Craig Wise Customs Photo Collection

CRAIG WISE CUSTOMS PHOTO COLLECTION

Craig wise, a former sign painter loves Hot Rods and Customs and collects, amongst many other things, old photos. Mostly Hot Rod material, but he has a few Custom beauties in his Collection as well.

 
[dropcap]M[/dropcap]ost of the Custom car photos in Craig’s collection are dating back to the mid and late 1940’s. These photos originate from Craig’s wife Shirley family. The cars in these photos, the 1941 Ford, 1940 Mercury, 36 Ford convertible, and a 1939 Ford convertible all belonged to an uncle of Craig’s wife. Uncle Tom Dohoyian. The story goes that Tom hung out at the Barris shop a lot in the later part of the 1940’s. And that one of the cars the 1940 Mercury in the hand colorized photo – according to Shirley’s father – was actually built by the Barris Kustom Shop for Tom. But so far we have been unable to confirm this, or find any more info on this or any other other cars in these 1940’s photos. Sadly, uncle Tommy Dohoyian was killed driving a big rig truck in 1950, at the age of 27.

Tom Dohoyian Customs

This really nice hand-colorized photo shows what was possibly a Barris Custom owned by Tom Dohoyian. Chopped windshield, padded top, mild lowering and single bar flipper hubcaps date this custom to 1946-48.
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Tom also had this 1936 Ford Convertible with chopped windshield, spotlights and 1941 Ford bumpers. Amazing to see the near empty street. Judging the cars in the background this photo was taken around WWII.
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Enlarged section of the photo above gives us a better look at this nice early Custom.
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Uncle Tom posing with his ’39 Ford convertible with chopped windshield and padded top. Tom’s Ford used ’40 headlights, 1937 DeSoto Bumpers and teardrop skirts with 1941 Buick spears.
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Another photo of Tom’s ’39 Ford shows the car with the padded top, and the hood open reveals a dual carbed engine. The ribbed DeSoto bumpers, single bar ribbed flipper hubcaps are the perfect combination for any ’39-40 Ford. 
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1941 Ford with and 1940 Mercury rear bumper, set-in license plate and padded top. The license plate reads 1943. 
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Two 1950’s photos

Absolutely wonderful photo of the Barris/Cerny built Panoramic Ford for Buster Litton. The photo was taken at the Santa Ana Drags in 1954.
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This photo is special as well. It shows a young Craig Wise posing next to Doug Rice, Washington based 1939 Ford Coupe at the 1954 Bonneville races.
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I took this photo of Craig Wise the owner of this collection. He can be seen here with a blow up of the 1954 photo where he posed with the same car as a young kid. This photo was taken at the 2011 GNRS Customs Then & Now exhibit and craigs photo was displayed with the restored Doug Rice ’39 Ford Coupe thru-out the weekend.
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I have come in contact with Craig Wise for the first time when researching the Jack Stewart Ford. Craig is good friends with Jack, and more available on the internet than Jack himself. Over the years we have become good friends. Craig has a wonderful 1940 Ford Pick-up truck which he is building right now. Take a look at his built thread on the CCC-Forum.
 

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