Correct me if I am wrong but I am sure I saw Dirty2s 32 Sedan in the new issue of Cycle Source magazine(featured with a bike). The guy featured (not a Dirty) takes full credit for the style of the car. WTF? Over.
Damn I dont see how people get the balls to do **** like that. He must be one bad *** check writer. I didnt know you sold the sedan though.
doesn't dirty make a living off of building cars? that's pretty red that guy would do that.....cowardly...
I slapped together the Hirohata Merc in 1952 when I was 4 years old. Nobody believes me...some guy with the name "Bob Hirohata" bought it because it had the same name as he did...whatta coincidence!
Hell Rusty send Santa in the Tirdee tree to tell him he's been bad. Hell big Ken can just hit it on the way home from the drags. hehehe
No , he's a custom bike builder in Pa. Bill Steele . He builds some wild bikes. www.steeleab.com check out his stuff.
That is a shame that people think they can take a well known, well traveled car that does not blend in in any surrounding and take credit for something created many years and many miles ago. We know where it came from Danny! He bought a car, but cant afford a clue!
$700 for a headlight? $4000 for a springer fork? What does this guy make his parts from, Inconel? I hope he paid $400,000 for the 32.
3wLarry, correction - 'I got friends'... Danny, everyone on the hamb knows who built the car if that's any consolation.
This kind of stuff has been going on for a long time. It's just been exposed since I invented the internet. Thought it up while I was at at Woodstock.
I always give credit where credit is due. The only thing I say about my efforts is...."I'm really good a tearing them apart" Although..I have mumbled ..."ya I built it" ....to people who don't care about what went into it....you know the type......they stop and say....."Mahn thats one bad *** car.....I got me a 77 Camaro, ahm gona do up som day..." (sorry if I offended the 77 camaro lovers)
Sad thing about it is that it happens all the time. Someone does something "unique" or something no one has seen before in it's setting, it gets sold and then somehow it looses who put the blood, sweat, and tears into it. I think that happens more times then not if you are building hotrods or customs. I am sorry
He gives credit on his website. "The Dirty Texan" I agree that taking credit for anothers work is wrong. But that isn't always the case of how it went down. Remember, that guy didn't write the article himself. So often those details are omitted from the article for many reasons. I'm not taking his side, just saying he may not have had the chance to correct anything, and the writer may have just ***umed he built it when he wrote about it. We all know who built that car. Isn't that enough.
Been doing this gig for over 30 years and have had several cars in the rod comics after I sold them, and several we did 50% or more of the work on plus lots of ch***is. New owners never seem to remember our name. Aww, it's hell to be famous anyway.
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