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Dad's latest project.

Very cool. From a time when cars and trucks didn't all look alike.

From a time of craftsmanship. And a time where DOT mandates were minimal. IE: no backup TV and other clutter.

That is a beautiful car, and I love the color. Same maroon that is on my 1940 Ford Deluxe.

Putting a lot of money into that restoration. It will look awesome!

Dad had a 1949 Ford when I was very young. I can barely remember it but I do remember falling out of it in our driveway when I was maybe 4 or 5 years old. The door did not latch when i shut it I guess and we were barely moving if I remember. It was a 2-door also so I was in the front seat and as you know in those days we did not have seat belts no less child car seats.

Looks a hell of a lot better than some black gal flapping her lips making noise.

I've been working on a 52 ford couple for a few years. Was going to sell it awile back, but changed my mind. I like the old cars with round fenders, doesn't really matter what make! I don't have the talent of your dad, but it's turning out ok!

Huh?

My dad had a 54 Meteor 4 Dr. Sedan green. He felt bad when he finally sold it. It was the first year of the non flat head V8. It was always overheating on family holidays but even when he changed the rad cap it still ran hot. It was probably loaded with a family of 4 a 16 foot car top boat and full camping gear like a heavy canvas umbrella tent camp stove etc. driving into the unknown dusty roads of 1960 British Columbia. For a long time while in school I ,my uncle had a black 50 ford in his mother's back yard but sold it to the junk yard for a lousey 5 dollars and later got a Triumph TR 3.

Gorgeous..... My dad owned a red 1950 Ford 2 door up until 1957 when the stork brought the 4th and final kid. That was when he traded it in on a 2 year old 1955 Ford station wagon. That '50 had the "magic" headlight dimmer.... on the floor; remember those? I can remember wondering how the headlights went from high to low beam when there was an approaching car. Dad told me it had some kind of magic apparatus that did it automatically. But he could give it voice commands also to switch any time he wanted.... and proved it be making the headlights alternate from high to low and back again when there was no traffic. Of course, this was all at night and I couldn't see his left foot moving.

You flushed out a missy hater

What a douche.

Sheesh…..

I was watching a show on Prime about Ford. The 1949 model (same as this 1950) was the first new Ford since the war and according to the show saved Ford and filled their coffers.

Assuming this one has Ford's V8 under the hood?

That cars almost as cool as missy.

Dad has some real skills. GD

That is a very good looking old Ford - am thinking that style might have been called a Tudor - but certainly will look a lot better when that fellow is finished with it. The post-war Fords through '48 were starting to look stodgy and Ford made a big splash with that body redesign. Chev and Ply also made big shifts. That flathead V8 gave the Ford a quickness edge over the other two, but the entry of the Chev 265 in '55 changed that situation.

back in the late mid fifties, Dad was driving a '49 two door Ford coupe. It had a flathead V8, three on the tree, triple two barrel Strombergs and smitty mufflers. Lord, what a car.

According to my Great Gramps the 1950 Ford 2 door with a V8 was the pinnacle of automobile design. He could never afford one until the 70’s or 80’s but had a nice Butternut yellow one until he passed.

Those early 50s cars never got the credit until lately. I like that transition period from the late 40s and early 50s as far as body style. I'd love to have a nice bullet nose Studebaker with a Chevy swapped engine and running gear. Studebaker had some great engines in the 50s, but parts are getting unobtanium.