Hot Rods People. They're the worst...

So many experts are positive I put Ford rocker covers on the Chevrolet engine in our 56 Victoria because everyone knows Fords distributors are in the front of the engine.….my answer….”well you caught me”

 

Try explaining to someone why I put a six cylinder in my model A. Then listen to the comments about being 2 cylinders short. A few years I was at a local show at the community college where I'm an alumni. I got the rat rod award. The students made the trophy and got to pick their favorite. The kis was so sincere and apologized for calling my a rat, but he liked it. I didn't have the heart to not accept it and thanked him.

 

Last week I did a contract job for a shop whose owner has a ''big'' personality. He's a nice guy, just a storyteller and a bullshitter. His common theme is talking about himself. Anyone else he mentions either worked for him or came and repaired something there. ''He's the only person in the country who can fix these machines'', the owner would say about a tech. Every story would have some sensational part like that. After a few days, when another story popped up, I asked him - The only person in the country who can fix it? Really? Who taught him? Do you have ANY concept of how many people are in the U.S.? 347 million. Do you know how much a million is? Counting to a million would take 12 days without stopping. Times 347 is more than 4000 days of counting. But he knows the only guy. Over and over...

 

I fully agree with this point, none of us started out knowing what we know nor do any of us know anything about the entirety of the automotive world.

I find some parts very interesting others I have no interest in; however, I can respect the knowledge and skill people have in aspects of the automotive lifestyle I am not a fan of.

However, there are many who are so locked into one small part they have knowledge or do not car to learn about any other part and many cases disparage them. Oval track racing particularly stock cars and stock car racing.

There was a thread posted yesterday in which a member was asking if any one manufactured wheel spacers for Ford wide 5 wheels.

Many of us with an oval track racing background reply telling this member that wide 5 wheel spacers common in oval track racing and to check with an oval track manufacture but oval track cars use a 5/8" wheel stud.

I do not believe the original poster was being malicious but was insistent that modern wide 5 race car hubs and wheels were a smaller diameter then stock wide 5 Fords because that is what he had been told despite all on us the a background in oval track telling him otherwise.

It was only after I got home and posted photos of one of my modern race car wide 5 hubs with a stock Ford 16 Ford wheel and a stock Ford car iron wide 5 hub on a modern aluminum bead lock wide 5 wheel he relented.