Goldchainers?

Hamb is a great place and there`s alot of interresting reading here that comes with the great knowledge that a lot of you guys have.
I keep getting amazed by all the cool stories about old hotrods beeing found, junk yard stories, and what you`ve found in cars through the years.
Thank you all for a very nice board.

But there is one thing that bothers me, each time someone has a nice car with high finish, special engine, or something cool generally they allways get the goldchainer tag immediately by several guys that most likely would be bragging all over about what they had if that was the case..
I agree that alot of the guys with extremely amounts of money are taking away the old charm that this hobby once had when alot of us started with these old cars.
But... most of us are down to earth guys or girls that try to make our cars as nice as possible with the income we get.
A lot of the cars i know of that are REALLY nice took alot of elbow grease to get this nice.
Take me, i`m a regular bluecollar guy down the street, that have a few cool sought after things for the cars i`m building that i`ve been able to get through freinds mostly, through years of very determined collecting or after my late father.

I`m pretty sure there are many her on hamb that dont tell too much about their treasures because they`re afraid they`ll get the goldchainer tag.

Sorry but this is just my opinion.

what`s yours?

 

The goldchainer-stamp is usually used in fairly good fun overhere I think.
But mostly it pertains (sp?) to guys who lack the skill/time/patience to built a (street- ) rod themselves and just buy one already finished.
Nothing really wrong with that, and it's more how that owner of such car acts to others.
But guys who make their rods themselves just because they have the skill/time/patience, and sometimes lack of money, just get more respect.

 

I know what ya mean, I always thought that term had some sort of hillbilly roots.

 

I think BigBlockMopar hit the nail on the head...if you build your own car you can pretty much do anything to it you want...including all the bling bling.

The problem is there are people out there that are skilled in areas other than car building that still love old cars. If they can pay to have one built to their liking and add the bling, more power to them.

Either type can be ***holes though...

 

There are great guys with and WITHOUT money. I personally don't like guys that brag about things or are show offs. There are great cars in our hobby that really need well funded owners to restore them properly, and working cl*** guys that have doen the same but taken a longer time with it. Saving the cars in the main thing, how you handle yourself in public will determine how you are a accepted.

 

you can work hard building your car, scrounge parts, use all your skills and determination, and lean on your friends for help, or your rich uncle can die and leave you a lot of money to buy a car with. if you are an ***hole, you're still an ***hole either way.
dan

 

Look at 3 Window Larrys coupe. I think it one of the best built cars I have ever seen. Does it have shiney paint? (yes) Does it have a tricked out engine? (yes) Is larry a Gold Chainer? Of couse not!!

If you saw someone at a NSRA show with his car and he didn't know anything about the car would he be a Chainer? My guess would be Yes because of the deep pockets.

I would love to have the cash, time and knowlage to build a car to compare with Larrys. Will it happen? I doubt it unless someone leaves me a **** load of cash.

Can you have fun on a budget? Hell Yea!!

JMHO

 

If your dream car is something that everyone else is dreaming about too...like a deuce...it has gotten damn hard to get in without a few yards of gold chain...but people here are STILL making amazing garage finds and people here are still building things like good '32's from heaps of s**** a real goldchainer wouldn't see as useful even for patch panels.
If you look around on here, you will find threads on rare cars being pieced together from a couple of wasted circle track jalopy quarters...and coming out looking like goldchainer grade bodies due the the sheer skill and scroungyness of Hambers.

 

A little humility and honesty go a looong way. I really don't care if you didn't/couldn't build yor car. There are a lot of folks out there who LOVE cars and don't have the opportunity to work on one. That is probably 95% of all the car lovers out there. Those of us who can/will/want/have to work on or build their car are the minority in the car world. BUT--DO NOT LIE about what you did or didn't do to the car. I can respect a guy who says "I have always loved this type of car, and when the opportunity came along, I jumped on it". I despise a liar or a fake, no matter what he did or didn't do on the car. I think "gold chain" is much more of an at***ude than anything. Don't forget - there are some rather large jerks running around in our little world of cars who CAN and DO build cars. Some of the "gold chainers" make much better company.

 

I don't have enough money for a gold chain cause I brought ALL this fun stuff

AND they turn your neck green!

 

To me the "goldchainer" label applies to someone who buys a car because it is the "in thing". He usually doesn't know anything about the car and doesn't do any of the work on it. But that's my opinion. Personally I don't care if they don't know anything about their car because it's usually good comedy watching them try to explain stuff to those who do know.

Bill

 

When I was 51 a friend of mine died and 4 years later his widow decided to sell his 33 Chev street rod. I told my wife that I should own it because I had more time in it than anyone other than the builder. My wife (the greatest woman in the galaxy) said if you've never had anything that really did it for you you'd better move fast, if you can find the money buy it. Three days later I re-financed the house and bought it. Does this make me a gold chainer, I hope not as I'm still making payments, and it's still worth it. I do however tell anyone that asks that I'm not the builder just the owner. To me thats the difference

 

some poeple that i,ve meet in this hobby have the p***ion and love for hot rods and customs but not the skills to build one but the have the monery to have it built i would not call them gold chainner but there are people that buy a done car just caruses its cool at this time and next year they sell it to buy a boat and brag that it has this brand name and that and had some big name builder did this and that then he could be a gold chainner

 

Somebody on here coined the phrase "rusty chainer", which covers multiple truths very well. A lot of our rusted **** from Hershey costs a lot more than the new, shiny **** the goldchainers are buying...and a lot of people are very proud of the s**** origins of their resurrected cars!

 

To me, a chainer is someone who buys a car as an accessory. It's never driven and his main focus is trophy collecting.

 

"Goldchainer" is more about at***ude then anything else.

 

gold chainer is the term used by some people, who like to sit on their fat ***es feeling sorry for themselves, to describe other people who are succesful in life.

 

I wore a gold chain in the 80,s
Had a sick mullet
rocked un laced high tops
listened to maiden
I was cool then
what happened to me?

 

I read a thread recently, dont remember the topic right now but one guy stated that he was worth $3 mil. Big freaking wo wo. All I could think was Gold Chainer and wondered if he subtracted his debt from his ***ets.

 

I think the term Gold Chainer is used by many to describe someone who has a nicer thing in a way to downgrade that thing. In actual fact a so called gold chainer may have paid their dues and may be fully capable of building their own car and may be able to do every thing a poor person can do, yet rather than admit that person has talent, someone calls them a gold chainer. Even if that person has other things to command his attention, if he doesn't do it all, hands on, he is called a gold chainer.
They are just people.
I have had all kinds of cars from award winning showcars to rust buckets that I saved from distinction, and I have never worn jewelry, so most people just call me a jerk, but in a nice way, because I'm armed.

 

It's apparent that the terms has a very different meaning depending upon who you ask. The thing that confuses me is that the term is usually used to belittle the person and therefore their car. If the car kicks ***, it kicks *** regardless of whether the guy built it or bought it just as the guy can be an *** regardless of his car.

 

Goldchainers are everywhere,even on a traditional messageboard.

 

A goldchainer is someone who somehow went from no hotrod to hotrod without acquiring any stories, broken bones, burns, or scars along the way.
Sad.

 

When is this "goldchainer" ******** gonna be put to rest? Who gives a **** if the car a guy has was built, or bought? What difference does it make if he has an at***ude? Hell, just stay away, but damn, don't put a label on them. I see most using the term "goldchainer" to anyone that has more than them. I tell you what, if this individual didn't buy your hot rod cast offs you would be whinning about not be able to p*** one on to start another rod. I can go on but I'm sure I've already pissed a lot of you short sided thinkers off.
Cheers.................

 

I pulled this quote off of one of the "Paso" threads. Looks to me like it should work both ways.



"It's completely unrelated to the topic, but it's sad that people are stereotyped and not given a chance, or opportunity to prove/disprove the stereotype to be true before they are judged."

 

Please tell everyone how they can become true traditionalists. How can someone join the exclusive traditional club? Do they first have to sell all their jewelry and strip the paint from their cars. What about the poor guy that actually lived through the traditional period and likes jewelry. I lived through it, hate jewelry, and my truck is still shiny. I am so confused.

 

"Please tell everyone how they can become true traditionalists"

It's EASY. Just make a flying guess at how rods were and how their owners looked and lived in a randomly selected year a decade or two before you were around. Then viciously attack anyone who guesses differently.
For extra points, put out a magazine based on tour hallucinations.

 

I think of 'chainers as those guys who were 40 when I was in HS who thought that hot rodding was theirs, and theirs alone. They wore silk shirts un****oned to their navel with three ****ed up gold chains and a carpet of chest hair sticking out.
They were rockin' out to disco music and snorting coke of some ******s chest and removing the drip rails from their rides and hoping that the baby blue paint would really set off the ***gy pink graphics and the centerline 500s.
In the mid '90s (after re-hab in the late '80s) they would scoff at my nose-high primered '51 tudor with flathead and lowering blocks and smittys and then go have a near-beer with their trophy wife while sitting behind their '34 ford kit-car and blow off anybody who had the balls to ask about their cars.
Now they wander around the car shows in their goodguys t-shirts and drive up in an Escalade with red steelies. They are on their third trophy wife, who is sick of hearing them tell the guy in the traditional hot rod about how it's just not quite correct because when he built hot rods back in the day they would have never put a Mexican blanket on the seat because jc whitney sold good seat covers for only $3.95.
It's not about money, it's about a ****ty at***ude. It's about thinking anybody not in the secret handshake club is an a-hole. That's why we have to let the young guys hang out with us, even if we think that they are too eager...I don't wanna be a gold chainer.

 

...tennis anyone?

 

TENNIS?? Sorry, only bowling with 5 color shoes and team jackets is trad, Larry. You're OUTTAHERE!!

Blasted chainers...