IS High not low enough to be cool?

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Choprods - this is from April '52

 

same car... The first fenderless roadsters had them removed for racing on the lakes, then put them back on afterwards, resulting in the hiboy look back in the 30's and 40's. In some of the old lakes pictures you can even see the fender braces still on the car.

Mutt

 

THanks Mutt-thats kinda the look I was dreaming of. a real old style Jalopy look. I see he was running 600 16 and 550 15 tires frt and rear respectively. I have a set of 7.00 16 and maybe a set of 5.50 15 would make it have a decent variable to it...........

 

Kinda wrong(since we're talking about a models), but I'll post these 3 photo's purely for inspiration. They are not my photo's, and I don't know their history, but they do kick butt.....

Cheers,

Drewfus

 

Again, not really applicable, but still cool.

 

The bottom line, high is cool, as long as it is in context.....

 

so I guess If I have a point in this post -its thatcalling it A HIGHBOY, MEANT IT WAS HIGH- NOT THAT IT WAS FENDERLESS.? I dont remember seeing a "low" car as like we have today until the 70's-any one else care to add their comment on this idea????please do.

 

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NEALIN CALI-Is your bosses A settin on a stock A axle?

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Yes, it is a stock A axle and frame. It does have a reverse eye spring in the front and a few leaves out in the back.

Neal

 

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I dont remember seeing a "low" car as like we have today until the 70's-any one else care to add their comment on this idea????please do.

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Here is one of my favorites. Hank Negley's 32, around 1947, and it looks pretty low to me...

 

I'm gonna be brutally honest with you onna counta we tight, see? Up high in the front is a fucked up idea, man. For a roadster, anyway. Nope, a roaster is made to sit a little down in the front, IMHO and no amount of persuasion will convince me otherwise. That sure doesn't mean you can't run your stock axle. I'd go fir it with a healthy framerail "Z" inside the cowl. That will also sit the engine up where it's supposed to be...gives ya a racy angle on the steering column too, if you use ford cross-steering like I do.
BTW, I sat the Rocky 33 as low as I could by using a speedway flat spring with reversed eyes and a 4" dropped axle. It still sat kinda high, eh?

 

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so I guess If I have a point in this post -its thatcalling it A HIGHBOY, MEANT IT WAS HIGH- NOT THAT IT WAS FENDERLESS.? I dont remember seeing a "low" car as like we have today until the 70's-any one else care to add their comment on this idea????please do.

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I'm not following you choprods - what do you mean by "low as like we have today?" I've got plenty of pics from the early books with the wheels above the deck - like a lot of the guys here are building, such as the Neikamp car. Highboy was always fenderless/unchanneled - most of the cars with fenders had dropped axles and were raked. I don't recall ever seeing a pre-35 that was a taildragger, BTW.

Mutt

 

high is going to be cool for me. i am making my sedan a highboy with fenders.

 

I see the err of my way- I stand corrected......Low cars aint new-I think I got some good ideas from the post too though!.Thanks guys.........

 

This looks cool enough for my tastes . . .

 

Aw, c'mon, Chop...do ya REALLY wanna hafta drag the JACK out for every oil change???

Wouldn't it be cooler if you could just slide under the motor and pop the drain plug out...with the front tires on the GROUND??? SURE it would!!!

 

Here is my 31 highboy. It has a model a frame with a stock '32 axle with a six leaf reversed eye spring. It sits high, but I like the look. The ride's pretty good too.

 

V8 Paul- I LIKE YOUR CAR!........I think why I posted this is that I am tired of doing the same thing. Ive always built low or even stupid low cars....draggin its ass at every seam in the highway and running agroun when leaving or entering a driveway.....also I have a collection of old original parts- the 32 frame which I refuse to bob at the frt crossmember-the old stock axle front ends and several choicesfor wheels [35 wires-47lincolns and 48 ford wheels and caps-SO I'd like to incorporat em all into something that I can like.I dont want to channel either car-so I feel like it would be high in either case -so WHY even worry about building a clone of what is already IN at the time.....I think I'll just try it HIGH and see what happens!

 

choprods,
When I was younger (I'll be 60 in August) I loved chopped and channeled hot rods. But I'm 6' 3" and I don't bend like I used to. It's easier getting in and out when they sit high. I have a friend that is still driving the '32 roadster he built in 1957 and he struggles to get in and out. It is channeled and the top is chopped.Once out it takes him a while to stand up straight. He has less trouble when the top is down. Tough getting old.

 

I like em both ways... My A bone has a dropped axle, reversed springs and 600-16's.

 

I really prefer low cars- but Ive made up my mind- the 31Roadster is gonna "almost" resemble a gasser!

 

Not 1 pic of the most famous HAMB car of all, "El Mosquito"
You guys are slipping...

3000 newbies & lurkers are now saying to themselves: "What the hell is he talking about?"

 

Yeah I remember that car- early on in the first times on the hamb...I wasnt to hip on its look/BUT I do some goofy shit with cars so I cant talk!.
I think I can do a little "trickery" on this one and pull it off.
If I remember it had huge tires/full caps as well?