The Ford Barn

Aarongriffey · 05-29-2020, 02:49 PM

Ever notice that Tubman is ALWAYS bead right?

This reminds me of an old guy I worked for nine years that had 400 collector cars.
Mostly Ford, Mercury and Lincoln.
He had to have EVERY little thing that was visible as it came from the factory.
Once he told me when he was a young guy a friend talked him into setting the rear license plate into a box set in the trunk lid. A FRENCHED rear plate it was called.
I don’t remember if he eventually replaced the trunk lid or sold the car but I know he went to his grave feeling bad that he did it in the first place.
He said he also left an English Austin Seven touring car (1937) sitting in a leaking roof garage with the head off so long that it ruined the motor. That was when he was very young and the car sat in the building where I worked all the time without an engine.
Don’t hot rod a collector car that can be saved.
Use the wrong year engine, paint it an unoriginal color, use vinyl upholstery, put on some goofy wheels, put in a higher speed rear end, overdrive or the dancing grass skirt girl on the dash board but don’t chop it up. Fifty years from now somebody will have enough trouble getting it back to original looking.

Aaron Griffey
Hayward, taxafornia

05-29-2020, 02:49 PM	#21
Aarongriffey Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2020 Location: Hayward,CA Posts: 513	Re: To be or not to be a 1936 club cabriolet Ever notice that Tubman is ALWAYS bead right? This reminds me of an old guy I worked for nine years that had 400 collector cars. Mostly Ford, Mercury and Lincoln. He had to have EVERY little thing that was visible as it came from the factory. Once he told me when he was a young guy a friend talked him into setting the rear license plate into a box set in the trunk lid. A FRENCHED rear plate it was called. I don’t remember if he eventually replaced the trunk lid or sold the car but I know he went to his grave feeling bad that he did it in the first place. He said he also left an English Austin Seven touring car (1937) sitting in a leaking roof garage with the head off so long that it ruined the motor. That was when he was very young and the car sat in the building where I worked all the time without an engine. Don’t hot rod a collector car that can be saved. Use the wrong year engine, paint it an unoriginal color, use vinyl upholstery, put on some goofy wheels, put in a higher speed rear end, overdrive or the dancing grass skirt girl on the dash board but don’t chop it up. Fifty years from now somebody will have enough trouble getting it back to original looking. Aaron Griffey Hayward, taxafornia