donsrods
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Last week I was sorting out some pictures to return to my ex-wife, and ran across some I had forgotten I still had. I don't have a fancy scanner, so these are pictures of pictures.......sorry for the quality.
First picture is my '32 Ford roadster pickup that I built in about 1970-71. It was on a narrowed '39 Ford frame, had a '37 Ford round tube axle, '57 Chevy rear end with 4:56 gears, and an Olds engine backed by a '37 Cad-LaSalle floorshift tranny. The engine is the one I bought for $ 175 out of a show quality '32 Ford that came from California. The new owner was putting a 427 Chevy in it, and had no use for the Olds or the LaSalle tranny. It had two fours, a wicked cam, headers, and every nut, bolt, and bracket was chromed.
I could never get the car inspected in Pennsylvania, so I tore it apart and used everything for other projects........the engine eventually went into a '40 Chevy I had. The few times I drove the rod, it was really fast, couldn't keep it straight. Years later I ran across an article in a magazine featuring the '32 Ford that got the 427, and they talked about how the car came from California with an Olds in it. The guy from California claimed he had street raced the car, and the Olds engine was never beaten. I believe it!!
Next two pictures are a '38 (I think) Chevy I bought in about 1983 or 84. Some guy had done a frame off restoration on it and traded it in for a boat. All the mechanicals were done, and the engine was rebuilt. I drove it around the block one time and decided it was not for me, so I sold it. It was the only car I have ever owned that I did not have the heart to cut up into a street rod. It was just too nice and straight, and original. There were boxes and boxes of new old stock parts in the back seat, and almost every piece to finish it up. Today, I would make a hot rod out of it in a heartbeat.
What was I thinking?????????
Don
First picture is my '32 Ford roadster pickup that I built in about 1970-71. It was on a narrowed '39 Ford frame, had a '37 Ford round tube axle, '57 Chevy rear end with 4:56 gears, and an Olds engine backed by a '37 Cad-LaSalle floorshift tranny. The engine is the one I bought for $ 175 out of a show quality '32 Ford that came from California. The new owner was putting a 427 Chevy in it, and had no use for the Olds or the LaSalle tranny. It had two fours, a wicked cam, headers, and every nut, bolt, and bracket was chromed.
I could never get the car inspected in Pennsylvania, so I tore it apart and used everything for other projects........the engine eventually went into a '40 Chevy I had. The few times I drove the rod, it was really fast, couldn't keep it straight. Years later I ran across an article in a magazine featuring the '32 Ford that got the 427, and they talked about how the car came from California with an Olds in it. The guy from California claimed he had street raced the car, and the Olds engine was never beaten. I believe it!!
Next two pictures are a '38 (I think) Chevy I bought in about 1983 or 84. Some guy had done a frame off restoration on it and traded it in for a boat. All the mechanicals were done, and the engine was rebuilt. I drove it around the block one time and decided it was not for me, so I sold it. It was the only car I have ever owned that I did not have the heart to cut up into a street rod. It was just too nice and straight, and original. There were boxes and boxes of new old stock parts in the back seat, and almost every piece to finish it up. Today, I would make a hot rod out of it in a heartbeat.
What was I thinking?????????
Don