My First Hot Rod at the age of 15. We could get a drivers license at age 14 after we took a drivers education class and passed it at school in those days. Pictured is a 1954 Chrysler Hemi 331 Cu In. with home made headers and a two 4-barrel carburetor Intake. I only had the money to buy one carburetor at the time. I was then drafted into the US Army in 1966. I had my 46 Ford Coupe full fenders and hood assemblied running earlier with just the factory single Carter 4-barrel carburetor. As cousin Gary Mosier can testify, you could barely hold the old car between the bar ditches because it drove so poorly.

The Hemi was in a 1946 Ford Coupe. I sold the car while in the service and when I got home the guy, that bought it, had cut the perfect sheet metal body up and sold it for scrap. He had put the Engine in a 1940 Ford Pickup and never did get it running again. Raymond Hogg of Big Spring Texas purchased the old Hemi about 1970 and it is still used on a Irrigation Pump.

I remeber the day the valve covers came back from the chrome shop. I was so excited I didn't know how to act. I think both valve covers with the spark plug covers cost about $18.00 to chrome back then.