Where have you driven your hotrod

Been a few places in my roadster. Extremes follow: The beaches near San Diego and Boston, San Antonio to the upper penninsula of Michigan. Fifteen Fahrenheit to about a hundred seventeen. Below sea level to over 12000 feet. Damn, I've had fun, and expect to have some more.

 

Have been to louisiana.missisippi.alabama.georgia. south carolina,north carolina,tenn, ky,ohio,indana,ill,iowa minnisoda,michigan west virginia,virginia,and florida 1954 ford 355 sbc ,400hp and lots of gas lots of fun. talker

 

In the 80's drove chopped and channeled 32 Coupe with my wife ,son and daughter to Columbus StreetRod Nats.
My son was 7 he was in the middle and my daughter was 4 on my wifes lap.
And this is what we road in for about 10 hrs.
FRANK

 

4300 miles in one week for me in my 27 essex roadster.

 

Wheels, we did a feature on your car back around 1990 or so. You had the upper right hand corner of the magazine. I believe Mick Connelly took the photos. Here you go.

 

l had a good time when he shot the car I think it was at Carlisle PA..
The military college was the back drop.
What ever happened to mike haven't seen him in years.
Is he still into photography for any magazines
FRANK

 

No, he found an old 32 Chevy Confederate Coupe Hot Rod in an old garage, yep. A real life barn find. He wanted a rod so badly I used to tell him, take your time Mikey, you'll find one when the time is right. He sold the 66 Nova he had rebuilt and re-did the Chevy and moved down to Fla.
He was my graphic artist. He was involved in a bad accident last year and I haven't heard back from him.

I did get incontact through the Jim Inglese thread that you also were involved in, with my artist Jim Malaro! We spent a good half an hour on the phone trying to catch up on old times.

Small world isn't it? And the HAMB makes it even smaller. I've hooked up with a number of old friends through it already.

 

WOW! Am I ever jealous! I drove my car for about a week, 12 years ago, before it got pulled down completely. My little brother drove his 52 GMC across the new 35w bridge in Minneapolis the first morning it was open. He lined up at 4 am and said the only people in front of him were 2 MN DOT dump trucks and some Harleys. We all thought it was pretty cool that he was the first hot rod/street rod to roll across!

 

great places...very very envious of you and Big Olds for all the places ya go!!!!

 

when i get a break from school i like to go for a nice drive to....the driveway!

 

ok here are acouple of my trips in my roadster and 30 sedan
the roadster at gettysburg, henry fords house in mich. from new york via canada. on the way back to new york in OH10, heading to maryland from gettysburg to see my sister and eat some crabs at the crab shack.
the uniroyal tire in mich same trip. cant find the niagria falls pictures .the bull on wall street nyc. and the spher in flushing park before the fuel pump let go. evan and tara in bellmore train station long island ny and the covered bridge tour in pa. and the bed and breakfast we stayed in .
I will have to put the henry j on later

 

ok here are acouple of the henry j
the j at the show at the maryland armoury, the montauk light house long island, grumann in bethpage long island,pocono raceway, the hunnert car pile up with my friend in the back seat,jalpyshowdown, indy speedway when we went to the road rocket rumble, a dinner in indy , the mug and bun in indy with the indy crew and hotrodladycruiser and dumb whore, a nice burnout in rhine beck new york holiday inn
OH yeah and tom sleeping on the way to the hunnert car this year and toms truck at the hunnert last year . It has been a great 2 years
here's hoping for many more

 

Geez---Can't believe these guys that ask if it counts driving to work,---Out the driveway,--Around town, etc!!!
And then again, I love the ones that have chased those lines for so many miles across this beautiful USA, smiling, catching the bugs in teeth group, in their hot rod, not a later model car with all the soft ride stuff & air & power this & that!!
I made my first cross country trip from L.A. to Detroit, Mich. Nats in 1972, Tulsa,Ok. in 1973, Memphis, Tn. in 1975, Tulsa, Ok. in 1976, Colorado, Arizona, Washington, then after moving to Bend, Oregon 1984, slowed up a bit, Nats in Louisville, Ky. in 1994, Kelona,B.C., Idaho, Utah, & last year toured Pacific Northwest, Idaho,Wyoming,Yellowstone Nat. Park, Montana, Washington & back to Oregon!!
I don't go as much any more, wife has medical problems now, BUT, she has been riding shotgun all this time since 1970, & we now have 300,000 miles total on 2 odometers over the years!!----Hell of a lot more fun than going in & out of the driveway,----Driving to work,----All the way cross town,---Next state, etc.---Thats for candy asses!---OH Well, to each his own, & at 76 I'm still having fun going thru the gears & winding up my Cobra snake evry now & then (weather permitting), can't miss the whistle of wind in my ears, because my hearing aids are working great!!!--------Street is Neat------Don

 

yes we have a name for those people who build there cars and rat rods and stay in the area there called ZIP CODE CARS. there are alot of great sites to see and alot of beautiful woman out there too. isnt that what most people build there cars for anyway to drive. Stop me if im wrong but didn't ford invent the automobile so people could see whats out there and meet new people

 

Right on Deuce Daddy Don and hotroded. IMHO the zip code cars are right in there with the 1-800 cars. Always an excuse why they can't be driven far. I have to chuckle at how some people are always talking up the fact that their car is the daily driver. It doesn't mean squat if that daily drive is 5-10 mi of city driving. One of the worst cars I ever owned was a 1 owner 5 year old car that after I bought it found that it hadn't been on the highway in over 2 years, just around town. When I started driving it 55 mi per day everything started going to hell. Get out on the road and put 500+ mi on it in a day and do it day after day without a problem. Then you can call it reliable. My trip back from Fl in mid Oct. I saw several newer daily drivers along side the road for whatever reason and I put 1200 trouble free miles on the cpe that day

 

That's my Baker after arriving in Corrales New Mexico from SoCal . Bob the Traveling Dinosaur is in the bed of the RPU being towed

 

Lowe's Motor Speedway



Daytona Beach



And of course the legendary Latimer Valley Mud.

 

The last trip was to the Euronats in Thun, Swiss.
That's me front and center.
Next year to Mantorp, Sweden and some shorter trips to England, France and Germany
Loving every mile of it

Leen

 

Sea to shining sea... with a U-haul trailer on the back.

 

This shot was taken back in 1981 on the way to the nats south when it was in Winston Salem NC.

 

here are acouple of more great shots of the places me and my cars have been .

 

Drove this from Seattle to Bonneville, ran 136, drove home, in 1954.

 

Around the track at Michigan International Speedway. What a blast.

 

cant compete with Denise (not many can) but my wagon went from coast to coast. and north to south. My wagon went to the following over a 3 or 4 yr period

WA- OR - ID - CA - NV - AZ - CO - NM - TX - OK - TN - KY - MS - TN - NC - SC - GA - FL - AL - MI - - WV - VI - Dist of Col - DE - PA - NJ - NY - CO - MA - OH - IN - IL - NE - IA - KS

I think that is it. hard to remember all of them.. never got to the dakota's or way northeast with it..

 

Acxross the street, it were fun.......fuck it.

 

Uh, well, we went camping...it rained a little...