Introduction, or "Another freaekin newbie"

Hi everyone, I've been browsing the board for a while as a guest, and decided to register. Found the HAMB while browsing cl***ifieds looking for a door for my 34 truck (No, I haven't found a good one yet, dammit).

It seems that it's a requirement to introduce one's self around here, and besides, it's just the decent thing to do. So, hi.

I'm Clay Rathburn, 30, from Roanoke VA. I've been involved with hot rods since I could walk, thanks to my Dad, who operates Alleghany Speed Shop in Salem VA. I spent a bunch of years running a fabrication business specializing in design and manufacture of headers and intake manifolds, mostly for NHRA Sport Compact teams, and sports car road race cars. However, the older I got, the stupider the import crowd got. So I said screw it, and gave in to the benefits and steady paycheck that come with working for someone else. I've always wanted to build a 34 pickup, and since I can't stand sports cars anymore, it seemed like the thing to do. Plus, I figured if I didn't build a hotrod soon, my Dad would kill me, lol. I've attached a pic of the cut down A sedan we finished at his shop last year, since I have no decent pics of my 34 yet (going to try to take some tomorrow)

Anyhow, nice to be here, and I look forward to hanging around.

 

Welcome to our little HAMB

 

Welcome, from Illinois. It's good that you wised up on the imports and went to Hot Rods. Also, sharp looking A too.

 

Welcome Clay. That's a sweet car. I'm looking forward to seeing pictures of your ride. Pogo

 

Welcome! That's one sano tub! Love the quickie peekin' out the back (is it real?)...Lots to learn here...................................................................

 

Thanks for the welcomes! The 'change is indeed real, vintage Halibrand. Seemed a shame to hide it behind the rear panel, so a hole was born

 

Th***a nice C-dan... tres' clean and love the quickie reveal hole..

Welcome to da HAMB... the people are fukin TOP notch and the real deal here. i only been here little over a month myself and man lemme tell ya, HAMBers take care of they own always.

lookin forward to pix of your pick-em-up

Traves

 

Welcome to the hamb, nice intro.

 

welcome from Denver

 

post a pic of your 34 we like before pic.set up a progress tread and add pics as you go.from one hillbilly to another glad to have ya

 

That tub is awesome! The quickie reveal and the rear bumper are ***s. Very nice work! BTW, welcome and enjoy.

 

Thanks guys. So far, this is a great board, I mean, where else you gonna find a hammered aluminum cowboy hat


I'll get some pics of my 34 up tonight. I have a few before pics, as well as some current pics, working on dropping the windshield opening 3/4" inch closer to the cowl, chopping, as well as door post/a pillar rebuilding.

 

Welcome dude. Your car is *****in.

Nick

 

AMEN BROTHA!
x
Brandy

~I totally want a cowboy hat like that....I have one of the plastic hard hat ones, now I want that one ~

 

Welcome! That A is a A+. Purty, too.

 

Welcome aboard ! Great intro.

 

*****'n tub, welcome..

 

Awesome to have you here, wonderful car, did you do the striping on the back yourself?

 

damn, that's so cool.

welcome, don't ever take for granted how your dad was into this stuff and helped you out. As great as my dad is, i wish he was into this stuff as my start is so late in life.......

 

I saw your car at the Detroit Autorama last year. Beautiful work! If I recall our conversation correctly, you made the tub from parts you had laying around and the fog light idea was due to having only one! Not sure if it was you but the two guys who were at the display were a riot!

 

That was my Dad, and his buddy John, I couldn't roll to Detroit with them (see "work for someone else", lol) The car was pretty much put together from stuff that had been collecting dust for 20 years or so. The A sedan body spent a lot of time in my garage before he came and got it, claiming he had a "vision" The foglight was kinda my thing, one foglight was something seen on a few cars back in the day, and I thought it looked great nestled in the nerf bar. He's since replaced it with an original King Bee fog, mounted to a tab on the nerf bar.

Someone asked about the striping.....Tom at www.welloiledmachines.com hooked up the striping and the ****** eyeball on the back panel. His work is amazing, check out his site for some of his oil paintings and striping work.

 

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Welcome, cool car! Like the color combo.

 

beautiful car man,,

i feel in love with it when someone posted pics of it here from some car show,,i think someone said it started life as a vicky??

very cool.

 

Started as an A Tudor. Lots of people guess Vicky when they see the rear panel sloping inward. Like I said though, that's pretty much all my old man's work on that car, I did some detail fabrication and ***embly on it, but that one is mostly him.

 

Awesome. I have a dream for a A sedan, about that year, that color. I can now see from yours how really great that works out. Outstanding car. Is that paint a custom mix, or some factory color?

 

Love that sedan/tub. Was that a Victoria body or did you fella's make that *** end like that? The side profile of that thing is way cool. What's it running for power?

 

Hey, welcome to the HAMB! Nice looking A........

When you get a chance, write us up a tech on something you specialize in, it sounds like you have some good experience.

Take care, enjoy!

 

Welcome to the HAMB! GREAT ride. I was drooling all over it at last years Autorama. You and your Dad do AWESOME work. Here are a couple of the many shots I took of it. Are you one of the guys that are sitting behind it in the first photo??