Perfect restorations, custom modifications, and flat-out jalopies rolled into the Parker County Cowboy Church parking lot Saturday, May 4, as the church and arena on FM 5 in Aledo hosted their third annual car show. The event drew car enthusiasts from the Metroplex, like Rick Spence of Arlington.
“I used to show cars a lot but nowadays I just enjoy seeing them,” Spence said while taking photos. Spence was among a half-dozen members of the Fort Worth Shifters Car Club that attended the event.
Some auto admirers like the looks of a perfectly restored antique family car of the 1950s or a Model T of the 1920s, while others prefer souped-up modified muscle cars of the ‘80s. Some folks, like Ronnie Vaughn, march to the beat of a different brake drum.
Vaughn’s 1949 Ford F1 is an ever-evolving work in progress he is often adding to and changing. The front axle has been extended two feet beyond the front grill to make room for massive side tail pipes where the fenders once were and the interior is unfinished rough wood with a flat tractor seat mounted on an upside-down oil pan.
The F1 drives, but Vaughn prefers hauling it on an equally odd 1964 Ford F500 tow truck with fenders so rusted you can put your hand into them in places.
“You see those welds right there,” Vaughn says pointing at long scars on both fenders. “I put a different engine in it the other day and it was so big it wouldn’t fit, so I cut the fenders off and welded them back.”
The tow truck is equipped with an antique super-8 movie camera mounted to the metal dash he calls his “dash cam.”
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