Greetings Fellow Hamsters! Please allow me to improperly introduce myself. My name is Rotten Rodney. I was born in a junkyard and raised by watchdogs in Riverside, California but I currently live and work = play in North County San Diego, California. Somehow I've been fortunate enough to find a way to actually make a living just doing what I love doing. No, I'm not a male prostitute! I build hot rods and do restoration work for a living. More specifically, body and paint by trade with an emphasis on custom painting. I like to burn things. Okay, almost enough about me. Over the years, I've probably had about as much fun with hot rods as most of you. As a second-generation hot rodder, I had some great influences growin' up. My Dad and Uncle were always building hot rods in their garages and I got to tag along with the Riverside Roadsters in the sixties. I'm still in touch with a handful of these guys today. I'd like to share these photos if I may. Stick with me here okay? It's not what you think. This 28 Phaeton was my Dad's in the sixties. As a youngster, I watched Dad cut it all apart and build it all back up again but due to circumstances beyond Dad's control, the car never was driven more than a few miles. It just sat and decomposed in an old garage with a bad roof until about nineteen eighty-two when I'd purchased my first new TCI chassis. I'd planned to build a beater coupe much like my friend DRD57 but when Dad saw the shiny metal frame in the back of the junkyard pickup, he offered up the sheet metal from his Tub and I went on and built it in nineteen-eighties style, sorta smooth and red. I'm workin' on removing that flavor in my spare time right now. Inching closer to the point, I've had a lot of fun with this ol' Model A but the best place I've ever parked it was in . . . MY LIVING ROOM! Yes, the living room. Q: Why? A: Because we can. Sure there's a long underlying story about a divorce and so on but we'll not dwell on the details. Long story abbreviated: This was the most fun my kids and I have ever had with this car. It spent nine months in the living room. It took a minimal amount of planning, a handful of good friends, five and a half hours labor and a keg to get the job done. I must be honest and admit that I enjoyed driving the roll-back through the ex's prize rose garden and the icing on the cake had to be the priceless look of astonishment on Ms. Ex's face the next day. Standing in the living room, lookin' all around her, sizing up all the doorways, "All right, how'd you do it?" My kids (teen age at the time) really seemed to enjoy their new drive-in theatre. The car faced the TV and even after it was back on the road months later, the TV remote remained in the center of the front seat as an auto-accessory. Hope you'll enjoy the pitcher show and I'm lookin' forward to getting acquainted with yawl. The only burning question I have so far is . . . How long must I remain a "Junior" Hamster? RR (Rotten Rodney)
Welcome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF? I love your coffee table!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I like your way of thinking....great conversation piece. One question though, do you ever bump into the walls with it?
haha, a fellow crazy bastard! Nice to meet ya. Cool story! and as far as "How long must I remain a "Junior" Hamster?"..........................we are also fellow permanent junior members cause when we signed up it was on a different version of the HAMB and when we got carried over to the new version, our statuses stayed permanent. Only people that signed up after the change have changing membership statuses now. Doesnt matter though, we still have the same fun and get the same information as the "members" Welcome BTW, why only 3 posts in over a year?
That is a great story! enjoyed the pic's Howdy and welcome! just sent a link to that story to my wife asking her if we can do that in our livingroom can't wait for a response
How can you not admire this guys enthusiasm. Now thats what I call an entrance. Now get that car out of there and drive it! Great story ! Welcome to the best car forum on the planet !
What's not to like 'bout a guy who would park his car in front of the TV? Welcome! You remind me of a guy in Springfield,Mo who bought a $650.000.00 Lamborghini and parked it in his living room just to irritate his wife.. Best I could do is drag up old cars and make the neighbors question my sanity. Jim
Well I guess I'd rather be a hamster than a gerbil. Can't answer the junior member question, never been one. I was a mamber for about a day, but... such is life I guess. Never placed much stock in titles, guess that's why I never amounted to anything. Like the car in the living room, that sort of thing never seems to bother my lady. But back to you. You'll fit in just fine junior member. Welcome The PknBner
Rollback for an hour .....$100 Keg of beer...............$50 Look on ex wife's face.....PRICELESS!!!! Great Intro!! Welcome aboard! Clark
Cool story, cool photos. If I remember the name correctly, your the guy who returned Don's rod to him all fixed after the "incident". Friends don't get any better then you. Your top of the heap as far as I'm concerned. Welcome to the HAMB my friend. I'm looking forward to shaking your hand one of these days.
Good to see you're no longer lurkin' pal! That's gotta be one of the best intros yet -- sure ain't the kind of living room furniture you find at IKEA
Makin' an entrance....MAKIN' AN ENTRANCE? Hell yeah, that is one outrageous way of makin' an entrance...hmmm, lemmeeee seeeee: Long intro: 20 points Long intro with pix: 25 points Long intro with explanation of said pix: 35 points Parking (retro red) car in living room: 40 points Pissing off the ex wife: 60 points Retro red car: minus 20 points Worried about being a "junior member": minus 50 points TOTAL 110 points...yep, you'll fit in here!!! LURKERS: Please take note...this intro is as good as it gets!!! R- FWIW RR, welcome to The House of HAMB...
Glad to have you here Rodney! I can tell you from personal experience that Rotten Rodney is one dude that knows how to have fun with cars. The little bit of time I've spent hangin' out with him and Don IS priceless! Sam.
Awesome story and pics, welcome to the HAMB. It looks like you signed up a long time ago but just now made a post/intro. If you want your title to change, do yourself a favor and resign up. You only have 3 posts anyway. If your resign up then it will change based on what the FAQS say for the sight. I resigned when I had 200 posts, because it bothered me that it wasnt working. I tried several times to get a hold of Ryan on the matter but never heard from him. I;m sure he was to busy to deal with my tiny problem. Anyway, welcome! Satin
Hey, Glad to see you made it on! It was good meeting you at The Rattle Can Last Year... I have told a number of people about your little living room addition I am going to keep it in the back of my mind, just in case things don't work out with my GF... Mike
Hey Rodney, good to see you on here. From the guy you helped that ran out of gas (due to his own stupidity) at rattle can nats last year. See you around, Terry
Great entrance, Rodney. I wish I had the car I had at divorce time. My ex. managed to get it in the settlement.
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