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Here's one for ya, Which one is the gl*** car ???

 

What a Hatfields and McCoys topic.....

I get why guys that own original Ford steel bodied cars get a little tweaked when they see a gl*** car...The perception is that the owner of the gl*** car took the easy or order by phone route..Having an original steel Ford means you took the effort to have the "read deal". Not everyone wants or can afford the cost of a steel car..wheteher its Henry Ford or stamped last week. Most of the time the gl*** car will be affordable..I have seen steel cars I wouldnt want and gl*** cars I wouldnt want..and vice versa. As far as fake..yes, a gl*** car is a kit car period..a new bodied steel car is a kit car...an original Ford body is not..now I do feel it is like the pot calling the kettle black when guys knock gl*** cars that look traditional and then claim their car is real when they themselves started with a stock body and "cloned" yes, "cloned" their original steel body car to look like something built in the mid century..If your Henry Ford built steel bodied car was "built" into a hot rod during the late 40's-60's then you have something truly unique and deserve to feel a little offish when you see someone pull in with a gl*** or steel car that has been cloned into what your car really is(even though that may make you a *****)..but after all that is said and done I still like to look at them both and can appreciate the effort that goes into both..The "original" car will always have something that a gl*** or new steel bodied car will never have and that is history..History is a big deal and is cool..So, original hot rods will always be that much cooler than any "new" car whether its new steel or gl*** or a good clone of what a traditional car is supposed to be..Alot of the people on this forum drive really nice clones of traditional rides and they shouldnt forget that when they knock other peoples cars..
Here was our clone 32....

 

The RPU.

 

They make fake ***s also, are you telling me they are worthless too?

 

So what would some of you haters say if you ran a gl*** car and it looked like a 32?

Few people outside the hobby would understand if you told em it was a 2004 Special Construction car.

Easier to say it's a 32, most everyone understands that.

Looks like an old car and probably to the observer it is.

And where the hell are the snotty comments when it's face to face?

Frickin bunch of 14 year olds....

 

And the reason ??? Although your 1/2 right

 

My last car was steel, the one I'm building now is gl***. If anybody wants to tell me it is fake or ****, go ahead, as long as they don't mind me telling them their wife is an ugly bushpig, or their daughter is the local bike. Land of the free, freedom of speech and all that .....

 

They are not worthless by no means but you have to appreciate the "real" ***s that look so good you think they are fake...right????

 

Heres a new one, for me anyway. A couple of my "musclecar" buds stopped by and I told them about this thread, They told me in the musclecar world they would call "gl***" cars "tribute" cars. I am still laughing my *** off. Why does everything these days need a "label"? I just call em hotrods.

 

This is why I own Ramblers.. too much drama..noone cares if its steel or gl***, real or fake..in fact noone really cares at all

 

In the late 30's-early 40's Henry experimented with plastic bodies made out of soybean resin, much like the stuff that was used in plastic radios, etc. of the period. Several complete cars were built, and part of Ford's reasoning was that he wanted to help out the nation's farmers which is why he also advocated switching the nation over to alcohol as a fuel instead of petroleum. Henry wanted these plastic bodies and pushed hard for them to be successful, but they ended up being expensive and too much trouble, but it begs the question, what if? If all old Fords from the late 30's on would have been produced with resin bodies, would they all be fake? would more have actually survived because they wouldn't rust? Something to think about.

 

you know i'm going to do something i try not to do.give my opinion! "i don't give a **** if these 3 cars are HOT WHEELS, they are wicked looking. they have "IT" what ever "it" is! sorry for the opinion

 

Good words "coupster" . In this neck of the woods, IF you can find a "gennie" 32 body of any description, you will be up for 20k plus...outa my ballpark. I'm currently looking at a Model A roadster, fibregl*** body, boxed ch***is, flathead (in pieces) and other bits and pieces, $6k for the lot!! And thats a cheap deal!!. Saw a Model A roadster steel body at Kumeu swap meet on Saturday all panelled but still needing work for $15k. Steals great but not always affordable. My avatars fibregl*** and a whole heap of fun! My 2 cents worth.

 

Oh my ****ing god! How dare they think that their own personal time is worth more than $5 each hour.

I think they should purchase a ratted out piece of **** 32 body for $10,000 (If they're lucky) and then spend another 2000+ hours making it right. So luckily their cheap labor brings the total cost of the body up to a cool $20,000.

****, that totally makes more sense than buying a nice $13,000 rolling ch***is with fibergl*** coupe body!

Nice cars by the way.

 

its fake, its ugly, and I don't have any funnn with it>>>

yea RIGHT

 

Heres mine,

It's not a "kit". The body was hand laid from a mold in Holly Hill, FL. The frame was custom made. Everything else was pieced together.

Capt. Don

 

Here's mine It's all that I could afford after I got divorced 3 years ago, love every miniute of it, drive it whenever I can. Yes i would have a gennie 32 but I would have to live in it as well as I would have to sell the house to own one

 

This is way too much fun...........................don't stop now. I like hot rods!

 

See if I can make them bigger

 

Well I drove a "enry" steel roadster from 1984 to 2000. Sold i for medical reasons. Life ****s sometimes.
Little story:
I was at a car show, sitting within sight of my car under a tree enjoying some conversation, when this guy starts rapping on the rear quarter panel. I walked up to him and asked hime what he was doing. He siad I was trying to see if it was a real car or not. Like what difference should it make to him. I politely asked him which car was his and it was a beautiful chopped Merc. I stolled over and looked at it for a second an then proceeded to rap on his quarter panel. Let me tell you he had no sense of humor. So get real guys we all have hard work in our cars.
I now drive a 32 5 window real "Henry" steel. When I was able to get back into the hobby, I seriously thought of a fibergl*** car but decided to take it slow and found an old time hotrod. There are few steel cars out there that havent been built before so guys building steel cars probably arent the first builders of the car.
Im glad I hedl out for a steel car but the fibergl*** cars have help keep the hobby affordable and possible alive.

 

Unless you stumbled across a gennie '50s hot rod that was stuck in a barn for decades, you're building a fake.
Traditional hot rods are all about the LOOK & FLAVOR of the old days. If you are that much of a little ***** that you think 'gl*** means its a fake, then you're on the wrong site. We like traditional hot rods here, & the 'gl*** cars are every bit as ****in' traditional as a steel gennie. If the builder captured the look & style the HAMB honors, then they deserve the respect that gennie steel builders get.

 

If the HAMB was only open to those cars and their owners, there wouldn't be much going on.

The Berkeley ( '56 to '60 ) had a gl*** body.
Jaguar introduced disc brakes on their '53 LeMans Racers.
R&P sterring was on the Morris Minor which was ( I believe ) introduced in the late '40s.
etc...

That doesn't make a smooth Boydster with MII based IFS Trad...


These kind of Threads are pretty pointless.