no prob... its only a message board...it can be hard to type out exactly what your meaning is, in so many words. I just was waiting for all the flaming arrows to come a-flyin' in...
Maybe because when they get driven a lot in all conditions and subsequently get scratched and chipped you can do touch ups with black permanent marker pens??
The more I think about hot rod trends...the thought popped into my head... Every decade it seems that a single trend dominates the rodding community.. 50's was the boom of hot rodding. Style met with speed. Wide whites, souped up motors, v8 started popping up. 60's saw more extravegent paintjobs, wider tires, more chrome, kustom body work, lots and lots of paint tricks and metalflake, lowered, chopped cars, gassers,... 70's became the muscle car era...big blocks, slicks, racing stripes on solid colors... 80's...I don't know what you people were thinkin'! TBuckets with waaaaay too much chrome. Small block chevys were being thrown into everything, completely going away from nostalgic motors, still heavy with muscle cars and big blocks...fuel injection motors, tweed interiors... 90's became the ProStreet craze. Wide tires, "clever" paint schemes, lots of tweed, the saturation of polished aluminum. Bigger big blocks, tubbed rear ends...and a small 'revolution' was starting, negating the 60k hot rods.. 2000's....? It seems that my generation is embracing old motors and old technology. Its getting back to garages and doing it the old fashioned way. It's an innocent retrospective of the roots of rodding I feel. I also feel that what we're doing has drawn attention away from the 'normal' hotrod, which is why I think most 'average', 'mainstream' rodders are gettin so cheesed off. The spotlight that they created has been robbed from them and all the high dollar hot rods are being overlooked and our low budget D.I.Y. neo-nostalgic sleds are becoming the New mainstream, created by a new generation of rodders, who weren't looking for the xtra attention to begin with. So, I guess in summation, 20 years from now, this era of rodding, has been redefined, and will probably be known for its style just like every other generation before...I can live with that.
only real problem being we are now moving into a "traditional" and "unfinished/rat rod" HIGH dollar, NON-d.i.y., eliteist snob mentality... but...someone has ta' sell folks their cool... 'cuz they got $$$$...and: THEIR BUYIN'!
Why is primer cool? Take a look at these before and after pics. I like to drive my car while I work on it if I can. Look at the '54 F100 would you drive it with those funky flames? Me either. The '59 Fairlane was black, blue, & rust... I drove it to a real cruise night in Arroyo Grande, Ca. and my wife went with me. A couple weeks latter she shyly said she felt a little embarrassed riding around in it the way it looked. I had Custom Colors mix me up some light blue primer and sprayed it on. As you can see the car still needed more work and that was done over a period of time.
I agree with gasser if you want a primer look without the moisture problem get a paint and add flattener.
Theres a difference between primer and flat paint... I keep mine flat so I dont have to worry about fucking up a 4 digit paint job. If I scratch my paint now, I reshoot it, no worries. There is no argument here. Cars can look cool flat, or shiny, or sparkly. Ive seen ugly ass cars with 10k worth of paint on them, and ugly ass cars with primer. And vice versa.
Well its not primer, its base coat. Black has a flatener in it. I like it cause I can touch it up with a rattle can and going down the highway nobody can tell.
Primer is the shit cause it makes it where you cant see real fucked up body work too good, apparently.
Primer is like a plain hamburger. Everyone likes 'em and you get what you expect. Meat and bread. The basics/the staple. Now, some people like tomatoes and pickles and lettuce and stuff and that is still a hamburger. Some people go crazy with avocados and ranch/thousand island dressing and frilly toothpicks. Still a hamburger. It's way harder to scrape mustard off the bun then it is to put it on. And that's why we like primer; we get to enjoy our ride while figuring out what to put on it.
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