This is OUR version of history.

Sometimes the guys with 150K trailer queens grew up bulding hot rods in the 50's and 60's...never judge a book by its cover....Period. Rspect your elders untill they give you reason not to. We are fortunate to be involed in a lifestyle in which the origionators are still with us, they wont be forever. It goes both ways though, there are guys my age and even younger than me that I look up to. Ive been building cars for 15 years, as a career for 5 years, and I am just now starting to get treated like an equal by the local traditional rodders...guys who honestly wouldnt give me the time of day when I first met them.

 

LOL Maybe it wasn't the old mans sack, it could have been the mailmans sack or maybe the pizza kids sack. One big thing that really bugs me about young turds is total lack of respect. They show no respect for their elders, they don't say "please", "Thank you", "Excuse me". They just steamroll thru people at car shows. They just don't know how to show respect.

 

I am also of age,62.The thing about us guys is we never had money,only time,visions of what could be.I was mechanicin at 14,helping my bros. and friends.My folks were dirt poor,not interested in cars.My brothers went off to see the world,so i was there by myself.building cars,doing upholstery,dreaming of hot cars,hot girls.So us old guys built our own cars,from wrecking yard parts.Now a lot of guys make big money,and don't build shit.they buy it.And they aren't all young.I still build mine,but i also work on my boys cars,even they don't think i know what i'm talking about.i guess its ok,but it can peeve me.I had a good friend that had a gas station with his dad,met them in the fifty's,he was a lot older,a good mech.,raced a shoebox ford ,d/gas,i think.when i needed help i wen't to him.He moved to Reno in the sixty's.His name was Dilmus King,maybe you knew him.I lost track of him.There was another older guy,Jimmy Don Bostic,that had a shop in Ceres,ca.he was running a 36 ford coupe,with a 427 ford,Ispent a lot of time bothering him too.Iguess old guys have experience,i still ask em.

 

HAHAHA and the funniest thing is they all do all that
Rockasilly uniform wearing to be different
My dad told me you would probably have been beaten up
if you looked like that in the 50s
But its just a bunch of insecure kids playing dressup
they grow out of it when they grow some balls

 

x2!

 

Kids nowadays have no respect, what with their long hair & loud rock n roll music..

It's all been downhill since Buddy Holly died

 

Check out these 12 year olds, good indication of where society has gone

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wFBAk4qcoNA

 

Wow guys! Us young folk are clearly the worst!! Lucky you guys are here to let all the kids like me know exactly how We should live.

I think I speak for all the youngens when I say:

Please come up to us at shows and let us know everything thats wrong with our generation ...

Also let us know if there's too much grease in our hair

And if we choose to dress or express ourselves in any way that you don't feel comfortable with, please treat us with arrogant disdain.

We will treat all such comments with exactly the amount of respect such comments deserve

 

I always make time to listen. I've learned a bit; and even though some of it may be bullshit, were still some good stories. I also grease my hair and cuff my jeans. Modern style just isn't my thing.

To the older gents who think some people do that just to be cool or "pose" just for style and not for the cars, remember, that style is paying tribute to your generation and youth in history. We wish we could have been there too, because we despise our own. So don't judge too harshly and tell us how it was; a lot of us will listen.

I know I will.

 

You might be full of knowledge and experience but there are plenty of other old guys out there who are completely full of shit. You've heard em at the shows.. How's a kid supposed to know the difference when a stranger walks up and starts preaching? Plus, kids already know everything..

 

I'm 34 and I can't hardly talk to guys my age. I don't know what this traditional "Kulture" is they think they're in. First of all they spell it with a K. One of my best friends here in town is going on 60. He drives a true traditional. A '53 ford vicky chrome reverse wheels, flattie, whitewalls and header dumps. My car's not even 100% traditional in parts but it is in state of mind. I built it how guys would have in the 50's and 60's with the "car" parts they had and not road signs, beer cans, pistons for bumpers, guns for shifters, etc... I tried to build it to look like an old traditional hotrod with what I had at the time. So if a young guy won't listen to an 'ol timer then he's missing the traditional aspect all the way around. You'll always find me with an 'ol timer.

 

It's all about RESPECT your elders and most of the young ones don't even know what that means. It's a rare thing these days to hear, "YES SIR", "NO SIR" from kids.

 

In 6 months they'll be on to some other "trend"....maybe after watching those prison reality shows they'll move on to that "trend", eh?
Either way they'll be gone.

 

Back in 2002 when I was still in the USAF I had to go to a school at Ft. Leonardwood, MO. I was 24 at the time. One weekend I decided to go to this dragstrip in Paragould, AR I had always heard about. Yep, It was George Ray's. They only raced on Sunday and it was Sat. When I saw George I walked up to him and asked, "are you George Ray?" He said yes. Then I told him I had read about him. So he opened up his garage and got out 2 chairs. Got to sit by his garage after he pulled his little roadster out of it and talk for nearly 2 hours just me and George. Man the stories he had. Never pass up a chance like that!

 

They WILL get whats coming to them before it's all over.

 

Rocky, I'm 51 and one of those youngsters! but I know every days a school day and theres plenty to learn from this school! Wayne

 

Thank you for your service Sir.

When I was a younger man it was almost a sure thing that every young man would serve.I think attitudes would be different if it were that way today.

 

Born in 1964 and in England, I wasn't there "back in the day". But I thank God daily for this place and all you guys who were. You are the guys that I want to hear from, not jumped up FNG's with no respect and an agenda to rewrite history. They should be stamped on, and hard.
Paul

 

Didn't see this one before I posted. Really well put together post that expresses the way a lot of good younger folks out there feel. The ones with respect anyway.
Paul

 

Was at a show last night. An older gent wanders over to me while I'm sitting in the bed of my truck taking it all in. He starts telling me about his '34 coupe that he built when he was 16, and just pulled it back out of a long hibernation. He spoke about it, and 'the good old days of rodding' for over an hour. I didn't interrupt him once. What great stories about the old days and how things were. When he was done, I treated him to an ice cream and thanked him for the knowledge/time he spent with me. What a cool dude he was.

And yeah, I asked if the coupe was for sale. Not a chance, but he did say he'd let know if he ever decides to sell.

 

I am just a young punk but i learned a long time ago from listening to stories from my grandparents etc that what really happened is usually more interesting than whatever revisionist history you can imagine. There are many sides to this coin though. Some will never listen to reason, fact, etc- regardless of age. Some are always willing to listen and learn. And there are those that proclaim their life experience and veiwpoint with such disrespect for the generation or group they are trying to preach to that they will never be heard. Conversely some can convey their story with a manner that makes it more interesting than any story ever told. It will never change, the generation before you said you didnt listen either. Just keep telling your stories, the ones that listen will never forget them.

 

I have been to that strip a few times. I think the last time was about '99. That's cool that you got to sit down with George.

Dad ran that strip a lot back in the late '60's/early '70's.

I also went to college up the road from Ft wood at UMRolla.

 

Dammm you, I just spit all over the keyboard.

 

I've found that after being ignored & ridiculed, when they finally figure it out they act like they invented it.

 

Can't speak for anybody, especially west coasters, but about 3/4 of the guys I hung around with in a small town New England high school in the 60s didn't know sh*t. In many ways, I was one. I'd become infected at around 12 when an older cousin gave me a few Car Craft and Rod and Custom magazines. Or maybe it was the much older neighbor who had a friend visit with an early 50s ford with trips and a Mighty Mallory ignition decal in the rear quarter window. I'm a little better now. Many are not.

A 27 year old engineer (MSME) I work with longs to be a gearhead but for some reason had a mechanically sheltered youth. He's picking up a lot (including far too many buzz words, to be sure) and willing to tackle some pretty big projects on the old Stingray he bought.

Example - The taper seat spark plugs on his 350 left him incredulous because they did not match the gasketed design of the few plugs he'd ever seen before, so his limited reality was challenged. Apparently he has not read a spark plug manual yet.

Although Studebaker's dependence on bolts to center (some?) of their starters recently surprised me, too.

 

There definetly is a small group of the younger generation that gets it. Making sure they are allowed to be vocal and can get seen through all the Linseed oiled, license plate floored crap is the mission us old (40) guys have at hand.

The HAMB is full of traditional talent.

 

Well said!

 

what i dont understand is why all walks of people young, old, rich, poor appearently feel this need to be a sterriotype of the "group" they belong in

they all want to be different just like everyone else in thier either economic class social groups working class or whatever

i was allways taught to be myself and if people like me fine if they dont fine

i think thats what being a car guy is alot about

 

hahahahahaha

 

I think it Depends on your approach, attitude, etc.