Traditional Trucks... Really?

I'm sure a push truck was also the shop truck. Look at some old photos at the salt flats and the little books.
I think it is a matter of what a person likes. Not everyone likes or wants a 32 ,3 window.
It would make for a dull world. Mo .02.

 

I think traditional is a valid term for describing a certain style of truck. I can't really define what makes a traditional truck but I know it when I see it. Stuff like this comes to mind...

 

I like th 56. Is the main color Highland green or do you know ?

 

Something had to haul all the crap around, and to improve the stock trucks ability to do so, I'm fairly certain that someone, somewhere along the way, did something to improve their pickups power. Viola, traditional hot rod pickup.

Maybe not traditional in that whole red wheels, wwws, and PBR way, but, what's more traditional than working?

 

I'm only 30 so most everything I know about "traditional" has been learned on this site. In my eyes, if it was built in a style pre-64 it's traditional. It doesn't matter to me if it's a car, truck, station wagon, or bus. I really hate labels, so I don't often use the word "traditional", unless I'm correcting a person who calls anything unfinished a "rat rod". Only then do I ever use the term traditional.

 

Funny thing is it's pretty much the new guys that keep trying to change the definition of traditional as it relates to the HAMB. We pretty much banged out what it meant here before the turn of the century.

Pooh time?

 

I wonder if the OP is talking about the "rudy trucks"

 

To me if you say shop truck, the damn thing better have a useable bed. Cute painting on a door does not a shop truck make.

 

I think those and the broken suspension ones are the ones he's talking about.

 

ding, ding, ding!...we have a winner

 

CHANGING AND REDEFINING TRADITION IS TRADITIONAL.


I have no idea how many times it actually happens, but I catch about 1 thread a week trying to challenge the established.

 

I think the OP is talking about the rusty farm trucks with faded lettering that have been bagged.

 

"I dont understand how all of these slammed trucks or even hot rod trucks are considered traditional."

By that first sentence, the OP stated what he doesn't get. I'd say that the slammed trucks probably aren't. But there were quite a few trucks that were hot rodded.

Don't we get to rehash this shit about once a week?

 

I am all for traditionally styled trucks. If it has been established that shop trucks were custom in some means traditionally then my question has been answered. I thought for sure that I had seen a so-cal shop truck and that it was customized. My point was that most of the time guys were on a budget and didnt spend tons making a shop truck like is done today. I guess it could also be argued that the reason the shop trucks are rusty looking today is that shops dont want to spend a ton on paint and finish so they are "low buck" shop trucks just like in the past.

I guess it all comes down to ones perception as usual. I know it shouldnt be brought up every week on here too- we should all be trying to help each other keep this "traditional" thing alive, no matter what each of believes true traditional is. Look if it werent for all you old timers there wouldnt be such a thing as the HAMB, but if it wasnt for us youngsters on here it would also eventually die off with all the great stories. Sure we will pick what we want out of all of this and manipulate it to our liking but that is human nature. It is progression- taking the old and adapting it to todays world is pretty cool to me. I like the inspiration of it all so that is where the question came from.

 

I understand this is a site for "traditional" hot rods. I always just assumed that meant classic influenced, not all billet and 25 inch wheels. The bickering over what is traditional and not on this site seems to take away from the good build threads and such, and frankly make it seem like a site for snobs. If a car is old and not some modern goofy looking thing with subs and tvs in it, does I really matter if every specific detail was seen back in "the day?"

All this arguing reminds me of the 13 year olds at the mall arguing over what was punk and not back in 1977, it's embarrassing and their time would be better spent listening to a good record instead of trying to decide if the MC5 are a garage rock band or a band that's acceptable for them to listen to because it's called "punk."

Stop worrying if everything is exactly traditional and just look at some cool cars instead.

 

Its pretty black n white to me. Anything here built before 64 is considered trad, and anything after that date is fake.
Ive just brought one of these silly trucks, and i'll never call it trad. I brought it to flip after a few tweeks, so i can move up to a better Model A.
Still, its lots of fun, and im going to use and abuse it over our summer.

 

"Silly Trucks"----------there's you a new definition. I wonder how that would affect the popularity.

 

Hope i dont get the blame for that, he he he.

 

Personally I object to the pollitically correct police interfering with what I chose to like or dislike. Its bad enough that it has to ruin everything else outside of the hobby why bring it here? Especially when it comes to the fun I'm suposed to be having. My 2 sense (yes I spelled it that way on purpose)


Doug.

 

Nobody interferes with anything you choose to like or dislike.

All we ask is that Users on the HAMB post things that are Relevant and On Topic.

And that really isnt a unreasonable request.