Joe Himsl's 1941 Ford Coupe

Art Himsl’s older brother Joe had this 1941 Ford Coupe in high school in the early 1950s, and rumor has it that it was an old Barris Kustom. "It was a lot of fun. Every once in a while he let me drive it. He was in the Navy. And he was running between here and Long Beach all the time." Art striped the dashboard on Joe’s coupe. It was in primer, and he remembers that it changed color almost once a week. "Primer was cheap. He never got paint on it. It was always just primer. I don’t know what happened to that car, but it was pretty neat." Art remembers that it had blue glass in the speedometer and all, and that was pretty cool back in those days. Photo from The Art Himsl Photo Collection.

1941 Ford Coupe owned by Joe Himsl of Concord, California.