Open a kid's eyes... to Real Hot Rods.

My wife's neice and nephew were visiting over at our house yesterday afternoon. The boy was sitting in my book room playing the CARS viseo game on PS2- I watched him for a while and then suggested, "Wouldn't you rather take a ride in a real hot rod?" I figured he'd zone out and keep playing the game. Just the opposite- He shut it down super quick, jumped up and started looking for his shoes. Cool.

I rolled the motorcycles out of the way and fired the model A up. Showed him how to latch an aircraft belt, and away we went.
We took a nice summer evening ride up through the Oakland hills and all over.
We gassed it, burn rubber, punched it around corners-- He loved it!

Better than video games afterall!

 

Good for you Jay.....

 

I wish I could own a car like that. Or get a ride even. LOL lucky kid

 

Man, will you look at the look on that kids face?
This is what us oldtimers are trying to find all the time, that feeling when you were a kid. Every once in awhile, some great older guy takes the time to spend with a kid and they both are sharing what life is about.
That picture says it all.
Good work, good work.

 

No matter how old you get, a ride in a real hotrod makes you giddy and most certainly hooked for life..............I blame Plan9 for my desire to build a rod now.

I love taking kids for a ride in my old cars. I let them play in my tool box and climb all over my cars. It seems to implant a drive and desire to be near them and own them that you just can't beat.

 

Man, Jive, I didn't know you had a cool little roadster like that......that thing rocks!!! I missed the mark on mine...I was shooting for something like yours.....nothing that I can't change next winter!

Yes, that's cool that you took him a REAL ride. Not just let him set in it, in the garage! You know, I have older fellas stop past all the time to look at my roadster. I tell them, "Stop by and take me down the road in your old hot rod." I never see them, except at the car shows and cruise-ins (not that I'm a kid, just at heart).

Good deed!

 

Man, Thats a great picture!!!!

 

You know that you're now offically that kids hero and favorite adult.
Awesome.

 

A few weeks ago my neighbor asked me to 'uncover" the Roadster and let her grandkids sit in it. They had a ball, taking turns behind the wheel, and generally pretending they were driving. I had to go somewhere so didnt have time to pull it out and 'fire" it , but all the same i enjoyed this moment as much as they did. the more young ones we can 'imprint", the more that will eventually become "hot rodders". Pass the "torch" any way ya can !

 

That kid is probably ruined for life, in a good way.

I took my boss for a ride in my T-Bucket this morning, and you should have seen the look on his face. He has had three T's over the years but never finished any of them. He has always had to sell them to make ends meet. It was the first ride he had ever taken in a T-Bucket too.

It made me feel pretty good cause he's twice my age and he dig's my work.

 

Jay is actually a kid trapped in an adult body

 

Reminds me of the "Take A Kid Fishing" promotions . . . you know the speel . . . fisherman take a youngster out. Little did you realize he/she will grow up, need a FAST boat for those fast fish . . . depth finder, sonar, underwater cameras, 4 zillion hooks . . . . etc... No time for cars . . . out fishing! LOL Now you just need to get the kid revved up to start stashing away parts for his first ride . . . and probably saving gas money also . . . at this rate it might surpass first year of college costs!

BTW: Great job. I wish I could get my kid to get over the MTV rides crap and see down to earth cars in his future.

 

I thought that WAS JiveBomber! I naturally assumed he was a child-prodigy!

 

I bet you made that kids day....thats awsome

 

Good job Jive-Bomber. That's exactly how I fell in love with hot rods. Blacksix is right, you are officially that little boys hero.......and rightfully so.

 

That is what happened to me when I was young and I think of him and I thank him, my Dad. Nice job man he will never forget.

 

Good for you, the hot rod and street rod world need more people like you. I will do the same thing if I get the chance.

 

My son is 17---all his friends can't get enuff of my cars--they say their dad's are"old men"---play golf---make wooden do-dads.
But the other day, had a couple kids come by my shop---about 17--18 years old--and decided to "educate " me about cars---told me my roadster should have an electric fan instead of mechanical--"those rob horsepower"--so i backed it out and lit that sucker up---about 50 feet --both tires---came back and said "I think I'm ok in the H.P. DEPT". They are now the students.

OH yea----fired up my 37---they thought it was an "old mans" car at first---told them it could do the same thing as the roadster---I think it scared em-----

 

Well said my friend,.....Let's face it fellow HAMBers our Hot Rods are the fountan of youth on a individual and personal level, when we hear them fire to life and as we drive them and can invision every working part and suspension component and how its working and doing just what you intended it to do (and sometimes not,....),........ the years are left in the driveway and we are all kids again,..... and we get that big stupid "Hot Rod Grin" like the boy in the picture has,( I know you all know that grin )............ My Friends, that's Hot Rodding.

 

During BTT50s I took my two nieces out for a cruise in the Studebaker with wide open lake pipes down the interstate in St. Paul. Grins all the way to the fairgrounds, then Dakota let me take them in his modified. Damn it, now they want me to build a open car!

 

My Grandkids would rather ride in our hot rods than anything else!!

 

yep, I can say that I have been on the receiving end of jives little treatment. my uncle gave me my first ride in a deuce roadster in 1982 at the ripe ole age of 2. He had just recently got it together and it had all the right stuff. 57 olds j2 motor with 4 97's on it 39 tranny with a halbrand equipped banjo rear. that car is still driving around with the same drivetrain 25 years later. it is one TOUGH looking car.

 

I have ruined a few kids that way. It only takes one good ride, and you know they aren't going to be spending their off time hanging out in the pool hall or dealing drugs.---or spending afternoons on the golf course. Theyr'e going to spend their time working part time jobs to get enough money to start their own rod, or be cruising dirt roads looking for "the barn find".

 

Hehe... I was ruined kinda the same way!! I was playing in a friend of my fathers 32 Ford sedan with a 351 (I think) engine and open headers. I was sitting and holding the steering wheel, imagined to drive it, when he asked me to fire it up! I never forget the sound, or the feeling!! Shame on him!!!

 

great picture Jay,

couple weeks ago my brother brought his family by,
so I took the kids for a ride around the block
their first time in a hot rod too

 

thats why I get on it or do a burnout whenever a kid asks. I like being a teacher.

(and I like doing burnouts...)

 

amen to that!! I took my wifes Aunt out the other day - she's 58 - I said you want to do a burn out - she said HELL YES

who doesn't like to burn out!! ha ha

 

still building the sedan... this one should be less bumpy and less wood to keep an eye on

 

You guys are right. These kids are our future. My son is 12 and loves this stuff. He was at his first drag race when he was 6mths. old. He laughs at the ricer crap. He knows the differences between a flathead, FE and Y-block Ford are!!!! Hell,he knows who John Milner and Bob Falfa are!!! He will watch American Graffitti anytime I have it on.

 

Thats a really great picture too!