1949 Ford Custom Coupe

1949 Ford Custom Coupe, click picture to enlarge.

In 1950 a friend of mine and I were going to West Palm Beach from Belle Glade, Florida riding in a 1929 Model A Ford that we had cut down and made into a flat bed pickup truck to use as a work truck. We had just passed the Six Mile Bend and were headed towards the Twenty Mile Bend. The West Palm Beach Canal was on our right side next to the road. At that time a carload of girls that we knew came up along side of us in a new 1950 Ford two-tone maroon and black two door coupe. They were all sticking their heads and arms and feet and legs out the windows and laughing and calling to us. That lasted for a couple of minutes and then they took off and went on to where they were going.

That episode made me think how really poor we were back then as me and my friend were riding in an old beat up car-truck while the girls were in a brand new Ford that we couldn't even begin to think about owning at that time. I also knew that some of those girls had VERY RICH parents. Ah well,,,such is life some times.

For the next several posts I will be using pictures of customized cars. Since custom cars can have any variation of parts and specs there is not much point in researching the specific model for information so I suppose the best thing to do is just to give them to you and let your fantasy run wild about how they were customized. So just rear back for a while and enjoy theses old car pics.