1969 Mercury Cyclone. Sad part : Ended up getting totalled by a by lady who was lost and not looking where she was going.
A 40 Ford coupe was my first car. Got it in '67, when I was 15. It still lubricates the ground in front of my house, in between taking me to places I need to go. Sorry, no digital pics....
[ QUOTE ] Yea baby! How many of you had these and had a flat spot on the front wheel? [/ QUOTE ] HAHA I had a GREEN MACHINE, remember them? it had 2 levers to steer the rear wheels. I wore the tires out on that thing. I've mostly always had customs but my first car that REALLY hauled *** was a 57 Ford cheap 2dr post with a built 312 & 4 speed. It sat with a heavy rake on wide whites with chrome rverse rims. I miss that car. Billy
67 GS-400 with a 455 and a Muncie with a 3:42 Posi rear. Ran Cragar Mach 8's with G-50's on the front and N'50's on the back. Man the Eighties were fun.
My first car..and my first 'hot rod' (even though i don't consider a tri-5 a hot rod ) Paid 1000 bux for it at the tender age of 14..lawn cutting money. Then....and don't gimme no **** about the mullet Now.. And it's still in the garage.16 years and counting Rat..
This pic was taken almost exactly 22yrs ago - saved up from my lawns & part time jobs to buy this when I was a few weeks shy of my 16th B-day. Sadly, it was totaled a couple years later, but the engine lives on to this day...
Well I built a 65 Falcon that was kindoff Hot Roddish but my first real Hot Rod is my 31 Coupe I just got goin. Heres a pic
65 Rambler 220 2dr - flat white with black primer fenders and I painted a pink pig on the trunk. I sure miss that car
No pics, but my first hot rod was a 32 5W in 1967. I was still in high school. I bought it for $300 and sold it about a month later for $600. Though I made fortune. Now the bad part. The 5W had an ARDUN flathead, leopard skin interior, metallic red paint, LaSalle grill, filled quarter windows. I saw the car earlier when I was about 10 years old when I went to a sprint car race with my Dad. It was still in primer then setting in the parking lot. A friend of mine has the car now but the ARDUN is long gone. I knew what the ARDUN was but we all wanted 327 V8 Chevys.
My first ride at 14yrs old, bought with lawn mower money. 23 years later I'm still driving it daily, and with the same paint job that was 10 years old when I bought it. Pete
This is my first real hotrod.I'm not counting 50-60's cars I had.Besides,I don't have any pictures of them.'57 BelAir 2dr.HT;'64 Sport Fury;'65 Malubu SS conv.;'71 Roadrunner.
Hmmm, this may not count as a "hot rod" to you traditional guys but it was to me. 1959 Corvette, 283, power pack heads, 30/30 cam, 4 speed, bought it for $600. DAMN!
Here is the first two I built. The long one I built when I was 15-16. It had a 371 Olds and Ford 4 speed setting in the middle of a 49 Chevy Pickup frame. Later I changed it to a hydramatic and 3 dueces. The second one is a 303 Olds with 324 heads setting in a shortened 50 Dodge pickup frame. We called them dunebuggies. I already had a 54 Chevy wagon and a 54 Dodge Hemi convertable when I built the first buggy.
My first hot rod was a 1933 Hudson coupe.I purchased the body and frame for $5 from a guy named Jack English.It was supposed to be the Road Rebels(the local hot rod club)club drag car but interest in it and the club died pretty quickly. I was 15(which would make that 1959)and it was put together out in back of my grandfather's house next to the g**** arbor filled with huge garden spiders and a dirt mound full of yellow jackets. One night after being bit too many times by the little yellow ******s I went out and bought a gallon of gasoline and poured it down the main entrance to the nest.The next thing I did(and the only right thing that night)was to turn my head away as I lit a match and dropped it in the hole. Gasoline vapors have a funny way of exploding when exposed to an open flame and these were no different.I managed quite neatly to blow half the hillside away ****tering dirt and debris and pissed off yellow jackets everywhere! The fire department arrived about seven minutes later just as my grandfather was finishing up chewing me out and the neighbors were all standing around wondering what happened. I couldn't go near the car for a week because of all the angry critters flying around biting anything and anyone that came within striking distance. After that the car was moved to a friend's house where I could work on it without being disturbed.I swapped a dropped 40 axle with brakes and split wishbone for a striping job,was given a chopped 51 Merc(that another friend and I had attempted to cut and weld with a $14.95 arc welder;disastrous)that gave up it's rear end and 54 Olds engine before being cut up and s****ped,and I was well on the way to getting it running(it was on 4 wheels)when a guy offered to swap me a 29A tudor that had been made into a touring for the coupe body.I did and started to work on that when another guy offered me 3 motorcycles(in pieces)for the A.I managed to get one of the bikes together and swapped it off for a 50 Olds coupe and..............so on and so on....
1939 Ford Standard Coupe. 1948 Merc flathead with Offy 4 barrel intake and heads. '39 trans and Merc banjo. Still had the wide 5's on the front and 5x5.5 on the rear ( I didn't know any better) That was in 1965 and I was a Junior in HS at the time. I think I have a picture somewhere, but it aint digital.
the car im building now was giving to me when i was 7 ,my dad said it was my car.it wasnt running when i turned 16 so he gave me my 73 camaro,i built a hot 350 and a good ****** a 342 posi rearend.took dada for a ride and he put a roll bar in the next day,( boy that damn thing is going to get you killed)i pulled the heater box and air most of the dash .no back seat.battery in the trunk,orange with L88 hood scoop.dorve it for most of my highschool days in primer.oh ya no front bumper or innerfenders ,so after building other cars.65 chevy2 50 chevy pu, 84 jeep.im now building my first hot rod ,that was my dads last hot rod .
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