Street Rodder Mag builds ???????? truck

So, in the most recent issue of Street Rodder, the editor provides the first installment of a series of articles on building a 47-54 Chev truck. Or to be more exact, a series of articles on "***embling" a truck using parts from the Mag's advertizers. Let's see: Repop cab $9,000 + shipping; New Chasis $10,000 plus shipping; new bed $2,500 plus shipping. Yet to come, fenders, hood, inner fender panels, engine, ******, gl***, upolstry, wiring. Gee, can we spend $40-50 grand and ***emble one of these ourselves. Gosh, I can hardly wait to get out my check book and become a real "Street Rodder".

What was I thinking when I build one for my wife a quarter of that price. Or I could have bought one of these trucks, actually built by someone, at this Summer's hot rod shows. Saw a good one last weekend for $10,500 and a top of the line build for $22,000.

Great vendor pandering Street Rodder

 

do you know why there are 9k cabs on the market?

because people are buying them. different strokes they say. it ain't worth that to me, but if a customer is paying i'll be glad to start with new metal instead of a thrashed old farm truck.

 

Info-mercials.

I long for the days when the magazines were written for the average hotrodder instead of Daddy Warbucks.

 

hopefully that rodder trend will p*** too! and the sooner the better.

 

Advertisers pay more for there adds every month then we do for a subscription.It's good business for them to show case the products they run adds for in there magazine.If you were wanting to buy some of said company's parts wouldn't you like to know how they fit and if they worked correctly?

 

I agree. I used to subscribe to Car Craft for the same reason, then they got all "budget builds for under $9000!" It's like, hey, how about throwing a set of headers and a 4bbl on and run a dyno for us peons...

 

If they fit and worked correctly. Mmmm...

 

Come on guys, easy on the 'zines, I mean, heck, they gotta eat to! And after all, I really enjoy Sheep Rodder, a few months ago they had that article, oh what was it called? oh yeah, "1001 ways to build a 1932 Ford Roadster like 10,001 others all ready done"

 

same reason i dislike the saturday morning hot rod/truck/4x4 shows......they are like, hey we'll just throw this whatever kit on and go, yeah, lets do it.........they kind of elude to the fact that they might have saved up 6 months or more for a big purchase for their project, when you know they got it "donated" by the mfg.

I like the HAMB and other sites like it, mostly real rodding and car guy life, i scored this cheap/free or saved up for it stuff..........

my 2 pennies worth

 

Has anybody priced a brand new Chevy truck lately?

A new one will set you back $20K and you get all the fun and attention that anybody driving a lawn service truck gets...

 

Have you ever seen a magazine honestly slam one of their advertiser's products quality ? You can count on a sugar coating of any issues that arise due to quality on any of the parts they use.

 

I thought half the fun was taking something old and making it new or usable again, and showing the rest of the world what you could do with a creative twist. Not just going to the auto super store and spending mega bucks (like anyone of the common folks have it to spend) and buying the latest and greatest stuff on the market. I glad the mags are out there and are into the hobby like most of us are, but a build of that expense is not smart in mo.

 

At least, sometimes,CarCraft will tell you parts # and what the stuff costs. In the past, they've run some sequential build articles where they went from a tune-up through ignition,carbs and heads, running it on the dyno each time to ***ess the performance increase/$. Can't recall SR doing that and I gave up on SR Builder long ago.

The mags are pretty cheap (supported by those advertisers) but they are what they are-entertainment. You won't see many home-built rods in there-that's not where the money is.

 

The best thing about Car Craft magazine is, they bought back Kr*** and Bernie.lol.

 

All the budget builds are a joke, one mans budget is not anothers....I like the idea of the "budget road racer" like the one Kirk! is building but price it out after everything not mentioned and your well above 20k, even with out Kinmont brakes (7g where you gonna find them for that!!!) neat idea but budget to me is under 10k actually under 5k and now your impressing me.
Mags are what they are fun to look at while taking a ****!

 

I thought the price of a cab only got up to $1K if it came with a clean ***le that the DMV would process so that you ended up with your name on it.

 

These budget builds they do are a bunch of ****. On Gearz Stacey went to a junk yard, got an entire front clip to a 50's Buick, a nailhead, steering column and steering wheel, and a TRAILER full of other parts all loaded up by the junkyard for....... $200! Yeah, right! They were trying to offset the cost of the repop '32 roadster body and frame. So the "budget" builds are seriously out of wack when they get "car show" discount pricing....

 

I really hate that sat morn, mullet wearing, laff box, klown, man he gets under my skin ! I hope he torchs out a diff one day and it falls on his foot! HO HO HO!

 

I have hardly any ads so am I ok? That was sad joke if your wondering.

 

There's a place for every build in this world. Why do we seem to worship professional builders while deriding their clients?

Truthfully, if you're paying a professional to build the truck that repro cab is probably cheaper than paying 9G a thousand at a time to get the crustiness removed from the nooks and crannies.

Whatever the cost, it'll be a freakin nice truck.

 

Oh yeah, I think this says it all! I know it has been on here before but for those who have not seen it;

 

Never understood a repop steel 47-54 Chevy cab. There's zillions of originals around for cheap!!!

 

OK, this how i see it, most guys i know think you HAVE to buy the high dollar parts or you'r not in the "loop" so I'm out scrounging around in yards, groves, ect. for the parts i need....I couldn't compete with their $$$ if they needed the "old" parts...THIS WHY I LIKE THE OLD SCHOOL TREND MY LOW BUCK STUFF IS COOL AGAIN!!!

 

I have said the same thing many times when the subject has been brought up.
As for the article in the mag, it's entertaining to me. Street Rodder does offer some good stuff, so i'm not going to bash the mag. So when i see builds like this, i just take it with a grain of salt knowing that thing's can be done differently than the way they are doing it. Just like the truck build. Even though there is new items that can be bought, it dosn't mean it's the best way to go..just another option.
For what they have invested in the cab and ch***is, i have built my complete truck and am driving the wheels of it.
Some guy's however can't do that and would rather just start with new stuff, or, for the ego trip, buy the new stuff to say they did who knows... If they have the cash so be it. It leaves the originals for the rest of us to buy up and build..That's cool with me.
I just read it and gather thought's and idea's for when i build my own stuff.


Tony

 

It would be fun to see someone take a real truck and build it along side the Street Rodder truck, then see what the cost difference is. I understand those that want to use new steel, esp. in the rust belt, but it seems like there are still lots of 48-54 Chev pickups out there that are decent to start with. A number of years ago I read an article in a motorcycle periodical (I think it was Cycle News) that was written by a guy that had a friend that worked at Street Rodder. He asked his friend what the purpose of the publication was, as Cycle News defined their purpose as reporting news about the motorcycle industry and racing events to the enthusiast. His friend said that the purpose of Street Rodder was to sell advertisers product, and everything they did was directed toward that goal. Both publications still operate, but I'd bet Street Rodder makes more money. I still read CN but not SR.

 

I thought their build had a lot of cool ideas, but the Kinmont suggestion was a little wacky. I have yet to see a set for under $6000, and that's for a set that needs to be restored! Pretty much everything else they were suggesting could be done on the cheap.

As for my car, without Matt Seret's incredible skills it would be just another car. If I had to pay retail for that kind of talent (because I don't have it) and for the fab work I have done, the Legion Special would probably already easily be in the over the $60k mark. And that's only because Matt has a reasonable shop rate of only $75/hour. Some of the shops out there are getting $150/hour and more! At that rate a check-writer would already be in for well over $100k.

The moral? Find friends who have the skills you lack and collaborate or at least trade labor for labor or parts for parts. Hot rod friends are good to have!

 

I think Street Rodder has come a long way in the past few years. They have actually featured a lot of cool cars lately and I subscribe.

But I agree, I can't see why anyone would want to pay that for a new cab when I p***ed on 3 decent complete trucks for $1,000. Of all of the cool cars out there they could have repopped in steel, they pick the most common truck cab known to man????

 

Yes, I would; but I doubt the magazines are going to say anything negative.

 

9k and the fitment of these trucks are poor at best! from what i'm told the original stuff won't fit so you have to buy the repop ****! the market gets saturated when everybody offers a 32'-34' fords and profit margin falls to zero so they start building something different to support the aftermarket. creating sales=$$$$

 

Yep Rick Seiman (Super Hunky) slammed Yamaha who was the biggest advertiser in the mag at the time and caught holy hell for it. this was in the early 70's IIRC and that was the last time I saw a real slam, other than consumers report