Thread: Missspent Youth

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I wasn't very diligent about taking pics in the early years of car play...…….some "interesting" stuff could be shown. Most of the few pics I did take are still in paper format, haven't gotten around to scanning them. You might have given me motivation here Mike.

When I got home from the all expense paid trip (thanks Uncle Sam) to the jungles I got a wild hair to buy this '36 Ford sedan, $100 IIRC. Ended up being the first of a modestly long line of '36s in the garage.

Then when I moved to Spokane in '74 the VW itch hit me again (the first was a Beetle in '65). This Type 2 had been a local dry cleaner delivery rig. Engine was shot, trans wouldn't shift, some slug had owned it and abused it while being clueless on how to fix it. Build a mildly hopped up engine, fixed the trans mount garbage, and had fun burying the speedo that topped out at 60.

Then in the late '70s I went into my Hudson period. This '51 Hornet came out of a field in Northern Idaho. Amazingly the chrome is the factory original. Some kids had used the roof for a trampoline so that was a learning experience getting the buckling out of the metal. The burgundy paint I shot in a two car garage when we lived in Vancouver Wa. It had the Twin H intake and overdrive. Terrific road car, the drive down and back from Seattle was a pleasure. This shot is in the parking lot where the HET Club national meet was held in Buena Park Ca, first time they'd held a National west of the Mississippi.