I've grown to really like and really appreciate old local hot rods. I feel very fortunate to have three. 32 3 window has been a Minneapolis hot rod since the early mid 50's. Flathead, to SBC, to 322 nailhead, 37 Buick transmission, 40 rear. This 32 sedan was from Minneapolis and featured on the cover of the first Cars and Clubs Magazine. Started as flathead powered, short stint with a Chev, and has been 401 Buick Powered since the early 70's This 40 coupe started as a hot rod in St Paul in the mid-40 with an Ardun flathead, then went to Cedar Rapids Ia where it was converted to a 331 hemi. Still has the original 50 interior. Came back to MN two years ago and I traded my 34 five window roller for it.
New Ulm Mn is a pretty small town (14,000 people). But this local three window "made the magazine" back in the 50's and was a local legend of sorts. It was featured in Cars and Clubs...So there are three car from that mag in our town. Willie sold the car at one point in time, lost track of it, and heard it was at the back to the 50's swap meet for sale several years ago. So he bought it back disassembled but untouched and re-restored it. Willie is in his early or mid eighties and passed the car down to his son to take care of it. The three window body was put on a modified 46-48 Ford chassis, flathead powered and was known for its "unborn calfskin" interior
some pics of my 36 ford coupe survivor, and my buddy Louies 32 survivor coupe, both of these cars cruised together back in the day so its pretty crazy to have two old survivor hot rods that were together back in the day still around and the same way they were back then. maybe one day i can talk louie out of his car
I had heard about this truck a few years back, i never could round up the money to buy it so i never moved on it, my buddy Chad met the guy an found it so he ended up buying it, i got the job to work on it and got it back on the road, well technically, as it was never on the road in this configuration. it say for 51 years. i think it ended up in Indiana, i wish i would have been able to make it mine, maybe someday
this is local car to Milwaukee, Ed Wards 32 ford roadster, he bought it in 58, drove it for a year, started an engine swap and never finished, the car sat till a few years ago, then i did a mechanical resto for him this was an amazing car to be able to work on, it is a really neat car built with alot of really neat car, when we get it back on the road it was a very nice driving car. Ed enjoys the car now and then still.
This one is out of Owen Sound Ontario, John Clark is the original builder and he got in contact with me a few years back, this is one of the messages i got from him. I built it in 1959-60, drove it out to Calgary where I met my future wife. Sadly I had an accident when some kids pulled out from a stop street right in front of me and I T-Boned them bnding the fram and destroying the grille and left front fender, I found another car a fordoor in Northern Alberta and used the frame had it sand blasted and boxed it changing the rear cross member to lower it, built new rear traction masters. and changed out the Cad-Lasalle tranny for a hydro. Eventaully I drove it back home to Toronto with my fiancee. In your photo's it looks pretty sad. It ea sin brown primer when I sold it and bought a 64-1/2 Mustang coupe. This car was unbeaten on the street he build it with an olds and a lasalle, then upgraded to a big olds and hydro, im going with a 324 olds with a blower and lasalle trans
Bill Traquires T bucket, built in the late sixties... early seventies here, that's Cam Grants HOME-MADE fiberglass chevy roadster behind it, no idea where that car is now... last fall, at Ocean Park Ford...
The Trowell Roadster was built by Famous Dallas, Texas circle track racers Jiggs and A.D. Trowell around '50-'51. After changing hands a few times, but always staying close to Dallas, it was purchased from Richard Rawlings around 2007 where it left Texas for the first time and was brought to New Jersey to be restored. The roadster now lives in Delaware.
A couple weeks ago I posted a lot of old pics and articles about the old Playboys car club here in Enid. This car belongs to a past president of the club, Ed Pouge. The car originally was sold as a 6cyl powerglide car until Lester Dierksen got ahold of it in the mid 60's swapped in a 409 4spd that he got from Ed and went drag racing. In 1968 it was painted like it sets now and made the show circuit for a couple more years. The car sat for a number of years when it came up in a tax sale and Ed bought it back. He pulled the 409 and put it back in the donar car it had come out of originally and put a fresh 348 in the El Camino. It's a little bit of local hod rod history and still gets driven pretty often. The milage is under 20K. 2015-11-18 15_03_57 by G V Gordon posted Nov 22, 2015 at 8:24 AM
[QUOTEATTACH=full]3454806[/ATTACH][/QUOTE] what an impact on the roof, it hurts my heart to see this really nice Merc in this condition and guy won't let it go to better hands. good luck, i hope someday you`ll get this beauty back.
My uncle's car . Got it in 55,drag raced it into the60's. Then put away until 80 and I put it back on the road for him. Had a nailhead for racing. It now has a banger with a Riley 2 port.
Maybe not a hot rod in the traditional sense, but a survivor it is. My 63 was an original 260 4 speed but was running a K-code 289 with 2x4s and a toploader when it was just a couple years old. By 1970 it had a Boss 302 backed by a Hemi Torqflite, the wheel wells were radiused with 67 Mustang quarter lips. The gauge cluster was replaced by a flat panel with SW gauges. It hasn't changed much other than drivetrains, which makes the car very for people to remember. Running the car at the track in South Butler NY I've met 4 former owners and heard some great stories. The car was very fast and didn't get beat on the street very often, if ever. Current engine is a 289 I built and has run mid 12s @ 114mph.
I was searching craigslist about a month ago and found a Barn find 32 roadster for sale, for 5 grand. I called several times and got a message, figured it was a scam. I did save the picture on the ad, here it is
The engine is a 66 block and crank, Hipo rods, TRW pistons, 10.7 compression, TrickFlow heads milled to 54 cc, roller rockers, custom ground Cam Research flat hyd cam, 294/.515/234@.050, FordMotorsport intake with a Holley 650 DP. Ignition is a stock distributor with a pertronix igniter. I swap back and forth between a close ratio toploader from a 64 K Fairlane and a C4 auto with all the usual mods, depends on how long the track is. Rear is a stock Falcon 8" with a 4.11 posi. (I launch easy with the 4 speed) I've run 6.80@84mph in the 1/10, 7.70s in the 1/8, and 12.49 as an auto, 11
Can't edit my post I guess, any ways, the car runs a little slower as a 4 speed because I go easy on it. The engine isn't exactly HAMB friendly, but you can only get so much out of a cast iron small block head. The Falcon I just rescued from the junkyard will be more friendly and test what you can do with stock castings.
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