When i was little my dad had a 56 pontiac. I didnt remember much of it but its definately the car that started it for me and the car i remember the most from early in my childhood. The gold indian in the steering wheel i can remember like yesterday and the salmon and white color. It was sold when i was still pretty young but have always wanted that car back just because its what started my love..... well today just that happened. When my dad sold it it had 17000 miles.....now has 29000. Weird how things go around. needs some ***embly but is in relatively good shape and that 316 fired right up. Only downfall its a 4door.....but atleast a 4 door hardtop.
When I was a short shifter my pops built a 36 chevy pickup lowcab I know where the truck is now and the guy who has it now took it apart I want it real bad for the same reasons as you its sitting in a cow pasture now for about 15 years but still cant get the guy to budge its his but man I would like to have my turn at building it .
Not a thing wrong with it being a 4dr HT. ...and I am not a 4dr guy...that FOUR DOOR is really cool. I'll take a 57 olds 4dr just like it, if you have one
Christ that ****s me, THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH 4 DOORS! Hell they look proportionally better than two doors in those body shapes. What got me into this? Lots of drugs, loose women and booze. No wait, that was rock-n-roll...... Um, I don't really remember other than I'm a third generation rodder, never knew any better and always thought people had hot rods in the garage. I never could work out why I didn't see more of them every day. Then I learned we are a minority group. I'm gonna start a charity. Doc.
Downfall? Gangsters only roll four door hardtops each gunmen has an exit and post don't get in the way shooting! Me, I'm a second generation hotrodder and a third generation welder. Nothing excites me more than remembering hanging out in the garage with my forefathers. The things you can make with metal are endless. May the iron age never end. Pretending to drive in my dads channeled 34 plymouth at age 5 Priceless!!
Congrats on finding the car! I like the 4 door hardtop roofline. To me, it looks kinda like a deployed parachute in the rear. My dad always had his head under the hood of something. What set the hook for me was when we went to the Timonium MD rod show/swap meet in 1977ish. I was about 12. These dudes were JOUSTING on a course in the parking lot. One guy driving and the other hanging out of the p***enger window with a stick trying to catch dangling rings. The spectators were protected by haybales. No wonder they stopped doing it! Rock group "Dakota" played and the singer was a white dude with an afro. I wanted to get one but Dad said NO. Funny how I can remember all this and some lyrics to a song I heard once but algebra and the rest of school is a blur.
Matchbox, HotWheels and my dad's '63 Impala SS Convertible (white on white, with a RED interior. Still my favorite car of dad's.
My folks had '56 Pontiac, too. That may be "what started it" for me; or it could have been my dad's Renault 4CV with '59 Cadillac taillights. Anyway, while it's true that gansters prefer four-door sedans, too, true pistoleros have rearview mirrors on all four doors so they can see who is shooting at them.
Just being around it all. Dad has had his 34 Chevy ever since I can remember, my grandpa had a 40 ford, 36 ford, and 59 caddy and owned a body shop. Dad also was workin on a model a since before I can remember and as I got older I helped him with it some and now its mine We also restored a 67 Chevy truck which was my daily driver in high school. I've been in the garage and goin to car shows since before I could really grasp what it was all about and now I just can't get enough. Oh and theres nothin wrong with a four door but I'm 21 too so I kinda know where you're comin from ha
When I was little, the car I remember the most was my Grandpa's 1965 chevy stepside pickup. He would always take for rides in it and spin the tires, then one day he traded it for a MG roadster, in Cottage Grove Oregon. and I cried my eyes out! still to this day I have not seen that truck again in cottage grove or anywhere else. And mostly my grandpa started it all for me.
My dad was never into cars,in fact he never had a driving licence.But I was into cars as far back as I can remember. When I was about twelve years old ,me and some friends decided to go to the local rubbish tip and set fire to it(real clever!).When we got there,I found a pile of 'Custom Car' magazines that someone had thrown out.I flicked through and was blown away.I didn't know cars like 'The Boston Strangler' existed.This was my first hot rod experience!Been hooked ever since.Stopped setting fire to stuff too!
Mostly AMT 3n1 Deuce kits, and the old Revell Highway Pioneers Deuce kits. I LOVED hot rods long before I ever saw one in person. But I had also seen a lot of modified stock cars race on dirt by then, too. The cut-down, *****er, 30/90 kinds, not the heavy ones that came later. At least they use the same bodies and looked equally cool. Gary
Congrats on your full-circle find! My cousin had a lime green Dodge Demon with a 440 six-pac and a smoke screen (washer fluid reservior and pump full of oil plumbed into the header collector) when I was a young'un. It really set a horrible chain of events in motion for me!
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