Asking your oppinion on a build

Maybe the guy that coined the phrase "Kit Car" is the same one that came up with "RAT ROD"

Using your criteria are any Hot Rods built today "Real Hot Rods"?, after all they weren't built in the day, traditional Hot Rods are built to emulate cars built back in the 40's and 50's as Hot Rods. Same as new fibergl*** and steel bodies are built to emulate bodies built in the 20's,30's and 40's in very short time it will be all but impossible for anyone to tell if that Steel Model A or Deuce Roadster or 3/W came from Ohio or Detroit,...... snobbery in Hot Rodding just stinks !,........( of course the Gold Chain Crowd doesn't think so )

A Real traditional Hot Rod was built in the day, what we build now are "reproductions" of those cars in era and style. if there is a Gl*** traditional Hot Rod that has been out there killing bugs and making it's own history for the last 30 or more years,..... is a steel field car built last week any more of a Hot Rod ? ...Sorry I guess we will just have to disagree on this.

 

Aren't They All Kit Cars? Most Are Missing Some Parts Tho!

 

I just thought for a car to be considered real it had to start with an original body. AGAIN, I am not against the reproduced cars, just to me they arent the same thing. It seems pretty straight forward to me. If you start with an original body you are building an old car. If you start with a new body you are building a new car. What is wrong with that?
Jim

 

I have to agree with this. Which do you like better? Build what you want. My bet is most level headed rodders know how much work goes into building a rod, galss or not.

Is there a certain look you've always wanted to try building? Then try it. If you have a shop you know that some knucklehead may just come along and make you an offer you can't refuse for the '32 cuz it's a '32. At that point the decision might become much easier to make.

Build what you like if your building for yourself. If your building for $$$, build the '32, sell it and build 2 A's.

Solamente mi dos centavos...

 

be different...KEEP THE ****IN'A SHELL, and build the gl*** duck to sell

 

Build the steel A!!!

 

another vote for steel. it's no fun to grind on plastic..

 

Build the steel A ,with the 460

 

If they were BOTH steel, which would you choose? Today, anyone with the cash can step up and buy a repop steel car -- or have a repop steel car built -- so where's the exclusivity? Real Henry steel is different. Most of it's spoken for, so unless you score that barn-find from some hermit farmer, you also need major money to play. If we don't want hot rodding to be overrun by gold chainers and trust fund brats, lets quit knocking fibergl***.

I dig Model A's -- both my cars are -- but if I could score a gl*** 3 or 5 window Deuce body at a good price, man I'd snap it up, build it, and drive the wheels off it.

Think of the guys you like runnin' with -- their cars are only part of the equation, right? Steel or fibergl***, you hang with them for who they are. So build the car you want.

 

I'm surprised that not one person asked how the "A" body was. Is it mint, or is it a piece of swiss cheese? I would rather build a gl*** 32 coupe, than a roached out pile of rust "A". But if the "A" body is real nice, I would build it.
The hard decision would be if the "A" body was so so.

Unless you have a (40's..50's..or 60's) built hot rod, you are building a reproduction of a old hot rod, no matter what kind of body you are using.

In my opinion, mint steel bodies are the best, and roached out piece of ****, patched together bondo'd bodies are the least desireable. Fibergl*** bodies, and nicely repaired rusted steel bodies, fall in between them.

I guess the more parts you buy from one place, the closer it is to being a KIT CAR.....but that name rubs me wrong. There is probably more work to build a kit car from scratch, than taking a mint original V8 32 Ford and changing it into a hot rod! The resulting cars would be miles apart though.

 

God, I love these questions when they're so easy! The A & the HEMI! Natch!

 

Thanks guys for the responses. First, it wasn't a post to bash gl*** or whatever. I own and drive both a gl*** and steel car. I was asked if it was a steel 32 vs a steel A which one,,,, the 32 hands down. This was NOT a money making deal. I could build them both and sell them, but as I said it is for ME. My wife is the "rat rodder" of the family and somewhere came up with "if it aint steel, it aint real". Now I am probably the one that got that into her head many moons ago before I had a shop. I'm not 100% sure WHY I even asked you guys. I'm just sitting square on the fence undecided. Was kindof just wanting more answers of "which would you pick" rather then a steel vs gl*** thing. Another mentioned, what type of crowd I run with. I run with CAR PEOPLE. Chicks, dudes, rods, kemps, even imports (no, I wouldn't dare drive an import, well maybe a topolino,lol). Our old shop was a place to hang out if you were a car person, no matter what you drove. We will start having the Friday night hangouts again once settled. I think we will build me the A. It is steel. It will be a lot less money to build. Will take less time, which means I can drive it sooner. Thanks again for all of you that spoke up,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Mike

 

It really depends on YOU.

Personally, I would build the Steel A Coupe over the Plastic 32.....but only cause I am not fanatic over either.

However, having said that, I would deffinitly build a Gl*** 33-34 over a Steel 32 or Model A. But that is just what I like the looks of and would be happier with.

 

I would rather build the steel A my self. It' got history and creator. Got a think of resale also.