Just found some more pictures on my computer, There is a story behind the car.
My grand-father always loved Shoebox Fords and He was raised in Ohio. He read an ad about a 1949 Ford from Ohio, so my grand-father, my dad and my uncle Mike set out to Ohio to visit some family we had up there and purchase the car. When signing it over, the old woman signing the paper said, Richard Barba, that name sounds familiar, "Did I teach you when you were in third grade?" They found out that they then bought the car from my Grand-fathers third grade teacher. They brought the car back, and cleaned it up, and he drove it every day. He would pick me up every morning, and take me around town. When he passed away when I was three years old, he left me the car in his will.
I didn't start driving it until I was 18, drove it for a couple of months, and the second cylinder piston literally, blew apart in the cylinder wall, leaving all that cast iron in my oil pan. I pulled the flathead six, and scored a free flathead 8 from my cousin Mikey, (Uncle Mike's Son) It still has a few things needing to be ironed out, but it should be cruising around town by the end of spring. The motor has great compression, I just had the carburetor rebuilt, headers, two glass packs all the way up front, new EZ Wiring kit, and all other little goodies. Here are some more pictures of the appropriately named "Teacher's Pet"
Thats right after I lowered the car.
My favorite.
That would be the third grade teacher.
Thats the car when my grad-father owned it. Hope you all enjoy.
,dads 39 ford all stock and long gone, dads 49 ford vert...all stock and found on road dead too many times to count and also long gone.