For those of us old enough to be playing with cars in the 80s, "Jersey Suede" was the quintessential hotrod. In a sea of graphicladenmonochromaticpasteltweedrods Sorchiks car warmed the blood of many of us! Where has LittleBoris been?
All the cars in the Greazy Hubcapz c.c. (the Poor Boys put theirs up....figured I might as well represent the Greazies too). The Greazies are a great bunch of guys who build cars their own way for themselves. I'm proud to be part of that. Its pretty ****in' important to me. Tingler
i was thinking loudpeadals car while i read this post.i'm glad i wasn't the only one.jimmy whites coupe(to see it run in person was unreal).BIG RICS 40. the 40. and a list as long as my arm of other freinds cars like b***, 50 ford, flat blk, mike c.,kool kat,evil ford coupe,kartbreakers t,jakes stude wagon, hell even hudson hawks car.and many others that have a stand alone style of build it, drive it, and blow **** up.i may have a bi***ed opinion toward my friends cars but they all have a real important place in history for me.
The Choppers. The Shifters. The Throttlers. Ken Schmidt and Keith Cornell's three windows. Mark Morton's Jive Five. Jimmy White's stable. Clark's RPU and S-10 swaps. Sam's Roach Rod. My world is small though so I probably missed a lot. Ed
The Purple People Eater! I also think Rudy's truck has had more to do with the way 30's trucks are being built these days than anything else... Sam.
1. Kulturepimp's old 38 Ford truck...it was tough, crude, owner built and just cast that middle finger at***ude perfectly! 2. Bill Burnham's Old Blue roadster...he drove that heap all over creation and encouraged others to man up and drive theirs! 3. Rocky's Truck...some ragged mutts are just so easy to love, and this was a cl***ic case in point! 4. The Packford...Nads built a nasty little coupe that carries the HAMB spirit forward with no apologies! 5. Germ's 52...I mean, it runs a hopped up 215 for crying out loud...how Hard Core can ya GET?! (Plus, it's probably seen more strippers, coke and vomit than Robert Downey Jr!!!!) That's my Top 5, anyway!
I dont know where he's[Scorzic] been- but I have to wonder what he's building......It couldnt be a 34 could it?He bought a complete Mint floor from me a while back and I was just wondering......... NOW I WISH i had it back!......as I have two that need a floor.....
Those guys from Tenesse sure like to post pictures of their hot rods! I think that one custom chevy that Jesse James and those other guys on monster garage is pretty important, thanks, Paul
Though newly built traditional rods and kustoms are important and the envelope will keep being pushed, I think for the preservation of the style and era we should keep looking to the past. As time and fads have come and gone, different influences have worked their way into car building. Whether we want to admit it or not, 99.9% of the cars being built now in our scene are "traditionally styled" as opposed to truly traditional. I know my car fits in with the 99.9%. Since we're not in the 50's or 60's, what is now built is a rendering, with advances in technology and manufacture, as well as ability to get parts so radically different than things were when this was new. Don Garlits didn't call Jeg's for parts, Winfield didn't call Speedway for a headlight frenching kit...though if it was available they might have. What is possible now is so much more than could have been dreamed of then. We take **** like this for granted, they didn't even have MIG welders then. What I'm trying to say is, if the next generation is going to look to only the newer generation's cars as influential, it waters down the soup. It's like a copy of a copy, it's not as clear as the original. Keep looking foward, but always look to the past.
What about Jim Jacob's tub, before he plastered it with old magazine pages? That R&C cover with it next to Pete's Limefire deuce got me hooked in high school. Custom-wise. I know Jimmie Vaughn's lavender Fleetline had me drooling over trad. customs then, too. Jerry Duncan's flattie-powered, purple deuce five-window. American Rodder cover car. And you can't deny Robert William's deuce. Before the ugly-*** paint job. All those cars helped shape my idea of "cool". Before those, I just knew I liked cars. Jake
There are no truely 'important' "traditional" cars that have been built in the last 30 years... With the exception maybe of Bluey because a book was written about how to build a hot rod based on the build of Bluey. I think that was the important next step from what was started in the early days. Otherwise everything being built to be "traditional" is being done in a desperate attempt to attain some piece of the 'cool' that was being created in the 40s and 50s. My roadster included. Think about it... The cars that influenced the cars that have been mentioned in this post as 'important' were all built before Jimmy Shine was born. The only 'new' movement in hot rodding in the last 30 years, was started by guys like Boyd and the other gold-chainers. Those high-end, one-off cars were probably never even dreamed of by Isky and Navarro.
The important ones are the ones that inspire each of us to build one of our own. Mine was my cousins' A-V8 that I rode in once when I was 9 years old. That was enough inspiration to last a lifetime.
Hello I.m looking for something else and I found this old thread:NO mention of the Graffiti coupe,Norm Grabowski's T,or California Kid.Didn.t these rekindle the hotrod movement after the factory muscle car invasion?
don't forget about tampa chapter....we have cool rides too.....we're poor boys ...................................rooster
My car... because I built it, I planned it, and I drive the S-H-I-T outta it... most of you probably feel the same, yes?
the bubble car,purple people eater ( the shifters) Weesner's ford Jimmy Shine's truck Rudy's truck Mike Ness's 54 chevy Mc phail's chevy the very near future of the car i'm building.. and no it's not cherry pie.. it's way more amazing.
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