Age old question aka what do you look like 47-59 style

[sqrlnts]

Alright, I find myself always gravitating toward crusty old farts, with all due respect, they just have better stories to tell and lived in a time when America was proud and stood tall, of which, I am jealous.

Its always nice to see whose who and how old folks are.

Post a picture of your ugly mug and age, I will turn 40 this year and feel like my back is 30 years my elder!!!

Just purchased this cool ass old Swingster Michelin jacket on ebay for a 20 spot. Don't think its ever been worn.

[mr48chev]

I remember being 40, well some of it as that was 27 years ago.

At 21


Bonneville 1998 at 52 years old.


4th of July this year in Park City KS with my cousins. I'm in the black shirt no hat,
I am usually behind the camera instead of in front of it.
The guy in the Cap is my Cousin John who was one of the "tall Stahls" in Chula Vista if you are in your 60's and crew up there. The Gal is our cousin Karen.

[capnduane]

Well, OK, I was born in 1945, and my truck was born in '55. Both of us in Los Angeles, Calif. USA! Needless to say, the truck still has its looks, but both of us are feeling our years. Me having swung a hammer for 49 years(carpenter) and the old TF doing 'Lord knows what' all these years....

[Advanced Design]

53...in my favorite habitat-

[sqrlnts]

Originally Posted by mr48chev

4th of July this year in Park City KS with my cousins. I'm in the black shirt no hat,

Hey MrChev, I was born in Fort Scott KS, and grew up out west in Wakeeney! you have some great stories I can tell.

Originally Posted by capnduane

Well, OK, I was born in 1945, and my truck was born in '55. Both of us in Los Angeles, Calif. USA! Needless to say, the truck still has its looks, but both of us are feeling our years. Me having swung a hammer for 49 years(carpenter) and the old TF doing 'Lord knows what' all these years....

Turn and burn in the field!!!

Originally Posted by Advanced Design

53...in my favorite habitat-

AD, your truck is flat killer. How is the metal work coming along these days? I read your journal over at the Hot Rod forum, great tech on the flexible shape patterns. Would love to put that to practice.

[Advanced Design]

Originally Posted by sqrlnts

Hey MrChev, I was born in Fort Scott KS, and grew up out west in Wakeeney! you have some great stories I can tell.



Turn and burn in the field!!!



AD, your truck is flat killer. How is the metal work coming along these days? I read your journal over at the Hot Rod forum, great tech on the flexible shape patterns. Would love to put that to practice.

Thanks Sqrints- Come on to the MetalMeet gathering in Oblong in October and you can use flexible shape patterns with some expert tutoring...not me by the way.

[OrrieG]

Here I am at 20 (Basic Training), 35 (Elk Hunt) and last year with my wife and two of the grandkids.

[mr48chev]

[QUOTE=sqrlnts;6781340]Hey MrChev, I was born in Fort Scott KS, and grew up out west in Wakeeney! you have some great stories I can tell.


Actually that was only the second time in my life I had been in Kansas. My Gal cousin lives in Park City along with my aunt and I and my other cousin had gone there for a family reunion and birthday party for my aunt and cousin. Command performance type of thing.

I'll be back down that way when the truck is done though as I plan for the Lonestar Roundup to be it's first road trip and then a trip to Salina for lead sled .

[ricott]

Earlier this summer celebrating turning 60 with the kids


and of course the wifey (who tolerates my car hobby)!

[Softpatch]

I'm love this thread Glad to know I'm not the only old fart into old trucks and not the oldest
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The dad is the guy with the sweede hat on (85) and I'm the one trying to get my head blowed off (55)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMqD...0qwCSEembyrCug

[47 Fasttoys]

That would my mug in the center. Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore.
Rob

[sqrlnts]

Hahahaha, OrrieG!!! Great pics man! Swilling the old Banquet beer I see. I also noticed some clever censorship going on in the backround.....

Did that picture pass inspection back then or would you have to hide it?

[OrrieG]

Originally Posted by sqrlnts

Hahahaha, OrrieG!!! Great pics man! Swilling the old Banquet beer I see. I also noticed some clever censorship going on in the backround.....

Did that picture pass inspection back then or would you have to hide it?

I was a platoon leader and got a room with 3 other guys and a locker, it was exempt from inspection, but I had to keep my footlocker in good shape just like everyone else. Beer was sent to the guy with me in a box of laundry detergent. Only other time we got anything that did not come out of the mess hall was Saturday afternoon for half an hour when we went to the PX to get a haircut and all the beer and crap we could inhale in 30 minutes. Spent Sunday cleaning up the aftermath.

[Iceburgh]

44 here hang out with FIL and Uncle the most. They are both mid 60's

[MARTINSR]

Doing what I did every waking hour as a kid.



Here I am flying over the SF bay area in a B-17 (If you like these planes DO IT!).



Me running for sheriff (Just kidding).



And here I am with my MMA belt.



And doing fingertip pushups..



And the real me...

[sqrlnts]

LOL, great pics Brian!

[Highsider]

Originally Posted by sqrlnts

LOL, great pics Brian!

Har @ Brian!

[Russell Ashley]

Good pics everyone. I'm glad to know that I'm not the only old f@rt that refuses to grow up and still plays with toys. Here's a couple of old pics of me and some of my old projects.



I paid $35 for the 53 Plymouth coupe like it is in this pic. I told my wife that I had bought this car while we were on our honeymoon and had to go get it when we got home.

The 47 Ford truck is about ten years and two kids later. I paid $165 for it but it didn't look at all like the pic. Two bad patina wasn't cool then as it was covered with rust and dents.



The next one is about 1981. It's a frame from a 53 Ford F100 that I restored and sold almost immediately when I finished it. I had the entire body dipped to remove the paint and any filler that it had. I bought a new house and decided I wasn't going to have time for the truck for a while.



Last one is me when I bought my truck about four years and about $18K ago. I'm 73 now so this might be my last project. I don't plan on getting rid of it anytime soon but you never know. I told my wife this is my last old truck, and she said this is your third or forth "last" old truck.

[Liz]

Brian, thanks for the morning chuckle. Those were awesome

[57taskforce]

I'm a young buck at 26 next month. Wish I was as Creative as martinsr but sadly... Well you be the judge.
Me and the wife before another passion of mine. Demolition derbies.


And me last year on my birthday with Peggie sue. Of course I'm breaking every personal rule I have in regards to my truck by sitting on the hood lol.(my wife named the truck haha) note the 57 chevy birthday cake.

[Layedoutsonoma91]

28 here, love all the knowledge on this board. Wouldn't have it without the "old geezers" thats how i have learned almost all i know!

heres my ugly mug and with the wife




And the ride.

[MARTINSR]

Originally Posted by Layedoutsonoma91

28 here, love all the knowledge on this board. Wouldn't have it without the "old geezers" thats how i have learned almost all i know!

heres my ugly mug and with the wife




And the ride.

That is an AWESOME shot on the bridge, holy cow.

Brian

[MARTINSR]

Very cool!

Brian

[1project2many]

I was born the day before Apollo 11 left Florida. As I grew up there were still plenty of things made in America, factories were busy, space travel was expected to become commonplace, and Toyota, Subaru, and Datsun cars were struggling to attain the same consumer status as the Pinto and Vega. All young school children had to practice hiding under the desks once per year, we had to know where the bomb shelter in the school was, and we learned about what happened if a nuclear bomb was to explode on our soil. The Laser disc had no chance of beating Betamax video tapes, you wouldn't dream of A/C on a school bus, and the first CD player wasn't far from hitting the consumer market.

This is circa 1985. I'd managed to put together a mostly complete Trail 90 from a box of parts during a summer vacation near Nine Mile Falls, WA.



Next is about 1992. Working for the phone company back when no one asked "Which one?" You can see the reflective glow from the blue and yellow stripes on a truck in the background.



2000... back in New England after after 6 years in MT.



2001, pit row at NHIS with our vintage racer. That was supposed to be easy racing compared to when I did the real thing but the old cars had fewer rules than the current classes of the day so we were even more competitive.



Today. Not as much time for car projects with these two taking most of my energy.

[sqrlnts]

Great pics and stories that go with them, awesome.