Anybody notice STREET RODDER is getting better taste?

S.R. is a magazine?
All this time I thought it was a catalog with car/parts features?

 

I dig it, but I like magazines as much as online reading. There are only a few I keep up with and SR is one of them. The text is decent, I can't read anymore of the lowbrow writing. It just irratates me. TRJ is the best and will stay there. I do enjoy hot rod deluxe, I LOVE the old pictures. Rod and Custom is next, it's been very good latley, Trad. rod and custom is also a good read, SR comes after them but the do pack a lot of content in between the ads. Ron Covel's articles are the best.

 

Calling ALL Street Rodders "gay, gold chain, man bag wearers" is as wrong and idiotic as calling everyone here a "greased hair, cuffed jean, rockasilly RAT RODDER".

I've known STREET RODDERS all my life long BEFORE "traditional rodder" was even a thought. Not only were they building and driving the wheels off "traditional" cars before some of you big mouths were born- they actually MADE the style you try to emmulate and MUCH more. Many of them built and drove Bonneville cars, Sprint cars, Drag racers of all types, Drag boats and a ton more.

Tom McMullen himself was the ultimate street rodder- but I dare ANYONE of you to call him a purse wearing gold chainer in his prime. He was a wild man that lived adventure everyday- not just conforming to some fake ideal of hot rod badass.

 

JimA, I'm still hoping you do an Early Times book! Dig through the politics man, you're the only one who can do it.

 

Jim, I thought you were banned from the HAMB. ha ha

....and why did you quote me? I agree with you!

 

Got my last one in the mail this week.Never another one !!!!
Tom (Tired Old Man)

 

What about three dudes having sex - That's not really gay is it?
jeez...I hope not

 

I was agreeing with you post Aaron. Sorry I get stirred up by this topic. Plenty of "street rodders" on here that I consider great friends and role models. I won't "out" any of them- but they are really well known here and respected. They drive the heck out of the cars they built with their own hands.

 

Yeah, wasn't that dating site www.hamboner.org? Is that where the term "A-Bone" came from? You guys kill me.

I agree that the mag has finally "gotten it". And the tech has been very good for the past few years too. They've done alot with much reduced revenue due to the down turn in the economy - Jim A knows.

 

I like the "20 years ago" page in Street Rodder. You can see some of the "latest and greatest" stuff that is horrid to look at these days, and also some stuff that still holds up to today's standards.....

 

my grandma used to call them "home boys"

 

I've seen IDENTICAL cars- except one with big diameter wheels and radials- label him "STREET RODDER", the other had skinny wheels and bias plys- that's a "TRADITIONAL RODDER". Way more to it than wheels and tires.

 

BS! There were no nice cars between 1965 and 1999- I read it on the internet!

 

I agree with Chuck Most......The way i look at it...you're either Gay or you're not...ain't no "borderline" crap...

I've noticed Street Rodder's change in articles too...love it..been reading the latest ones cover to cover.

 

Does the iPad have a crapper app?

 

I was at the drug store and saw a Hot Rod mag.....had a traditional rod on cover. picked up and thumbed through it and looked at cover again. Was Hot Rod Deluxe. Nothing but old hot rod pic n stuff.

Anybody else seen this?

 

I always thought “street rod” just meant street-driven hot rod.

-Dave

 

Bruce, we need to talk. I am worried when you use the word brocade in a post

 

Got a friend I go to some cruise-ins with. He has a '72 LTD with red brocade interior. He's always braggin' to the chicks about the brocade. I am usually heard to interject that "brocade" is french for "pimp cloth"

 

Naw, its Belgian for "hides nasty stains"

 

Hey guys, what's going on in here?

 

Hot rods are meant to get driven on the street, race cars are not. Street rod is just a style of hot rod. Some like them, some don't.

 

Street Rodder will always follow the trends, traditional is the trend right now, it will change again with the times. Personally I still think Traditional Rod and Kulture is the best thing on the newstand, great features, good articles, minimal advertising and printed on decent paper.

 

Aluminum metal makes you gay, I thought it caused Alzheimers. Is it like Cryptonite to Superman? Do you lose your allure with the ladies in it's presence? Maybe I should start drinking beer from a bottle, Don't babies drink from bottles? If I drink my beer from a bottle will I be a baby? Maybe I will have to get a keg and stein.Is the keg billet, oh shit, Maybe a bag and a needle. No the stand for the bag is aluminum. Oh God no more beer, panick is setting in, the darkness, is closing in oh no.

 

Always great to see a bunch of guys who struggle so hard to observe that perfect style make fun of a bunch of other guys that struggle so hard to observe that perfect style.

Why can't everyone who owns a period vehicle at least accept the fact that the best thing about our hobby is different taste.

 

So race cars aren't hot rods. NHRA must've just been easier than National Homebuilt Race Car Association.

-Dave

 

this thread is about fucking usless, really!, it went from talking about a mag. to talking about "gay" street rodders etc....?? street rod or traditional hot rod/kustom, its all the same hobby... some of you need to get off the computer and go out and work on a car.

 

Now I would be into that!! I never have been into chrome or polished aluminum. I have always liked the paint and brushed stainless look. It's good to see more tasteful rods in more of these magazines.

 

I love these "entropy in action" threads. You guys never disappoint. Viva la HAMB.

 

Can we refer them as Traditionally Gay?