Crazy kid in the 50s chopped his parents car

Ha that's great. I think it would be pretty smooth coming home to a chopped hot rod. Happy b-day dad!

 

Moral of the story is, if you want your parents car, then customize it while they are out of town. Then you'll have to buy it and bam! It's yours!

 

One more thing I forgot to say what the car was.It was a 53 Ford

 

If my kid did that I would be proud! mom might like it,she is kinda weard also, LOL.

 

Now that's funny!...lol.

dirtpoor...great story...thanks for the laugh.

 

It would make a great Tech Week article.

 

He told me another story that was kinda funny.His sister was dating a guy that had a model A and wanted the top chopped.Well they came up with a price I think about 40 or 50 bucks.He did the chop and had it most of the way finished and the guy came and took his car back and never paid him then broke up with his sister.That is when he found out the only reason the guy went out with his sister in the first place was to get his model A chopped.I don't know how long this chop took.

 

ruler

 

I grew up in the fifties and I think it's a great story. I remember some pretty funny **** from back then.

 

I have a few more shots of his car. These are as he did other stuff to it and a shot of him with it.One shot of the rail he was building in Texas with hot 60' babe.Sorry if I'm beating this post to death just thought it was neat and some good old shots.

 

I cannot even imagine if I had done anything to my dad’s car, he would have been wild and may have grounded me until I would be 30. There is always a weirdo who is an awesome entertainer. Lol

 

dirtpoor,

Thank you for sharing those stories and pictures with all of us. I'd love to hear more stories and see anymore pictures that this gentleman might have and it sounds like others on here would too!

 

Call this one BS.....my neighbor bought his 16 year old son, Bob a '48 mercury my dad said it was in great shape, like new and cost his dad a LOT of money he didn't have. he chopped it in AG shop in high school, the interior caught fire. he never finished it, it sat behind the corn crib for 10 years, till my neighbor drug it to the junk yard. I was maybe 10-12 years old and remember looking at it one day. boy did i catch hell from my old man!! just for looking at it!!
Fast forward 8 years... I'm busy chopping the frame on my motor cycle my old man walked in! holly **** did i catch hell!! called me "Bob" for a week!!

 

My oldest kid (16) says hes going to go help "Mark" switch engines one day. what is he switching engines in and why??? "well his dad is getting out of jail and mark has to put the engine back in his dads pick-up before he gets home!!"

 

Is that guy on the HAMB? I would say he is kind of a folk hero to me. Cool story.

 

The stories and pics are cool keep them coming

 

Funny thing I remember a guy a couple years older that did that and he never heard the end of it. The job wasn't very good but he had an idea and tried. Some people would rather try and fail than just dream.

 

Hits close to home. I gave my son our one owner 66 Chevy Deluxe Fleetside C10 to drive to high school. Did I happen to mention he was in auto body vo tech?? Came home one day and he had painted the orignial Black and White with brown primer! The original paint wasnt in top shape, but whats a guy gonna do? I did give him the truck, and if he wanted to drive around in primer, ok with me.

That was 10 years ago, and it still has the old primer on it....Kinda of in style now days.

 

Here a couple more.His car and with his kids in the rail.One more on the he got married with hid buddies Mercury in the back that was in 61.

 

Cool story! My mom would have liked it (she was always into hot rods and customs), my dad on the other hand would have beat me within an inch of my life .

 

lmao!

 

Cool story, cool car......

Thanks!

James

 

Somebody asked me if this gentleman was on the HAMB. He is now he just joined but has not done an intro yet.His screen name is 72cutter.If you have any questions about his car ask him he will tell all. I want him to tell more of his stories because they are funny as hell.

 

I had a 30 model A sedan in the 60's...I traded it to my cousin for a craftsman roll around tool box. We took it to his house... I went back two hours later, and he had the top cut off. The bad thing was...That's all he ever done to it. So...wierd things do happen.

 

When my old man was a kid his dad bought a brand new Lincoln in 64 . He wanted a black one but got a white one so my dad and his brothers were around 10 or so decided to surprise there dad and painted it black with a brush and house paint.

 

I bet this was somewhat common back in the day. My Dad gave me some counseling about changing anything on the family car, because he saw me reading a hot rod book. I think I was 13 or 14..............