East Coast style... does that mean light chops but heavy channels as it pertains to T's And A's? Any HAMBERs got one? How bout a few pics. Thanks.
and alot of time no chop. most of the new hot rods that people are building are east cost style, rockers dragging on the ground,tires taller than the trunk. get some old little pages mags from the 50's that arent r&c,hop up or car craft, (all west coast mags) and you'll see some cool east coast rods, similar to what you might see in ol school rodz/ CKD today. A word of warning though, the easties loved to bolt extra crap on to thier cars, all this extra stuff pretty much ruined the cool look of them.
I'm more of a custom guy myself but... You couldn't be more off. Do yourself a favor and look up the Injectors club from north jersey on here. Perfect period hot rods. No "tires raller than the trunk." That shit is more west coast than anything. Wrong coastline boss.
Hey great question. I'm anxious to see the answer. I get confused most of the time by the East Coast, West Coast, Traditional, etc. etc. Hell, I just think they are ALL cool!!!
Yeah, that description of East Coast style hot rods doesn't float. Here are a few good examples of it, though: wheel covers bobbed fenders a channel lower in the rear than in the front quad headlight treatments unchopped/channel body combinations on coupes Before you start flamin' me, keep in mind these are by no means ONLY East Coast treatments and many right coast hot rods didn't have any of these characteristics at all--some were straight copying what they saw in the early West Coast magazines, but combinations of the above would lean toward East Coast Style, for sure. And I don't see a whole lot of this being done ANYWHERE these days. Look up Roddy Moore in SW Virginia if you want to see who's doing it right--he's also one of the great historians of our scene, too. He could fill you in on more of this stuff. STONER
i thought the only really defining feature was heavy channels and light/no chops, as opposed to a west coast car that had little/no channel and a heavy chop? i was always lead to believe it was because all the bodies sat around in wet pasture for 20-30 years on the east coast had rotted floors, unlike the dry west coast cars. if your cars got no floor to start with, its easy to channel, whereas no one is gunna slice a good floor out as it would set your project back months.
sorry slowandlow63, i know you are a senior member, but he is right, east coast style hot rods are heavy channel, usually no or mild chop, and yes tires taller than the trunk (because of heavy channel). the only thing he got wrong was that we bolt extra krap onto our cars to ruin them. this was my old hot rod new one almost finished
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Get the book, *Cool Cars and Square Roll Bars* by Arnie & Bernie Shuman.......it pretty well covers the East Coast style of rods, and more particularly, the New England style rods..... Here: http://tinyurl.com/2bx7oa Brucie
hahaha beat you to it Brucie I look at this book almost daily bernie, arnie, and all who contributed I want to say THANK YOU These are the cars and the time period I look to for inspiration
thanx evel, knowing the cars you've been around i take that as a compliment. i have to admit, i was partially inspired by the mad fab series of videos, and partially by the little green roadster in the "hot rods to hell" movie. here are some pics started with a really clean body i bought from fellow hamber jim sipley, shaved all holes and cowl, playing with the stance... this was a bit too cartoonish went for the full channel mrs. hodaddyo i'm hoping this is what it will look like when its finished (cheezy photoshop job). except it will have the desoto hubcaps and black metalflake scallops similar to the original ones. sorry i guess i should have taken more pics.
I'm not saying that NO east coast cars have a heavy channel and little or no chop. Hell my buddies '39 Chevy is scrapin the rockers or lack there of. But traditionaly east coast hot rods were more a style of whats above. But hell what do I know, I wasn't there. Haha. BTW, the one on the bottom is killer.
Guess I worded that last sentance wrong.... crap=extra stuff. upon looking at old issues of custom rodder and rodding and restyling from the 50's most of the "extra stuff" looked like it was mandated by the states, bumpers on both ends, cycle or bobbed fenders,full exhaust systems, license plates on the front, antenas,spot lights, mirrors. I like the way the east coast style cars of today turn out much better:way chaneled and less extras. I don't think today there is as much of a difference in coast/vs/coast style as there was then. Just one guys opinion.
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