"(Things are getting) Worse"!!!

Anger management, and a governor on your keyboard, yeah, that's the answer.
This is America, let others enjoy THEIR lives, as is their god given right.
I lived the early years, and I would rather be exactly where I am now. I have wonderful memories, but now is the time to enjoy life, right now in the moment. You are an angry man and I hope that there will be something that you can find that you like.
As for me I will travel a thousand miles to be at the Detroit Autorama this year, just like I was at the first one, and you will just have to get used to it.

 

I don't think anyone could be more condescending than you, and that is not funny, as you state was your original intent. How is it that you get to define a real hotrod?

alternator that looks like a generator...just like the 50s ???????????

Back pedal away!

 

Mother fuckin stone cold well said FH!

 

Fuckin A.....

 

pssst...that was one of those "joke" thingys you may have heard about!

 

Tell me again about the condescending part.

You win, i'm gone. I will do a p---ing contest all day side by side, but when you get face to face, I leave.

 

I think the 50's mcdonalds is getting to you man. I've only seen you at one show this past summer (billet proof) and then mostly complaining about "the scene". I went to the pile up even though I didn't take my bike and had just as good a time. I even offered you a ride. I got to see what people were building and hear the stories they had, No one asked about each others check book or criticized one another for having to buy a new part. Everyone just shot the shit...something hot rodding is about.
I suppose I could do like the cubans and make a carb out of glass jar and some copper tubing, then I could come over to your car and shit on your hood for having an edelbrock or Holley, maybe tell you you're not "hardcore" but that's not what it's all about, is it?
And at least have the balls to stand up about your post, there's nothing joking about it...it's the way you felt when you wrote it that's all there is to it!

 

Fat Hack, I like you man, you are pretty funny and many times a real go getter....

But, I do think these folks who are complaining about your negativity are onto something....

Let me summarize:

1. When you were building the Chevy with the 2.8L. people thought you were nuts, but EVERYONE was backing you. People were laughing, but they were laughing WITH you...they were donating parts and helping out. EVERYONE was talking about you and saying good things.

2. Then you got depressed about it and threatened to give up. People started attacking then....

3. It hasn't stopped.

Moral of the story. (and I found out this a long time ago) People are like a pack of wolves. They attack when they sense weakness. I think you have shown weakness Fat Hack.

Remedy: Do what everyone is saying. BE POSITIVE. Put something together that truely kicks ass! Show everyone that you can STOMP LIKE GODZILLA.

Rock and Roll HACK.

 

Wow, so sniffing non-chloronated parts cleaner fumes in a cold garage while working on (ssshh!) parts for the current project as Tim Quirk sings "Worse" is like Evil Toxic Chicken Soup for the Soul???

coooooool!

A few of ya got it...

...the rest? Well...maybe Brennan speaks their language?!


Too hip, gotta go!

 

Was that aimed at me?....
I don't know what you are talking about...Then again, I didn't even read your first post. I just wanted to pile on with the rest of the wolves.

Hey, what happened to your skating adventures anyhow??? that was COOL.

I remember the "blue bitch" too....That was fun.

Damn Hack, you're nuts.

 

It was supposed to be FUNNY!!!

But I realize now:

1. Maybe only .0000001% of the population has ever HEARD of Too Much Joy.

2. Of that, only 10% of them know the song "Worse".

3. Alot of PC rodders didn't like Bill, or get the bulk of his musings either.

4. You can lead a horse to water, but if you shoot him and he falls in the lake, that's something of a tragedy, despite the fact that carniverous aquatic life will think a pet food plant came to town and feast like kings.

5. The fat guy that did the First Alert commercials years ago may raid my fridge.

6. Sixty-seven year old grease is some hardcore shit.

7. Old ladies who play the pipe organ at church sometimes know Van Halen songs.

8. Your wife AIN'T gonna let the old lady play "Best Of Both Worlds" at your wedding.

9. You'll be much happier AFTER the divorce.

10. We really CAN have the best of both worlds, if we can laugh at ourselves and Them.

(But mostly at Them...and not the car club or the Underworld dwelling comic book creepies...the Them I was laughing at when I wrote the post originally!)



Laugh AT them not WITH them...I mean, oh well...

(More of them lurking about than I suspected...gadzooks!)

 

'WE MUST BE THE CHANGE WE WISH TO SEE IN THE WORLD'....Mahatma Gandhi

 

"Pay before pumping"........Mahatma Gandhi IV






Mutt

 

I don't care who you are, that's funny there!

 

I think a lot of folks would be happier if they built cars that they liked themselves and not worry about a "scene" or fitting in.

Get outside and bust your ass in the garage and pour your soul into some old iron, and you won't have time or energy to worry about what Chip or Jesse James is building. Funny thing is, those two guys sure build a lot of stuff and don't ever seem to hang around internet message boards lamenting on what others are building.

There are those who "do" and those who "talk about doing". The line forms ahead, which one do you want to be? Chip may be a sellout or an asshole or whatever, but he sure is a do'er and not a talker..

 

"horseshit", said the sparrow, "Let's Eat"!

Wow. I was afraid to look at my truck after reading that. But I did. It looks the same as I remembered it. Just like I built it. Wouldn't change much.

But if I did, wouldn't ask anybody for their approval.

 

ahahaha...mutt yer killin' me!

 

I come here to the HAMB everyday and can honestly say I like everyone here and learn alot. I'm building my car/cars the way I want and don't really give a shit what anyone here thinks about them. I'm not trying to fit into any scene nor do I feel the need to bitch about what someone else is building. I don't care. Build what you want and be frickin' happy about it. And if you can't be happy about it change your own mind.....

 

All I know is this. The bills are paid, and I just got laid, and there's a roadster out in the garage, that I built myself from junk and brand new parts. A flathead with a chrome alternator, '35 Ford wire wheels with radial tires, and repro '50 Pontiac tail lights behind a trunk lid that came from a dumpster. The best of both worlds I think!

pigpen


(Now lets get started on that '34 coupe!)

 

Yo, Pigpen...I got something in the works that you might dig. It's going to be a little whle yet, but I'll send you one when they're ready. A tip o' the hat, so to speak.

It was well into the 30s today...not too bad to be outside if you were out of the wind. The garage ain't THAT drafty with the door closed, so I finished what I started last night and got one little piece of the coupe outta the way.

We got another five inches of snow since last night, and it's still coming down...will be till well into tomorrow. No biggie...it DOES that in Michigan, I guess....whaddaya gonna do???

Let 'them' say what they must, it really doesn't bother me!

(Although it's mildly fascinating to see what they can do with the 2% of the story that they have to work with...making up the rest to suit them in their biographical jabs at me...Knowing the source will give me a new hobby!)

I know it's only Thursday...but what did YOU (in general) get done today???

 

you don't have to be a murderer to write a murder mystery, but as billy said, "i'm on a bus, on a psychadelic trip, reading murder books and trying to stay hip.."

you also don't have to be a hot rodder to write about hot rods, but bill was, and got paid for it.

i've been to detroit, it truly is 'the motor city', but...it's only a small part of america. you should see more of it, preferably in a 'fun' car, and i don't mean a citation. there's good, bad and ugly out there, and it's worth seeing. see and do what you can, while you can, then write some more...

 

No worries...I got it handled!

 

I know it's only Thursday...but what did YOU (in general) get done today???

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Lets see, tossed and turned all night, got up at six, worked eight hours, got my truck stuck twice in the alley behind my house, got a haircut, had dinner at the Palms Crystal Bar, logged onto the HAMB.....didn't do a thing with either one of my rods in the shop...

 

Hmmmm...funny how shit like this strikes a chord with some. Was it negative? Funny? Self-serving? Nostalgic? Arrogant? Did I ask funny?

I don't see the harm in editorializing how things have changed over the years. While it may be a little more like 36 grit in tone, it does speak of change. I have a lot of respect for most of the builders that have found TV and fame. I may not have respect for the "fashion statement" types (I posted those type of thoughts before) that maybe in some really narrow way invade our "space" that we call tradition. They really don't though, do they. I do know how some of them feel as I myself wish I was drag racing at Lions back in the day. I did get to race at Detroit Dragway and spectate some of the "big" events that were there while that segment was growing. My own "space" I guess.

In all reality every fuckin one of us has some sort of rebellious individuality that we express with fossil fuels and a special prescription of "bling" that only we understand. It's our desire in some cases to pass along how it was done and to keep on doin it. Just because some of us have been at this for decades long doesn't have to mean we're being exploited my mass marketing and used for entertainment. In a way immitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Most of us can tell a cubic zirconia from the real thing.








Then again it could just be the weather here in MI...

 

Fuck dude, i was so overwhelmed that you have over 9000 posts, that i couldn't concentrate on reading this. When do you sleep???

 

I'm glad I only skim read this post Hack...

ZZZZZZZZ.

(would have wasted a portion of my life otherwise...)

 

Fat Hack, I really haven't been around long enough to "know you" (or your sense of humor), but I must admit I found your post quite enertaining. Even the parts that loosley described myself - you only made me laugh at.....me. I'm not seeing all the anger - just the ability to laugh at ourselves a little.

As far as the hobby - it truely is the best of times. I have a garage with cars (hot rods) in it and tools to work on them. Sure money's tight, but as the wealthiest person I ever knew described the differences between he and I... Jim says "the difference between you and I is that if I had a million dollars I'd buy everycar I ever dreamed about and you - you'd BUILD everyone you ever wanted." Yep ole Jimbo was a realist. He had me pegged.

As for getting anything done today ...worked 8 hours ..... came home and spent some quality time with the family after the kids were in bed I spent some quality time in the garage working on the dragster. It really don't get much better than that for a snowy wet day!!

 

FH...quit the fuckin whinin.....get buildin something.....ignore everything you dislike and bury yourself in what cranks you up.

 

Wow...you paint such a WONDERFULL picture of what life is like in Lovely Livonia! You forgot the part about helping a little old lady across the street (whether she wanted to cross it or not!), rescuing a frozen kitten from a tree, and stopping by the orphanage to adopt an Ethiopian refugee just in time for the Holidays, though! If you're gonna spout some picturesque fairy tale, why not go all the way???

Your little slice of Suburbia isn't all that rosey and perfect, and we're not getting ALL the facts here are we??? Just be glad you got me to kick around to make yourself feel better if that helps you with your self-esteem. Seriously, go for it. You seem to be having a ball blabbing personal shit about me to anyone and everyone, so have at it.

(I could do the same, but I'm not stooping to that level.)

Knock your socks off, 'Bud'!

My apologies to the majority here...what was meant as a sort of funny little obeservational rant fueled by the slap-happy condition that cold weather and good music can induce late at night obviously served as a springboard for this crap??? It was car related and light hearted...maybe a few saw it as being aimed at them? I dunno, it wasn't meant that way...but hey...if the shoe fits...

 

well put.