What happened to the new guys BOAT TAIL therad?

Just going to open it up to read the recent comments and it was gone replaced with the ERROR message.
Sure the op mentioned VW & kit cars, but seemed talked out of that silliness and was getting a lot of good advice on building a traditional Model A, T based boat tail speedster.
Is setting a guy straight not traditional for the HAMB?
-Dave

 

To me, that was an interesting, informative and totally appropriate thread. My recent experience is that the editors sometimes act arbitrarily and capriciously, deleting comments or questions that are completely legitimate.

 

Sometimes the mods act on viewer input via the report button too. I liked that thread! Way better that some of the recent barely car related small talk.

 

I figured someone read the fist post, or part of it, and hit report without really looking at the thread.
-Dave

 

As a courtesy, could you explain the grounds on which this one was dismissed? It didn't even seem close to marginal to me. In any event, I will defer to the rights of censorship of your oligarchy.

 

Here’s my collection of thought based on what I’ve seen and I’ve personally had thrown off of here. It’s good to know the grey area because you can loose a lot of time composing build threads or comments on shit you know will vanish.

It seems that “restyled” vehicles don’t quite fit in. Don’t matter how cool they are or will be, or the craftsmanship details, the metal shaping, or the learning adventure.

Which is different????
taking an existing body and fitting it to later chassis aka frame swap that’s clearly OT. Or building a completely different traditional speedster body over some existing later chassis parts and components? At the core a frame swap is also a body swap same same. And nobody here is going to give a shit if you put a Prius on a ‘32 chassis nor if you put a willys on a corvette chassis. Equally excluded would be dropping a blown 392 nitro burner into an Escalade.

 

While I fully agree with you, I believe all the responders to that thread were offering guidance to steer the OP toward the traditional mindset. I don' recall anyone suggesting consideration of a Bronco chassis, but it's difficult to argue since the evidence has vanished. If I were the OP, I'd go buy a Porsche and forget about this BS.

 

His project was kicking off from on a postal Jeep. Nothing left of the thing but a rolling chassis with axles and a very simple ladder frame.