My Grandfather's 1934 Ford Today

[tomkc1]

Here is a picture of my 1934 Ford. My grandfather bought the car new in Lawrence, MA in 1934. My family told me that my grandfather was learning how to drive and in the process had an accident. He had to fork over $15 to fix the damage to the other car and decided to let someone else drive. The "someone else" turned out to be my father along with his 8 brothers and sisters.
The car was taken off the road in 1951 and put in the family garage. In 1970 my aunt gave the car to me. A dear friend did some repair work on it including putting in a new set of rings and through the years he helped me to maintiain it. He passed away in 2008.
Since 1970 it has had almost no restoration work. Its about as original as original can be except for the paint. My father and uncles had painted it black with a brush in the early 1940s so I had it redone in 1970. I thought the color I picked was close to the original but it really isn't. Not bad, though, for a $150 paint job.
It runs great and always starts. In 1970 it had just over 58,000 original miles on it and today it has 62,028. Wow, thats less than 100 miles per year. Shame on me for that but now that I'm retired I hope to put more on.