Hey… look ..There’s a quarter on the floor.

Ok I may as well apologize up front cus I’m probably gona piss some people off. Here’s my problem, (well just one of them), I am so fricking sick and tired of going to car shows and looking at tri five chevys, Mustangs, Fords with bowtie engines and Corvettes that I could puke. I like the rat rods but we gota face reality….some of these things should be melted down into new Hondas….after you get rid of the wood and dead animals holding them together. I like the old traditional rods, rods that were built with parts that you scrounged up or built yourself, not ordered from a catalog…..(I think I just dated myself) ..or ordered online. Am I without sin….hell no! My near future plans include ordering engine mounts and two leaf rear ax kit for my 46 coop, but it will have a Ford engine, I beam front ax and drum brakes all the way around. With that said I think I’ll step down from my soap box to say this is why I decided to become a member of this site. It looks to be a little different, old school, maybe even a little common sense. (I think I just made a complement)
Some of my projects include a 60 T bird dropped 3” and running an FE.
A 55 ford/Superior bus shortened, chopped and dropped, running a Y block and sporting triple exhaust.
I have several Fordson Majors including a County and a Selene. (Ford tractors made in England in the 50s & 60s…..what the hell did you expect… I live in Wisconsin)
And a bunch of my family and friends built a pumpkin cannon, 10” barrel 68’ long with both extensions. We pull it with a 92 IH Eagle, and have shot Pumpkins, cabbage, bowling balls, and road kill among other things with it….over a mile.

Pat

 

There quite a few FE advocates here but I personally am OK with any engine just so it's not too tricked out with modern parts. I even like SBC's with multi carb intakes (3 or more carbs) and have no problems with them in Fords-Mopars-Pontiac's-Studes even Durants >>> but all of my cars are slated for FE's.

Welcome

Movin/on

 

Welcome aboard from central Iowa! I think you need to hit some of the better shows around like, Symco Shakedown and Vintage Torque Fest for instance! These type sounds like exactly what your looking for.

 

what wheels you running on the pumpkin cannon? welcome.

 

Hey....R TARD....I happen to like tri 5 chevies, and bowtie engines.....welcome to the HAMB, and lay off the ratrod stuff, it's not well received around here.

 

Hey guy
gotta say that is one hell of an introduction

None the less, I agree that shows are too full of tri-fives, muskrats, etc for my taste...I've gotta see something different as well, but "rat rods" just don't do it for me...to take something with potential (even if just for parts) and turn it into an unsafe POS just doesn't make sense to me. Too much "cartoons" from the 50's-60's come to life for me.

All the same...welcome aboard...gotta respect someone with a one mile pumpkin cannon

 

I wanna see the canon!
Oh, and welcome!

 

Hello and welcome from southern Missouri.

 

I actually live only a few miles from Symco and the shakedown was a blessing. The grounds where they have the Shakedown is actually the Symco Thrashery grounds. I have been going to the thrashery/tractor shows over there sense I was a little kid and probably has a lot to do with my tractor fetish.

I am a lifelong Ford fanatic (AKA Chevy Basher), but I have owned several GM’s, two of them Cheveys…. and had fun with them. And yes more than one carb on any motor looks good. I picked up a old school Edelbrock dual quad for my bird, a sweet deal from Ebay.

And my intro…. Just in case you haven’t figured it out yet, Sometimes I like to hear myself talk, don’t know when to shut my pie hole, and can be an opinionated pain in the ass. None of my family and friends will deny this.

The cannon is built on an old fire/ladder truck trailer, the barrel is mounted on the original turret for the ladder. The unit is all self contained and can operate without the tractor attached. Just in front of the rear ax is a 351 Windsor driving all the hydraulics and through the trany and a short driveshaft we are driving a three cylinder two stage Gardner Denver recip compressor. (the propellant is air pressure). We had three years in the build and probably more money than we want to know about. The tractor is a 92 IH Eagle that we picked up cheap, runs great but looked like hell. I drove past it for six months before I stopped to look cus it looked like it had been ditched and rolled over, found out the guy was bring it home on a flat bed and went under a bridge that he shouldn’t have went under.

Order rear suspension and motor mounts for my 46 today, hope to be driving it this spring.

Pat

 

Welcome to the H.A.M.B. from Nor Cal and the Cam-Snappers Hot Rod Club!

Check out the club group! Love to have ya!

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/g...hp?groupid=619

 

Now thats a cannon!! I don't think he is really saying he truely likes ratrods but more so the tradition rides that are the built and NOT bought style.

 

Who says all rat rods are unsafe? I`m old enough to remember when a lot of Hot Rods were unsafe at any speed. I don`t particularly like Vetts,Mustangs,Camero`s but they make the owners happy and thats all that counts.

 

Welcome from SW Missouri! I think I saw your cannon on cable tv during the punkin chunkin contest. Love that show. Anyway, good luck on your projects. You'll get a lot of great info on this site. Enjoy

 

Welcome to the HAMB from TN.

 

welcome from utah

 

Welcome from Sidney Illinois

 

.......Hello and welcome aboard from Evansville(few miles south of Midison).....check out the Wisconsin Hambers in the social groups..

 

Welcome to the Hamb.

Hey, theres a seat for every ass right?
You shoot a pumpkin at my 55' an ima gonna be pissed pal.

 

Looks like a traditional punkin' chunker to me. Welcome to the HAMB.

 

Welcome from Kellys Hot Rod Parts Birnamwood !!

 

Welcome! I think.

 

Welcome bear creek r tard,
Hell you'll fit right in,
So you're a pumpkin chunker??
I want to see that cannon too, can you start a thread about it?
How far did you shoot the pumpkin??
that would be cool, you'll be the first

 

welcome from Davenport Iowa

 

you'll be just fine here............

 

Hey from Tennessee, that's my damn quarter!
Welcome

 

I hope to see all of you at the SYMCO SHAKEDOWN, PBR me ASAP, See Yaa UNSINED and LOUD. Platter

 

Welcome from Neenah.

Please don't ever speak the R.R. term in the midst of anything Symco Shakedown. We are a TRADITIONAL Hot Rod bunch here and at Symco. I want absolutely nothing to do with junk art cars.

 

You just about nailed it on the head! I do like a lot of the rat rods. I have a 55 Ford bus that we choped and droped last fall and painted it flat black, I would have to call it a rat. But it does not impress me in the least to see somones $30,000 car that is nothing more than mail order parts and a over priced paint job.
I think the rat rod craze is the best thing to happen to this hobby in a long time. When I was growing up I had some neet rides but none of the were werthy of a car show, never having the funds to tweek it out and put on a good paint job, all I could do is stand at the sidlines and look at the show cars. This is no longer the case, now anyone with some amaganation and some skills at turning wrenches can show up with a half done or "rat done" ride and have people actualy look at it and not laugh... or at least laugh in good humor.

And again i am a little guilty of the "bought not built" sin. I ordered rear suspension and motor mounts for my 46 coupe.....the first time I have ever done so but it will save me a good week....... it will save me a good month or more of dicking around scrounging parts and making my own.
But I did patch the trunk back together from scratch, I guess the coon's will have to find some other place to live.

Pat

 

Agree---it would be pretty damn boring if we all thought alike. I keep in mind that the guys that started all this were looking for innovation, the "edge". Otherwise, things would look and all run the same. My '40 looks pretty traditional, but has (sigh) LED parks, tails and markers and 4-wheel disc brakes along with a/c. God, am I a heretic!!