Okay, take your ride- Now make it *so really nice* everybody DIGS it, (by putting CA$H in it) NOW Do you show that **** off- risk people stealing the car risk people MUGGIN' your idea's Or is it enough for you just to enjoy it yourself (and use it to GET ***** every now and then)? (If somebody wants to shrink some pics foir me I'll pot some progress pics of my ride)
Sure I'd let them feature it. Almost every idea out there has been done in one form or another already so I'm not worried about getting ripped off for my ideas. They're probably not that original anyway. ] Secondly, if someone want to swipe your ride they'll do it anyway they can. You just gotta have that insurance premium paid and try to slow down the pros. Thirdly, if a car is featured, not just pictured, in a magazine the price goes up. I'd sell at the inflated value, clone what I did if I really loved the car, fix what I didn't like and have cash left over for the next one. Besides, I could brag on it for a little bit. At least until my buddies told me I was being a *****. Then I'd stop.
If I built a car with an original idea and got it in a magazine, then everyone copied it, I'd be flattered. I think it'd be cool to know I started a trend. Plus, I would have photographic proof that I was the first one to do it. How cool is that? Plus, stealing a publicised car would be much harder to pull off than one no one's ever seen before. If you stole somebody's car in Cali and brought it to New York, no one would probably ever recognize it. If it were in a magazine, people would see it and recognize it and start asking questions. Thieves steal Acuras and strip them out. A famous old car would be hard to part out without getting caught.
I would not only not let a rag feature it, I would keep it locked away in my garage so that no one could take pictures of it at shows and possibly steal my ingenious ideas..... What kind of post is this? Who wouldn't want their pride and joy put in a rag for all the world to see?
I'm with Onelow on this one, its got to be one of the best buzzes I know of to get in a mag. Unless of course it was an open cheque book jug hunting build, then the biggest buzz would be counting your pots. The mag editors have hundreds of worthy cars and they pick your homebuilt Rod and you turn it down? Do me a favour!
i would. in the future years from now i would like to be building some cars. so it would be nice to get my name of there and let people know who i am. you gotta set youself from the crowd if you wanna be successful.....i think, never been in the business so i wouldnt know yet. but if everyone started copying my ideas, atleast people would know they got it from me because my car was featured in a mag. and thats where they saw it first.
Sup Justin? who wants their car super nice... Magazine exposure is not ALL that unless you have a unique enough feature for people to actually remember the car. Think about it, how many featured cars really catch your eye? Ask me how I know...I won't tell ya but I know from first hand experience speedy
If "Electric Company Magazine", the sister publication to the Children's Television Workshop/PBS children's program "The Electric Company" (starring such young prospects as Morgan Freeman, Rita Moreno, and Bill Cosby, to name a few) were to come back to the newsstand, they could feature my ride. They could even feature my tips for how to make a sock puppet and how to make a kaleidoscope from a paper towel tube.
My car has been in a mag and I still like it !!! But the reason mine has been in a mag is because I drive it everywhere !!!
Maybe you should read Ryans mantra? The HAMB is about "spreading the gospell of traditional hot rods and customs" Look up, it is on top of every page! How better to do that than to have your car in a magazine for the world to see? it's called VALIDATION. We dont need it but we are getting it.
No way dude. I'm saving that **** for the magazine spread. They'll never publish me if I keep throwing away all my good secrets free to you hoodlums.
Well, It will never happen to me but fwiw. I enjoy my stuff a lot more when it isn't so polished. My first Harley was a good runner, rattle can paint and not much to look at. I rode the **** out of that old shovel head. Then a couple years later I completly re-did it. Show quality paint, all new chrome, the works. I never enjoyed that bike the same after that. Every little ding just hurt. Oh the compliments were nice for head puf***e but I was sorry I couldn't just enjoy it like I had before. I haven't polished anything since. Now if I had the coinage to own several, I wouldn't be against some feature worthy wheels taking up room in my shop.
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