L.B,

Member
I know you have an old Ford and may have seen this before it was on SCI channel tonight. In all honestly I would take this over any Automobile ever made. It is truly the only one of its kind, there are no more. They showed the stamped ID number it looked just like the Ns. Sweet..
Untitled URL Link
 
Yea, I've got 3 Model A's, but like anyone who likes A's, we all love the 32, 33 & 34 Fords too!

Those three model years are very hard to find in original condition because the 50's era hotrodders loved them. ( Remember 'Little Deuce Coupe ' by the Beachboys? Or Milners deuce coupe in American Graffiti?)

Finding Dillinger's escape car is an amazing story! Thanks for posting it.
75 Tips
 
In the 60s and 70s Summer Sunday nights Stock Car Races lots of 30s Fords and one guy had a 32 Vicky. Thats why they are rare they wrecked the hell out of them and bet most all the sheet metal was too but they still looked stock.
 
The local track ( Southside Speedway) opened in the late 40s as a dirt track, and was on the early ( 60s) NASCAR circuit. It recently closed and the local paper, FB, etc, have been publishing pics of old races. I get heart failure looking at the 40 Fords, etc, all beat to hell out there on the dirt track!

A buddy bought a 40 Ford Deluxe coupe last summer.....a little rough on the edges, could use paint, but runs fine on the original V-8. The same car that would bring $250 in the 60's......he paid $25k for it and considered it a good deal. So do I, given that restored ones go for $40k or more these days.
 
I still sob quietly when I think of the tens of thousands of 1930s-era coupes and the '55-6-7 Chevies that were destroyed in dirt-track crashes. That destruction is the main reason I gravitated toward drag racing in the '60s and '70s. You might blow up an engine or chuck a tranny in drag racing, but you rarely destroyed an entire car. Engines and trannies can be replaced a lot more easily than a smashed-up body with a bent frame.

(FWIW, I spent a couple of spring-through fall seasons as a photographer and writer for a quarter-mile dragstrip in the upper Midwest. In photographing hundreds of races from stockers to top fuelers, I only saw four vehicles destroyed -- a big-block '68 Camaro that flipped end over end when it got its wheels off the track, a fiberglass funny car that broke something that jerked it right through the plywood advertising signs along the track, an Anglia gasser that had the same fate, and a really fast Kawasaki that pulled the front wheel at the lights and smashed into the Christmas tree, destroying both the lights and the bike.)
 
My Grpa had a 57 Chevy 2dr post with 3 on the tree only a 6 cyl. I was 15 told him if you ever sell it I will buy it from ya.He traded it for a 63 or 64 Pontiac Catalina.Why did you do that, they gave me $350 for it, I couldnt pass that up.
 
NASCAR is not like it was in 1964 say, the Dodge you saw on the track on Sunday come Monday you could buy the same car at the dealership. Now they put a shell over a frame and engine put it on 31 degree bank track put their foot into it and when some guy looses it they all pack it in because theres no real driving skill involved thats why the bank is 31 so the dont have to slow or grab gears. To me the cars and drivers are nothing more balls on a roulett wheel.
 
Yes, prices are high. I went to a swap meet Sunday and looked at a '55 Chevy 2-door sedan (not hardtop). It was a complete body in pretty good shape with some repairs, good floors, no glass, no interior, no engine or tranny. Asking price? $10,000. Car with lots of potential for someone with patience, plenty of time, the right skills and deep pockets ... none of which I have in abundance.
 
In the late 50s I had an older cousin that traveled and drove for Joey Chitwood and his auto daredevils. They were here in Topeka one fall and I was at the track the day before the show. The local Ford dealer donated the cars they would use for jumps and wrecks. The cars were painted white with the dealer's logo on them.

One of the cars was a mid 30s ford sedan. I was about 18 and hated the thought of them wrecking that straight old Ford. My cousin told me that I could have it after they were through with it. Then he said come on, you can help me customize it.

He took a ball pein hammer and a big chisel and drove holes through the doors and behind the door post and wired the doors shut with number nine wire. drove holes in the floor and installed seat belts. Got in the seat, leaned back and kicked the windshields out and the dash glass, rolled down the door glasses and then said "there, it's customized.

There wasn't much left after the shows. I can still remember the destruction of that poor little Ford.
 
(quoted from post at 23:21:28 09/20/22) NASCAR is not like it was in 1964 say, the Dodge you saw on the track on Sunday come Monday you could buy the same car at the dealership. Now they put a shell over a frame and engine put it on 31 degree bank track put their foot into it and when some guy looses it they all pack it in because theres no real driving skill involved thats why the bank is 31 so the dont have to slow or grab gears. To me the cars and drivers are nothing more balls on a roulett wheel.

my dad brought home a super bee or a super bird, i forget which, from chrysler's exec lot for the weekend once. it was very cool. i'm with u, i lost interest when they stopped actually being "stock cars."
 

We sell tractor parts! We have the parts you need to repair your tractor - the right parts. Our low prices and years of research make us your best choice when you need parts. Shop Online Today.

Back
Top