Hot Rods The Real Hot Rods,blue collar guys, hard earned squeezed dollars, No Frills that started it all!

Read the entire thread Excellent!
Thank you
Dan

 

I feel like this one’s in Omaha still

 

ALL GOOD!!

 

Not in the fifties, but fifty years ago.
I was a broke, penny pinching, divorced guy with child support and a plan, thanks to R&C magazine.

Traded a $200 Model A coupe for an even rougher 31 roadster body. Not a 32 to be found. Oh well.
A $75 set of Z’ed 32 rails with a 32 grille shell
A $75 V8 201 Halibrand with a couple sets of gears and a spool from a roundy round guy
A $25 dropped and filled swap meet axle
A $100 pair of new hairpins
A $50 SBC
A $75 set of the three correct 2GC carbs off a guy’s 348, with intake.
A $50 Edelbrock 3-2 intake
A $10 flat top Mallory
A $20 set of Edelbrock valve covers
A $100 set of big and little ET slots.

So far, $780, but a long way to go.

Lots of swap meet deals back then. Even so, I had little/no money!

 

I'm just helping keep the Hot Rod spirit alive.

If you have a story, please share.

 

Though most of @Rocky hot rods feel in the spirit of the original post, when I went back and read it just now I thought of his 34 pickup.

A step into the way back machine and we flash back a few decades. @Tuck was barely out of school if out at all, @Kevin Lee was building a modified burnt into my skull ( there’s some old threads and storys to hunt down!) and a few years away from the first Kansas City speed and power runs. I believe Ryan himself was in Kansas City doing hoodlum ****.

The scene set I drove a few hours south to Omaha to see Rocky for some reason or another and this truck was there ready for a ride. It was probably the coolest thing I’d ever seen. An oily flathead, a rough as a cob body channeled and chopped, a shoe box ford dash and a seat cover that I think was buffalo fur straight out of a dumpster.

it was perfect.

It was the first time I truely had to cram myself into a hot rod and off we went! Careening around the Omaha suburb, rowing the gears on the 5 speed and cutting across fast traffic ways. It’s a core memory for certain. I’ve always loved that thing.

I’ll see if I can find the old video Tuck visiting him and them taking the truck around in the fresh snow. I’ve since lost it but I recall a photo of it parked in someone’s yard with snow up over the front axle.

 

Found the video



if you want to hunt for some story’s in the same vein if you go to the main forum and go to the bottom where it shows numbers of pages. Click on the highest number, once you do that it will basically keep giving you a higher page back until eventually it changes and asks something like “do you want to go back even further?”

you can get about twenty years deep! Just keep in mind long threads in the earlier days of the hamb didn’t really exist. Neither did build threads. There weren’t very many of us then. In comparison that the entire forum felt more like a group chat sharing updates does now. So you see little stories, little I made a brake pedal, little bits and pieces in individual threads.

good way to spend a lazy afternoon some times.

 

Great stories Tim, I got to admit I miss those days and it's hard to believe I've been here for 25 years.

 

Same!

 

In 1956 I built a '50 Ford with a Olds 303 and a LaSalle transmission running a little bit at Kansas City drag strip.

 

Just went through the entire thread, really great stuff. Thanks to all for sharing.