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(here is a Ford street rod with a Ford engine in it)
Ken Dolgner never got see what his son Steve did to his 1937 Ford pickup. Chances are, he would have loved the truck, but he probably wouldn’t have recognized it.
Ken passed away in 2003, but the ratty truck he bought 50-some years ago is alive and rocking the streets thanks to the efforts of Steve Dolgner, who turned an ambitious dream into a spectacular home-grown custom.
“He passed away, I told my sister and my brother at the time, I only want two things: I want his deer rifle, and I want that truck,” chuckles Dolgner, a resident of Westfield, Wis.
The ’37 Ford was apparently already on its way to being a street rod by the time the elder Dolgner got ahold of it in the late 1960s. It took about five decades for it to ever become a finished product, however. For many years, the Ford’s prospects appeared pretty bleak.
“It took my dad a couple years to get it back to road worthy. It looked like a started hot rod when he purchased it,” Steve recalls. “Then he got it back to road worthy and things happened, the motor blew up in it or whatever, and it was left sitting. And then his job changed and we ended up moving … He started a body shop, and of course you don’t have time to work on your own stuff when you are running a body shop, so it sat out in the weather for about 30 years.
“I just remember laying on the hood sanding on it when it was sitting outside my dad’s shop and going, ‘Dad why don’t we fix this? Why don’t we get this going? It would be so cool!” And he had it set up with Chevy running gear at the time and I said, ‘It’s a Ford, we need to put Ford running gear in it! And he said, ‘Ah, I don’t have time to work on that now.’
read more: https://www.oldcarsweekly.com/car-of-the-week/car-of-the-week-1937-ford-pickup-street-rod
Ken Dolgner never got see what his son Steve did to his 1937 Ford pickup. Chances are, he would have loved the truck, but he probably wouldn’t have recognized it.
Ken passed away in 2003, but the ratty truck he bought 50-some years ago is alive and rocking the streets thanks to the efforts of Steve Dolgner, who turned an ambitious dream into a spectacular home-grown custom.
“He passed away, I told my sister and my brother at the time, I only want two things: I want his deer rifle, and I want that truck,” chuckles Dolgner, a resident of Westfield, Wis.
The ’37 Ford was apparently already on its way to being a street rod by the time the elder Dolgner got ahold of it in the late 1960s. It took about five decades for it to ever become a finished product, however. For many years, the Ford’s prospects appeared pretty bleak.
“It took my dad a couple years to get it back to road worthy. It looked like a started hot rod when he purchased it,” Steve recalls. “Then he got it back to road worthy and things happened, the motor blew up in it or whatever, and it was left sitting. And then his job changed and we ended up moving … He started a body shop, and of course you don’t have time to work on your own stuff when you are running a body shop, so it sat out in the weather for about 30 years.
“I just remember laying on the hood sanding on it when it was sitting outside my dad’s shop and going, ‘Dad why don’t we fix this? Why don’t we get this going? It would be so cool!” And he had it set up with Chevy running gear at the time and I said, ‘It’s a Ford, we need to put Ford running gear in it! And he said, ‘Ah, I don’t have time to work on that now.’
read more: https://www.oldcarsweekly.com/car-of-the-week/car-of-the-week-1937-ford-pickup-street-rod
