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Old 12-24-2024, 10:55 AM   #1
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Default grandfather.s picture

Here's a picture of one of my grandfathers, my dad's father, he passed away in 1929, 11 years before I was born.
Here's hoping others have pictures of their Grandfathers to add to this thread.
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Old 12-24-2024, 11:59 AM   #2
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Here is mine:
He passed away 50,000 years before I was born.









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Old 12-24-2024, 01:09 PM   #3
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Got one of him with my uncle standing on the running board.
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Same car years later after the same uncle finished it
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Old 12-24-2024, 02:27 PM   #5
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None to show with him and his '30 Tudor, but here is one from around 1941. He is on far left, my mom is third from right......
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Old 12-24-2024, 04:51 PM   #6
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Grandpa pix are tough - they were usually holding the camera. I've got some great grandfather ones holding my dad as a baby.
My mom's dad. He was a teacher, home builder, fruit farmer and sold cars first Chevy then Fords in Saginaw MI. His fruit farm is now a neighborhood of expensive homes. The barn still shows up on Google earth.
The guy on the MC is my dad's stepdad. He had a shop that specialized in fixing Chevys. He also did truck work. In the late 20s he built a prototype for Republic and installed the first customer GMC diesel in a truck.
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Old 12-24-2024, 06:52 PM   #7
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Being the 1st male grandchild born after grandfather died guess what my and his name are.Melvin Allen was the high sheriff in Floyd County Kentucky 100 years ago.
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Old 12-24-2024, 07:21 PM   #8
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Al Giddings, died before I was born.
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Old 12-24-2024, 07:34 PM   #9
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"Here is mine:
He passed away 50,000 years before I was born."


"The apple doesn't fall far from the tree." (Ha, ha, ha!)

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Old 12-24-2024, 07:50 PM   #10
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My Grandpa Joe with his team. My Dad has the reins.
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Old 12-25-2024, 09:09 AM   #11
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Here's a few pictures of my grandfather and some with my great-grandfather and family. The car in the background of the first picture is a '41 Plymouth coupe that my great-grandfather bought just as the war started.
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Old 12-25-2024, 10:32 AM   #12
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Sometime in the '50s, somewhere in Detroit


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Old 12-25-2024, 12:08 PM   #13
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Here is mine:
He passed away 50,000 years before I was born.










NK, your grandfater was the goodlooking one of the family!
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Old 12-25-2024, 01:35 PM   #14
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"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear down to the bone." Just saying'...

Hmmm...looking at nkaminar's forebearer, I'm wondering if we have progressed all that much in the last 50,000 years??? I mean, have you seen some of the people in TV commercials???

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Old 12-25-2024, 04:37 PM   #15
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Mike, I bet he was happy he was able to get the Plymouth in the years to follow.

My (red) 36 Plymouth streetrod pictured.
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Old 12-26-2024, 02:59 PM   #16
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My father, when my cabriolet was new. I got it in 1959,mol.
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Old 12-27-2024, 06:42 AM   #17
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My Grandfather with his Model A. 30 or 31?
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Old 12-27-2024, 08:17 AM   #18
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My Grandfather and his 1935 Ford.
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Old 12-27-2024, 11:07 AM   #19
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My paternal grandfather George. In Malta World War I, British army... eastern front. After emigrating to the USA in 1920, he as well as maternal G'pa Peter worked for Ford. First at Highland Park and later at the Rouge. Very likely they had a hand in building your Model A.
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Old 12-28-2024, 01:50 PM   #20
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My son's grandfather with his "chick-mobile" and a bevy of beauties. The one on the running board later became his wife. He had purchased the Ford for $125 a couple months prior to the picture being taken.
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