Yep, we talk about what we do and don't like over there. Sure glad that doesn't happen on the main board! Larry T
Hmm I see it all the time on here. Someone starts a thread about a build and folks chime in with ideas on how they think they can improve the project even when folks aren't asking for help. Hardly ever see anyone complain about it. Don't know how many times I've seen "WTF was this guy thinking threads" on here. We're all guilty of it. Just some of us won't admit to it.
None of the he said-she said batner pertains to me, but my truck fits in the category adn I can deffinitly relate. I hate the rims on my truck and if anyone has a couple of 14X6 steel rims with Ford pattern, It would sure point me in the right direction. I also think that if someone just posts update pictures of their ride, they are indeed asking for your thoughts (opnion). Why else would they post it? Me personally, anytime I post pictures of my stuff, its to show an update and Ill usually put what I updated in the text. And if you wish to add additional thoughts (opnions), Im welcome to them. Now of you see it driving around and just come up to me....well then Im probably not asking for your opnion.
No, not really. Lets take the make a 3 W coupe out of a PU cab thread as an example. frankinplymouth didn't ask for any input on his build...(wish I had his skills) but there are plenty of Hey I think if you did this it would look better posts on the thread. All of which I thought added to the thread as it helped me look at the build in different ways. Jay's doing it his way and I'm sure that some of those that made suggestions are still thinking that he shoulda did whatever cause it would have made it better at least in their eyes. I'm not saying it's a bad thing but it's what we do. Hell when and if I ever get off my *** and get started on my project I hope for it myself.
Well Kerry It's pretty obvious that you don't know a thing about me or you would know that I have less money to spend on my cars than some guys who say they are broke and can't spend anything on a car. It isn't what someone spent but their not putting any thought into the wheel tire combo that they put on the car. Wrong size tires for the car, cheap looking mags when plain steelies would look a lot better, wheel,tire combo that looks dated although the car is fresh, wheels that look like they belong on a truck because that is all the tire dealer had in stock when the car owner went in with a 5 on 5-1/2 or 6 lug bolt pattern and the tire sales guy wasn't into old cars and how they should look. Most of the folks here on the HAMB spend weeks deciding on what tires to replace their old set with. Tread pattern, sidewall appearance, whitewall width. Bias/radial, size of fronts, size of rears. Then it is on to the wheels and style, diameter, width, back spacing. Then making sure that the whole combo fits the wheel wells just so with just the right spacing so that the tire has the right gap all around or on a fenderless car so that the tire sets in the style line just so. One, I would never walk up and tell someone what I thought was wrong with his car although many have done that to me. I've even had people ask why I have big and littles on the truck and ask how I expected to be able to rotate the tires. I've had a guy ask me why I chopped my truck when they were so rare. This was in a ball field in Ogden with over 100 AD trucks in the show and the Dream Truck sitting 50 ft away. I was also thinking on the lines that a lot of us do in that we look at a car and think "ya know what, If I had that car for a half a day I could make winner out of it just by---------- One last thing, The rims on the car I mentioned would cost 1600 in today's money for the four of them according to the mfg's website. The man actually really likes the rims but they still detract from a beautiful car. And he can well afford any wheel/tire combo made. He also can't understand why the car never gets picked for an award when it goes to an event although other factors may outweigh the appearance of the car there. As for my truck, the hot lick in the early/mid 80s Enkie 32's will come off and steelies with either moons or caps will go on as they don't fit the new look of the truck at all. The fronts are already in the storage shed, saved off one of my wife's drivers from back when and the rears will probably come from an Alliance vendor when I get going on the build. Not even expensive, but when guys walk by the truck and take a long look they should think, ah, he nailed it. Except the chainers who think the truck would have looked better with 24's that is. <input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden">
Young lady, be very careful who you call ignorant. We have, as the old saying goes been there...done that, and we can discuss our likes or dislikes and we certainly don't need your permission to do so. Practice what you so obviously like to preach.
You may not need her permission, but at least get the permission of the car owner before you start criticizing his/her car in public. I'm old too, and have "been there...done that" as well, but it doesn't give me any special privileges to be rude and in Denise's words "ignorant". The judging of others cars is part of this hobby, that's what car shows are all about, but the cars being judged were submitted for judging by the owner of the car, they weren't dragged out in public without the owners permission and publicly criticized. We all, including Denise I'll bet, have seen cars that we thought could be improved upon, but most of us discuss it quietly a**** our friends. There's nothing really wrong with that in my opinion, it's a normal thing to do. Doing it publicly without the owners permission and causing the owner embarr***ment on the other hand, is just bad taste and rude, and if you can't see that, maybe the word ignorant is well placed. What you guys did isn't THAT big of a deal, but at least admit that it was in poor taste.
I would think you'd expect if you showed your car to occasionally hear guys say "I like that car but...." ... because I'd think that everyone's done that now and then. And because opinions are like ***holes, everyone has one. People are bound to disagree about what makes a car look good, otherwise there'd be no such thing as a "donk" - Heck I did it today when I saw someone rolling about a '94 T-bird that they'd somehow jacked up in the back to put some '70s era Wide Ovals on that stuck way out and made it look like the packer cars they ran at the dirt tracks 20 years ago before they started using old rigs with farm implement tires instead, when I said to myself "boy those tires make that car look ****ing goofy" ... (also, aren't those IRS, how the hell do you lift one and not mess up the suspension geometry? ... nevermind, wildly off topic...) And the other side of a coin.. to me a car is to drive and I make it how I like it. If that means a traditional car with.. oh for example a modern stereo positioned where it's in easy reach regardless if it looks out of place or not, so be it. But I'd be the guy with the hot rod pulling a trailer of **** and setting up at the swap meet with my car parked on the spot, anyways. Screw the trophy, I'd rather sell some of this junk.
I have always said as soon as the "rat rod" craze dies down then i'll purchase a couple of those discarded rods and take all that **** off and tear it down to rebuild it like a real hot rod.
I think ford-man may be on to some thing here,beer helps everyone to be cool,now if someone hands you a map with the door highlighted,with an x on it,at the end of a rainbow,because you don't like his brand,you might have to grin and knod for a while. If you do that with a beer in your hand, you might just learn something new,or useless.
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