Hot Rods Quotes to live by...

Some days it is the best way to get an intelligent conversation!

 

This was completely true until the advent of the internet, now anyone with a little bit of computer savvy can create a fictional reputation of their own!

God bless
Bill
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...ar-transport-hauling-open-or-enclosed.614419/

 

“We all have our own brand of crazy, our own dreams, hopes, wants, loves and heartaches.”

Hello,

If our high school teachers knew what we know today, it would have been an easier way to cope with the trials and tribulations of growing up a teenager in the 50s-60s. Their knowledge was ok for the times, but we needed more, as we can see these days. No one was around to help us do the right thing.

We had to see and adjust to just about everything that was being thrown at us. For some, it was ok, as it was not as hard to adjust and cope with the outcome. Our parents were in another dimension and their ideas were usually not fitting into our So Cal teenage lifestyles.

Money had no meaning in teenage situations. It was talking with your close friends, coming up with some solutions and trying them out to see if they worked. No one else was the wiser if it worked and even if it failed to have the results we wished for at the time. It was investigate, do some research and see if it would fit the situation with the least amount of damages to everyone, including us.

Jnaki

In looking back, we did the best that we could, live to society’s standards within reason and make a way to get along with others during our “growing up” stage. Those decisions look ancient, now, but whatever was happening in the ways to cope with “things,” were the steps that we see today, as good citizens and productive people that get along with others.

Didn’t we all get the lesson to “get along with others” as a little kid’s mantra? For some it worked and for others, time has not changed to make our society safe and healthy. Teenagers, today are coping with something that has totally affected their high school years. Their heartaches will be different from ours… YRMV

 

"Putty and paint will make it what it ain't"

 

My Dad always said
PEOPLE ARE CRAZIER THAN ANYBODY

 

Another one of my favorites is this, I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day.

 

When it comes to paint strippers, or other chemicals, always look for the skull & crossbones on the can, that's your symbol for quality....

 

i'm easy to get along with....just ask my ex-wife

 

My ex would say I'm easy to get along WITHOUT!!

 

Buy once…cry once….

 

Both my ex wife's reached out to try and reconnect years after the fact. No thanks, 3rd time was the charm.

 

Most people don't need fun to have alcohol.

 

“When I was young, I wanted a life filled with travel and girls...
Now fate has shared exactly that, and has achieved my goal… “

Hello,

As a teenager reading as many magazines and books as possible, the feeling was that a life filled with hot rods, drag racing, travel, and surfing was the future. Add in some friends that were girls and the scenes would be complete. Traveling the world's coastlines, surfing every chance I could get was on my teenage list to do after high school.

Sponsorships, saved incomes, and a scholarship from the good old parents would go a long way for the planned travels. Ha! We can all be dreamers... As the old song lyrics goes: “Two Girls For Every Boy…”


Jnaki

Now, all of these years later, my life has come around and the teenage dream has hit its intended mark… I now have two girls to go along with all of the road trips and air travel we have done in our “together” lives.

European coastal vacations, Hawaii surf adventures, So Cal coastal trips, Northern California surf spots, Baja Mexico trips and even Mainland Coastal Mexico vacations have lightened up our lives until the pandemic.

The Two Girls?
They are: My wife and granddaughter… Ha, so someone was listening to those early teenage ideas and thoughts. Life is complete, goals attained... YRMV

 

“The ocean, it does not care who you are or what you do or how much money you have. It treats everyone the same… We have the same salinity, we all have a link…”

Hello,

In our coastal surf oriented lives, along with the countless hours on the water, sailing, the ocean has taught us all what it means to persevere. Sailing against Mother Nature makes one adapt to the situation at hand. If the wind blows hard, then adjust the sails to get where you want to go. Adapting is a way of life in all aspects of our lives.

If the 9-10 foot longboards don’t fit inside or on top, adapt to the situation. (In the rear door window opening they go in place) Or ten years later, get a surfboard that fits inside of the 327 powered 1940 Ford Sedan Delivery with the door closed.

Or, adapt by using another car from the ****nal to make the transition easier. A 1965 El Camino with the 7’6” Lightning Bolt Surfboard securely in place.


Jnaki

The great Pipeline master, Gerry Lopez once said that “Everyone gets caught inside when surfing.” We can all attest to that true statement. In surfing, as in life, sometimes a wall pops up to hinder forward progress… power through or adapt… YRMV

“You have two options: give up or paddle outside. Life is the same. Keep paddling.”

 

Those who write on ****house walls
Roll their **** in little balls.
Those who read those lines of witt
Eat those little balls of ****!

 

Well if the Queen had balls she'd be the King.

 

" if it's got ***s or tires, it's gonna be trouble!"

 

When your dumb you gotta be tuff!!!!

 

“Intuitive sparks are a function of creativity and ****ysis, rolling against each other…”


Hello,

Ever since hot rodding began with modified mom and pop cars, creativity has always played a huge part in “what comes next.” Something in the right side of the brain functions to get the creative juices going. From the old time, add an extra carb to taking off the fenders, speed was the factor. Go fast was the mantra, it just took different ways to get there.

Along the way, car racing in all sorts of ways began. We all like to see speed in a particular place and drag racing was built for such a place to witness creativity that led to some top builds and of course, speed. To paraphrase a beloved children’s TV show… “one of these guys is doing his own thing…”

The Sidewinder actual sound and action from 1959.

Jnaki

A Paul Nicolini design, and Joe Mailliard Speed Shop techniques and speed records.


As pertains to HAMB hot rods and drag racing:
"...a function of creativity..."

 

a toast ::
Friends may come and friends may go,
for friendships peter out you know,
but we will be friends thru thick and thin,
Peter out or peter in.

 

All successful marriages end in death.

 

"the only thing that is cheap any more is me - and I and not worth a plugged nickel"

 

As a wise man so eloquently put it, just take those old records off the shelf, I’ll sit and listen to ‘em by myself.

 

I can't remember if I posted this before or not... ...someone once told me "that owning an old Ford is like stepping on your own balls"

And......if it don't smell good, don't eat it

 

“Our minds aren't bound by any chronological order.”
When thinking and dreaming, the past, present and future are all mixed up. The writer seeks the facts and they do not necessarily come in order.

Hello,

When we sit down to write story or sit down to draw some art of any kind, our minds wander all over the place. We know that things happened when they did and it would be nice to have them automatically recorded as life moves on, but we know that does not happen. Even when people write novels, it is a jumbled mess in the beginning. Then it gets figured out where to place flashbacks and take a jag to the off center storyline.

I recently saw several hot rod build projects and the story board looked like a children’s timeline of school projects. Things to do, but not necessarily in order. So, our lives are similar. Ideas pop up when and if they get stimulated to expand on them. But, now, it is difficult to fit the new idea in order or in somc chronology.

The time period of owning the 65 El Camino ranges from college road trips, city explorations, to surf searches/campouts, coastal long range photo shoots and to desert adventures. So, where are those coming from in the timeline of our history and what makes them spark to the front?

As each one of us has different time points in our own history. If you related it to the hot rods you had, then the stories are bound to happen as they did during that part of the timeline. Separate Baja, Mexico adventures in a 5 year span with different approaches and results.

Jnaki

There are a lot of things from the past in everyone’s history. It must be important when you actually remember those things, sparked by a word, a photo or some storyline from a novel or movie. They all come from the memory blanks just sitting around waiting to be explored.

Our brains are like flash drives with an endless supply of space for storage. Then it becomes like a gate with no key, until someone or something starts banging on that door to open up. Let the ideas and history flow… YRMV

 

I remember my parents (both aircraft engineers from the '30s through the '50s) saying: "Don't let yourself become close friends with Race Car Drivers or Aircraft Test Pilots, because it will break your heart at their funerals"...

 

Go over , go under , go around , go through it...thats how you get it done...Von Mac

 

“Chronological age is meaningless, it is the age of the soul, spirit and mind that really matters”


Hello,

In looking back, my brother was ahead of his time. At age 15, he had already saved enough from his afterschool jobs to buy his own first car. He was one of the youngest teenagers in his high school cl***, but that did not stop him from eyeing his friend’s hot rods and fast Chevy sedans as they went to school and cruised around Bixby Knolls.

To him, age was almost a non factor, but legally, it was. He could not get his license to drive until 16, but, our dad co-signed his first hot rod sedan at age 15.5 years old. So chronological age is set by society, but it does not affect how we feel at the time.

Actually, he was pretty specific in most things he did. Our mom always told me that he was smart and could do anything he put his mind to in school. Boy, we have all heard that statement… it must be a standard “mom thing.” But, he got good grades, played football and enjoyed fishing, camping and anything outdoors.

We both liked old cars, starting with going with our dad to the liquor store for his newspapers (3 different editions) and our entry into the mul***ude of magazines in the huge rack. This was the starting point of seeing custom cars and hot rods in those magazines.

I had my comic books and he had his hot rod/custom car magazines. Different but similar in reading tastes. Until I started borrowing his car magazines... Then, I could not get enough of them to read and add to my stockpile of re-read magazines.

Jnaki

As we both grew older, the limits of age played a big part in our lives. No more two on two basketball games, drag racing was fun and exciting, but we went to our last drag race together in 1961. But, something drew us together again and it affected our soul to the core. The surfing lifestyle seemed like it was low key, enjoyment to the fullest, and satisfying new adventures with each long distance coastal road trip. New places, new friends and new skills advancing with each surf adventure.

It was/is a lifestyle mind set...

When my wife and I took our son to his new dorm in Santa Barbara, it was a fabulous place. It looked good, easy access to the school, just down a few blocks and a great view from his desk area looking at the ocean. As we were sad in leaving him there after our good byes, we were wandering down the hall looking at the facilities. All of a sudden this older guy (a senior at UCSB) asked us if we found our dorm room and/or if we needed help moving. We chuckled at that question and that made our day… college kids...HA!

“…it is the age of the soul, spirit and mind that really matters”