Well I would love to stay and take the bruising but I have work to do. I'll be back later for more abuse.
What - you guy's have never seen the "Broke-Back T". It's one hip set of wheels daddy-o. ...just like the 50's bro.
So why not sort them while you're building ? At least do the decent thing and sort them out for the new owner , or tell him it needs doing . And now you're on here , post an intro , and soak up the knowledge . I've been on here a year or so , mostly reading or asking dumb*** questions and you wouldn't believe what I've picked up (Stop s******ing at the back) . Look forward to seeing your next project
Just don't take it personally. Hot rods come in all shapes and sizes. Not everyone wants a black Deuce roadster with bias plies and steelies and a Flathead. Alot of ingenuity went into this car and I can appreciate that. The overall look is not to my personal liking but it's not my car.
Man, I hate to be critical of anything that somebody puts their heart and alot of time into (alot of work obviously went into this car.) I have utter distain for cars on ebay that are not thoroughly and accurately described, both pluses and minuses, because I fell prey to such a car. It was described as "needs nothing to be a dailey driver." When I picked it up the windshield came loose, broke and screwed the body all up (2 miles down the road.) I had to pay 300 dollars to have it towed home. "Leaks a couple of drips of ****** fluid."- yeah like all of it, I have never seen a transmission leak so bad, and i'm in the transmission business! Engine poured oil out the front seal, and when I pulled the intake of for a look, an INCH of coke sat in the valley, the throttle linkage only yielded 1/8 throttle, and on and on. In short, it was a cobbled together piece of junk, far far from being a daily driver. But its all good now ($5000.00 later). Dave
I think the car is interesting, not to my tastes, but interesting none the less. The thing that bothered me the most was this off of the other forum "I did not build the car with safety and practicality in mind and I hope that anyone who takes a look at that could understand it." I can understand the practicality part, form over function isnt always the case. But safety should always be taken care of, expecialy if it is something your going to sell. Cars pretty wicked lookin'
Cut it out!!! Your killin' me man. God that's funny. I promise I won't respond to anymore cheap shot comments. Unless they're really funny. Dave
**** traditional, everyones main point is that is was done wrong and it is unsafe. the big thing that you rat rod ****er miss is that safety still comes first.
I think that you misunderstand me. Yea, I want to be safe. I don't want my front end coming loose on the highway and sending me into a wall or god forbid a family in an suv. Am I willing to take the chance of getting hurt by my own actions. Hell yea. A dragster could be an extremely engineered piece of machinery with every safety contingency possible, but I wouldn't say that catapulting yourself from 0-300 mph in a matter of seconds is the safest thing in the world. Nor is sitting in the saddle of a motorcycle for that fact. I guess the safest thing that a hot rodder can do is sit on their **** and criticize people in chat rooms. So, yea safety wasn't my main priority. Building something crazy was. How safe do you think that Grandpa Munsters Coffin car was?
There ya go. If you can't drive it then its just a big model car. Might have well have built it out of plywood and paper mache. Different is good. A car that won't go is not. Being dead because of a catastrophic mechanical failure is really uncool.....ahhh, but you are going to let the next owner worry about that. Are those heims from a tractor supply?
Check my listing on ebay and see what I've written to prospective owners and then tell me that I'm going to let the next guy worry about it.
Quoted from Ad: It seems that I have a lot of traditionalists on some chat forums up in arms over my car. They want to go on and on about the safety of my vehicle, and whether someone would be buying themselves more than just a pile of headahes. I hope that anyone looking at the car could see that it's not going to be in consumer reports top 1000 for safe vehicles. Whether you will have a PILE of headaches or not I think not. I will say that cars like this are not for the timid or someone that doesn't own tools. The car is solid, runs good and is put together with good parts. I just want a buyer to understand that hand built rat rods are not without issues to deal with now and again. But, that's part of what it's all about. Threaded rod is good parts? And by issues, of course you mean careening into a guard rail at 55 mph when said threaded rod snaps in half, the hairpin hits the ground, and those shackles bend and the axle wraps up under the car. I think the new owners next of kin or the buyer should save the above paragraph as evidence when they have their day in court for wrongful death. Dragula was built by Barris... 'Nuf said. Priority was crazy?!?! If that's the case, it should be in a museum, not the streets.
I don't know why this bothers people so much. It's not your car and you're obviously not going to buy it and I'm not selling it to anyone that doesn't know what their buying. Read my feedback on egay.
The right thing to do, is pul the ad and fix the problems before selling it. The reason it bothers us is that traditional hot rods and customs get lumped in with unsafe rat rods by people who don't know the difference... Oh, wait...disregard everthing I've been saying... I see that since you have 37 good feedbacks, you MUSt know how to build a car... OK not under, but if the drivers side hairpin fails at the threaded rod, that end will move backwards and it will cause the car to turn to the left rather abruptly.
I'll step out on a short limb here. I emailed through ebay to inquire about the front end and floors. He is willing to make corrections and actually asked for input. Hey...he is at the very least, willing to learn. We've pointed out what's wrong, He's acknowledged it has problems. Anyone in New Mexico offered to stop buy and show him the right way to do it? Everyone just push back from the keyboard for a sec and take a deep breath. Getting a post locked doesn't help anyone.
The reserve is so high on the car It will not be met anyway. Tell me what you want me to fix before it p***es your tech inspection? I already know that you don't like my radius rod mount at the frame. All of my heims are from speedway. Granted they are not the top of the line speedway heims, but I'm not dirt track racing. I'm not Nylocing things, but I am drilling and wiring it all. I already know the shackle one. My rad hose is not as low to the ground as it looks in the pics. There is more than enough clearance for that. So, lay them out for me and I will take them to heart. I'm not a ****y brainless **** that's not willing to listen to knowledge, wisdom and experience.
I already had a fellow rodder that saw the car opint out to me that my Ackerman was all wrong and it was causing a problem that I couldn't figure out. He pointed it out and the next day I had the front arms off, s****ped'em made new ones and now my problem's solved. I do appreciate the lessons.
Not piling on since i started the thread but i'd still like to know why such a stack of leaves up front, especially since you're not carrying a radiator and the related weight....By the way, i like the stance
I bought some spindles from a guy that I didn't use and he had a spring so I bought it. I believe that it is out of a AA truck. I knew that there wer a lot of springs, but since I had a big block I figured I'd try it. I could always remove springs, but so far it doesn't seem too rough.
HOOOORAAAAYYY FOR ALLTHREAD!!! Look at the pic showing the front radius rods. They attach to the frame with a piece of all-thread welded to the radius rod that slips thru a heim. I'm suprised everybody doesn't do it like that[/quote]
Ok everybody, don't hold back now. Really tell us what you think. After reading most of the comments on this thread I see where opinions really are like ***holes....everybody's got one.
4t64rd, Do you really think this is funny? One of my friends has a challenged son. After seeing this, I know he has more common sense than you. You want to see retarded....look in the mirror.
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