Art & Inspiration What car/year really makes you tick??????

Let's see : 32-40 fords. Model A roadsters. 49-50 Mercs. 55-57 Chevies. There is lots more but I don't have the time.

 

For me, it's '69 F-body chevies.... But I do like the early gassers also...

 

Let's just face it everyone, we're all suckers for a cool ride no matter what it is. ..Sometimes I see something that I once thought I didn't like. Surprise me, I just never seen it done up like it is!

 

I like fat fendered and nice round curves the most, but also like the 30's coupes, I also like the quirky cars that you don't see a thousand of, but mostly I like curves.
There's other styles I like for sure that grab my attention, but if I had to choose one over the other I guess it depends on the day of the week and my mood that day. LOL

 

Kellison Coupe.

 

My favorites are the cars I saw in Hot Rod Magazine from about 1958 to about 1968. I always loved the early 30s boxy cars. I delved into muscle cars for a while but my heart was always with the early iron.

 

Pretty much anything not a gasser

 

I have thing for forward look Chrysler products.

 

It's usually whatever I'm building at the moment. Right now I'm in to my whacked '31 Vicky.

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...-vicky-body-a-build-thread-with-pics.1197541/

My Dad always had a hot nut for '46-'48 Ford and Merc coupes. At times he'd have four or five lined up behind the house. This has stuck with me for all these years. If I live long enough I'll build one like his Olds powered, LaSalle trans, chopped, louvered, ribbed bumper, frenched lights, electric blue with a black and white naugahyde interior.. Just too cool!

 

Love all the prewar cars. Have a 32 Ford PU. Favorite of all time....55 Chevy.Loved them in 1968.....love them now,and am building one. At least the 55 is big enough I can really enjoy driving it.

 

For examples, I love my Chevys, but these showed up . I meant only to foster them, but became attached. Never mind the mess, it is time for the yearly stuffing of acquired parts and the changing of the tarps.

 

What, now I’ve got to pick just one?

Never gonna happen!

Like the Supreme Court’s definition of pornography, I know what it is when I see it, but can’t explain it to you! There are probably as many things that turn me off on some vehicles as there is stuff that turn me on on others. Now to just pick a certain year or make or body, I can’t do it, there’s just too many things I like. Everything from the late 20’s to the present can be my next favorite if it has the right stuff. Most of my all time favorites I’ll never get the chance to own, but I can look at somebody else’s and still enjoy it without spending a dime!

 

57 - 60 is fords ciolest truck design



58 was GMs best styling year


I said it

 

Cars are like pies and women love em all, but if I could own just one it would be an 32 Ford 3 window.
Dan

 

oh gosh...definitely the fat fender Fords 34-48 customs. Just love the curves, and how the lines flow.

 

Well, after 105 automobiles and am now 76. I have owned my share (and my wife thinks a fair share of other people's choices). But, I started at 14 with a '48 Ford coupe and went car crazy after that. 42-48 Fords and Mercs have always been my favorite. I just like the lines of those years. I have owned at least one of every series Ford or Mercury from 1927 to 1977. As a teenager, I would buy my ideal car and almost as soon as I got it home would see something else that lit my fire. When I was in high school, I got a nastygram from the California DMV telling me that if I sold one more car that year, I would be considered a dealer and get licensed! Incidentally, at that time, selling 8 cars qualified you as a dealer. So. I bought and sold a couple more that year but never put them in my name. Now I have completely changed. I have owned my truck for 20 years, my deuce roadster was started in 2005 and on the road since 2009, and my ot El Camino was purchased new in 1968 by my dad and when he passed in 1990, I inherited it and have kept it ever since. But, boy oh boy, did I keep the DMV busy for years prior. Now all my cars feel like an old pair of slippers, very comfortable and well broken in. My kids all want dibs on the cars when croak, so I will let them battle it out to see who gets what. In the meantime I am enjoying 5hem just like fine wine, they just improve with age. I wish I could say that about myself!

 

my friend Charlie use to say.............if I only had 10,000.00 and ten acres...

 

...for the HOT ROD years my favorite would be a fenderless chopped 34 5 window coupe.

 

Perfection.

 

My one "I'll eventually have one" car is a 56 Chevy 210 two door sedan. Has had that title for me over 15 years

 

40 Fords and 55 Chevys

 

32 & 40 Fords, 57 Chevys, Kellison J-5s

 

'41-'48 Fords cars and '48 Ford trucks.

 

Oh and fat fender fords..

 

1936 37 Cords and 39 Ford and Merc tubs

 

I really like them all from the aught teens to the mid 70s, although some lots more then others. Been a Ford man all my life so I lean that way mostly the 50s, how ever if I ever get the chance on a 1966 Merc Cyclone GT 390 335 horse 4 speed white with blue interior and a blue racing stripe on the rockers, thats it.
One I really didnt like was a Pacer, but if I found one now that ran Id drive it.

 

Yep! That's doin' it for me!

 

my 32 5w

 

and my 34 5w