In the summer of 1969 I was 15 years old. And I had looked at nearly every pre-war coupe in Houston Texas that was for sale. Of course everytime my parents said "NO!"
Then on the 4th of July I saw this ad in the Houston Newspaper.
This is what we found.
We gave them $100 cash.
They said it wouldn't run or pass inspection because of brake problems.
Also both door glasses were broken.
Thats me showing the original manuals that we got with the car.
Note the fog lights, spot lights, whitewalls and hubcaps?
They were removed within a week!
All it took to start the car was a set of points and one wheel brake cylinder was frozen. The car passed the Texas inspection the next weekend.
By December I had my drivers liscense and began driving the coupe to my sophmore year at S.F. Austin High School in Houston
Does't it look cleaner with all the extras removed?
Turns out it was running a 1952 216 Rebuilt Chevrolet engine. To which I added an aluminum Edmunds intake manifold and a pair of 1952 carbs.
Shocked quite a few V8 Muscle cars
At least off the line. The coupe is light, runs 3.89:1 gears and that 6 does have some great bottom end torque!
Here's the car again after a few years storage.
Wearing a perfect pair of rear fender off a mint 1938 Chevrolet coupe being streetrodded by a man who worked with my father. I got them when he bought flared glass fenders.
I think I gave him $20?
Here's how the coupe looks today.
Dirty and dusty but with 101,000 miles on it and 99% complete and sooooo straight and rust free!
It's sharing garage space with the 33 Plymouth Coupe today.
The coupe will be streetrodded in the coming couple of years.
And I plan it to be 100 times better than the 33 Plymouth!
