Tonys Straight out of here. FAKE STUFF

just love guys that open up their first post with an off topic post. that roasting used to be for everyone that came on the board and because its gone we now have a bunch of thin skinned ass holes here. come on you know who you are!
now before you look at my member number 2000 I was 48 HEMI number 91 before that.

the reason for this post is I'm thinking off all the FAKE STUFF IN RODDING. almost every fake item you can think of was an inovation by some rodder and was cool the first time or two that we saw them. some things are here forever out of convience or cost. but there are some things that should have never been sold (sorry Don Garlits and Gennie Shifter)how about a list of the "so phony they stinks" items and then the ones that are cool as long as we're the ones using them, catagories
help me with a list I'll start with some of the obvious stuff

FAKE STUFF

plastic cars, trailer queen rodders, air bags (to look cool) phoney floor shifters, dummy spots, portawalls(traddition since the 50's) updated injection and fake injection, dummy blowers, valve covers, side pipes, paint that looks like primer,multiple carbs with half ormore blocked off (also a tradition)

take it away

 

"so phony me stinks"

my pink mohawk, dickies pants are actually GUCCI fag wear, my penis is really a FAGINA...the chuck T's with stilletto heel bolt-ons.. my fakeness goes on forever!

how bout them MAGNET flames

 

Fake Buick drums over disc brakes.
Fuzzy dice that your girlfriend didn't knit herself.
Re-pop Caddy tail lights.
"Spider" hub caps.
"Chrome wheel" hub caps.
Cutouts on stock manifolds just to make noise.
Flame throwers.
Taiwan "Necker Knobs" that break off if you actually use them.
Pin stripe decals.
Magnetic flames.

Club jackets and plaques you didn't/don't belong to.
Faux finish rusty "old" paint jobs, remind me of "stone washed, acid washed pre-ripped designer jeans.
(Unless the OWNER is the one who did the faux finish old look, then it's like wearing out your own jeans so they look like the designer jeans...Then it is a personal artistic statement..)
Primering over "good" shiny paint, just for "the look".

I disagree on the Gennie shifter though, and not just because I have one.
It is a legit answer to needing a shifter in a car or truck that came with a floor shift and now has an automatic but retains the stock column....
Unless you put automatic trannys on your list too!!

 

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Unless you put automatic trannys on your list too!!

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we will have to keep them automatics off that list ...mkay?

 

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"so phony me stinks"

my pink mohawk, dickies pants are actually GUCCI fag wear, my penis is really a FAGINA...the chuck T's with stilletto heel bolt-ons.. my fakeness goes on forever!

how bout them MAGNET flames



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I wear Dickies pants only because they are within my budget, still, and that's a surprize since you're right about the Gucci designer thing, I'm shocked they haven't gone sky high in price.
I remember when they inflated the already high price of Levi's from $3.96 to $4.10... That was horrific!

 

ya doc, take surplus cargo pants as an example...that shit use to cost $13 in 1988...now its $30 at surplus stores. look at dockers/old navy(??)... they are cashing in on the cargo pants, same thing with doc M's, chained wallets, dyed hair, piercings, and tatts. maybe someday people will pay for grease stained 501's? hot topics, ripped stone washed *punk* jeans, $80... hehe

$4.10 for levis?? shit man... when was that?

 

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Tonys Straight out of here. FAKE STUFF

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I thought that you were going to say that the Tony Straight post was fake.

Like Knobchiez or Fecals the Clown.

"Fuck you people."

I really enjoyed that.

 

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I disagree on the Gennie shifter though, and not just because I have one.
It is a legit answer to needing a shifter in a car or truck that came with a floor shift and now has an automatic but retains the stock column....


[/ QUOTE ] Ok Dr J, 'Fess Up! It IS becuz you have one. The traditional way is to make yer own floor shifter using the original floorshift lever. I've made two so far.

 

Cry Baby Doll's

 

I cant stand stand dummy spots, especially when there mounted in such a stupid position that they couldnt function if they were real. if it was mounted half way out on the fender you would have to reach under the dash into the engine compartment to adjust it.

 

My vote are the kits to make SBCs look like anything but what they are. There is nothing wrong with a SBC in a trad ride if it is decked out in period garb. If you want a flathead or hemi, Buy a flathead or hemi.

 

How's about dummy quick change covers on anything but a real QC, even the ones that cover up banjo rears........

 

Fake blower scoops glued to the hood
4-doors with the rear two welded shut
visors on galaxies
wire-wheel hubcaps
magnetic flames
and ditto on the blocked off multi-carb setups

I gotta say though, there is nothing wrong with airbags. Its not all about "looking cool", its about being able to make the car driveable on shit roads (most roads) and into driveways and over speed bumps and still have it low when you can. Its all about driving your car, but you can't drive a car most places when its permanently 2"'s off the ground with very reduced suspension travel.

 

Don't forget fake bullet holes. Wish I had a dollar for every one of those I've seen in the last year.

 

seen this past weekend at a car show.. dude with bald head and one of those fake bullet hole thingys stuck to the side of his head.

 

Yer reading my mind, Edselow, was just about to say fake bullet holes. I just don't get why someone WANTS to look shot at. But see if fake keyed-paint jobs becomes hip, that could help the truly stricken out a bit.

 

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$4.10 for levis?? shit man... when was that?



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1958-1959...
I was a greaser in the fifth grade, didn't get a haircut at all in the sixth grade ('59-60) and played an Elvis impersonator in a school play. I usta draw floating bloody eyeballs with ornate daggers through them on everything then. Didn't know why. Might have seen a copy of a Von Dutch or maybe a parallel art thing. I didn't do the winged eyeballs though, cuz other kids did those and I wanted to be different!

I just bought some Dickie Shorts, the shorter shorts, not the Cholo shorts that come to the top of my socks with my short legs. They were like $17 ? I think, at The Doughboys on Artesia in Bellflower.

 

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The traditional way is to make yer own floor shifter using the original floorshift lever. I've made two so far.

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That would be ok If I had had the original lever, I traded it off still attached to the fourspeed crash box. I considered making the shifter but all my plans kept looking like the Gennie shifter anyway and time was worth way more than money then since I was working full time AND going to graduate school. I did carve an adapter out of a chuk of aluminum and adapt the original GMC parking brake lever to the gennie shifter mount, and made brackets at the rear to mount up the ten bolt's P-brake cables to the frame. Does that earn me a stay of execution?

On the four door with only the rear handles welded up...
That reeks of "I really wish it was a two door"
Shave all four or leave all four!

 

LA Roadster wire-wheels which are fake
Daytons which are fake
True-Spokes which are fake
Buick wire-wheels which are fake
Jag wire-wheels.
and my fashion fakes:
Cascade shirts are fake Pendletons.
Sir-Jacks are fake London Fogs

 

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Yer reading my mind, Edselow, was just about to say fake bullet holes. I just don't get why someone WANTS to look shot at. But see if fake keyed-paint jobs becomes hip, that could help the truly stricken out a bit.

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You may be onto something there! How about a fake keyed, fake patina paint job with fake bullet holes?

 

"Cascade"????.... "Sir Jacks"??? Am I too OLD or too YOUNG????

 

I don't see what's phony about the repop caddy lights just because they didn't come off a caddy, they still work the same. They're cheap and plentiful which is great but that's why they're way too common, and I'm part of the problem since I use them. I don't have a flame kit, but I want one for tailgaters. I agree with the rest of the list.

 

Does this mean that my friend MBL will be thrown out of here for having FAKE BOOBS?

 

I agree that most of the listed fake stuff is lame. Good think nobody has noticed that spinner hubcaps are fake knockoffs, or a lot more of us HAMBers would be lame too...

 

Pro Stock Rods that people dont race but are WAY too impractical to drive on the street. And that dont perform well at the track.

 

Breast "enhancements" are the exception..........that's comparable to performance mods.

 

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Does this mean that my friend MBL will be thrown out of here for having FAKE BOOBS?

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if she is a hot rod with fake tits id like to see... never seen a hotrod with boobs before

 

do they produce more milk then?

 

Anything welded with a MIG or TIG.
Anything painted with something other than Lacquer.
Anything sprayed with a HVLP gun.
Anything cut with a Plasma cutter.
Anything primed with high solids or epoxy primer.

Hmmmm....
Looks like we're ALL FAKES!!! Hahaha...
(Well, except for ROCKY...he just soaks it in molasses and then drives the wheels off it! )

Bill

 

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Don't forget fake bullet holes. Wish I had a dollar for every one of those I've seen in the last year.

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I wish I had a bullet for each one, ammo's expensive!