Mooneyes Xmas, another perspective

Went to the Mooneyes Party today. I had a great time with some old and new friends. Hung with Luke Jivetalker and some of the Autoholics, made a bunch of Bloody Caligulas, had my piggybank for collecting funds for my Olds project striped by Four Eyes, saw a bunch of nice cars.

But Geezuss Keerist! I saw some flat out awful excuses for rods and customs!! What is the deal with what some folks are building? I wish I had brought my camera because I know many people were taking pix of the nice cars, but I wish I could have captured shots of the clown wagons that showed up! Looks like too many people took the brown acid or something. There were more freakishly ugly cars there then I've seen before. Is that the new fad or something? Gloppy welds, bald tires, smoky leakers, oh my! And they brought those abortions to a POLICE STATION?? And I think these bozos think they have traditional cars. Normally, I don't slag other peoples stuff, I believe in live and let live and do your own thing, but this shit was WAY over the top. The worst offenders were outside of the place, but there were LOTS of truly heinious turds in the show. It definetely drove me to drink. I just HAD to say this in case those clowns come on here and think they're cool.

BUT, it was worth going. Tom Jobe of Surfers fame was there with N/FD pilot, Adam Sorokin, son of Mike also from the Surfers team. My buddy Dean got a pic of himself with Billy Gibbons next to his period perfect T bucket. The music was really good. I saw folks I wanted to see. After passing it for many years, I finally stopped at the Puffy Taco, not bad, not bad. I'll be back next year.

BUT even if it pisses some people off, I have to say I've NEVER seen so many cars with NO redeaming value in one place ever. There were a LOT of these shit boxes, I hope this isn't the NEW FAD. Is OSR mainstream now? Am I too old to know what's cool now? Did this bug anyone else?

I'm going to hit the "Submit New Thread" button now. I bet I'll be sorry for doing so.

On the CD player tonight: Lucinda Williams first album

 

It will only get better once traditional rodding can no longer be bought over the counter via some rag mag.

Once HotTopic stops selling an idea on a wall.......

Once it goes back underground and not EVERY Dick and Jane are doing it..........

Til then................

well you get the idea.

 

I went today also, and have to agree. I think we're seeing the ugly side of the "I could totally do that" mentality.

 

It's time to make a concious effort to step things up a few notches if you wanna disassociate yourself from the mouth-breathing-hot topic-_SR-_KD-worshipping-crappier is better mentality-morons. It makes me glad I'm aiming for a glossy painted 60's custom...it's gonna take them at least 3 more years to screw up that ideal/vision. bleechh.

 

I was there, saw some of "those" cars that we dare not speak of, The only car there that REALLY bugged me was the green 37 Ford coupe. The one with the bitchin' stance, the one with the Ardun Heads..... covering a god damn fuel injected mill, SBC I think. Gotta admit, it caught my eye, but then I looked into the engine bay expecting to see a sweet built flatty, but sheer disapointment! a F'n throttle body and FI intake painted black to avoid detection hidind beneath the Ardun valve covers WTF?

 

wasen't there but the but if the rusted sedan shown in an earlier post is traditional i say

no thanks
it's a pos
useless as tits on a bull.
i'm done.

 

i kinda liked that purple impala lowrider.... not really my type of car but man the work that went into that thing.....wow, there was even girls painted on the jamb of the door.

 

art is simple...how many Monets, DaVinci's, Pollocks and Plowboys are there in this world? How many people can create something as subtle, yet cleanly beautiful as Dirty's duece sedan? I will gladly admit my work is no where near as good as thiers.

it happens that there are alot of very talented people here on the HAMB, many who are very good at what they do. so i think we are all very spoiled.

also, think about how many times, when you pick up a mag, you see the same cars over and over again? why, because so much of the stuff out there is the same rehash, or looks like shit. everything applies to the 10%: 90% mediocrity to shit, 10% ok to out of this world.

and if all else fails...just walk on by.

car: Before you were punk, 80's new wave covers by punk bands
home: janis joplin, greatest hits

 

I'm glad someone has finally put into words the thoughts I've been having recently. POS cars are doing nuttin' to enhance or forward the cause of hot rodding, they're pulling it backwards.

 

i agree with ya Phil. i didn't see you at the show, but then again there was tons of people. i did see a lot of shitboxes and you can tell by looking that the people that drive them that they are the readers of OSR.

this was my first time entering the show, but what was with the $20 entry fee? man, they must've raked in the $$$ yesterday.

 

I didn't see ya there either Brandon. I saw Dante, mixed him a drink and had to give it to some pretty girl when he didn't show up at the Autoholics encampment.

New Rumor Dept: Mooneyes will have the 2006 Xmas Party at Irwindale Raceway.

Sarcastic Comment Dept: Maybe they should it at the local Pick A Part and keep about half of the cars there.

Cd player now: Johnny Cash- Sun Sessions.

 

I was there, saw some of "those" cars that we dare not speak of, The only car there that REALLY bugged me was the green 37 Ford coupe. The one with the bitchin' stance, the one with the Ardun Heads..... covering a god damn fuel injected mill, SBC I think. Gotta admit, it caught my eye, but then I looked into the engine bay expecting to see a sweet built flatty, but sheer disapointment! a F'n throttle body and FI intake painted black to avoid detection hidind beneath the Ardun valve covers WTF?
Ypu forgot to add that that car was a 'glass body!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KNUX!

 

the best part of the show was.........oh yeah eatin a big ass breakfast with friends,buying my first mad fabricators cd, maybe a dozen cars worth looking at,and leaving early.They need a filter at the gate...

 

Agreed. IMHO,this year's Primer Nats was way better than the Mooneyes Xmas Party.

 

Interesting that you may have this opinion and be completely backed up on it- but if a "media type" expressed these exact same feelings I'd expect some heavy fireworks. Funny how that works.

 

Said it once, I'll say it again-those cars make mine look BETTER! Remember at least half the people you know are BELOW average-HAMB just happens to be the OTHER half!

car:Kings of Nuthin'-'Fight Songs'
home:Blackalicious-'Blazing Arrow'
ps-FB-where'd you get that punk bands doin' New Wave cd? For me it was the other way around (New Wave after Punk)-not so angry once you get laid!

 

i couldn't agree with you more, it seemed like a contest for who could fuck up a car the most. for the most part there were alot of nice cars, meaning good workmanship and style, not nesicarilly finnished looking cars but good guality. but there was alot of shit that looked like it would have bent in half or collapsed if it hit a pot hole at any kinda speed.
all i can say is crack is an epidemic and it seems to have taken over the osr crowd.

 

I think my little sister said it best- "What's up with the goth meets the wanna be 50's?". She was disappointed there weren't any muscle cars there, but did really did start warming up to the early customs (witness the picture in another post). In addition to the garbage there were alot of cars finished and unfinished, where the workmanship outstanding and that were downright beautiful. I'm very glad I was able to go. Meeting Gene Winfield was incredible, what a great guy!

 

Hey,

Chili, this post cracks my ass.....I guess everything old is new again!
Fifty-plus years ago it was the 'sports car croud' muther fuckin the
'hot rodders'. If someone called your ride a 'hot rod' it wasn't a term
of endermant. '32 and '34 Fords wern't cool, to a larger segment of
the populous, they were just old Fords. Today we've got 'hot rodders'
point fingers at the 'kulturests', weird.

Today when I see a vehicle that falls well short of where I think it
ought ta be, it just makes me enjoy the one's that got it dead on
the money, all the more.

 

Jim, I think it evens out in the long view. Can you imagine the flogging you'd have to endure if you ran pics of those rat rod parodies in R&C? Face it man, you can't win in that arena. You're damned either way. It is the price you must pay for the perqs of your exalted position as editor and recipient of the largesse of builders who help on your car for being featured. Heck, you could change your tag line to say Chili Phil thinks I'm fun to poke at. I also believe that anyone who would slag you for criticing the shit boxes would sacrifice ALL their credibility. I saw more than a few cars that I wouldn't let Zeke the Dog piss on.

 

Actually, I had a good time rollin down with my club and a few of the Poorboys. The best thing about the show to me was the killer Pizza they were selling. But all in all, the weather was killer, music was good, saw alot of friends, and the after party we had topped it off as a great day. I guess we in so cal are getting too complacent and need to bitch. Too many shitboxes, It was too hot to wear a jacket, the music was too loud, oh yeah, too much variety in craftsmanship. Ill still go next year.

 

It wasn't a question of taste. There was some really cool shit there. There was also some junk that was so scary and dangerous that if the "grown ups" see it it could get our whole deal legislated off the street. Wayno

In the background; "The Falcons- You're so fine".

 

Is'nt it amazing the power of a well circulated magazine. Which holds shit boxes and and plain ass hideous cars up on a pedistal can influence the idiot masses. If all the good small mags got the same distribution I think it would help alot.
Guys Ive known as fellow car guys, not neccicaraly traditional guys, but muscle car guys and such. I've overheard saying they want to build a rat rod. I had to make sure they were receving the right publications before they built some shit box they thought was in style because, they thoght that Ol'shit rodz was what everyone was doing.
Interventions are not just for drug addicts.

 

Point well taken.

 

Well said!!!!!!!!

 

Bro, you're shitting me! Right?! A glass body to boot? I lost interest as soon as I spotted the throttle body, didn't look any closer after that.

 

Maybe we should start kicking those guys asses, like in the good ol' days. Sort of run the twats off OUR turf. Sorry for the rowdy attitude. Maybe it's because of…

…currently in the CD player: The Mysterious Rhiinestone Cowboy-David Allen Coe.

PS, is it true that the guy in the Falcons is a very young Wilson Pickett?

 

Our entire club (Except Miguel, 'cause he had to pass out flyers for our show) skipped it on purpose due to last year's nazism saying "No saving spots" wether your club wants to be together or not. And sometimes it's a bitch to have everybody lined up at the same time. I almost beat the shit out of some idiot rent-a-guard last year (He ended up seeing it my way). Miguel said the same thing about all the shitboxes this year!! It may have to do with all the T.V. coverage on the scene this last year.

 

Hey, chili phil, this might be a generational thing, their parents are the ones who took the brown acid, these cars are under the influence of cheap beer!

 

Ah Ha, the story about broken chromosones must be true. but you might be on to something, maybe some PBR might make them look good. "The girls all look better at closing time" SO much wisdom to be found in real country music.