Where is the custom car & hot rod life the strongest???

What part of America (as in TODAY, not the 50's) do you think the custom car & hot rod culture is thriving?
California seems to be over run with heck I dont know. the north mid west seems to be a hot bed of Car shows and neat stuff being built, so what do you think?
FRITZ

 

It's not fresno, this place ****s.

 

I can tell you where it's not...
Around here (southern Arkansas, northern Louisiana) there is no custom or hot rod scene.
We still have plenty of mini-trucks and the occasional hacked together muscle car, but nothing worth any attention.
There are quite a few old guys building cars around here, but they're the same old 30's and 40's models Fords in purple and red with crate 350/350 combos, and that gets boring fast.
I've seen some guys start some promising porjects, but they usually get forgotten about and abandonded. Pretty sad stuff.

 

Jersey

 

Southern Ontario, Canada isn't too bad but it definatley could be better....Especially with traditional rods.

 

Where zackly are you? shreveport here

 

Florida's the happening place, we rock.

 

So-Cal, just like it has always been. The flip side of that is that you have to deal w/ the goof ***'d "scene" that accompanies it.

I like Seattle/Portland because it's about cars and friends rather than politics and pompadours.

 

It ain't in North-east Wisconsin, either. There are a few of us, but we stick out like a ***** in sweatpants. Kinda nice, I get a lot of attention with whatever I'm driving, and no one out here would ever get into a "rat rods ****/billet cars ****" ******* match because it's ultra-rare to even get two hot rods together at a show or meet at a gas station. If I wanted to start a club with only traditionally styled, pre'65 cars, the club would probably have to cover a 100 mile radius to get 50 guys together. My fellow Wisconsinites can vouch for that.

 

Right here on the HAMB!!! It feeds my need!

 

It's hard to say with out spending any real time in any other place.

Here in Metro Detroit there is at least one cruise night every day during the summer. A little of every type of car but still domintated by Muscle Cars, a few Hot Rods, a lot of late model pony cars and some Customs.

Friday nights there is cruise night (Sears) that has 400 cars there every time. Sunday's there is cruise night (Bakers) that gets 700-1000 cars through out the day, a lot being late models.

The scene around here is big, but lame. Although we have a ton of cars, a lot are dated styles of what was big at the time. The good thing is the're so many cars, that there is still a group of vehicles on any night that are done right and in timeless style that will always look right. I've also noticed that the gearheads around here who are ******** car people in are into a little bit of everything and not just one scene.

I'm betting every heavy populated metro city has about the same scene.

 

The Northwest is picking up at a real steady pace. The last 2 Barrett Jackson high sellers came from Spokane area. Lotsa rods out cruising in the Summer. Winters **** tho..... Oodles of creative , talented "lets try something different guys out this way ( Defibrulator for ex.)

 

pompadours **** that **** man, lets all get mohawks and listen to discharge and ****... the dwarves rule, lets start a church of satan carclub, oh noo church of the subgenious cc, that **** rule man, lets all smoke big pipes...

the incredible stringband lead the way to the hotrod and custom revolution

 

What r'ya smokin', Daemon ?

 

if i smoke it's cuban or puertorican cigars

 

Gee, I was afraid you couldn't leave those blue mushrooms be...

 

u want some huh?, heck man i'll bring my scale and pipe and lets smoke a peace pipe dude. and talk about surfing and skateboards


anyhow back to topic.. the movie last action hero... time will give that darn movie the credit it deserves...


on another topic, here in sweden its here an there with the hotrod and custom scene, aren't really an huge "scene" here but "alot" of people here and there, and alot of people have different styles i mean streetrods etc etc but most people get along pretty fine i suppose, eventhough some of the restorers can be grumpy about us destroying potential restoration cars hoho, but who cares,.. sweden is a quite ok scene overall i suppose, not really that many "scenesters trendy mofo wannabes", anyhow i would like to donate the swedish winter to california though, or anyone else who might want it, heck its free take it, i don't want it , darn snow and darkness, hail satan and all that other**** aside, if thats whats that **** is about then noway, im going with buddah from now on

eternal love
daemon

 

Psychodaemon, I kind of miss your old avatar. It was pretty cool. Guess we'll just have to get used to this one. Is the pic of you? CathyH.

 

There seemed to be a lot going on in Arizona when I was out there. Cruise nights every week, old car junk yards, and plenty of rod shops.

 

jepp thats me and was me on the old pic aswell

hehe i'll probally change now and then, that old pic was kinda distorted, though i mean was wider then it was supposed to be was supposed to be like this
but ahwell then i was like 15kg fatter then i am now anyhow...
took it in september or something then i got even fatter and was up to 106kgs in january and then i stopped eating pizza 2 times a week and was on a diet for 3 weeks, and no soda, alot of alcohol, no candy etc,, and now im around 83.5kg and 185cm tall, anyhow oh kinda going way oftopic here

ehm, i bought an 1951 vicky last weekend,

anyhow a lil back on topic here.. sweden atleast have a lot of coool carshows everysummer, and finland is startng to live up aswell, time norway got some cool oldstyled event for vintage styled ****.. would be cool, i love it that more countries in europe is starting to grow hotrod and customwise, heck wish we had an huge car club thingy going around with chapters all over europe with quality stuff,

 

Dirty Jerzy

 

Hey, Daemon !
What's that winter you're talking about ? Must be on the backside of Sweden
(eastcoast) where you live, 'cause here on the westcoast we have summer
all year around... (or could it be I'm drunk those damn 6 months of hell ??)

 

Well, Indy ain't bad

 

Hate to say it, but SoCal.

 

I live in Crossett Arkansas, but I work in Monroe, LA.
I don't make it to S***..., errr, Shreveport very often. Much cool stuff going on over there?

 

TENNESSEE is the place to be.

 

Austin seems to be stacked.

 

I live in Jonesboro in the North East corner of Arkansas. There is a lot of car hobby activity here and in the surrounding area. Memphis is a hot bed of rodding, traditional and non-traditional. Befor I moved here I was in Illinois just east of St Louis and it was the same there. As an "Old California Rodder" I can tell you there is more going on here right now than there was in SoCal in the day. It may not be your kind of rodding but it is rodding none the less.

 

northern ohio 65 weekly cruise ins listed in local rag

 

So Cal is definitely king of the old car daily driver crowd. Not a day goes by that I don't see at least a handful of pre 1970 rides.