My Grandfather's 1934 Ford Today

[tomkc1]

Here is a picture of my 1934 Ford. My grandfather bought the car new in Lawrence, MA in 1934. My family told me that my grandfather was learning how to drive and in the process had an accident. He had to fork over $15 to fix the damage to the other car and decided to let someone else drive. The "someone else" turned out to be my father along with his 8 brothers and sisters.
The car was taken off the road in 1951 and put in the family garage. In 1970 my aunt gave the car to me. A dear friend did some repair work on it including putting in a new set of rings and through the years he helped me to maintiain it. He passed away in 2008.
Since 1970 it has had almost no restoration work. Its about as original as original can be except for the paint. My father and uncles had painted it black with a brush in the early 1940s so I had it redone in 1970. I thought the color I picked was close to the original but it really isn't. Not bad, though, for a $150 paint job.
It runs great and always starts. In 1970 it had just over 58,000 original miles on it and today it has 62,028. Wow, thats less than 100 miles per year. Shame on me for that but now that I'm retired I hope to put more on.

[Brendan]

that's good story, it's nice to keep it in the family, Brendan

[tomkc1]

Thanks, Brendan. By the way, one of my uncles' to learned to drive on this car and drove it many times was also "Brendan".

[Brendan]

Kool, can you take some more photos and post them on the Barn?

[PeteVS]

Ditto on the request for more pictures! Looks like a "standard," no marker lights.

[TonyM]

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Looks great. I hope to get a Model 40 Fordor some day. My wife loves the suicide doors. Good luck. TM

[bmwillia]

Nice story and car Tom.

I am working on my grandfather's 33 coupe. He bought it in 56'. It is not in as good of shape as your's is.

Thanks for sharing!

[Ken Arms]

Great history and congrads for keeping it in the family! I bought my 34 tudor when I was 14, am now 63. I wish I had more history on the car. Keep any and all documents, dates etc. on the car. I think it just makes them that much more valuable. Ken

[mike42]

Sweet....I love those doors ! Nice looking ride !

[bige386]

That is a great story and a sweet looking car. Its good to see that it is still in the family. It isn't very often that hear of a story where the car was bought new by a parent or grandparent and is still in the family.
The car reminds me of the Bonny & Clyde car.
Thanks for sharing the story and picture and please post more.

[35cab]

Fantastic story, beautiful car, as mentioned we would love to see more photos.
Thanks for posting.

[HOTRODPRIMER]

Wow,,same car in the family since 1934,,I thought we were doing good to still have the wagon my wife's grandmother bought new in 1954,,yours is somewhat of a record!,,congratulations. HRP

[Barry-ct]

Nice car! Always nice to hear stories like that.

[tomkc1]

Now that I've figured out how to post photos I'll take some more tomorrow and give everyone the complete exterior and interior.

Tom

[FamilyFord]

Great story, Tom! Keeping in the family is what it's all about.

[oldironfarmer]

Great Story!!! That is the dream for car collectors, to own a car their father or better yet Grandfather bought new!

[mhsprecher]

I think the '34 is my favorite Ford.

[Brendan]

Originally Posted by tomkc1

Now that I've figured out how to post photos I'll take some more tomorrow and give everyone the complete exterior and interior.

Tom

Kool can't Waite

[flat-v8]

Great story & very cool car with lots of windows! Love it!

[Dave Mc]

Great story,I am looking forward to more pic's too,interior shots maybe ?

[42panel]

Great car and history. Thanks for sharing.

[Byron Warwick]

I agree, that's a good story. Do I see it right that the grille still has that stoved in part where your grandfather was in the accident? I've had my truck since 1957, and finished the 10 year resto in 2009. Byron.

[tomkc1]

Hopefully, I've uploaded a few more photos to an album. This should be the locations: https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/album....ictureid=18581

A special thank you to "PeteVS" for his help in teaching me how to get photos onto this site.

Tom

[tomkc1]

Byron, I really don't know if the grill dent was "the one". All I know is that I didn't do it!!!!

[PeteVS]

Making progress there Tom! Only one thing left to do- Go back to your album and open up a picture. Look down below the picture and see that there are two address codes. Here's a picture of an image and the codes.



Highlight and copy the lower of the two lines (the "BB" one.) Now, go back to your post and paste that line into the text. Preview the text and you should have the picture big and proud staring at you. (I was tempted to do that for you but I think I can only get the address codes from my own album.)

[Brendan]

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what a Kool car I would like to park it in my garage! just maintain it and drive it!

[30A]

Great story and car. I ended up with my Grandfather's tools but would love to have gotten one of his cars. Enjoy!