So about 2 years ago I sold my 40 tudor. I never had any regrets since I built my Model A, bought some new tools, and some other stuff with the money. Yesterday, I went to a local show and saw my old 40. The owner said he was going to make some changes, but I didn't realize he had zero taste. Even in street rod world, this thing is fucking ugly. It hurt my eyes to look at, made worse knowing I kind of enabled him by providing a good foundation. He complimented me about what a well built car it was, how every shop it went to for "improvement" the employees would comment on its quality. Here are so pictures, before and after, make sure you check out the fucking mural of frogs on the decklid! Please dont tell me I just shouldn't have sold it, this is about how much a person can fuck up a car with a complete lack of taste and a full wallet.
so did you have to pretend to like it while you were taking the new pictures?It definately hurts the eyes now..........
You SHOULDN'T have sold it. It was your responsibility to predict the future and see what he was going to do. Then and only then could you have saved the rodding world and molded it to suit your taste. So what? He's got no taste. Big fucking deal. It's now his car, you have his cash. He can paint it hot pink, tie soft cotton strings to the rear bumper, call it the "Tampax Special" and drive it into a freeway overpass support if he wants to.
I am not good a pretending anything. They were going on about it, all I could say was "well, it looks like you guys are having fun" I made no comment on the car itself.
aside from the paint, dash, steering wheel, interior, wheels and tires, it looks pretty much the same. Shifter looks better.
Looks like he's driving it and enjoying it. That's cool. At least it's not rusted and clapped out or worse. I've sold 2 cars that I cared about that were promptly driven into the ground then crushed.
So your telling me this jerk bought your car and then painted over the frogs and vibrant green paint with primer? Man, I would be upset too!
I been there too. The problem is that when you sell something you relinquise all right to it. The guy had a nice idea but when he put the frogs on the back he killed the whole thing. I also noticed the kute little dash plaques pasted on the dash. Nice touch...this guy's gotta be a newbie. the Dickster
Go out and buy a street rod with IFS, i didit stearing column, boyd wheels and fuzzy dice. Return it back to a "traditional" hot rod and even the score. You owe it to the hod rod community Yea, that's a bit of a kick in the balls. Sort of like running into your ex and finding out she works for an escort service.
I like the interior. OK, I said something nice. I sold my Model A and the guy changed the red interior to black, put a roll bar in it, and put tap on salt flat discs on it. I didn't like the changes but never told him. Thankfully it went to the middle of SD so I don't see it.
At least he had a plan. You don't just go out and stumble on a giant stuffed frog in a lawn chair and decide "hey I'm gonna fowl up my car to match this stupid stuffed frog I won at the county fair." At least the prize wasn't the pink panther...
,......,.......,...... ! They say a car is always known by the original builders name,........ this could be forever known as the "CrustyNut Special"
OK,,,,so he's got a green car and you've got a green car..... does your's have frogs on the back too????
PAINT is the new primer. You sold it so shut your pie hole. There's nothing done that should be objectionable there to anyone anyway, or that can't be changed with a wrench and a can of Easy-Off, (unless the murals clearcoated). At least it looks like he took the goofy shifter out. I can't believe you guys have a problem with actual paint, and seats that don't give you tetanus from the bare springs.
Crusty Nut, I know how you fell about your old '40 Ford. It's always best to sell you ride as far away from your home as possible. I live in California and my '41 Ford was sold to a guy in New Jersey. The guy put things on the car it didn't need, power steering, pwr windows, cruise control. The worst thing he did was a big old name on the corner of the trunk. He pin stripped it which isn't correct for the late '40's - '50's street custom. These are things he has told me over last three years. The guy calls me every so often to b.s. which I could do without. By the way, you build the '40 real nice then the guy paints it that ugly green. At no time does a nice ride need a cartoon to make it better, it just shows poor taste. Everyone wants to make a car his own, changing color, wheels is an easy way to make changes. The other thing I detest is those crying dolls leaning against cars. There is no accounting for poor taste. Stay Cool Cruiser 49
Yeah, Matt, when I heard that was your old car, I was a bit surprised at the "transformation", but, like other people have said, it's his car now, and he can do whatever the heck he/she wants with it now. Just be thankful he didn't paint it gloss black, with old-school style flames on the hood and fenders.. Good seeing you yesterday, by the way, I even saw Humboldt Cat for a second or two, but he was going warp speed through the show, so we never really caught up to each other. What did you think of the Pro-Street (for lack of a better term) Chrysler Airflow? Of course, I was partial to the '27 T Tudor that was near the gazebo... 8=)
always sell to some one far,far away its funny how many of my friends in there 20's are saying "If I knew that's what the guy was gonna do I would have never sold it!"
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