Let's see your Father's first "Hot Rod"......

[43tutor]

I wanted to start this thread to see where it would take us. I recently found an old family photo album with a picture of my Father's first "Hot Rod". I'm sure many of us have fond memories of time spent with our Father's wrenching on cars. Now it's in my blood and my Son is starting to pick it up also.

Here is a photo of Dad's ride "back in the day"..... 1934 Ford with a 1950 Olds V8. Dad claimed he was never beat in a drag race. We've all heard that before!!!

Post a picture of your Father's first "Hot Rod" for all to enjoy.

 

[68sportsatelliteragtop]

Not a "Hot Rod", but a St.Regis w/ Hemi power. The Old Man bought it new, kept it till he needed a family car a few years later.

 

[MikeyT]

Wow.... I got lots of pictures, just not this thing. Well my Dad's hot rod was a 1972 AMC AMX with a go pac 360... You will have to use your imagination.

MIke

 

[RustyRatRod]

My father never had a hot rod. First car I remember him havin was a 35 Dodge 4 door sedan. The story was that he and my uncle found it on the side of the road with a blown motor. Found the owner walking down the road a few miles later. Daddy asked the man if he might want to sell the car. The man gave it to daddy because it had given him a lot of trouble. Daddy had it towed to Macon and had a 35 Plymouth motor put in it and drove it with zero trouble for many years.

 

[MikeyT]

Wow, I never would of guessed that? I thought Rusty's dad didn't have a hot rod, cause he was still riding horseback!!!! I kid... I kid!

MIKE

 

[djais1801]

i don't have pics..but the closest thing to a hotrod was my dad's 60 impala convertible

 

[Meep-Meep]

My parents divorced when I was 4 so what little contact I had with my real dad up to age 18 was slim to none. I did hear about a 49 Ford that he put flame throwers on but I couldn't tell you what year that was. I do recall him saying that he had quite a different approach to making them work, and being an electrical engineer he managed to light them off good. he had a file on the seat and rubbed a wire over it, which caused the intermittent connection necessary for the spark plugs to spark at a rapid rate. As far as I know he came to the US just in time to get drafted into the Army and get shipped off to FL for the Cuban Missile Crisis. His arrival to the US might have been in the mid 50's and he got out just before Kennedy was assassinated so the Ford must have been just before he went in. My stepdad had nothing going on with cars and now I wonder how I got so hooked... Must have been the Concord water!

 

[redchihuahua2004]

My father's rides over the years (not necessarily "hot rods" but cool none the less!)...
> 50 Ford pickup converted to a tow truck
> 55 Chevy hardtop
> 63 Pontiac Bonneville convertible
> 66 Plymouth Belvedere hardtop with 361 automatic
> 68 Plymouth GTX with 440 automatic

 

[Cranky]

Dad wasn't much of a car nut and did everything he could to discourage me from them but he did buy a 56 Belvedere Sports Coupe (the first car I drove at the age of 8). He said it was for mom since it was pink and white. Back then, pink and white was in. Even the washing machine was p/w. He had to take a step down in 63. Job moved, mom passed away and the 56 was worn out and rusting away and did a late year buy on a 63 Dart 2dr sedan with nothing on it except a heater was his next car. Things got better a few years later and long story short, a 66 Belvedere came into the picture then a 69 440 powered New Yorker, a 70 383 Monaco with 4 bbl and duals, a 71 Monaco optioned out the same way...even the same color. He never owned more than one car at a time tho except for having a work truck since he was in the home building business.

 

[snakeyes]

 

[satman72]

My dad had a 64 Pontiac Parisienne, then a 66 Parisienne, then the '70 Buick Riviera with a 455 that I learned to drive on.

 

[43tutor]

Hey Snakeyes - that picture is classic. LOL

 

[Budnicks]

My parents split when I was only 18 months old & I wish I had some photos of especially my step dad Bob's cars, he married my Mom when I was just 6 y/o & he was always building something cool for either my cousin, my uncle, himself or one of his many Concord area racing buddies, he would drive around & cruise all over the place, he was a S/S Drag Racer & street racer too... Bob was a big influence on me being a gearhead... The 1st one I really remember was a hot rod early 60's pink & white Dodge with a 413 & long Ram {I'm not sure what year it was, they sold it soon after they got married, to buy a house on Clayton Rd. in Concord} then a very cool Metallic Bronze 35 Ford PU hot rod with a 365 Buick Roadmaster w/4 2bbls & a LeSalle 4 speed trans {later sold it to buy a house on Cobblestone Ct. in Concord} & then also his 64 GTO S/S race car, that later became a family driver, then a 54 F-100 hot rod with a FE Big Block 4 speed, several Plymouths & Dodges, a couple of 67-68-69 Firebirds, a couple of cool old wagons, my favorite was a hot rod metal flake red & white Ford 57 Ranch Wagon 2 door, w/big block FE engine, that was the family grocery getter... I remember when I was 8 y/o going to a dealership in SF to buy a "NEW" Green & white 68 Sport Satellite for my Mom....LOL... It was a 383ci 4bbl 4speed...LOL... Mom was pretty cool too, I loved being driven around in that car, even my Mom could grab second gear, I got that car much latter, when it had near 200k miles on it, in my early 20's... My step father had a bunch of Pontiac race cars over the years, all GTO's 64-66-68-70 Judge, if I remember correctly, we always had a bunch of cars at our house, lots of children, 7 all eventually with drivers licenses, Bob was a great welder/fabricator & Body/Paint guy, He was a Union Pipefitter by trade, had allot of extra time on his hands, like 6 months a year unemployed almost always, so he made money doing the fab/body work... My Real Pop's Harvey, whom I lived with in HS, up in Garden Valley, had a couple of nice cruisers but never really was into cars that much, he had a cool old Black 49 Ford 2 door w/flat head V8, that was cool stocker, a Blue 64 & Red 65 GS Buick Skylark Convertible's, we would take up-to Pinecrest Lake to go camping all the time, with him & my 2 older sisters, also a 67 Ford Pick Up with a 390 4 speed, that was fun, later he got into 4 wheeling & got a 73 CJ-5 Heep w/304 V8 4 speed, we would go on 4x4 trips allot, he was a Member of the Georgetown Stump Jumpers, he also had a 74 Pinto his company car, that I won a Sacramento Raceway Wednesday night bracket race in, when I was 16....

 

[alleyoopmgv]

This was one of my Dads first hot rods ( 50 something Buick, Olds maybe??). Don't know if it was his first, but pretty close to it. I can't ask him, he died in 2006 from pancreatic cancer. He had a lot of hot rods back in the day. I have more pictures of other cars he had, I'll have to see if I can find them.

He grew up in North St. Paul, Mn. If there was any word of street racing the cops went to my Grandmas house first to see where my Dad was. He had Alley Oop on almost all of his cars when he was young. Thats what he named all of his racecar's.