Customs Does your car have a theme?

RUST! Dam I hate my theme.

 

My theme is "Son, I'm gonna restore those some day. Not for sale".

 

LOL!

somebody should make that their signiture.

 

I actually went and checked his shit out in his albums. I am not sure if he is going to put the blower on the 160 in his Ranchero or on the 400CC Cowsucker.

Ya gotta love it when a wannabe take the time to get all bent out of shape at the regular hot rodders.

This is a baddass choper here.

 

Don Corleone: [to the Heads of the Five Families] How did things ever get so far?

 

I'd rather look good and be a little slower than be fast and look look like a fag.[/QUOTE]

That is the best quote on the HAMB all year and it would make a great bumper sticker!

and I'm in before this thread gets closed

 

That is the best quote on the HAMB all year and it would make a great bumper sticker!

and I'm in before this thread gets closed [/QUOTE]

Not likely the thread is going to get closed, one fella having a bad day isn't enough to get a thread closed.

Now there may be something said about me robbing his rice grinder from his album and posting it. But if there is it will be one me, still isn't what would normally be considered a thread closing deal.

Actually his Ranchero isn't a bad looking little car, I think the plywood door panels are a bit much but that is just me.

 

I have to laugh very time themed build comes up... I've had my car for 39 years... I started when the wonderful craze of resto rods were the rage... I still remember how the R&C features on Pete & Jakes coupes changed my plans forever... as the car progressed I had a few buddies that kept telling me if I was going to build an old style car that I had to pick a year and stay period correct... didn't make any sense to me at the time but most of the stuff I collected were relatively close to the period anyways so I changed what was needed... the car hasn't changed since it was finished and I'm so glad I listened... now, even if the styles change - I still have a period correct car that someone might appreciate in years to come...




Oh, I wanted black primer too... but, I wanted the car in the L.A. Roadster Show and the rules were "no primer" so I thought I could always primer over the paint... never happened... now the late 80's paint with its age and flaws seem perfect for the car

 

Ya but but what was your Theme you must need one you cant just built a car with out one

 

Well said.

When I originally read the question my thoughts were 1. guys didn't view primer as a finish paint back in the 60's and earlier or at least the guys I was around. There were always cars in primer but usually you could see progress being accomplished every so often depending on how fast the car's owner did the work or how fast he came up with the money to pay John Mason to accomplish the next step in the process.

Now: Theme, Every car and truck on here has a theme or at least one of sorts. Chopped shoebox Ford, wide whites, lower in the back than the front Skirts that follow the outline of the wheelwells, Sombreros, roll and pleat and a single color non or low metallic paint job equals an early 50's custom that may have come out of one of the name shops in the early 50's. That's the theme of the car. same with a 55 Chevy tudor post with a straight axle riding up fairly high on both ends with slot mags long ladder bars fairly narrow rear tires and fenderwell headers. The car comes off as if it could have been on the cover of an early 60's drag illustrated.

Off theme would be combining two build styles. someone might thing that a chopped shoebox Ford with a straight axle, hem i under the hood and ricky racer bucket seats would be cool but it obviously would be following no theme. Putting a gasser hood scoop on a full custom with wide whites, skirts and sitting three inches off the ground static height would be out of theme. Building an otherwise period correct rod but going with some chrome modular wheels because that was what the tire store had cheap.

We have all seen any number of cars that made us go "what the hell was he thinking" that no flow or continuity in the build. I think that is what the original poster is trying to stay away from..

 

My theme was, "I hope I don't fu*k this up and kill myself."

Actually, it was "old with a touch of new" or "If someone from the 60's came forward in time, how would they do it." I think I did fairly well.

 

That's NOT what a car with a "theme" is! A theme is when a guy puts Betty Boop, Elvis,Skulls,dice,or some other re-occuring item,all over it. Streetrod guys like to do this. I saw a '34 Sedan at Del Mar that the guy kept telling EVERYBODY who looked at it," it has 485 skulls on the car!". WTF!
What you are trying to do is make you car "Period Correct",for a certain era. Example;50's Drag Car,60's Bellflower Custom,40's Dry Lake Car....etc.

 

I think the previous owner of my car had the theme 'bondo'. My theme will be 'bondo-less'

 

You sure are a piece of work! Guess you don't know where you are. Maybe you can find a Mini-truck website where you will fit right in. If you try REAL hard....you might just get your other foot in your mouth!!!!

 

dang, i hope i'm not violating any "theme's" rules, id hate to be the town wannabee or the next car show geek...

 

That was one of the funniest things I've read in weeks!! Thanks for the laugh!

Ahh, the funny thing is,....I've tried to imagine a "theme" for my current project like "nothing newer than what was available in 1963" and stuff like that, but always....always in the back of my mind was exactly what you said. This will be my first home-built frame and brake system and quite frankly...it scares the shit of me!

 

My favorite was the Cal Custom stick-on fake plastic hood pins... Even had little screw heads cast into the plate. You know ...if you put those on with the coffee can collectors, and added some twist in front spring extenders, you'd have a GASSER!

 

themes are for TV show designers ,
my car has horsepower ...........

 

my theme is shirtless.

 

This actually could have been a halfway decent thread if it was set upright from the get go.

I do get a kick out of reading what the OG fellas have to say.

Some of the remarks are quite clever, others no, not so much.

 

sanford & son meets up in smoke

 

Car: 1931 Model A Ford PU
Theme: Keep the body as pristinely original as practical. A "resto-rod."
I love Model A's too much to try to "improve" them!

 

Jazz
If I had anything to do with it you would break all the theme's rules. Guess its a good thing none of us ever venture off our block to see what the other one has going on.

 

Kandy apple red,of course!
Paul

 

Well this thread has made quite the trip. I love following threads like this and seeing where they end up, sometimes I even help with a rabbit trail or two. Well OK I almost always without fail help with a rabbit trail or two.

Starts out the fella has some ideas for a '60s style/themed car. A few fellas have posted pics of their cars. Some pretty nice and others pretty modern in a "rust"ic sort of a way.

Mike told about flat painted cars from when he was a kid in the 50s. We talked about fake stuff, some of it promoted by main line magazines.

Pretty much covered about one of everything car related, even had a little drama and a lot of good information even though some of it wasn't really related to the the original purpose of the thread.

That is the HAMB at its best, if you dig you can always find some tid bit in some thread that will add to your knowlege of all things automotive related.

 

I'm building my '62 Falcon to look like a P40 fighter plane. Just like the fifties, bro.

-Dave

 

holy shit this thread is still open?

 

Oh yea

Here I can relate something early '60s that was a hold over from the '50s. Just for grins and to muddy up the waters a little.

Used to be a car that rolled into the Ol' mans shop once in a while when I was a kid. The ol' man said the fella was a beatnick.

Anyway it was in red primer, it was actually a model A closed cab pickup. Literally everything on it was sliced and diced, it was lowered a ton, chopped to the max, had later fenders in the rear that hand been sectioned and stretched. I guess it wasn't a bad truck just a little on the wierd side. I am thinking it must have had an SBC because the Ol' Man always cursed chevrolet when it rolled in. it had a bunch of carbs and that was normally why it was there, to get the carbs tweeked.

That would have been the very early '60s because I was pretty small so to say that nothing was flat in the '60s is not necessarily true.

Aside from cursing Chevrolet every time the truck rolled in there is one other thing that I recall being a given, the Ol' man always asked when this fella was going to paint that jalopy. Something for the primer and it is a finished car set to think about, the fella never said I'm not going to paint it it is finished, he always just said someday.

 

My theme is "Less is More"

 

my dad drove round body falcons in the late 60's. engine was built by Banjo Mathews. actualy padlocked the hood to keep people out. sprint's especailly were bad to have the factory chrome valve covers stolen.