1951 Ford Custom Four Door Sedan

         The first car that I had was a 1951 Ford Four Door Custom Sedan and the color was a medium green and not like this lemon green color. This car has a flat head V-8 engine with a three speed column shift just like the one that I owned. Ford Motor Company did come out with an Automatic Transmission this year but I wasn’t interested. My 1951 Ford was the first car that I installed a set of dual exhaust with the “Nice Rumble” sound from glass packed mufflers. I also had 2.5 inch lowering blocks on the rear springs, a sun visor for the windshield and a chrome grille guard.

         The longest trip that I took with my 1951 Ford was to Purdue University in the summer of 1952. That was a long trip in those days for a Teenager and it was the beginning of many trips that I have taken in motor vehicles since. The Pennsylvania Turnpike was the only Expressway at that time so most of the driving was through the towns of Ohio and Indiana.