The 47 Mercury convertible I bought for $75.00 in 1962 and drove home was the same color. Ford called it "Ruby Red". I restored that one and hotrodded the flathead V8 with a bunch of my father's leftover dirt track racing parts. Kept it for 13 years and lost it in California in a really nasty divorce. If I could locate that car today, I'd buy it back!
In 1959 I bought my first car, a '49 Ford 4-door that had been very lightly side-swiped down the passenger side. Paid $65 for it. V-8, 3-speed. Great 1st car.
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Grandpa had a 1950 Ford. A dark green color, if I remember correctly. Grandma from the other side of the family worked at the Post Office and would bring home various stickers from the recruiters at the PO. I can remember adorning the glove box lid of that '50 Ford with a Strategic Air Command sticker just to help Grandpa out in my little way. They are great cars.
Great car. My dad had/has a 39 Chevy that was my grandparents. It was supposed to be my Dad’s but my uncle currently has it. Hoping I can get it from him some day and get it back on the road. It still runs.
Me and dad went together and bought a 49 flat head V8 I wasn’t much more than 15 of so at the time The ole man would get drunk and have me choffering him all over the place Drank a few myself Ole car would run right at 105 on top end if I remember right Was driving up rt 33 one day and went to pass this little ole lady in a nova Chevy II , early sixties model SS She had both hands white knuckled on the wheel and I floored it as she sped up , shhhiet , she sucked me up her exhaust pipe Slowed down and let me catch her again and walked off and left me again Never saw her again Kenneth
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.
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You're probably right. Dad said Tudor and I heard Two Door.
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Dad one in the 70’s. If I remember correctly, there was no key. You would flip a switch and mash the accelerator to the floor to start it! Same color too!
Dad one in the 70’s. If I remember correctly, there was no key. You would flip a switch and mash the accelerator to the floor to start it! Same color too!
It may have hade a floor starter. It's kinda like the old floor dimmer. He would floor the accelerator because that's how you start a carb engine if the car is cold.
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I love when you post these. Your Dad is a master at restorations. I rarely miss the Barrett Jackson auctions on tv and I’ve never seen better. I hope he has many more years of doing this
I had a 1949 Tudor with a Flat head Six 3 on the tree and over drive when I was in High School, drove the hell out of it, then bought a 1951 Tudor that had been wrecked, put whole new front end on it from another wreck,nosed and decked it removed door handles, did a tuck and roll interior painted it pale sky blue, had a 1951 Olds V-8 with a 4 Barrel--headers--cherry's, put a B&M Hydromatic Tranny in it, turned out to be bad ass, love the old shoe box Fords. Rio7
I had a 1949 Tudor with a Flat head Six 3 on the tree and over drive when I was in High School, drove the hell out of it, then bought a 1951 Tudor that had been wrecked, put whole new front end on it from another wreck,nosed and decked it removed door handles, did a tuck and roll interior painted it pale sky blue, had a 1951 Olds V-8 with a 4 Barrel--headers--cherry's, put a B&M Hydromatic Tranny in it, turned out to be bad ass, love the old shoe box Fords. Rio7
That was a nice hotrod. The Early Oldsmobile OHV Rocket V8s were ticket for many years.
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Not sure but it looks like that '50 Ford may be what was known as a 'Business Coupe' -- no backseat, deep rear window deck, allowing for a huge trunk storage space.
