Back in the day 'colorful' meant a cuss word used for punctuation, occasionally. Unfortunately what's being used today ain't particularly colorful!! sent on my *********** from jurrasic park
That really says it all for us old geezers. Back in the late 50's and early 60's that was not an uncommon site. We used to love to hang out with those guys when I was a kid, and sometimes they even gave us a beer to share !!!!!!!!! Thanks for posting, and hope you get an answer on where it was taken! Cheers.....
That channelled 32 five-window is on a 34 frame, just like this one originally was: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/...93&highlight=coupe+channel+magazine&showall=1 Could it be the same car?
SAM123 pointed out the Ford on a rake in the second picture. I got my license in 1958 and remember about 1960 jacking up the back of my 53 Chevy 210 and prying the shackles with a tire iron to reverse them so as to put it on a rake. I would then drive it around like that until late in the afternoon when I would drive down Harvey Way in Lakewood Village (Long Beach, Ca.) and Hit the big dip intersection to bounce the rear end back into normal position before My dad saw it. My dad was a great supporter of by brothers and I getting cars and a great help however he did not like us to "Mess them Up". He did allow us to put mildly loud mufflers on them however. He would not allow me to buy a somewhat restored Model A Ford for $500.00 because he said that he had had several back when he was young and that I would not like one as my only car. He was right but I didn't think so at the time. I finally got my first Model A Ford in 1973 and had a lot of fun with it but I would not of liked it if it were my only transportation. Anyway I like the pictures and would like to see more from that period from 1950 to 1965. I see the stereotypical distortion that is popular today. I think that movies and TV like Happy Days portray kind of a caricature picture of what it was like back then at least as it was in Southern California. ****
Notice the Haircuts and the cloths these guys were wearing. In those days hot rodders didn't need to look different their cars were what made them different. Where I grew up in Long Beach and went to Jr. High school 7-9th grade 1956 to 1958 the boys that conformed to the non-conformists group wore jeans (Levis were just another brand but somewhat preferred), white tea shirts and duck-tail or flat top haircuts. They usually wore their pants as low on their ****s as the law would allow. I didn't go for the fads of the day nore did 90% of the other kids. Anyway it was a great time to grow up. The Technology age was just beginning to really get going. I built a i transistor amplifier for my crystal radio in about 1957 and got my first transistor radio in 1960. In 1955 there was the Ford, Chevy and Plymouth V8 compe***ion. We were a Ford family at the time. Over head V8's and 4 speed transmissions. Corvettes, T-birds, then in 1964 Mustangs then Camaros, Firebirds , Dodges and Plymouths. My hotrod experiences came in the order of my 4 year older brother and his friends. starting in 1954 when Dave got his drivers license. My mother would take each of us down when we were 15 1/2 years old to DMV Down town Long Beach to get our Learners Permits. Big Life Event. By the time we had our permits we were already pretty good drivers from our fathers instruction and from driving Pick up trucks, fork lifts and dump trucks on his construction sites. My brothers friends had 40 and 47 fords, a 50 mercury, a 49 Chevy fastback, a 53 Studebaker HT and my brothers first car was a lowered 1947 Plymouth. They all had dual exhaust and many had duel carbs and Cams. They milled the heads and used all of the usual tricks but none of them were much for real custom except Tony Danna who had the 50 Mercury. He lived a few houses away and I watched him lower the Merc all the way around, remove the door handles, and chrome. He Frenched the headlights and tail lights and painted flames all over it. It was Maroon with red yellow and orange flames. He took his time with it and when he was through it really looked good. It would be right at home at a custom show today. He sold to a nurse who worked at Long Beach Memorial Hospital. Any one know what happened to that one? Anyway it's great to be able to remember it the way it was where I lived growing up. ****
Fantastic photos!!! Pre internet. Pre 1-800-send parts. Pre traditional nitpickers. And the '39 in the background is what every '39 should look like. Thanks for posting.
Wow! Old guys back when they were young!! If you can listen to the picture Im sure they are *****ing about the loose women and high cost of cigarettes! I notice the big sign says "Engle Motors"...any ties to the Engle cams folks??
I like the picture in the OP - note the feet sticking out of the coupe firewall. I bet they're sitting in there making 'vroom vroom' noises, banging gears.
cool is as cool was,things are still the same,just different,ask any young hot rodder.and that is one cool photo
How much did you make a week in 63? Might be less in todays money and damn sure they will last longer today then yesteryear!
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