Projects AMBR Potential contender

This is why I stay off the HAMB.... I can respect your opinion about our roadster, we built it for what we wanted not anyone else, we took some things we liked on friends cars and other cars we had seen, tweaked some and also added the things we liked , we added things that some people didnt like. And a color that alot of people didnt like, but the most important thing was WE loved all of it, and it is a expertly built and highly detailed awesome roadster. It is everything and more then we could have every dreamed of, wining the AMBR was a huge icing on the cake, but it isnt what the car was built for it was built to DRIVE and enjoy and that is what we have done for about 15,000 miles so far...... What gets me is your need to bad mouth the car, it is so far from a "Belly ****on" roadster. If you dont like anything about ours or anyother car then you know not to include it on yours....
That also goes to your comments about the color, and for the record it is "Rotten Avocado Green" and again its what we wanted and it has been the most asked for color of anything he has ever painted..
Since this is getting to lengthy I will end this with just a couple points.
I know for a fact John ****era would have loved our roadster..
Jackie Howerton does love our roadster...
More important WE love our roadster....
As for what Darryl Hollenbeck charges for a paint job... Don't bother asking
Hope to see you and your roadster on the road somewhere....

Terri Brizio Hollenbeck

 

I like the term belly ****on
ever since the first kid pulled off the fenders, put bigger tires on the back and ripped off the muffler most all of us have tried to copy it in some way.
so when someone uses this term for a very well executed example of this I would take it as a complement.
especially if I were that first kid that did it

congrats on a cool car Ms. Hollenbeck

 

Color choices are a very personal thing and there is no right or wrong. As long as who paid for it, likes it, that's about all that really matter's.

 

And that's all that matters.



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Well said Terri - And having known Little John, I agree he would have loved it. Oh, and thanks for the great pic of my RPU you took for TRJ coverage, you captured it well.

 

Which is too bad. You really shouldn't have to state your case to those who get worked up over the color of your fine roadster.
I am a bit bummed that you didn't add "Crminal from the Hamb" to your list of distinguished people who love your roadster

 

bttt

 

I personally fell in love with rotten avocado since the first time I saw it. Much more preferable than Barney purple. But mine is sh*t brown primer. So to each his own.

 

This post went a direction that tells the story of why hot rodding is awesome, and show car building is not. The green roadster is amazing! Especially when viewed in person. The car being built here is awesome! In the post that shows the winners from 2012-2016, every one of those is amazing! Long live the hot rod.

 

As far as “show cars” go for me they’re nice to look at and I appreciate the craftsmanship but.... isn’t a true traditional hot rod something that is created with simple/junkyard parts or something similar that’s been reproduced, done by someone to their best abilities? I think show cars may be the an***hesis of that and is more about who has the biggest wallet or ego at times.

 

Why?

 

Pro built cars have been around from the start.
As trad as whitewalls and pointy bras

 

Like everything else in human history there have been many peaks and valleys in the hot rod scene over the years, pioneers come and go and their shoes get filled by whoever is willing to pick up the ball.

 

This I can relate to! Thanks for posting Terri. Hope to see you back around here from time to time.

 

Same here. but the prejudice against (or misunderstanding of) pro built or the lame “built not bought” BS isn’t very attractive to some professional builders.
I know a couple of builders that visit often but never post or hardly ever comment.
But these builders do find a lot of inspiration here.

 

I appreciate the pro built cars, it sets the bar a little higher and shows what can be done. Perhaps the ones who don't may just be intimidated by them, I look at them as a higher learning curve.

 

Frames must be lonely, throwing BTT on his own threads years after they died peacefully

 

I visit a few of the name shops in So Cal and am always impressed by their ability, the $$$$$ spent by the customers, and the truly new developments I have seen. They are far from belly ****on copies except for the concept, and they truly are works of art

 

1955 Corvette a friend gave me. I rebuilt it. 3 speed Chevy. Paid $35.00 at a swap meet. The rear end is a steel converted 201 Frankland Engineering. Only 200 were bu ilt. Paid $700.00 for the case and cover.

 

Jackie Howerton car in a cl*** by itself! THANK YOU so very much for the picture.

 

There's something that you're exceedingly better at than building cars. Tooting your own horn.

 

Not painted in the middle. Just careful sand blasting before chroming.

 

At 87 or 88 years old you can do that.

 

WHEW!!!!! It's time for a break.............

 

I was in the “why” camp when old posts were bumped, actually went to send him him a PM and and thought “wow, hope I can do 1/2 that good in 25 years”. Heck, I hope to just be around 25 years from now

 

I want to see your 55 F100 build..... I read it was deleted ??


Ricky.

 

i want to see ANYTHING he's done-a lot more interesting than the 'hotrodders' changing hubcaps and tire sizes...

 

I remember it. It had a lot of OT stuff.

 

LOL, I’m grabbing some popcorn and a soda for this one.

 

I doubt that it is even close to being finished no pictures of it on here. If you’re going to toot your own horn then at least try to get the thing done first.