Is it wrong to buy a completed rod?

Hey,you copied MY signature! Must be a Graffitti lover too!

 

Well, I have mixed emotions on this one too. I have a friend who is more than 10 years into a 'rebuild' and I can see that he has lost most of his motivitation. I've been encouraging him to buy a running car so he can have fun again in a car. I don't think he will do that and unfortunately I don't think he will ever finish either of the projects he has. Sad.

J.

 

I didn't build mine ford did in 1961 all i did was lower it and ad a few touches to make it all mine !!! I say go for it and as time permits make it all yours


keith

 

Would you rather own and enjoy a car now? If you don't have the time, you don't have the time. I don't think anyone will argue that it'd be better to drive nice old car someone else built than a new car.
Most of the people on this board have built some damn nice cars that they've sold. Someone owns those cars now and I'm sure they're enjoying the hell out of them.
Good Luck,
JOYO

 

bullicious,

When all is said and done, there's absolutely nothing wrong with buying a new ride. Just buy one as close to the style you want. Its not hard to buy close to what you want and then make changes maybe wheel & tires , change the color, before you know it its a new ride. Building your own ride is over hyped and its not for everyone. I've build my own rides and purchase others and it truly makes no difference. Never worry about what others say about your ride its of no consequence.

Be cool

Cruiser 49

 

Buy it and enjoy the cruises while you can, then when you have time
build the one from your heart.

 

if it will get you on the road the fastest,go for it.othere wise if you dont have the time to build it can turn in to a never,ever built car,soooooooo,you'll never be invoved .nothin wronge with being realestic.you can lol when yer drivin down the road

 

buy one from across the country and then tell eveybody you built it yourself. unless you end up with a peice of ****, then you tell eveyone you bought it this way and plan of fixing it up

 

It depends if your talking about building a car or ***embling a car. There's a whole lot of difference. Maybe one person out of 50,000 could build a car.
Gary

 

Buy it, change it to make it yours...everything evolves...sept my spellin.

 

tell them the car that you wont to buy,and the guy thats selling it. third coast hot rods in the 773 out

 

is it this car.

 

I wouldn't buy a car from nummnut.

Do you know he wears dresses out in the garage like Klinger from MASH?

Third Coast Hot Rods? Yeah, you have to watch your back.......door! Ha Ha Ha

Nummnut Billy's roadster is the ginchiest, not too bad...for a skirt wearer.

 

Do what you want...it's your money.
Just don't refer to the car as something it's not.

 

Agreed. I was at a show one day looking at one of my former cars which was totally unchanged since I built it, and listened to the new owner make up all kind of stuff about it, because he didnt have a clue what was in, under, or around it. We had never met because a friend had brokered the deal, I had to fight to keep from laughing.

 

thanks bud the cat is out of the bisag

 

You're the one handing over the the green,so this one is all yours. I went all the way to the end of the thread to see what was said. Make sure that this is a car that you dig! Next, make sure the ch***is can handle that 346 Flatty Caddy. Another thing here. Make sure that space limitations are addressed when really looking it over. Above all, make sure that it won't kill ya!

I've had lots of friends that have built/bought cars. I built a 34 3W black hi boy for myself, This A-hole who @ the time was a friend, wanted it real bad.
I took a car of his in on trade some cash & he owed $5k more. Never saw a dime of it what he owed me, I made a huge mistake by taking someone @ their word which if ya don't have that ya don't have sh*t!

He approached me on this sale,not the other way around, but I heard him say on more than one occasion say to people who didn't know "that he built the car," not only did he not pay me, but didn't give any credit, another time I heard that he was talking sh*t about the cars build. ( I drove the car across the country & up & down this state w/o incident- I wish I knew what happened to it)

Too funny,cuz he swapped a guy for a Harley, then tried to trade back, talked sh*t about that deal and that guy told him to get f*cked!!!!!!!!!
He told him that "You burned the guy that you got it from! "

Now, this is why you have to make sure that you check it out GOOD.

Relax, cuz when you put that Caddy in, it will take on a personality all its own
Just make sure all parties are happy with transaction.