my son just walked up and handed me this!!he tells me we need to build a hot rod car thats rusty!!!i love that boy!!!what kinda things have yer kids done when the were little that told ya there gonna be a hot rodder??? by the way, not a bad lookin drawing for a 14 year old huh???just kiddin breeder he tryed to spell the words without askin so thats why body and motor are scribbled out..i think its spelled modor aint it??
I am having my first ( a girl) in september.... I am sooooo looking foreward to stuff like that...... I ain't no wuss or nothin' (and I dare you to come over and tell me I am.... ) But that picture choked me up a little.... Hang on.... I think I have a piece of glass in my eye......
I hear ya! I have a 17 year old punk kid with tattoos on each arm who listens to speed metal.He is a 4 year honour roll student who has been accepted to college but wants dad to build him a big block Nova! Brings a tear to the old mans eye....
That is great you've infected your boy already While mine is still too little to tell me stuff, I am trying to get her started early - she even already has a TRJ shirt, damn her mom is cool. glass in your eye - that's funny.
Awesome!! I love the "Rusty Metal" words... I'm getting married this fall, and will be the step-dad of an 8-year old daughter... she was over while I was working on the truck on Monday, and I asked he what color it should be. She said, without even thinking, black with orange flames. YES! Ben
Last week Danyelle and me were at the shop working on the 3 duches and I told her to go get this different ammo box I had just bought that is a little larger than the one I use for my tool box. Well she goes into this " I thought you liked the one that Daddy54 striped." Well I said I do but I need a larger one and she said she needed one for the anglia, so when she is driving and Monkey ( the only time she has seen Monkey was at Stray Cat ) breaks down she will pull over in the grass and fix it for him. I thought that was cool. And than she got into detail. Sometimes I have to remember she is only 3 ,well 4 in august. Danny
Last week I was rambling thru the hamb checking out the Paso Pics. My son was lurking over my shoulder. Son: "Who Built that car, Dad" Me: "Cole Foster" Son: " I want to be Cole Foster when I grow up"
The first time my son put 2 words together was "cool car" (as he was pointing at a Shelby Cobra replica). I think he was about 15 months old at the time. He won't draw anything except cars, won't play with any toys not car-related. This past Christmas my folks got him his first 2-wheeled bike. After his first ride, he referred to his tricycle as "my old bike with crummy front wheel drive"! He's 5 now. He has it bad. Real bad.
My little girl's first word was "hemi", no joke... she likes to pull out the sliding part of my big desk when I'm working on the computer and draw, mostly princesses and stuff... but that's alright. Every once in a while I can get her to draw a car, and she's pretty good! "Metal that is rusty"!!! that's great! I want to be Cole Foster when I grow up too.
Man that is cool, you have one rockin' son there dude. I dont have kids.............. that I know of, but I dont throw rocks over orphanage fences for fear of hitting one of em. Doc
Well my son loves working on the chevy, lucky for me the body is pretty rough since when he works on it it usually means hitting the car with various implements. He also really dug sitting in Roadstar's roadster, when he sees pictures of it online he remebers it! Hopefully that'll be ingrained into him
yeah, this pic of him and his sister really got me...we were at a car show a year or better ago and my wife and i were walkin behind when gabriel just grabbed little abbys hand and told here 'she can stay with him " stickin up fer sis !!!!priceless!!!they goth have little moon shrts on too......my sons first word was dad!!hell yeah.......my daughters where ' i am the devil and ive came to see if i can drive you to the brink of insanity' or dada...cant remember now!! btw the boy draws good..just not with a pen!!
Get that picture framed! It's fabulous. My oldest son's first word was hemi, much to my wife's chagrin. He used to sit in my Packard and take me for a "cruise" to the imaginary Dairy Queen. My second son is a fearless 4 year old who can tell the difference between a custom and a rod. Too cool... BTW, the car in your son's picture looks better than some of the real cars I've dragged home...
concept??maybe an early sat morning future artist art show someday??fer all the HAMB kids....that might be kool...get them in the HAMB early!!!
Just realized I had some of Luke's art here at work. He has been "drawing" with scissors a lot lately. This is a "picture" of my 52 Chevy he did a couple weeks ago.
very kool man... i beleive the children are our future!!!.hmmm...i think im goin to go write a song about that.... keepim comin guys/girls
Its funny this was posted... Just before logging onto the HAMB today I was looking at the pictures of my nephew on my desk realizing that they are all car related scenes. I am so lucky to have such a good little boy who "likes cars" or maybe just likes the noise and the dirt! Even though he isn't quite two he is still a good "help". He will stand around a garage for hours and entertain himself looking at tools and cars. Here a couple of pics...one in a vette (when he discovered the horn) and the other is of him "working" on the tires of the truck. Kids are great, especially nieces and nephews!
For our oldest son's 10th birthday (now 13) we bought him a basket case Ford 8N tractor. We just strung 1000 feet of fence with it and put in 18 post holes. He mows with it and loves the fact he can pull a wheelie. We are watching for an S10 frame for the '54 truck that we have in pieces. He draws it all the time. Coming back from Billetproof, both he and his 10 year old brother started drawing pinstripes. The younger one wants a pinstriping kit for his birthday so he can do my car... SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET. I hope they grow up with more skill and time than me!
My 9 year old has already told me he dosen't want a "normal car" and can he have the 50 Fiat Topolino or (his preference) the 74 MG Midget (witha 2ltr Pinto) I have both in bits......He loves showing off with Dad's car at school (no one 's parents have any thing even close!!) and will spend a whole show getting in and out or taking things out /puting things in the trunk just so the other kids know it's his Dad's....... The best thing I have ever heard him say was to a kid who's Dad has had 3 silver Mercedes all the same in the last 3 years...... Kid "why does your Dad waste money on those stupid cars?" My Son " Because he can!!" And yes even Mum likes it (even though she won't admit it!)
Both my kids are addicted,infected,addicted. There is no hope for anything normal ever again. They LOVE hot rods,kustoms and bikes. I take them to my shop with me a few days a week. My son Blaze(5yo)has already completed his first build.We took a rusty old bike and he stripped it down and primered it,painted the wheels and now he has a "shopbike" Here he is about to take Badpats chopper for a rip! Heres my lil girl Ember in Blazes pedalcar.....Shiny Kids rule the world!
i picked my son who was 8 at the time up from school in my 51 shoebox and as im driving down the road he says "this thing is a screaming metal death trap" so i dunno if hes gonna be a hot rodder or not. of course the statement is true.. but thats not the point.
someone need to start a gallery of nothing but kids artwork...I love it! they see the world in such a awesome way!
Kids indeed rock. I'm thinking of putting together a collaborative artshow between artists and their kids (Ya reading this Hamilton???)
Every day since Billetproof Detroit, my oldest (he's 5) keeps asking me, "can we build a race car yet?" It all stems from Hot Rod to Hell letting Michael sit in Plan B to stay outta the rain. So of course, Dad HAD to join him. What I think is cool is he always says "build a car" not "buy a car." The artwork above is great. Save it, for when your kids are the next Cole Fosters, you can show the art at shows next to the cars. Jay
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