colored photos. Several of you guys must be old.

 

The tintype photo of me and my burro was taken as photo evidence by the man with a star on his vest and a long barrelled pistola
That's how we used to haul ass....

 

All of @Marty Strode stuff is killer!

 

55 years ago I was fighting and dying for my country on Waikiki beach……..hot Rod ? A HAMB friendly 65 Sunbeam Tiger.

 

61 years ago I got my picture in Apr. 63 Hot Rod Mag. at the Great Western Exhibit Center 3rd Winternationals Car Show in So.Cal.


A "coke-bottle-bottom" bespeckled Hotrodjack at the Revell Model Car display. That picture made me somewhat of a legend among my buddies at John Foster Dulles elementary school in La Mirada, Ca

 

Thank you,
Dan

 

Just to weigh in. 22 years ago I was 6'1" 175lbs, graying hair.
This day I'm 5'7'' 140lbs, Hair turned blonde from chemo ( hairless ) and T-cell transplant.

 

I have an anniversary coming up pretty soon too.
July 5th, 1994. The day I opened my welding shop at 37 years old.
I "officially" closed it Oct 31, 2018, right after I turned 62.

 

22 actually 23 years ago I finished my Roadster and had less than 100 miles on it and took off to back to the 50s show in Minnesota. We made it there and back! It has about 36,000 miles on it know. my beard is white now and the movements are a little more careful now.Gary

 

Well hey, 22 years ago my hair was a solid color (brown) and today it's a solid color (gray, maybe even white).

 

I know my chest is in a different place…than it was 22 years ago about 10” lower but maybe bigger, over 22 years ago my hair migrated also, most of it moved into and on my ears WTF, when the migration started I was getting a hair cut and lady asks Do you want me to trim the tops of your ears? What?
Dan