Patina Aguilera

Bought one just like it many years ago. Think I paid $145.00 for it and drove it home. Green and white with a healthy dose of Mother Nature too but no rust through anywhere.Old man said he never washed the outside but he always kept the inside clean, it was mint. Loved that old truck.

48 Poncho

 

Great post Paul. The distortion and rewriting of our history, deeply saddens me, too. Fortunately, this stupid "fad" will pass quickly...

 

im with you on this kripfink. ive wondered about this very thing a lot lately. seems the board is drifting into a delusion of what the time that we love was or is all about. and this truck is not what hotrodding was all about.i know its the op truck. and i kinda like it. (but with paint not rust). but you would not have seen this truck cruzin the streets backin the day.hell i love the 50s-70s street machines, hot rods.but this fits nowhere in there. sorry op, just the way it is or was.

 

Not quickly enough!!-MIKE

 

Thanks Paul for saying what I am thinking but could not word as well as you did.

The rust and broken low look don't do it for me. It is fine that the owner wants to go that way with it but is it for this site?

Neal

 

Right on!...enjoy it your way, it's your truck; I love it .
Shiny paint has been overdone!

 

amen brother

 

Pile it on 'boy'z'. Now git after those high end rods with 20"+ mag/billet wheel's, modern interior's, ect that are featured from the national events.

 

What? You mean the ones that us so called and much maligned"traditional police" are perfectly aware don't belong here also?
Paul

 

And fenders .... especially trucks!

 

(For me) it's too much work to prep that for paint. Though I'm not a fan of rust cars, I'd drop a drivetrain in it, drop the front 3-4" and the back 2-3" throw a seat cover and rubber mat in the interior and drive it. Wheels and tires are fine.

Bet you'll have the last laugh cause someone will see it and "have to have it". You'll get an offer you can't refuse and end up selling it for a whole lot more than you'll have in it.

 

My quote is plainly stated.

 

I can't help it....I detect a touch of hypocracy here Krip, firstly, your panel has been all over the hamb and I wondered what makes you think it is ok and Hooches ride isn't?
I understood that the cutoff year was '62..or '64......
I have seen many cars on here far closer to the OT mark than this truck, being praised to the heavens....so how about cutting the guy a break?
We don't know how it will turn out yet, do we?
On a board this big, you are going to get variety...like it or not.

Check out the Hunnert picture thread for some nice 50's/60/s trucks and cars............and some damn butt ugly 'Traditionally inspired' hotrods..IMHO.

 

leave it looks great make it safe and usable then drive the wheels of it.

 

After rereading, I see your point. And I will get after them whenever possible.
Paul

 

you make a fair point and if I am guilty of hypocrisy then I apologise. I can't argue the point with you because I just don't see it that way. It's just my opinion and you are free to disagree with it, just as I am free to post my own. I haven't had any negative reactions to my panel so I just take that as a compliment. If it offends you then next time you see it report it to the mods, or flame it. Your choice.
Paul

ps.I have no iproblem with the truck,just the photoshop

 

Cool truck

I personally will only leave a vehicle in a patinated state when nearly all of the old paint is still there but just has a few spots where it's been loved on.

If it were mine and almost all rusty like this one, it'd get a paint job.

But it's not mine.

I do love the body style though, and the wide whites look good on it. You wouldn't think they would on an old row binder, but they do.

 

My thoughts exactly.

He has a great starting point here. I say drive it as is, put a tow hitch on it and actually use it. I guarantee once you get this thing back on the streets you'r gonna get people saying "hey, I know that truck!"

Then after a while, when you get sick and tired or the look and people asking you "when you going to paint it"? you can paint it.

Your truck, do what you want with it. My opinion is keep the body as is, lower it a tad, but don't "mini-truck" it

 

What's more traditional than doing something because it's what you want and not necessarily because it's what others desire? You old guys need to realize that we are the future. When you were kids it was nothing to pick up an old ride for cheap but we have to make do with what we can afford. It's stupid to see all these posts about don't put modern suspension under an old car, don't run transmissions that work properly, spend your money on paint rather than leaving what took 50yrs to create you want to scrape it off in a few hours. Or ideally spend a billion dollars rebuilding some antiquated technology just so you can say you did. You will never hear a young guy give an old dude crap about his taste but the obverse isn't true. We respect you is it that hard to reciprocate? Without you we wouldn't be here. Without us you might as well not have been either, because no one will remember or care. Besides, you can't tell us anything - were all punk ass little fuckers and do what we want no matter the quality of education, right?

End rant. I've had a rough morning.


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I like the sorta quirky look of these trucks. I would love to see one with a drawer pull grille and some nice full wheelcovers and a shiny paint job. Like a late fifties custom truck. My dads boss runs an international dealer and collects these trucks and I can't help but picture a very nicely finished one with a mild static drop pulling a single axle trailer with a drag car on it...

 

Nothing you said in your original statement offended me, I read it and thought that you were being a little uncompromising, being that it's 2012, we're a dying breed, and you 've got to admit, that truck would be great
with the right drive train and stance.

Mods never occured to me, I like your panel a lot, I just don't see the O/T ness of Hootches truck. Hooch! Hooch! help me out fella!

 

i didnt think the old binder I saved from the crusher would stir up such a controversy.
this thing would be near impossible to paint. and too expensive...... I dont do body work and cant afford to have it done correctly.....and with me saving it and showing it some love I am sure it will be around long after a new 2012 truck rots away in these Iowa winters, I respect all your opinions. as for traditional.... nobody would have hot rodded a binder back in the day.. as for traditional inspired I am sure you will see a ton of early influence in this build, I enjoy all facets of the automobile world. I am a wrench and my buddy is a fab guy and between us we carefully execute our projects with time and craftsmanship and isnt that what its all about? so is it traditional? probably not.... will you see me building it to just piss of traditionalists? NEVER. we just hope you enjoy the ride. we will. here is a tiny project we built....

 

That's not the point of the HAMB. Read the "Sticky" then start your own board. Just because your version of history is different doesn't me we have to change ours.

 

Reality check.......you nailed it!

 

Why does this shit always end up as an "us versus them" "young versus old" debate? Please STOP trying to rewrite or recreate my (I was there) history! Your version of our history is unimportant. This forum is about traditional cars. NOT your impaired opinion of them ....

 

Antiquated technology? Transmisions that don't work right? Young guys don't give the older folks crap?

I think the truck looks ok, it's not my style, especialy laying rocker, yes the OP can do as he wishes, it's his ride but he does state that it is OT but posted it anyway?

The HAMB is not how you can do it but how they did it. I read the same line over and over here by young and old...it's traditional to use what's at hand to build your ride... This may be true to a point but the board focuses on pre 64, how it was done then.

 

I am not 100% on board with this comment I have to say I have seen some pretty sweet 39 and 40 Fords running with no hoods......

 

That sums it up. Perfectly.

 

I suppose it depends on your definition of old. I'm 48, I'm English and definitely wasn't around back in the day, and consequently I know nothing except what I've learnt on this board. I'm not attacking younger generations but I believe a lot of people believe that this site is about reinventing the wheel, and it's just plain not. This place is about preserving the history of how it was back then. From what I observe on here the purpose of this board is to recreate as far as possible, not reinterpret and that same set of rules applies to both young and old.
I'm not picking any fights, or setting out to make any enemies, or cause any controversy. I just want the HAMB to be about what it's supposed to be about.
Apologies for any offence caused.
Paul