does this look like a safe front end...built by a professional?

Man, this has been beaten to death and I susually don't comment but I can't understand why people go out of their way to build cars that LOOK like **** and are probably as FUNCTIONAL as ****.

Seriously, a lot of the cobbled together 40's lakes cars by kids in Junior high were better built/looking and more functional as daily drivers as well than some of these POS rides you see in magazines these days. Whatever happened to skill, ingenuity and pride in one's work guys?

I realise some of these types of rides have their place (some are quite kool and look/perform right) and I ain't closed minded, but seriously, it does NOT take skill/ability/planning or even experience to build these types of cars. I won't even go into the safety aspect of come of them. Most are probably trailer sailors that get a free ride into Santa Maria or Viva till about 5 miles outta town, then get unloaded and their owners boast that they were driven all the way. ********....

That being said, compare the work on this car to any number of other Hamber's projects and you'll see what I'm talking about. Night and Day.

B*** are you with me?

Rat

 

I agree with striper, it's not an uncommon way of doing it just very poorly done.

 

Simply because there are people that see more value in joining the herd of those wowed by the fad du jour than building a car which demonstrates the builder's skill and ingenuity. This car is The Theatre Of The Absurd with four wheels. It's a rolling case of not just "monkey see, monkey do". It's much more. It's also a case of anything a monkey can do, another monkey can carry do more poorly just to get the attention of other monkeys. For the sake of us all, pray that this fad ends soon, and sanity returns to hot rod building before the hobby is irrepairably damaged by this genre of vehicle.

Bob

 

I was trying to throw the guy a bone, but he lost me when I read "NO SEATS I LIKE TO SIT ON THE FLOOR."

I haven't read enough about suicide front ends, but I've heard they're not the best design, and that's why we stopped making 'em in America pretty early on.

To comment on the rest of the ride: I think it's channeled too much, I hate motors that are leaned back, and I'm not a huge fan of rakes, but I actually like the chop.

 

I agree with Bob....

Rat

 

I'm honestly trying to figure out whether it's meant to be a joke and supposed to be boogered up like that, or if that's just the best that the builder could do. At least everything is in the right place, and I've seen much better execution and workmanship on stuff that had much worse geometry and placement. For example, the radiator is the same height as the cowl. How often have you seen them not line up, and the steering box and the motor mounts even look halfway right, which are usually goofed up on nicer cars.

What do you think, really?

Still makes me cringe though.

 

It's so chopped and channeled there's probably no room for seats.

The thing is the car looks ****ing goofy from the side with the front wheels way out there, and it probably could have been built just as low with the wheelbase 15" shorter and looked a little better.

I mean Christ, I could throw a piece of **** like that together too - $18,000 for a car with no seats and no paint and all the detailing of every ****ty clunker from the you-pull-it yard? Master "Fabricator", I think that's spelled wrong, it should be spelled "Bater" ... then again, anyone noted the mag this appeared in, if it's the one I think it is, to have a great fact-checking department? I mean most states anyone can get a DBA and call themselves a "professional" ...


Now as to being safe, that I can't say I'm an expert at - I guess if he wants to drive it himself that's one thing, but I'd have a hard time trying to sell it to someone that way. Even if it never fails and someone comes up with tests that show those bones need the weight of a locomotive on them to bend.. people are still going to see it and think it's unsafe. So why not weld up some more metal s****s to give some means of fail-safe at least? Headlight stands with shock mounts or something. Buy a brand new spring to put on it instead of one with 75-odd years of fatigue on it already. Make an effort to at least cover the bases if you have to have it designed that way. I don't get that.

Then again you go over to that magazine's web board this is the same bunch of retards ripping our stuff up and down because they don't even understand an asking price. But if that piece of **** is worth $18,000, I should double the prices of all mine, because other than the parts what's invested in that car? A $300 junkyard motor and trans combo and $50 or $75 in welding supplies? Oh yeah, and $500 in tires.

 

pretty obvious what we think and we ain't digging for peanuts in a turd.

 

I sure am glad to see that some of you are FINALLY drawing a line between tradtional hotrods and customs and a lot of the **** we see on this forum that does not fit in here.

 

Man if that guy is a master fabricator then I am a Grand Master fabricator.

 

if you blow a tire..you are skidding on the frame into the woods or on comming traffic...this is my second point...anything lower than the the wheel rim...bad juju baby..your gonna not steer your rod to a safe stop...your gonna go where the frame takes ya...and i dunno ****?

 

I think he meant "**********"............just didn't know how to spell it!

 

There are other sites out there for this kind of stuff...