Man, you guys are the best!!!! My memory is almost starting to function!!!

Bob, think you're right on the 70's for the long ladder bars... did some of the gasser's have a tilt steel front?? Thinking I recall a front hinged hood on a '56 with a steel tilt front end so you could either tip the entire front forward or just open the hood.... Might of just been a one off local dude.....??????

HRP--sent you a PM on the paint and trim---been looking at pics of cars from the era, seems many used the chrome, but most of the "name" cars had all the trim gone and holes filled????? As for a cartoon image and art work, gotta have that I believe!!! I won't even mention what some of my alleged "friends" have suggested!!!!! At coffee today one guy even asked how we were going to make a sky high '57 gasser handicapped accessible so that one of us could still drive it!!!!