Art & Inspiration What car/year really makes you tick??????

'41 Chevy pickup. '58 Chevy. '57 Ford Custom 300. '62 Ford Galaxie.

 

Things change with age. At 82, I would really like a '56 Continental MKII with updated creature comforts (A/C, PS, etc.).

I have always favored "Shoebox" Fords (I have had one since 1957), but I have come to the point where driving my current club coupe is a real chore, even on cool days. I have C2 Corvette (my second favorite car) I can't get into either.

 

33/34 Fords always make me stop and look, but I will also check our most any well done car is it has the right stance and wheels.

 

This. It’s also in my garage. Snowman ⛄️

 

I’ve dreamed of a 61 Falcon two door wagon, black with red and white interior a hot small block maybe a four or five speed since I was probably 7 or 8 years old. My parents traded ours for a Country Squire wagon, I was a young man with a broken heart. Since that day in the mid sixties I haven’t seen another 61 two door wagon. For a brief moment I had a 61 two door back in the Seventies but no place to work on it.

 

'33 and '34 Mopar coupes , '64 and '65 mopar B-bodies , almost all '68 Mopar A and B bodies. For the Chevy guys , '56 and '57 Corvettes , '57 Nomad . '40 Willys coupe for out of reach fantasy car .

 

I have always liked the styling of these cars (they make terrific mild customs), so I have to ask : Are the painted bumper and grille a matter of taste or economics? I know it's none of my business, but I was always a big-mouthed kid.

 

3 Window coupes…any year...

 

Prohibition era.

When they were still figuring stuff out so a great range of styles and technology

 

Just about anything done right, I've had five Model A's, 49 Ford pickup, 50 Merc, 50 Ford tudor, 53 Merc, two 56 Chevy's , 57 Chevy, 60 Thunderbird, 64 Impala SS. Looks like I like flatheads but if I do another car it'll probably be another 57 Chevy preferably a BelAire two door post like I had when I dated my wife in 1968. My 29 Roadster Pickup with a warmed up banger is just starting to go back together and not sure about doing another car at my age and might just bite the bullet and try to find a nice 57 Chevy.

 

1937 Chevy coupe is tops for styling in my book


And for daily driver work horses, I can’t seem to get away from early 60s GM trucks



Of course, both of these vehicles have been sold, and I’m on the hunt for their replacements.

 

I can like any type, style car or truck ,if they're well done. But 2 that REALLY push ALL my buttons:
Chopped 53/54 Studebaker's and Chopped and Channeled Ford 5 window coupes. Does it for me all
the time!!

 

I've been into Ford T's and A's forever, just never had the chance to buy anything later. If I ever hit the Lottery there would be a Bugatti and early 1950's Coupe sports car added to the dead projects in my basement.

 

33 Willys and 33 Dodge / Plymouth

 

My favorites have always been all the X-frame Chevrolets (and other GM X-fames), like my '61 Bel Air.

 

This is what I have stuck by for the last 50 years:-
Made before 1965. Something that looks like it's doing 80 MPH while it's standing still. The lower the better.
Fins are good.
I am liking the 55-6-7 Mercs and Lincolns the more I see them. Might be my next adventure.

 

I don't know what makes me tick but I know what flips my trigger.................

 

I've been a Mopar guy for many years. Loved driving those performance era Mopars. My favorites were the one year only bodies of the late 60s and early 70s. Seeing 10 of anything in a row turns me off quick, brand or age doesn't matter.

Past that, I've seemed to have a fascination with 39--49 Mopar coupes because I have owned several over the years, and the nicely done 50s Mopar station wagons always catch my attention. I love those late 30s (though I don't fit in them) and the late 40s through the early 80s Dodge pick ups with more modern drive trains (up to about 2000). None of this newer stuff (past 2006) interests me much.

There were other makes of cars and trucks that would catch my eye through the years, and I would take a look at them, but there wasn't much interest past that. There have been a lot of cool cars and trucks built over the years.

I like the old roundy-round dirt track cars from the 1950s up through the mid 1980s. When everyone had to have the same parts and innovation went out the window, the fun went with it.

 

The car in my avator!




Bones

 

My 40 stays in my garage until I go tango uniform.

 

Bread trucks
Milk trucks
Fins

 

55 Ford 2 door sedan. My first attempt at a car...

I'd like it with a bit more engine. That 1st one had a 272 2-barrel with Ford-O-Matic. Maybe a 312, 4 speed, Paxton supercharger, fenderwells, some cheater slicks on steelies with dog dish hubcaps.

 

I like a little bit of everything and always seemed to go for oddball stuff. When you are young and stating out you buy what you can afford. I tend to hold on to my cars for a long time and don't venture into other cars much anymore. The one car I regret not having is '33-'34 Ford coupe. I loved these cars since I was a kid. I still may get the chance to own one someday.

 

1949 and 1950 Chevrolets.

 

When I was about 12 years old, my old man asked me what old car I wanted for a project. My answer? '40 Ford Deluxe coupe. He found a '39 Standard Tudor locally and asked if that would work. I said, "close enough, for now." Still have that one, and a '40 Deluxe Coupe waiting in the wings. About that same time, I really started to love the chopped '49-'51 Mercs. My '49 is my next project. And I'm always drawn toward kustoms. Chopped, sectioned, canted quads, whatever. I love 'em. I'd also take a lakes/modified style roadster.

 

1950's Fords, more specifically 57 cars, and 57-60 pickups

 

I like cars. I'm like a dog in a field of squirrels, easily distracted. I like tailfins, owned a lot, and 1931 to 1941 body styles, especially the luxury cars. And trucks, pre 66, all of em.

 

Hello,

At first, a 51 Oldsmobile two door lowered rake sedan, a 34 5 window Ford coupe with a great sounding Oldsmobile motor and our dad’s 41 Buick fastback sedan sparked my teenage interest until I got to be the main driver of the 58 Impala, then the 40 Ford Flathead powered Sedan Delivery. Those last two were reality in the making and developed my eventual outlook towards hot rods.

Sure, we all had to start somewhere and having an older brother was nice, since he was the first to get into cars and hot rods. But, I learned every inch of the way, through the detail phase to the intricate 283/292 blower spec motor for our drag racing 40 Willys Coupe build. If it had survived the 1960 season, who knows where our future would have taken us?

Our little speed shop had plenty of experience and access to various other local mechanical knowledgeable folks nearby. So, any build could have followed our adventures. But, the future had its own course and we followed it as it happened. Not knowing many years later that it was necessary to get to where we were in our own lives.

Jnaki
Photo by Vnak
Even though it was a tear down, rebuild stage for the Impala, sedan delivery and 40 Willys Coupe for the drags, it was the 12 years of owning, driving and getting to know the 1965 El Camino for all its value and memories. It was the one car/truck that was an experience in the time we started to expand our future and travels. 125,000 miles made the difference, with a single turn of the key each time. No hesitation, no stuttering, no two clicks, instant start up and off we went...

Thousands of miles of enclosed, two people traveling had its many pluses and they all developed our lives for the better. The miles of trouble free road trips made us value our cars in general and gave us the outlook that we still have today. Cars are a necessity and if you take care of it, it will take care of you. Also, for the enclosed space of the two of us traveling together, it was a continuous history of conversation that has lasted to our weekly coastal drives in our current "daily drivers" as really old folks. Yikes!

Although we have had many thoughts of owning another old hot rod like our 327 powereed 40 Ford Sedan Delivery as 20 somethings, we know the value of each style of driving. The feel of old hot rods with all of their quirks and cool feeling of V8 power when needed in an old hot rod was worth the effort we put into it. If one had a reliable form of transportation at your beck and call, then that is all it takes to enjoy life one mile at a time. Memories flash back as one travels the old roads from our past younger lives to the present day. YRMV