Things about "Street Rods" I don't like

While my 40 Merc is a "a 80/90s Street Rod" (something I am trying to undo thanks the HAMB) I still like it very much. It's not too far gone and it has good bones.
There are things I see at car shows on the newer mega street rods that REALLY bug me. Like the 17+inch wheels. The ones that kinda look like Tourqe thrust but are more stylized. I see them on everything. Tri 5 Chevs, 36 Ford Gold chainer cars. They look like cartoons or Hot Wheels. BLECHHH!!

 

I give the mural a month...

 

AMEN!!! That's one thing I CAN NOT STAND. Nothing is pure, but PLEASE!!!

 

I know what you mean. I'm tired of seeing all the new style glitter***** on old tin like a very over done two tone green with stripes and lots of billet, dropped with fake lakers with oversize rims and real low pro tires 55 chevy that keeps showing up on here in car show pics. That one was parked behind my flat black ,15 in tires 55 chevy thats all hotrod and the peolpe that own it looked pissed that I had the balls to park behind their primo already built when they bought it very expensive show car. Screw them and the other jokers that make what could be a very cool ride look like*****. Course that's just my opinion lol

 

or the roadster i saw on tv last night..a kit car 33 roadster no roof but had a badass air conditioning system..hot rods have cowl vents or windshields that hinge forward..

 

"Wrong wheels" is my most often used phrase.

 

I will trade you my 56 Merc for your 40 and you won't have to change anything.

 

See there problem fixed thanks to Royalshifter!!!1

 

I agree but its their car to do what they want with it.As for me,you will never see air conditioning or electric windows and do-dads in one of my cars.To me, the newest technology and style I want on mine is 30 years old.I like street rods,but I would not want one of the high buck cartoons.They are interesting to look at.

 

I don't care for one piece "bent" windshields in cars like '40 Fords and 37 Chevrolets. They look like they got too close to a large heat source and melted. Also, late model, body-colored side view mirrors, and late model flush door handles never look right on old tin, in my opinion.

 

20 nuts, and a couple hundred bucks, problem solved. At least the guys that are doing this USUALLY leave the bodies in-tact. What I think is worst is the guys that chop em like 7 inches, and let the rest rust to*****. But none of it bothers me to much. To each their own...

 

Something like this perhaps.Was at a local show.
Made me sick.
Looks like something a ricer would do if he inherited his Grandpas Stock Model A

 

When Torque Thrust II's came out I liked them. But so did everybody else.... When Gone in 60 Seconds came out everyone wanted a*****ty `Eleanor` paint job on their car. Like there aren`t enough drab**** silver cars on the road already. BORING!!!!!!

 

Looks like a rock crawler with those wheels and tires! Where is that Georgian Bay?

 

What a douch you can easly change the wheels to some nice 35 wires but IFS front end on a model A what the hell just my opinion.

 

...*****-retentive reactionary restorers...

Once upon a time there were "restorers", who thought anything other than "showroom stock" was heresy, and there were hotrodders and customizers and sometimes a little or a lot of both.
Back in the eras "we" so desperately strive to duplicate, the hotrodders and customizers were constantly looking for that next new trick that hopefully no one else thought to do yet.
New and different was GOOD! (usually)
I don't like them either, but those "dubs" are more in keeping with the intellectual ideal of what hotrodding usta be about than "restoring" a car to look like an unmolested survivor from some time ago.

 

I have to agree on this one. I have always felt that the split windshield gave that old time character to a hot rod.

 

HMMMM, I'm known as a pretty traditional kind of guy, but I truly don't mind some of the "street roddy" kinda stuff. I actually like some 17" wheels. Some of the Halibrand and E.T. type wheels in larger sizes are good looking, IMHO. What I don't like at all is mixed sizes (i.e. 18" & 20"), stuff thats to billety, or cartoony. As far as air conditioning, where I live if your going to drive your car it's not a option. It was 115+ all week and my '48 Plymouth is my only transportation. Naugahyde interiors look great, but have you ever sat in one on a 110+ degree day? Lots of cool cloth out there to use.

 

The big diameter wheel kick was in full force here in Southern California starting in the mid-to-late 90's. I remember seeing nicely built cars ruined by the big hooped wheels.
This was the same period where there were lots of those "Speedstar" roadsters and coupes being built. Remember, this was a time when even Rodder's Journal featured that black, flamed Speedstar coupe on its cover.
Not one part of that car was an original vintage part.
I think a lot of this stemmed from a collision of guys who were graduating from the mini-truck scene to the hot rod scene. There was certain styling points that were not immediately abandoned as the transition was made.
The "Speedstars" are all but gone around here and the "big hoop"***** has toned down to be the domain of the unknowing and ignorant. The died-in-the-wool street rod guys are still here and their ideas of the fundamental rules of car stance and proportion will continue to escape them.
Bad taste is more the "norm" than the rule when it comes to cars, clothing, hair, etc., etc.
All the better, I say, because when you see something that "sits right, is right"...there's no mistaking it. When a car (or anything else, for that matter) is right your your mind's eye, then no further explanation is needed.

 

That makes me embarrassed to be a Canadian.

 

That is reterded, I doubt that guy can be helped. Anyone that would do that to that car is obviously a card carrying member of the bad taste club.

 

You guys haven't even touched on "bad" as in "crap."



But I think "clears" takes the cake:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs39H9nXeq8&feature=related

or maybe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7B8abzj24Y&feature=related

You're broke. You're broke DOWN. You need a ride. Personally, I'd wait for somthin' better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VMSS8M69Uo&feature=related

It's not only awful looking, it's awful SOUNDING

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyq7AVmjEKw&feature=related

Hello, 911? We need a cop to write a ticket

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWusmmfOgX8&feature=related

 

I would bet the owner unloaded it from his enclosed trailer in the parking lot and then "drove it" to the event. More than likely towing with a $300,000 motorhome, he will get bored and sell it this winter to get a Harley and a cool leather riding suit, and then trailer the Harley all over the country to bike events.

This is, I think, the problem most hot rodders have with the street rod scene. and the wealthy fad of the minute crowd.

 

There are always things i like and don't like on someone else's car but i have never gone on a long winded blowhard rant complaining about it.

I promise each and everyone of you that there has been people that have looked at your rides and said "to bad he doesn't know how bad this looks".

Promise each one of you old timers complaining that when you were a young***** slinger doing whatever you could do to "customize" your car back then there were lots of folks thinking you didn't have good taste. You did it anyway because it was your car and it's what you liked.

I couldn't give a***** if someone sticks 10" wheels or 24" wheels on HIS car, if i don't like i just won't go over to look at it but doesn't mean what you think is law.

 

I hate, I don't like, What a*****, Its ruined, I hate, I dont' like........ yikes.

 

Look, I could go on, but I'll just say this: some people in this hobby just don't seem to like old cars.

 

I'll agree with "need louvers?". Living in Louisiana, the humidity is so bad I really have no choice about a/c, if I want to drive my car from May-September, I NEED air conditioning. But I plan on running mine through a "conduit" of sorts that with look like an unusually high ******* hump in the floor boards. So far as power everything, no.

My .02:
It IS and old car it should LOOK like an old car

 

I went to the local auto show last week to find inspiration for my '27 Tbucket build and all I saw of the buckets were those G.D. Spirit Industries kits. The worst thing was that the owners were standing proud behind them. If it were mine, I'd have a friend drive it up to the show with a bag over his head so that no one can make any connection with a S.I. car and my friend (just in case someone sees us talking). Who could be proud of a Tbucket (meant to have so many options that no two could be alike) that you check 30 boxes and put in the address where you want it shipped to and its there in 60 days! The toughest decision is: do I want the chrome package or the brass! The guy goes to Jiffy Lube to get the oil changed!!!!! They should have never let him enter his car!

 

Makes me feel like I'm too close to Canada. For the good of mankind someone should have helped it roll backwards into the sea from which it "evolved"

 

Sorry to disappoint (well, not really!), but, even though born and raised in this*****bag climate of the deep south, I never have adapted to it.
Prior to the advent of air conditioning, any civilized society would have used my area of the country as a penal colony (picture McQueen and Hoffman in "Papillion").

I'm of the opinion that folks were issued different thermostats at the "factory", and mine is definitely not the correct one to be living here. The purpose of my cars is enjoyment, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna drive around in a sweatball in the name of "tradition".

My cars will have air conditioning if at all possible! I may make some token attempt at tucking the relevant hardware out of sight, but I'm not gonna get all***** about it.

Just my buck-and-a-half.