I think it's great. I also lean towards the green but no one asked me and look at my car, who the hell am I to judge. great job!
I like it ! some of you guys would bitch about a free million bucks because it wasn't stacked to your liking, what the hell
Drug this thing home? Looks like you could have driven it home. I have never bought a car in that good of shape. Not sure you want to please other people or yourself. I think every hot rod needs a personal touch, that makes it your own. If you do anything else with it follow your own heart.
Killer job! Looks great, and congrats on building the thing the way that YOU wanted to! I've gotten rid of three A's now, and will finish building one one of these days. By the way, opinions are like bungholes, everyone's got one, and most times, nobody wants to hear it! The same thing happened to me the minute I pulled the front bumper off of my '57 Chev. "Why did you do that?" What are you thinking, idiot?" Screw 'em! Build 'em how YOU want to! It's your car!
Your sedan is bitchin'. Dig the moons, I've been thinking about getting a set of those for my truck... Long live flat black
As he said at the beginning,(As some of you know, the goal was a car that a couple of teenagers would have put together in the late 50’s and early 60’s, basic, basic.) I think you nailed it, Dave
Some of you guys are little harsh don't ya' think? Man I love this car. I like that is not chopped, I like the stock body lines. I like the flat black body w/shiny fenders and I like he black side walls and Moon discs. It is a great ride. I would like to have something just like it. Great job. Lots of work turned out a great looking ride. Congratulations.
no chop and blackwalls- great! looks good. and always have the opportunity to continue further... enjoy it now. hell yeah.
Nice clean little ride you got there man! I wish it was mine! ...to some people on here: What's wrong with you? Do you really believe the dribble that comes pouring out of your brain onto the keyboard? Here's a guy who posts some pics of a nice little ride he did himself and you go into idiot overdrive. Did he build a ratrod? No. Did he build a streetrod? No. Did he restore it? No. So, given all that, what's the problem? Small block Chevy? So what? It's not your car, so what the fuck do you care? Why don't you all go back to watching "Project Runway" or whatever you were doing before you decided to come on the Hamb today and play "Piss on a Rodder"... Fucking asshats.
Sheesh. I make one post every few weeks, then make this one! Then, I step away from my computer for a couple hours, and you let fly! Gotta love the HAMB! Thanks for all the comments. Truth be told, there are a lot of things I like about this car, and a lot of things Id change, but, for now, what you are seeing is what I got. I have built, bought, traded and driven my share of Model A banger motors, flathead V-8s, and SBCs. Ive even fooled with a couple of in line 6 cylinder Chevy set ups. I know a little about what I want to drive, and what works for me and what doesnt. For those so quick to judge and make derogatory comments, talk to me after youve been around hot rods for another 30 or 35 years. While I respect your views, you need to realize that guys like me probably have a lot more experience with cars, (and life,) than some of the more vocal of you. When we were your age we often had less to say and more to listen to. Times sure have changed. The idea for this car started out after Id quit building cars a couple of years ago. Ive been fooling with Model As, and hot rodding in general, for about 45 years. Yeah, Id about had it with milled, drilled, and SBC/350 combinations, fancy paint, and lawn chair car shows, as well as rat rods that sit so low the driver had to crawl into them on his hands and knees, and cars that couldnt be very safe to drive or practical to use. The whole hot rod thing seemed to be passé. Been there, done that. But wait! After about a year I couldnt stand it anymore. What changed was I found a 56 265 motor that had been sitting for years under a guys bench up in the country. I scrounged it, and a three speed Saginaw, and decided to try just one more time. . yeah, build a car around the motor The main difference with this car is I built it the way I wanted to. I did some of the things that I have always wanted to do, but up until now have been too afraid that someone wouldnt like the way the car turned out. BTW, a 265" Chevy motor is one of the rawest forms of hot rod motor there was in the late 50's. A few minutes of homework will show that it was the product of none other than Arkus Duntov, father of the Ardun OHV conversions for flathead V-8 Fords, as well as the hemi Chrysler motors. Before you start spouting off about Chevy V-8's get some of your facts straightened out. Anyway, if you like my attempts at a late 50's early 60's hot rod, great! Thanks for the kind words. If you hate it, or would have done stuff different, that is really great, too. Thankfully we dont all like the same things.
I like it! Alot. I to am just retired and did kinda the same thing, only I did it with a fiberglas 29 roadster. Flat black, red wheels SBC 350/350. I like the look and I don't give a rats ass what some asshole with an opinion thinks. I'm not trying to "fool" anyone, just thought I'd try something different, different for me that is. I was around in the 50s and 60s as you were and the truth is that most of the model As that were hot rodded had SBC engines in them, for a reason. You did a great job and you have a great car to show for it. Do I like the flat black more then the green,,,, who gives a shit what I like, it's your car.
43gman, I say great job. You built exactly what you wanted and for the time period you were shooting for there is no better example you could have built. AWESOME. WEEKS46, I notice you have a 30 medel a coupe...and enough parts to put together 3 STOCK model a's. If you think your 30 coupe is spot on for the period of what 34gman was building for, and was built as a group of teenage boys would have built, then rest assures your ass would have been the boy was always upset that his little stocker couldn't hold a candle to the HOT ROD A WITH AN SBC IN IT. Just because you prefere everything stock on your car, doesn't mean when someone builds a car without stock parts is building a car that isn't worthy. For the real hot rod scene, what was around when you grew up? was it all stock cars that guys called hot rods or was it cars that had some body mods(bobbed fenders, no fenders, maybe just no running boards), and engine/srivetrain changes(like a sbc, nail head, caddy, hopped up flat head v8, etc.)? It's guys like you making comments like you do that is really making the HAMB a moch worse place that it would be if you would just keep your replies to yourself. Unless for some certain reason you might be able to make decent remark. I wasn't around for the 50's -60's sceen, but I'd much rather have a model A coupe with a SBC or some OHV V8, 3 or 4spd manual trans, and old/pont or other heavy duty rear axle than some stock putty put put. Hell, I'd probably would have even chose to chop the top some..... By the way, it is nice how cowardly you sound when you posted "Wrong Larry, I hit the nail on the head. SBC at least its an early one with the 265 cubes" IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT SBC IT IS....IT IS STILL AN SBC. But oh to be somewhat nice sounding you had to say at least it was a 265. As if it really matters. Once again, GREAT JOB 43gman.
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