Tradition vs "Tradition"!

Don't be so quick on that one. I've seen people bring a fox body Mustang back from the dead. But I will say that there are less viable modern cars that are worth messing with.

 

The second Mercury build by Sam Barris was purchased new in '51 by Boogi Bagain from San Pedro, Ca He took it right to Sam to customize and that Merc was called "Miss San Pedro". Would this be traditional today, depends on how you fell about tradition. I for one would not even consider doing a new car, there just too new for me.
"By the way the PT Cruiser is one butt ugly car" and doesn't belong at old car shows.

CRUISER

 

Geez,

you all make me sick.

Traditional hotrods are 30s cars done 50s style.

nothing more, nothing less.

If you want to gold chain your new crap, thats your business.

BTW hotroding isnt a "hobby" its a way of life.

Its like sex, some get it, some dont

 

Wow, if everybody thought that way, this hobby would be boring as fuck. Shouldn't you be bagging on someone for liking 4 doors?

 

I can appreciate some late model customs. I saw a '79 Malibu at a show the other day they'd made into a "Malibu SS" - by adding an '85 Monte Carlo SS nose and a wing to it. I wasn't paying attention, I thought to myself "another Monte Carlo" ... it took a second for it to dawn on me something wasn't right. After I stepped back and looked it over better, I liked it. Chevy should have made 'em that way. Real subtle, which made it stand out more once you noticed it. The blue dots on the taillights and even the backup lights were kinda gay, though.

I could appreciate a brand new custom if it was really done up right. A fancy paint job, tinted windows and blue dots ain't it. But if you could chop, drop and lower a new car, change the headlights and taillights and make it all work.. that would be worth looking at. It's an awful lot of extra bullshit to worry about though, airbags, seat belts, sensors, electronic gizmos to do everything but pleasure yourself going down the road.. well maybe even that if Onstar can connect to a 900 line. But I think it wouldn't be respected as much overall because to most people the new cars just don't have the soul the old ones do. I'm not sure when that first came about - the mid-70s I think. Because try and find anyone with big collections of 70s-80s cars they saved.. there aren't any. I can find '40s and '50s stuff a lot easier.

 

I interviewed Darryl Starbird years ago when he debuted "Debonaire", and his advice to builders was to "step up to the new sheetmetal, don't build for the past - build to the future".
He wasn't saying all the old stuff sucked, but to keep adding to the kustom legacy.

I also remember reading an interview with Ed Roth, and he was asked about the current movement towards the "hot rodding lifestyle". Big Daddy responded, "It's sick, it's living in the past - I don't understand it all".
Roth obviously loved all the old stuff, but he knew hot rodding was something you did no matter what clothes you wore, no matter what kind of haircut, whether you had ink, or not - hot rodding was something to be enjoyed and expressed within the framework of your life.

Just some advice from those many claim to emulate......

 

I find that the people who were part of forming the "tradition" are much more liberal about what qualifies, than those who have decided to join the "tradition".

 

Amen, and amen. Thanks, Rich.

 

I've wanted a bagged dually for a while now......

Anyway, sure it's traditional to go buy a new car and have Barris customize it, it's just not traditional yet.

 

What we need is a separate forum for eggheads to discuss the many interpretations of the word "traditional".

Myself, I like cars. Mostly old ones.

Can some one please kill this fucking idiotic worthless thread?

 

Me too I like cars and have since 1947.
Put this thread in the widow it's done!!!

 

You are right, guys...