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June 15, 2008

Burnin' the Bricks Part III

From the June 14, 2008 "Burnin' the Bricks" car show in Pampa:




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3 comments:

garazon said...

Great pictures Mike. I love these old trucks especially, well all the older cars and trucks, just seem to have some substance to them.
Gretchen's dad was a Chevrolet mechanic/body man for a good while in his younger years and just knew his way around cars of this era. he actually had a truck like the yellow one in the pic above, it was green and he fashioned a fiberglass red tongue that he attached there in the elongated opening of the grille. With that style headlight and shape of the grill it looked just like a face coming dwon the road at you and it would have just a bit of a flap to it in the wind. He was a character! And a hell of a mechanic. I once was with him when he was trying to get one of the od junk cars he had running, to move it or to sell it, I cant remember now. It just wouldn't start and he played around a bit with it and finally took of the carburetor muttering it was no good. He then walked out to the field there where he kept his "parts" cars, pick up a carburetor that was half buried in the ground and knocked it against a tree to shake out all the dirt and debris. Then he blew it off with an air hose and sprayed some WD 40 on it and bolted it on. on or two sprays of gas into it and he fired that car right up! I have to laugh at all these folks who go to such great care to keep a carb spotless when they rebuild one when I think of what he did that day. There's a pic of that chevy pickup somewhere. I'll have to see if I can find it and scan it.

June 15, 2008 at 8:22 PM
Mike said...

Cool carb story.

I "posted" these all at once, just set the times for future postings. I think that I've got one more to go, then I'll have to put in some more photos, think there was close to 50 diff. vehicles/views that were worth looking at.

I didn't get to take the time I wanted as the judging was over and they were announcing the last of the winners just as we got there. People were moving their cars/leaving and I nearly got run over a time or two.

I like grills and hood ornaments best of all.

Thanks for posting

June 15, 2008 at 9:55 PM
garazon said...

Hard to tell just looking at the pics what model years these really are as some models had a similar look over the course of up to 5 or 6 years, but if I had to guess, the yellow one is a '57, the middle one a '64, and the bottom looks to be likely a '52, just a guess on this last one as they really are similar from 51 to 54 I think it is.., Don't mind at all being corrected if someone else can shed any light to the actual years of these.

June 17, 2008 at 7:53 PM

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