are we alike?

have you ever noticed the way we hambers are about period correct is a lot like antique stock builders. do you remember that cartoon where, i think they were model A's, one stock, one chopped, were side by side and the caption from each one was a put down?

 

Snobs and reverse Snobs
When I found out about Snap-On snobs I went thru my tools and made sure I didnt have any snap-on tools

 

Its tough to be "in" when your "out"'most of the time ..

 

I have a long history of "getting it" long after whatever it is I'm supposed to "get" is "gone".
Paul

 

I'm with you Paul. I get it about the time it is back in again.

 

I stopped trying to "get it". Eventually the rest the world catches up and soon after p***es me by again. I can't change my speed.

 

A lot of what is "Traditional" has to do with where you lived at the time.
I just wish there wasn't such a hard and fast rule to what is correct! Shoot, guys were pushing the envelope in every era, they were moving forward not looking back!

 

Hahaha Paul, how true is that. With me its not only car stuff, i'm clearly not the sharpest tool in the box at times. Now does any one have any decent music for that 8 track i've just bought, latest thing don't you know!

 

I'm with ya on that one. I'm thinkin its like the dog thread the other day, guys on the HAMB tend to be on their own time scale as well as lifestyle. Maybe that helps us see the world and people in a different light, maybe it just keeps us poor. Maybe I'm just ramblin cause I havn't had my coffee yet.LB

 

Whats an 8 track, will it play on my gramophone?

Doc.

 

They Zig, I Zag.

 

My gramophone only plays wax cylinders. Built by some guy called Edison, I think.
How have you been Doc?
Paul

 

Hot rodders and restorers giving each other grief, is traditional.

 

I have to agree with you Rickybob. Now though we all give the Rr people grief

 

Paul you hit it on the head. Sometimes I feel like I'm living in a bubble.

James

 

With 150,000+ members here I doubt we're all alike.

 

That's a good thing too. If everyone was the same on this site than this site would be too damb boring.

 

Some folks worry too much about where they fit.

 

I don't know about all this but....ohh ****. Miami vice is coming on, and my white suit is dirty.....gotta go........

 

I just do my own thing, **** everone else..i know thats why im loved so much

oh, i think i hear my own drummer.(it sounds like a lumpy cammed sbc).gotta go

 

I just wanna Hot Rod or Customize things the way I like...which happens to be the modern "Traditional style". Key word here...STYLE.

As for snobs...well I guess some people are...BUT it seems to me that to be "Traditionally qualified" enough to actually be snobbish about it, would require the exclusive use of only materials, parts and tools actually in use during the 50's.
That leaves a lot of would-be snobs without a cuffed leg to stand on! Hahaha

In fact...the very few that ARE actually qualified to be snobs...usually aren't!!!

Odd, isn't it?

 

Quality craftsman ship will always be "in" to me so as long as I'm doing things thoroughly I could give two ****s about what everyone else thinks.

 

I guess it does have to do with what time in history you came from. Some guys are still with us that came along when all this got started. Many of us came out of the late 50's to early 60's. So we will have a different prospective than say someone from the late 70's to early 80's. This doesn't make anyone wrong, just coming at it from a different view. Ill give you a good example, When I built my first Hot Rod in the Winter of 1959, and 60. The only cars that we would even considered being a Hot Rod was a Ford, and they had to be a 32-34. Nothing else was exceptionable. As time has past almost anything is considered a Hot Rod, or mild Custom. A good example is the Chevy's from the early 50's. There nice cars and truck, but in the early 60's they where field cars. I remember buying a 52 Chevy for $17.00 and running the **** out of it in the field till I blew a babbitt bearing. It then went to the junk yard. Over the years I've seen guys spend fortunes on cars that we wouldn't give a second look at back in the day. In the early 60's I drove 56 Packard's when I wasn't driving my 32, because you could get one for $300 in almost perfect condition. People didn't want a car over five of six years old. The girls liked the plush upholstery and the dam things would run 90 MPH down the road. I see some of the members caressing there 52 Plymouth, and Old's. Or spending a small fortune on some car that back in my time was just another junk yard refugee. It doesn't make them wrong. In fact it's just the opposite. There right, and my thinking is wrong, but it;s the time period that I came from. When I go out and look at a car and the guy is asking $7,000 for a body that's in sad shape. All I can see is a $35.00 junk from the early 60's. Something that we at that time wouldn't even give the time of day.

This is a great hobby. Sometimes I read different post and I have to laugh. Some of these guy don't have a clew. Ya, they may be old, but I wonder if they where really there in the old days, or did they pick up the hobby later in life and claim they where part of it back in the day. We also have guys with talent that words cant describe. You would have to say they have a gift from GOD. The young guys are charring on the hobby with there tattoo's, spikes, and skulls. Hay, all the more power to them. The Rr **** never was. You would get your *** kicked if you ever took your Rod out with all that rust on it.

How long will our hobby last? Who knows! If it's up to the lame ***es of today they would make us all get rid of our old stuff.
I've loved this Hot Rod, and Custom stuff for over fifty years, and will till the day I die.
Thanks for reading, Johnny Sweet

 

God, traditional is a subjective term. I was reading a billet-laden, day-glow-paint festooned 1991 issue of Hot Rod mag from my bathroom stash last night and the featured car was a highboy Model A roadster in red primer with a flathead V8, leather strap across the hood, WW2 gas ration decal of the windshield and 1935-ish wires and bias plies. It's traditional but ***embled in an early 1990s interpration of the style that was cool but just a shade off of what the orthodoxy trad police would call correct. It's hard to put my finger on but it was missing many of the 'mandatory' trad elements that are must-have items in the movement today.

 

Tman, and von rigg fink i aggree with both of you

im just here because i love cars all the rest is just supperficall mental masterbation

if my car is traditional, junk , hotrod, custom, ratty or whatever else is the current popular ***le i must be fine with it cause i built it and im the only one who has to like it

 

With me I really don't care . I love my old cars and build them the way I want them ! Nothing modern under the hood either . They will never be a show car or a great kustom because I just don't have the money to do that . With that said I will have a great , fun driving car that I will enjoy for a very long time ! So if that's what we all like and enjoy , then I guess I am OK and got it right . If not , OH WELL ! I will still have fun with my car no matter what anyone says !

Retro Jim

 

poo is traditional

 

The Hub Garage! Anything goes. Criteria here, yes. Basic structure. Simple formula. -d.

 

1.5 papers! Back when (see avatar) we did it BIG. Some refuse to understand that 'old cars' does not mean all inclusive.

 

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