1952-59 Ford Pic of the night

This wagon is a beauty! HRP

 

My Fairlane laughing at the wife's Durango out in the snow.

 

Something to relax in

 

That ought to fix those back seat drivers.

 

love the foot rest

 

by Robert LaDuke

 

Test fitting the y block/c4 combo hope to have the block to the machine shop by the end of the week.

 

This is one that will go down in infamy with low riders in SoCal.

 

This 56 Victoria was at the Friday night cruise I attend a few times a year. It’s For Sale at 39.5…It had a lot of what my dad called “gingerbread” and a Continental kit which I don’t desire. Looks like an older restoration..

 

Here’s mine parked down the street.

 

First time that I noticed yours having what appears to be rolled and pleated package tray. Don't see that very often anymore. Cool.

 

^^^^^^ Thanks, when I had the seats redone matching a 55 Sunliner in the 56 broadcloth I had the shop do the tray. They had never done one. In the 50-60’s we all had pleated package trays..

 

Where is that cruise. Newport? I love both of the '56's!!

 

That pleated tray does look nice. I considered doing mine like that but instead just went with flat and have 2 dummy speaker grilles in it.

 

Garden Grove Main Street every Friday 3 to 8pm

 

Ran into @Zax and his 53 at a local show today. Always cool to meet fellow HAMBers.

 

This was the first time I have had it out this year. Nice little cruise in. @Dos Cincos 55 is looking really good

 

GG? Don't you mean "Little Saigon"?

 

Well close. Little Saigon is on Bolsa and Westminster Blvds.
Main St is more of a combo. There are a few eating establishments, a 50’s diner owned by Mexicans, a Mexican Restaurant which features Elvis or Vietnamese Pho coffee places. I can’t forget the Tatoo parlor where I normally park. I live in South Little Saigon aka Fountain Valley and drive thru L.S. to get there. East from Main St. on Garden Grove Blvd. is Koreatown.

 

When I lived in SoCal I worked at a manufacturing company for a while with a few hundred employees. Every nationality you could imagine worked there but had a large number of vietnamese women who were ***emblers and very good at it! This was the first time I had heard of little Saigon. One of our employees and I started having a conversation about alvero street, little Tokyo, Chinatown, and other ethnic areas around LA. Our old redneck facilities manager said if he won the lottery he was going to buy a couple blocks in the valley and build steak houses, bowling alleys, and burger drive ins and call it little America. Great idea!

 

There was an area, I don't recall whether it was by Taft or Bakersfield, that was called little Oklahoma because of all the people that migrated there from Oklahoma during the depression.

 

One oil field to another with the same dust and heat…Just like the Swedes and Norwegians settling in Minnesota and the Dakotas. You would think they would have stopped in a warmer place…