Hot Rods St Christopher wins Good Guys Hot Rod of the year

I'm curious, if I may be so bold as to ask, do you really find the paint scheme aesthetically pleasing? Seriously? If that car had totally off topic 20" wheels and rubber band tires, a modern LS power train, high back bucket seats with cup holders and modern gauges with a stereo stuck in the middle of the dash, etc, would you still think "well at least the paint is cool". Be honest.

Actually, that question is to everybody that says they like it.

 

I agree totally with @Ryan, on anything else I probably wouldn’t like it, I said it before in this thread once I watched the video of the inspiration it all made sense, I think they nailed what they were after.

Oh and I tell everybody, I may get older but I refuse to grow up.

 

You mean something like this?


Or maybe something like this?

 

Not that you were asking me @Blues4U, I think both those cars are rad but I think St. Christopher took it one step further, it’s similar but somehow meaner and nothing like them, again my opinion. I really really thought I should hate the paint when I first saw it but it speaks to me…

 

The paint job would look perfect on a late 70s custom van.....just sayin'.

 

Those colors and the angle screams 79 Dodge van to me

and really, I don't mean to be disparaging, they looked neat like that

 

saw the car at Goodguys in Pleasanton over the weekend. the paint neither adds to it or takes anything away from it when you are standing there looking at it. a picture on the computer the paint just grabs you, but in real life there is so much more to look at like this:

 

And in that case it worked, those angled stripes on a big flat panel with next to no lines added something for the eyes to follow; and they didn't add any dissonance between the lines of the car and the lines of the paint design.

 

Hot Rods always were an act of rebellion. When you talk about the paint complimenting the lines of the car, to me that feels more like a street rod. Polished, inoffensive, smooth. Pleasing to the general public. The two-tone in your avatar is a street rod-style paint scheme in my view. Nothing wrong with that, it just doesn't have an attitude.

I've always tried to build cars that are uncommon from what you see day to day or even at car events. A two-tone paint job that colours within the lines doesn't scream hot rod to me. Just because you don't get it, doesn't mean others don't see it.

As Ryan alluded to, the paint job alone doesn't make a car. Locally I find there are a lot of builds where the builder likes a bunch of different things, but they don't go together on the finished build. There's no cohesiveness. If the car was a modern build with the same paint, it would miss. If it was a different vehicle without the same vision, it would miss.

When I saw photos of the car in bare metal, I thought it was the coolest. Then I saw it was getting painted and I expected the car to be ruined. I figured the mainstream shiny black or red or some other generic hot rod colour would end up on it and its visual impact would fade and hide. Not so. To me, the attitude of the paint and willingness to buck trends goes with the attitude of the rest of the car perfectly.

No need to try to convince those that like it that they shouldn't. It really speaks to me. If it doesn't speak to you, that's fine. Don't need to convince anyone otherwise.

The red and blue car you posted are visually pleasing and interesting. The blue car is a bit forgettable. Not that it's not a memorable car, but it doesn't have a lasting visual impact to me. I won't be scheming about how I could integrate some of its ideas into my own build. The red car is much wilder, but doesn't bridge the gap between race car and street driven hot rod (visually) as much as Saint Christopher. SC just checks the right boxes in the right ways.

 

This doesn’t flow very well
more or less
counterintuitive

 

But it sends a message, Even though it isn't easy on the eye

 

Yawn on the paint on the blue one.

 

I was just standing next to it.

It flows just fine. The angles of the stripes match the radius lines of the arcs of body crown perfectly.

 

In gustu non potest esse controversia. Veri nihil saperet quo te.

 

There can be no dispute about the taste. The truth has nothing to do with you.

 

I've been going to car events my whole life with really nice cars. Very rarely does one hit you between the eyes where you say aloud. "Wow, that's badass!"

Like it or hate it, glad someone is spicing things up. And for the record I dig it.

 

That is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever read here on the HAMB. Think of all the classic hot rods over the years, all the AMBR winners, all that had paint scheme's that enhanced the flow of the body lines. Yeah, they're all "street rods". Got it. But not THIS car with 70's era custom van paint job, not it isn't a street rod, but everything else is. OK. That makes a lot of sense.

This pretty much clarifies it all, the paint pretty much sucks, but on THIS car it works. OK. Sorry, but I'm not buying it.

Not trying to convince anybody of anything, just explaining why it doesn't work for me. I'm allowed to do that, right? You know, non-conformism works both ways.

 

I think you and a couple others missed the point of my posting those pics. They weren't meant to compare to the coupe in this thread, but as a response to somebody saying if the car were painted one of several colors the person "prolly wouldn’t care all that much about it". When I read "baby blue" my mind instantly went to the Brian Bass built coupe, which itself was inspired by an earlier drag racer with his own unique twists. I find it interesting that 6 years ago it was the hottest most badass car on the scene; now it's uninteresting, boring even.

There's talk on the street, it's there to remind you
Doesn't really matter which side you're on
You're walking away and they're talking behind you
They will never forget you 'til somebody new comes along

 

Something tells me someone does not belong here............

 

ME TOO!!!

 

YEP.....Inspired a LOT of builds too.

 

It evokes emotions - it has to be winner! Like it or not.
Knowing the caliber of creativity and ingenuity on this site it’s amazing to see the response this car gets!
Now ask yourself - would you drive it!

 

Like fighting the wind with your fists. Pointless, and just leaves you frustrated and tired.

 

I told Colby....I haven't seen this much talk, press, or attention, to anything built in MANY years. He's soaking it all up, lol.....

 

I talked to him at the GNRS, when all hell was breaking loose. So many arguments, and discussion going on around the car. He was like a little kid with his first bicycle.....