HEY MOTHER****ER!! WHAT'S YER ****IN PROBLEM?!? WHAY YOU GOTTA START ****?!! SHOVE YER POPCORN UP YER OLD-LOVIN ****IN ***!! Ok 3W, hows that? I DO hope you know that was all in fun...
Alright, I'll entertain you popcorn eaters. I posted the shot of the scalloped, white-walled magnum on the whitewall thread. That was wrong of me and I'll tell you why... There's a Kustom club (who shall remain nameless) here in town that build some really nice rides, the best I've seen. I really appreciate their cars and would love an opportunity to hear their stories. However, they sit off to themselves in their lawnchairs and have pretty much ignored me when I've said hello. At a show last fall, I was bored with all the billet so I took a walk around the park. I was at the far end of the park when I notice one one of the Kustom club members obviously lost. I walked over and gave him directions to get into the car show (about a 1/2 mile away). He thanked me and drove off. Later in the car show, as I was pulling a barley soda out of the trunk, this same guy walked by and thanked me again for helping him. He says "that your car? I've checked it out at a few of the cruise-ins . Your making good progress on it, seams like its better every time I see it. Don't see many '46 chevy grills on '46 chevys , back in the day we used those grilles on all of our kustoms. etc..." Then we go on BSing about some of his cars. Nice guy, glad I got to meet him. So, after a few minutes, he spots some of his buddys heading our way. He hurriedly left and I felt like he didn't want his buddies to see him talked to someone who wasn't one of them. A few minutes later I notice that magnum and had to get a pic of it. After reading this thread and giving it too much thought, I realize that I would have treated that magnum owner exactly the same way the that those old-timers treated me. Thats not good and we all need to accept the other guys in our hobby and stick together. There, I feel better now. Tom
what the hell is traditional? the gow jobs of the 20,s the track cars of the 30. wwII customs, the hot rod mag cars of the 50 and so on. to me it would be 55-57 chevys the cars of my youth. i expect the hondas will be some ones traditional car some day.
That's nice, I think. Guess I don't know ****an and if I don't know him I'm sure his opinion doesn't mean a lot to me. If you see something you don't like ***** and whine about it. Hell if you do it enough you can have the whole damned world to yourself.
I was wondering when either Liberace, Chachi, or the bunny with the pancake on his head would show up for the popcorn. Or lowriding Hitler.
You just spat upon me and fogged up my gl***es while ranting...and I don't recall ****ing your or anyone else's mother...
At one time nobody with a "hot rod" would be caught dead with w/whitewalls,only customs had them.Now everybody calls them "traditional".
It's a HONOR to follow 3WLarry my biggest supporter ! & For that matter the rest of You ! YOUR mostly "ALL" right. As true to Our believes about RODINN as Our Opionion's. I like a shine car now and then. I like a Faded Light Gray Primed 50 Olds 88 coupe with Red Rims Better ! Why my 1st car. Someday another 88. Ratrods I see on HAMB are kool. We all don't have deep pockets, Some do. Some of them drive ratrods. Like the Harley's. KOOL AMERICAN IRON. 2 or 4 Wheel. When it's in, it's IN ! The homemade intake & exhaust manifolds and other components, We have some Wizard's on HAMB. I like to drive my stuff as I build it. Yea there's a lot of silkshort's, out there as my buddy call's them.
Holy ****, Duration hit it on the head. With that said... I'll still **** talk something I don't like but the owner of that P.O.S can tell me to @#$% off. LOL!
Ohh...I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm your biggest supporter,....but I do recall verbally kicking you in the nuts a couple of times...
FWIW. A couple years ago a 90ish Chevy truck showed up in Paso that was Pearl yellow and had Pearl green flames that were very well done. It was slammed, had steelies painted a color to compliment the truck's paint job with fat whites. It was just cool as ****. I really dug it. So, if a guy likes the conveniences of fairly new, and a traditional look, i believe it CAN be done. It's tricky. But this guy really pulled it off. It was *****en. Someone put a picture of it up here BEFORE it went to blackwall tires please
well after reading 4 pages of posts, can I kick some **** into the pile I don't think half the people read the original post and the other half didn't understand what they read. it seems like the old ****s (like me) that were there. are listening to the younger ****s, that want to be like the old ****s when they were young! then use all the old stuff on new cars that are meant to look old. but be careful not to use new stuff that might make the old stuff better than old stuff. All I know is I've always been a Rodder and never had an old car till I got old! (65's not old! I still respect my elders and learn from ANY ONE that has more knowledge on a subject.) in '57 I had an old '41 chev (16 year old car, that's like a '91 chev now) I ran 5 '56 Fords the last one had a 360 horse 327 chev in 64 (that's a 8 year old Ford, like a 99 Ford now with a 2006 chev motor) I had a cad powered '48 plymouth, 374 Packard Powered '51 Olds, 289 ford powered gl*** T-bucket ect. my car list totals over 200 and over 20 motorcycles. I don't remember anyone putting me down over a traditional car in '59 I had a '59 Triumph Bonneville and a '59 NSU Prinz (the Prinz might have been in a few conversations had I not had the fastest bike in town) You all have fun and respect each others right to live their life without all the drama and pop corn issues (I'll have salt and real ****er please.........Jim
I dig, and appreciate your perspective. I'm not trying to be argumentive(?), but a 7-8 or 9 year old car back then was cool. A new bike or car in 59 was cool. MANY vehicles back then were instant hits/cl***ics! The tides have shifted some in recent years, and there's nothing cool(opinion) about a 7-8 or 9 year old car anymore considering what's available
I've gotten some good ideas from cars that, overall, I didn't like that much. I see a lot of cars that I think would look a lot better if they were painted a different color or had a different wheel/tire combination, different upholstery, or whatever. I like some makes/models/body styles better than others. Don't we all? The only thing that really bothers me are cars that are cobbled together so that they are unsafe, erratic in handling, or unreliable. I like cars and trucks of the '30s, especially Ford trucks, and most especially '38/'39 Ford trucks better than anything else. I've owned my '38 Ford pickup 41 years, since I was 14 years old--you can do the arithmetic and calculate my age. I have no desire to own a '60s Mustang, an older Camaro, or a '55-'57 Chevy--no offense to the guys who own/drive them, they are just not my favorite vehicles. Likewise, I don't take any offense if the Mustang/Camaro/Tri-5 Chevy guys don't dream of owning a '38 Ford pickup. Having said that, I appreciate good workmanship and sound engineering no matter what it's on. I can appreciate good body work and a good paint job no matter what it's on. No matter what kind or style of car it is, I'd rather see it cruising down the road than broken down on the side of the road because a suspension part failed due to a poor weld, or involved in an accident because it couldn't stop in a straight line. As long as there is good workmanship in it, and it's safe, reliable, and driveable, you won't hear me bad-mouth it. As long as the guy (or gal) who owns it is a decent person who doesn't trash my old truck because it's not a '68 Camaro, I'll socialize with him (or her) talk cars with him (or her), and I'll admire and say something positive about the good workmanship in his/her car. If the young kid in our club needs an extra pair of hands to help hang the doors on his Camaro, I'll go over and help him even though his Camaro is not an old Ford truck.
Look through pics from the dry lakes of the 30's,40's and early 50's where hot rodding "began",not many w/whites till later.Yes they are traditional,but they weren't period correct,on all hot rods.For example would Ryan's coupe look right with them,i don't think so.I didn't say i don't like them just that things evolve.
Groucho I would be the first to admit that I'm stuck in the 50's. always have been. I've stated time and again that "I haven't changed, but the cool thing I come back in style every 20 years! With my 50's at***ude I would be comfortable customizing a Prowler, PT Cruiser with new Hemi's. all these retro cars were aimed at the baby boomers with cash flow. I'm older and poorer than the target market, Dammit!! 29bowtie I wasn't born when Hot Rodding "BEGAN"! I believe it started when the first Roman hitched a second horse to his Charoit and we've been adding horse's ever since!! On the white walls I can remember buying and installing one white wall at a time! a used black wall was $3.00 and used white wall was $5.00. I was making 65 cents an hour sitting up trays at Gwinns Resturant and Drive in (for you youngsters before drive thru's we used to park and get served our food in our cars. we had trays that you see with the fake malts and burgers along with the cry baby dolls, We also had trays that attached to the steering wheel that made it almost impossible to eat. I used to put the place mats, napkins salt and pepper shakers on the trays for the car hops that ran their ***es off, no roller skates) worked 4 hours a night thurs. fri. sat. and sun. you do the math and you'll see $2.00 made a difference. hot rods didn't need white walls to go fast. but if you had the cash you had white walls guaranteed same deal, this is not Hot Rodding, it's restorations tradition and restore are the same thing and if some one in the west does a mid-west or east coast tradition it's wrong! if one picks and chooses or blends it's wrong! if one thinks on their own it's wrong! and some times a extension of tradition, it's wrong! everything is a matter of preception. if we were all alike. everyone would drive the same make. model, color and year cars! We're not! I find it offensive when some one tells me my ideal life is wrong. dare to be different? Not Allowed! I value your opinion as long as it's the same as mine!! I'm Done Now.....Jim
Just because this is a traditionally focused site doesn't mean that we think all contemporary hot rodders are schmucks... It just isn't something we focus on. With that in mind, posts focused on the contemporary stuff are usually more appropriate on other sites...
Exactly my point! traditional is where I'm at! I've got 20+ motors laying around and not one 350 chev in the bunch. I don't knock the 350's great cheap motors. I think what I was after is the tolerance of others theme
For me, Traditional is a car built to look like our "Founding Fathers" did back then. So what if you use Superbell axles, restamped frames, patch panels and aftermarket grills. Sometimes Practicality overcomes for safety, otherwise your driving a rat rod or lawn art. If you achieve the look, feel and p***ion of the car to make YOU happy, that is all that matters. Who says insert bearings in a Banger motor are traditional?
I think traditional is running a radiator with a stock filler neck. All these guys with pressurized radiators call themselves traditional, yet they have thet ugly filler neck sticking out into the engine compartment. Come one people, you can re-position the neck, engineer a new rad to look old. And filling a stock rad with military coolant means you don't need a pressurized system. I see way too many cars with "bolt on" "catalogue bought" items....to me...that's not traditional, it's called you were too lazy to build it right the first time, too lazy to hunt for an original part and make it work, rebuild it or whatever.
It's all down to our personal realities. My grandson taught me this on his third day of kindergarden when he said, "I miss the good old days."
3WLarry...any popcorn left? I like tabasco on mine plz.. If there are parts available out there that is bolt on, there will always be one person that will be bolting that piece/part on. There will also be one person that will disagree why he bolted that piece\part on.. I personally do not care. to me "tradition" means interest in cars(all cars) and company of good car minded people just like they did it back then. My car makes me happy but the company of good people keeps me coming back. A way a car looks should be left to the owner. So If you don't like it, buy it and change it. If you find you don't have the funds to buy it keep the negative opinions to yourself. my.02
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