Thread: Old cars are so cool

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All the new stuff looks like a used bar of soap, you can't tell one make from another. Well, at least I can't. I remember sitting on the front porch with my maternal grandfather and him teaching me what make, year and model of car and truck was going past the house. He lived right on the main drag of China Grove, North Carolina, so there was plenty of traffic hahahahahaha. I must have been about 6 years old (this was in ~1948) and he was about 66, just having retired as Postmaster at the local Post Office. I have to believe that's where my love of the automobile began. Pretty soon, I could identify everything on the road.

I had a little yellow bicycle that drove the rear wheel with a fan belt instead of a chain and used to ride it on the sidewalks down to the Duke Power office in downtown China Grove to see my Uncle Reed, grandpa's youngest child of 8. Reed had been a Chief Electrician's Mate in the Navy during WWII and continued his career path after the war. He had been a submariner and had some of the greatest stories you ever heard. I remember him telling of one time when they sat on the bottom of the Atlantic ocean for 3 days while Nazi destroyers pummeled them with depth charges. That was a time when boys were forged into men.

Reed had a Plymouth with the 6-banger and a 3-speed and used to take me for rides. There was one long hill right outside town where he would let off the gas and switch the ignition key on and off to make the motor backfire over and over. I would jump up and down on the seat and shriek with delight. Reed would be laughing out loud. Of the few memories I have of my childhood, that one will be with me forever.

As far as stuff I hate, chopped tops are in the lead. Holy Moses, gag and puke on my shoes. There is only one car on the planet that looks better with a chopped top, a '49/'50 Mercury done in the Barris style. Everything else just looks ignorant. Well, with the possible exception of the Pierson Brothers coupe.....
Here is Sam Barris' car....
http://www.kustomrama.com/images/c/c...9-mercury1.jpg
Here is the Pierson Brothers coupe....
http://www.kustomrama.com/images/e/e...os-coupe14.jpg
Here's an example of a POS that should be sent to the crusher....
http://www.2040-cars.com/_content/ca...464827/002.jpg
And another....
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...6ad0b9a4bd.jpg

I ran across this one, described as chopped and couped, that I actually would be proud to own. Somebody has some real talent for seeing a design that is pleasing to the eye.....
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...6a6e7a8bb3.jpg

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