Hot Rods, Street Rods & Cool Custom Cars

The link above is an absolute must see. Click on "Old Houston Drag Strip" Image to go to website. You will find many early photos of the old drag strip in Dickinson, Texas. If you were an hot rodder this was a very special place of early day

drags in the Houston Area... many Jones classmates raced there. Totsy Wisdom's '52 chevy won E/Gas class in 1958 with the original 6 cylinder engine before

it became Alley Oop with the Corvette V-8.

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Jimmy and Glynda Lake JHS '61

Hot Rod Fever...

Many of us caught it as teenagers and never lost it!!!

After years of searching for the right "Starter '52 Chevy"

One was found this week to start on a long planned

project...recreating my Jones High hot rod... Alley Oop!

The website will be updated with photos of the project...

Some of us just never grew up...

ALLEY OOP II...Stay tuned

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A collection fo 13 hot rod videos (use menu)

Totsy Wisdom's Alley Oop

The 1950s was a time when kids had to build a car if they wanted it to be different

or go fast. Detroit dealt a blow to our "Hot Rodding" past time when it saw the

potential market and produced the muscle cars of the late 60s. But while it

lasted there was nothing like Friday nights in Houston... car watching others

or crusin' in your hot car! Do you remember Jimmy Grewball's custom

'52 Ford... Steve Frost's cherry '51 Ford Custom... Richard Gibson's '58

baby blue Impala...Ronnie Rudell's super fast '54 Chevy... James Reed's

red Covette and so many others? Some will remember the illegal drag strip

just off Mykawa Road...We lived and experienced the scenes of

"American Graffiti" some 15 years before the movie was produced...

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Oscar Schneider in 1958 with 1952 Ford

Oscar Schneider and his 1952 Ford Original

Oscar Schneider with his1952 Fords - Original and Custom

Oscar Schneider's 1952 Ford Custom's 5.0 l Mustang

Oscar Schneider's 1952 Ford Custom with custom interior

Oscar Schneider's - 1952 Ford Original

John Stanford's '34 Ford

Beverly Hauptman ('61) Powell 's cool ride

Gary Townsend's new wheels...old Hot Rodders never change!

Gary Townsend's '51 Mercury

Richard Yeats' 1954 Studebaker

Milton Tadlock and his '52 Ford

Richard Yeats' 1954 Studebaker

Glynda Davidson and her '59 MGA

Milton Tadlock and his classy 1952 Ford Hartop

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J H Jones High "The Early Years" Web Site.