Post Up pic's of "The One That Got Away"

This "56" was a retired Gasser that I drove on the street after it's retirement.---sold it to get money for a house for the new bride.
"don't have the bride, don't have the house,don't have the delivery!"
Yikes--my life is a country music award winner....

 

had to sell last year to pay our favorite uncle ---- sellers remorse -- but i like having a dry place to sleep.

 

My lost love was a 1963 23 window VW microbus.That thing is worth some scratch now!!Also I had a clean 1960 cadillac series 62 2 door.Hammered to the gills.Never could get the tranny to work longer than a month and didnt have the money to have someone else fix it.AHHH mammories.

 

really havent been attached to that many vehicles,what i regret the most is selling my old triumph.69 tr6 rigid frame,routt kit,joe hunt mag.sold it 20yrs.ago and still think about it all the time...............................dave

 

This is in answer to post #250 ............. I'm slow

From what I know the car came from San Diego in it's original state to Borrego Springs, CA as a daily driver about 1960-61. Then sold about 1969-70 to a man named Fletcher Blackstock. Around 1971 he painted it orange with a white top. He wrecked it about 1973 and bought a 210 wagon to repair it with, but that never happened. Instead he robbed a few parts from the delivery for the 210. The car sat in his backyard from '73 until I bought them both in 1979.

I sold in 1991 to a really nice guy named Dennis, lives near Pismo Beach, or maybe Nipomo or Santa Maria CA. He was a semi truck driver that ran jet fuel between Bakersfield and L.A. Back then he had a 55 Chevy Cameo show truck.

The car had a factory "SPL" paint code and the original color under the orange respray was Navy gray. I believe it was a fleet or special order Navy car set up for communication.

There was plenty of extra wiring and coaxial cable under the dash and throughout the car but nothing left of the equipment. Also had a couple extra antenna holes in the roof, seems like there was one in each front fender too.

Factory "radio delete" and had the dash block-off plate.

California style, 1 piece front bumper

Very low serial number, something about #280 if I remember correct.

Original interior and carpet were still in it when I sold. Very unusual, but it had 1956 deluxe style seats and door panels (deluxe panels in front only, rears were plain Jane but matching color) The front seat was a fold forward version like a 2 door BelAir and it had a fold-down rear seat, (neither of those seats would normally have been available in a sedan delivery) Interior color was light green & silver/gray.

Originally a 6 cylinder engine but had no engine/trans when I got it.
Can't remember what transmission.

The passenger quarter panel needed work but could have been repaired as I sold Dennis the purple 2 door, 210 wagon for a parts car at the same time.

 

your dad,s clone of the moonglow was and is the best i drool each time i see it

 

By far the rearest and most unusual car I'll ever have in my grubby little hands. Like every cool car I've ever had and sold, had to pay bills and feed the kids. Never gopt a chance to drive it or show it.

 

Same exact car racing at Lemans in 1937

 

This is my 56 2 dr sedan.I always wanted a 55 post and one day got this 56 when i was 15 years old.Took it all aprt and restored the frame and underbody.I finally had it together and running all that was left to do was finish the body.I had a couple other cars at the time and decided I would sell the 56 and later get the 55 I really wanted.So of course a few years after selling it the price of tri fives shot up and i haven't been able to get one.Every time i think about this car I get mad for selling it.First pic is how it looked when i sold it the second is how it looked when the guy I sold it to sold it on ebay.

 

That thing is fuckin ripper dude!

 

Not mine but out of the forty or so cars my Dad owned, he always wished he had this 59 Apache back.

Sold it to buy us kids a pool...

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I'd love to have my Altered back.

 

I missed this the first time around. I completely agree, I was seriously looking to buy that car but reluctantly passed. They should have started with a different 5 window. That is really unfortunate.

 

Here we go again, still pissed that you spineless a-hole couldn't contact me before reporting my post...so here is a repost minus the one off topic ride.

1964 <---(under the year cut off) dodge D100 CSS...very rare dodge factory special edition. I was hard up for money after moving to AZ a few years ago, so I sold it on the 'bay....could have sold the rear bumper for what the whole truck went for, if only the market was still there. It was a 1/2 ton, 318 Poly, 3 on the tree, short box. Sat out side next to a Galvanizing plant since 1985, that is the "surface rust" you see in the pictures....was a PIA to get it off the windows.









My Second one was this '59 El camino....I had a 396 and a muncie 4-speed out of a '66 chevelle (don't report, I just mentioned the car, won't even show the pics of an off topic engine) It was a great car, needed a little rust work but was complete. I sold it off to fund the build of a '67 dodge dart GT (again, sorry, I mentions a off topic car again....guess im going to hell for that one too), Worst choice I ever made.

 

That would be me...


I saw you post with the Off Topic latemodel vehicle, and I Deleted it.

Please post things that are Relevant and On Topic.

 

Mine has to be my 23 "t" bucket i started building in the late 70's. I put a lot of thought and design into it and did a whole lot of math to design a suspension for the frond that was not common to what most use.

To move forward; when i was in the process of leaving socal, a guy i thought i knew fairly well, offered to store it for me because i was going to travel back there to pick up some things i had in storage. Well before i got back i found out that that mofo sold my car and took off for colorado, and never to be found again. I made a trip to the area where he lived some time later and i found some of the parts but could not dind the person that had them. I filed a report with the san berdino sheriffs dept. And to this day is is on file.

If i ever cross paths with this individual he better not give me his real name.
I hope he contracts a deadly medical problem that the strongest pain medications can never give any sort of relief and he is in mind shattering pain and lives long enough for me to find him and have the only relief for him and i will destroy it infront of him and laugh at him till he dies.
..............steve lamb may you rot in a place worse than hell..........

 

I don't have any pics of the one that got away. It was a gennie 32 ford pickup built in the 50,s chopped channeled sectined bed running a nailhead with 6x2's. It was a time capsule I found in 1976. 950.00 took it home nothing wrong with it other than a little peeling laquer! My 65 GTO was more important then didn't keep the truck,shit I don't have the GTO niether!

 

ugh, me too. white with black interior, 327, 4 speed.

 

...never owned this one, but thot I had it bought once, messed around and the guy decided not to sell...oh, well, got too much stuff now.
It was a lil ruff around the edges but I really liked this car.

 

Wish I kept this however, the slicks, grill shell, head lights and finned drums are still in the garage or on my 34 so I guess I kept all the goodies!!

 

this thing looks mean! Not many 57 Fords around...

 

i tried to keep it but$$$$

 

Still looking for this one. Dad's old '32. . .

 

No pictures because I didn't have a camera then, but I would love to have my first car, my '35 5window coupe back. Bought it when I was twelve with paper route money, and the local hot rod guys kinda "adopted" me and helped me get it up and running by the time i was about 15. 265 Chevy, '39 trans, dropped axle, rumble seat, Basically everybody's old stuff in the late seventies.

 

I dont have any pics of it, but you have all seen it. I sold flamedAbone my p.o.s. 51 mercury. Of course he turned it into something better than i could ever have done!

 

This thing was never super nice, but I still miss it.

Having a 302/C4 to drive every day was fun.

Once, a guy actually cut me off in it--with my wife in the car--to tell me, "Man, that's a bad motherfucker!"

He wasn't exactly right, but it was still nice to hear.