Believe it or not it was the deuce coupe off the beach boys album cover I found in my dads collection of music, strangely enough though I have no desire to own a deuce. Go figure that one out.
i had a 72 cutl*** when i was 14 that my dad got me for an 8th grade presant. i didnt finish it till i was in my senior year of highschool! i blew up 2 transmissions.... and bought my first "old" piece of tin. a flat black 1960 cadillac fleetwood with flames down the side! i was sold on pre 60s cars from that point on, i have yet to drive a car that drove that nice! i was an idiot and sold it...... now i wnt it back.. ive mixed it for the guy numourious times for free just cuz i miss it=( the only bad part is... all the pictures are in film..... ill need to scan the pics of the car someday.
When I was a baby, the muffler fell off of the family car my dad had and the exhaust fumes came up through the rusty floor boards. I'm pretty sure that is what damaged my brain enough to be this addicted to loud old junky cars
no one car in particular. although recently , brian (blktopbandit) took me for a spin in his 33 plymouth and now i'm on the search for my own ride !!
My grandparents had the Ed "Big Daddy" Roth Revel models that my step dad and uncles had as a kid up on a shelf, in there old room that I used to sleep in when I'd visit. I'd always get caught just staring at them and eventually got in trouble for drawing them in cl***, I think those are what gave me the car bug..... too bad they got thrown out becuase my grandparents thought they were "old junk"... As for real cars there was a 39 (I think)Chevrolet that was in Street Rodder when I was like 12 or so. I dont remember it totally but it started out as a sedan and was a "set car" from the **** Tracy movie with Warren Beaty and was turned into a roadster with a carson top. Was cream and brown. From what I remember it was ugly as hell but for a 12 year old kid, I thought it was awsome, Wish I had a pic but I dont.
my neighbors 69 Caprice, pwder blue, white tuck and roll, lowered, Supreams on 520's with "mickey mouse" whites and "bellflowers"............... And of course just growin up in Socal and doin Ascot as a kid............. note: Altered: those pics are awsum................what history..............
My pops had stock 1950 Chevy Business Coupe when I was born. Pretty soon after, him and his buddies popped a 307 in it, then realised it didn't turn or stop to well anymore. So he bought his friend's parent's nova, took the subframe, ****** and rear, and stuck them in the '50. This is how it stayed, gloss black, bright chrome, and cragars, untill he sold it when I was 13. I remember telling my parents that I would "buy" it and pay it off in chores. Now I drive the '94 Ranger he bought with the cash from the '50. Neadless to say, I'd rather have the '50.
the ZZ Top "Eliminator" 34 Ford is what did it for me, being a youngin' when those videos were just airing and seeing that car in all the videos...prior to that I was a mopar muscle car fanatic...I've since become an early mopar fanatic...
Carl and Bob Austin's '27 T on deuce rails. First saw it in 1958 when I was 15. Although I was pretty whacked already, their car just did it for me - or to me, I don't know. Anyway, I was coming out the door of the school I went to and this vision pulled up in front of the building. It was all black, had a chromed out flathead with fabulous headers poking out along the side, big and little wide whites with Dodge Lancers, a T grille shell, just everything about it was right. And, of course, out of the school's door came the most gorgeous girl I had ever seen. She hopped in the T and off they went. I was mesmerized, both by the car and the girl. That's when I knew for sure that I was going to get me one. First the car, and then the girl - and I did!
When I was 12 my brother had a 65 Chevy Pickup. He would quiz me on what the different engine components were. It's all his fault.
The car in my avatar, was my old mans, then mine, now sorta his again. Its the first Hotrod I ever saw and its been in the family longer than I have been alive. That and for the Aussys here, Ian Shaw's T Tub, man that thing always said HOT ROD whenever you saw it. RIP 'Datsfa' hes one guy I know I miss. Doc.
A combination of 2 actually.... A guy down the street from my grandmothers house had a lumped up '67 Cutl*** 442- he must have been perpetually late to work cause every morning, he would burn the tires for half a block... and CarToons...Trosleys idea of a built car (even in cartoon form) is pretty much how I like them. I am pretty sure in my head, when a car is runnin, I see those black letters behind it! BWAAAHHHHH!!!! RUMPITYRUMPITY RUMPITYRUMPITY All sculpted around the car. and when ever I break something, it will forever have ("clink") hanging in the air above it. I miss CarToons....
The one that started it and the one that keeps it going. I should have bought it when I had the chance.
Frank Mack's T for a hot rod, and Jerry Yatch Custom 40 Merc for the custom. Detroit area stuff. West coast stuff, **** Flint's Roadster, Hirahita's merc.
Mine all started with a 1/64 hotwheels, then I moved to bigger cars as I could afford em & eventually made it to the real thing
I've always been into cars. My second ride was in a '35 Ford 3W coupe (first was my dads's "Bandit" '77 Trans Am). My dad pulled the Hemi from a '56 DeSoto when I was still in diapers. After that was done, they looked for me, and I was sleeping on top of the pulled engine. Mom was pissed. Anyway, my first love was this car. I can't find a picture of the burgandy one, but it was this car, this paint job, but dark red.
Sitting glued to the television when the Dukes of Hazzard was on ... I could give a **** about the so-called plot, but that car lit a fire that has never been quenched.
in 1962...my dads 32 primered 5 window deuce with a full flatty, 4-11gears, dropped axle and AT***UDE...and noisy. It had it all.
Going to taco thursday with my dad and his friends from the Red Feather Motorcycle club in his 1969 BLACK on BLACK Cadillac Eldorado. Now thats parenting, **** Dr. Phil I turned out fine. s.
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