'36 Ford Phaeton early '50s hot rod

1956 Chevy bought in summer of '66 after the Navy when my dad lived out here in Pomona, CA and attended Cal Poly. Car had an early 350 with '58 fuel injected heads. Paid $150 for the car and all it needed was 2 shocks and a muffler.

 

I'm not a huge fan of the tri 5 Chevies, but my dad's ole '56 just has the look. He had the upholstery done in TJ in (I think) '68. Black diamond tuck. He brough them beer and old clothes, and sat and watched them do it.

 

My dad's '50 Chevy fastback. Paid $35 in 1960 for the car right before he went into the Navy. Straight 6, nosed and decked with stolen '57 Caddy caps and nice tread tires. My dad and his friend Jerry liked to trade people milk cartons for their tires late at night...

 

front... I guess it was a real piece of ****.

 

1957 Chevy Flower Shop truck. Rare 265 V8 stick. My dad used to drag race it out on Long Island, but he can't remember where exactly. He worked at Garden City Florist.

 

My grandfather's 1932 Mercedes Cabriolet. My dad believes this car had a factory body, and not a custom built body. Bought for $800 in 1950, and sold for $1,800 in 1952 to buyt a 1932 Deusenberg J Murphy bodied towncar. Sorry, don't have any pics of the Deusy...

 

1915 Crane Simplex. Bought in 1945. Grandparents used to take the car on the Glidden tour. Car broke down in the Holland Tunnel one day, and the police officer put his coat over the front bumper to protect the car from being scratched. Wish I knew more about this huge car...
I believe this picture was taken in front of my dad's house in Hempstead.

 

Very, very cool post, thank you.....!

Man, back in the day your Dad was the cats meow with that '36!!

 

This post just keeps getting better!!
Clark

 

Very nice cars but what the F**K are those 2 dogs doing behind that '56? LMAO!!!

 

Cool story! My dad grew up im Milwood New York and picked up alot of the Rockafellars old cars. Roadster pickup, 30 something Cord and several others all in the couple hundred dollar range. Unfortunately, they were all sold long ago.

 

This is F-HEADs...........OLDBEET

 

rear

 

Awesome, don't ever let it slip away, no matter what it takes to keep & protect it.

Cool car & story...super cool.

 

thats a cool car! i love hearing stories like that. keep us posted on how it goes. i bet your father is happy as hell.

trey

 

Thanks for posting all those pics! Got anymore???

 

Hey how about an update on this thing? Doing a search and found it, cool damn story. So hows it coming!!

-Shiny

 

Cool story glad your dad keep all the photos.