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Doug Curran with trophies earned during decades of drag racing and car shows.
Lengthy hot rod & racing history keeps car enthusiast revved up When I went to visit long-time hot rodder Doug Curran in Aldergrove, I asked when he had finished his 1940 Ford coupe. “This morning,” he replied. “But I still have ALYN EDWARDS to make the windshield CLASSIC wipers work before RIDES it’s completely done.” He agreed it was time the car was ready for the road. He has owned it since 1976. Doug’s fleet of exotic hot rods includes the 1934 Ford sedan he originally bought for $200 back in 1969. It was an old Vancouver hot rod with the roof chopped and lowered in 1957. The original builder had installed the entire running gear from a 1956 Buick. When Doug bought the car, it had no grille, radiator or hood. He completely rebuilt the car, installed a Chevrolet V8 engine, had it painted bright green, started to drive it and enter it in car cars shows beginning in 1976 – the same year he obtained the 1940 Ford coupe. He has driven his 1934 Ford sedan hot rod more than 300,000 kilometres all over North America. In 1979 alone, the car travelled almost 15,000 kilometres and has made 18 trips to California over the years. “The car has taken us to family reunions, vacations and street rod shows all over Western Canada and the western states.” It was 37 years ago that the retired sawmill electrician traded a 1938 Chevrolet coupe for the 1940 Ford coupe owned by his brother-in-law. “He definitely got the better of the deal,” Doug recalls. The Ford coupe was very rough. He had no available inside space so he stored it outside where it would remain for the next 30 years. Doug spent the years collecting parts for the car. He was determined to build the hot rod true to the era of the early 1960s. He began a complete body rebuild six years ago, making and installing the
Doug Curran’s 1941 Ford Cab Over Engine (COE) hot rod alongside his 1934 Ford pickup, 1934 Ford sedan and 1940 Ford coupe. When Doug Curran sat in a midget racer at the age of 10, he knew racing would be in his future.
floor, body panels, door bottoms, hood corners and other pieces in his wellequipped machine shop. “The car was so rotten, there is very little left of the original body. I even had to make new rain gutters and install them,” he says. Nothing on this car is newer than 1965. It’s powered by a 327 cubic inch V8 engine from a 1964 Corvette coupled to a super T10 four-speed transmission with two-piece scatter shield common in 1960s drag racers. The nine-inch differential came from a 1965 Ford pickup. Cosmetic modifications include a gas door from a 1947 Ford, a 1959 Oldsmobile steering wheel and a century-old stiletto for a floor-mounted gear shifter. He credits his friend Doug Rutherford Jr. with the help needed to complete this project. Doug Curran has suffered with Parkinson’s disease for the past 14 years. He’s convinced that the days and nights spent in his shop working on his hot rods have limited the progression of the disease and kept him going. “Every time I drive my hot rod, I feel 16 again. It’s like putting on an old pair of slippers,” he says.
From an early age, Doug Curran loved old cars. His father was a heavy duty mechanic and he used his dad’s tools to build mechanical skills. He sat in a sprint race car at the age of 10 and knew racing would be in his future. At age 12 he was really impressed with his cousin’s 1934 Ford coupe hot rod and was working on cars by age 14. He bought a 1953 Chevrolet sedan for his first attempt at a hot rod. Then he stuffed a Chrysler 354 hemi engine into a 1961 Dodge for his next bid at speed. His first real hot rod was a based on a 1930 Essex coupe. At age 20, Doug got serious about racing, buying a 1956 Chevrolet BelAir two-door sedan for serious drag racing at Mission Raceways. His brother built Continued on Pg. B3
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