Freds Garage

Fred's Garage: From The Past!!!
'56 Ford - "Shangri - La"

Fred bought his '56 Ford convert in '61,
named it "The Count"

June, 1964 - Hood scoop added,
quad headlights being created

< Spring '65 >
Building new Black "square" top

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< By the '63 Minneapolis Armory Car Show, >
double Packard taillights and Pagan Gold paint - the modifications had begun!

< August, '64 - >
Front end mods nearly finished

Winter, '64 - '65 Car show -
Black paint, White top with Black inserts

Summer '65
On the road - How's that beautiful grille?

< Spring '66 GSTA Car Show >
New Purple paint, new radical interior!
New White top - Freddie's an upholsterer

Fall '66 Car Show

< Spring '67 GSTA Car Show >
Top now has a plexiglas insert down the middle!

Summer '67
Fred drives 'em!

< Fall '67 Minneapolis Armory Car Show >
"Flakers, Inc" Car Club display
New "fastback" Black top
The first time I saw Shangi - La was in the '63 Armory Show.
I loved it and learned to watch for it in every show -
It was always different from the previous sighting - A big thing to a young kid!!!

< By 1969 >
Fred had added the hard fastback roof
made from 1 1/2 '65 Chev roofs with a plexiglas rear window and done the fade paint.
It also had a '57 Chrysler Hemi with 4-2's!!
In 1969 Fred sold Shangi - La to
Norm in Farmington for $800.

Click here to see Shangri - La since 1969!!