Nevadablue

Thanks again. My sister has some excellent photo repair software and skills, but the pic is damaged unfortunately. My Mom glued the pic into the album and the glue has apparently damaged the left and top of the pic.

Thanks for that! Now my wife wants to know what color you guys think the car was. I just assumed black, but now I don’t know. It also appears to have some chrome (another option?) on the doors where your arm would lie when driving that neat rig.

Hmmm... it would go, but I guess it was slipping then. The engine would rev but the car wouldn’t go any faster. Long ago... distant memory. A friend and I were looking for something to make a ‘buggy’ out of. Hopefully someone else fixed the old car. We finally found a beat to death pickup and removed everything from above the frame and put a seat on it. Wonder we didn’t die.

One of my sons brought grandpa’s 49 Dodge home from Iowa to Nevada. It is currently waiting patiently in a barn.

There are a lot of holes in that block. I remember when I was in high school, the local car lots had a back row. I looked at a V12 Lasalle but it wouldn’t start. I ended up buying a straight 8 Buick (I think it was) for 25 bucks. It had an automatic and wouldn’t shift, so I took it back. I really would like to have both of them now. I can’t remember if the Buick was a 51 or 52.

I put an alternator in my 53 Chevy pickup with no real issues. I changed the bulbs of course and put a resistor in the coil line. It always started well and I never did replace the starter. I drove it for years with no issues. If it starts easily, the starter will take it I think.

Oh, I did replace the grave digger tires with those knobby things so I could drive it on the highway easier. I had the wheels rebuilt: sandblasted, straightened and painted and removed the rim locks from inside the rims. Those were HEAVY.

Thank you! I’ll put the info with the picture. 🙂

This was my car for a few years when I was in college. It is almost completely original, with a few tiny changes like the electric wiper on the driver’s side. When my Dad died, it was in a garage that belonged to my uncle. Life happened and I never got back to get the Jeep. But, I recently discovered that my sister DID save it. This picture is of it in a garage years ago, and it is now buried in another garage at her home. I hope to get it from her to give to one of my sons. If I am able to get more pictures of it, I will post them.

I’m 74 and my sister is 80. We are chasing our family history and she found this picture of my father in a scrapbook that my mom made. Above the photo, it says “about 1935”. I think this is a Dodge, but the strange hood and lack of spare on the fender are throwing me off. Was that hood an option? Was the continental kit an option? I am sure this wasn’t his car, but would like to know what it was. Dad would have been 19 in 1935.