trailerd cars suck!!!!!!

ive been seeing more and more trailers showing up at events.....what gives????????? no matter how cool the car is ......(especially some on the vlv threds) i hate seeing trailer queens , if your gonna build a car how about driving the damn thing, if its not driveable ,why bother??????????

stick with amt or monagram, they have pleanty of cars you can "build" and just look at,,save the old tin for people that will actually get use out of it.........

im sorry if i offend, let the emotional flogging comense, i guess....but even the "street rodders" that lots of you look down their nose at, drive their cars....

anyone can scab a car together and roll it out their garage,on to a trailer and off at a show, i dont think thats what roddings about ,sorry about the rant

 

I dont think theres any way you should get *****ed at by anyone on here. Cars are made to be driven and who the hell has all that much fun just drivin em on and off a damn trailer? You are absolutely right, drivins the only way to go. Only cars that have the right to be trailered are special interest cars like that streamliner vehicle at vlv.
Greg

 

Absolutely Right 20000 miles on my merc its my daily driver....

 

...oh, i thought someone wanted to talk to trailer ed.

 

Oh yea, thats for two years and one of them it sat in a friends body shop for a year.

 

I sure hope any of you agreeing with this guy have a car that runs and was driven to a show. "Project collectors" are worse than trailered cars in my opinion. Finish something.... bring it to a show, running or not.

ThirtyTwo in your profile it says:
Car :32 pieces all over, not one car worth a ****

Maybe if you spent the time finishing one of your own cars instead of *****ing about trailered cars, you'd have a car to bring.
-Dane

 

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So lets see if I got this right. You can finish something(or call it finished) but it doesn't run, Trailer it to a show and thats ok? Very interesting.

 

Hey, I have more respect for the guy that shows up with his trailer. A guy I know around the corner took his t-bucket to viva last year. I noticed his trailer wasnt in his yard. Come to find out he trailered it to a hotel a few miles away and then drove the car to the show, acting like he drove all the way there! LOSER

 

Real HOT rods are/can-be trailered, to the dry lakes, or salt flats, or race track.

Real STREET rods are the one's that shouldn't be trailered!

 

Not me. I wish I had a trailer for one year. I would load up and hit the northern states going west for about 4 months and come back thru the southern states for about 8 months. Hitting every cruzin I could find. Would love to spend a month in California. I'd put a cot in the trailer and only hit a motel when I was ripe. Just an endless year.

It's nice to have dreams.

 

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So lets see if I got this right. You can finish something(or call it finished) but it doesn't run, Trailer it to a show and thats ok? Very interesting.


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I'd rather be the guy that trailers his rolling ch***is in-progress project, than the guy with a pile of parts at home *****ing about a trailer. I just find it ironic the guy with NO car is on a soapbox preaching. Pretty common HAMB tactic I guess. I don't trailer my car nor am I defending those that do. But a 'trailered car' is sure a lot better than a 'nonexistant car'.

-Dane

 

now, cars pulling trailers...that's kinda hot..heh heh...load down the trailer good, and you got a bumper dragin show boat. Don't got a hot engine? then load down the rear of the trailer, taking weight off the *** end of the car, and presto! you got a car that can do burnouts in 4th gear..haha...


Seriously, you all do hopped up cars, but what is cooler then lets say a 54 chevy wagon, primered in red rims with a souped up 235, pulling a gator trailer with a plywood hydro-plane made from popular science plans, powered by a "hot-rodded" Mercury Huricane with a quicksilver racing lower unit...hot damn, now THAT'S a trailer queen!

 

what about the guy that takes his roadster from Kanada all the way down to VEGAS on a trailer cuzz he doesnt wana break an axle and walk home? are there RULES? ill be sure to run a kanadian flag on my trailer... haha

 

Ahhhhhhhh...........here we go with more *****ing and whining and crying! Boy I just love the MOB mentality that exists here on the HAMB. Do you even know why some of those people trailerd there cars? Did ya ask them? My guess is not.

I happen to know a guy who trailered his car to VLV. They just started it for the first time on thur night. None of the bugs had been worked out yet. So rather than get stuck in the middle of ***hole nowhere. They hauled it. While the rest of the club drove their knuckle draggin rodsters 8 hours.

They have nothing to prove to you. While your here typing and crying about trailered cars they are in the garage finishing the ride and will be driving in style within a few days.

Mike

 

Seriously, you all do hopped up cars, but what is cooler then lets say a 54 chevy wagon, primered in red rims with a souped up 235, pulling a gator trailer with a plywood hydro-plane made from popular science plans, powered by a "hot-rodded" Mercury Huricane with a quicksilver racing lower unit...hot damn, now THAT'S a trailer queen!

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I love it somebody build it..About 20 years ago a friend of a friend had one of those little boats it was the scariest little ******* ive ever been on..

 

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I sure hope any of you agreeing with this guy have a car that runs and was driven to a show. "Project collectors" are worse than trailered cars in my opinion. Finish something.... bring it to a show, running or not.

ThirtyTwo in your profile it says:
Car :32 pieces all over, not one car worth a ****

Maybe if you spent the time finishing one of your own cars instead of *****ing about trailered cars, you'd have a car to bring.
-Dane

[/ QUOTE ] HEY SMART GUY! heres some of the pieces right here!, oh ya drove it to vegas too! not just the 4hrs from LA either, try north sonoma co. straight through 75-90mph

in 99 i drove a chopped and channeled 32 pickup 10,000 miles in 2 weeks via b-ville ,LA, pleasnton,texas and up to mn, by myself and a tool box

how do you build if you dont collect parts?

 

No problem here with trailers, just show up at the show with it that way, don't go around lying about it.

 

I have to admit I trailered my car to Vegas, But I fessed up to it while we were there too. Everyone who asked was told the truth. I would have loved to drive my car there, however I love my wife and wanted her to come and she wasnt going to ride in the car that far. So I kept her happy and had a great time in Vegas. I WILL be driving it to any other shows though.
Later
Harrell

 

Hmmm, lemme see...does a guy that's crippled qualify to trailer a car?

Hmmm, does someone that's afraid of grenading a very old ****** on a long distance trip qualify to trailer?

Hmmm, how 'bout the guy that just finished a Deuce roadster that has zero miles on it and has a wife and two kids...does he qualify?

Hmmm, how 'bout some old fart that wants to take his motorhome so he doesn't have to pay exhorbitant motel bills and listen to the raucous party in the next room all Friday nite...and Saturday nite...does he qualify?

Hmmm, how 'bout the guy that's taking a cross-country tour and hitting all the rod runs along the way, but his t-bucket doesn't have a top, nor a heater, nor an A/C...does he qualify?

Hmmmmmmmm, how 'bout you...do you qualify? Yep, there's a million reasons to trailer a car...the only car you've got to worry about it YOURS!!! If you don't like trailering, don't.

R-

 

I have to say I agree. Why trailer it. Just drive it. I was there at VLV on Monday and saw this group of cars (less the girl) getting loaded on to trailers... HAHA funny they waited until MONDAY. I may even have photos of it.

 

reasons and problems fine, the thing i am *****in about is cars built in a way that makes them undrivable........for instace... ohh i cant drive my car cause the oil pan sits an inch off the ground...,

hot rods are supposed to be functional, not being able to drive it a couple of hundred miles cause its a P.O.S. is not very functional, guys from 3000 miles away in the snow is a little bit differnt deal, some guys from denver showed up in roadsters driving through pleanty of snow though too

 

So-cheap talk is cheap. Only that truck was trailered. The rest were driven. I dare ya to post a photo of them all being loaded onto trailers.

 

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Where oh where did you ever get this? Who said they were supposed to be functional? The original hot rod was a race car...built for speed...nothing more and certainly not functional in any other respect...over the year the line has vbeen blurred , but I've never heard it said that hot rods were suppossed to be functional!!!
R-

 

Who cares really?? If your 'fortunate' enough to own a truck-n-trailor that would def. make it to Viva or to any show for that fact,,,why not do it. We go to shows to have fun,,,period. How we get there doesn't really matter!
I never gave a **** about trailored cars & blah blah neither...I choose to drive my ****!..Thats what its about..
But however, I drove & been cramped up enough to know i wouldn't go that distance in a chopped-n-channled coupe if i didnt have to..I have been left stranded to fix my ****box on the side of the interstate to many times to count,,,let me tell ya,,,It isnt fun esp at night when all you have is a lighter and flashlight. Read some of the other post and look at some of the accidents that have happend in the last couple of months maybe you have a different understanding to why some people choose to trailor their cars...If i could i would have a trailor,,but i can't afford it...So my plans are to drive west...
I break my buddies balls about trailoring his coupe but i will also be the 1st to back him and roll p***enger with him to a show..
So i'm a ****head!

 

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Where oh where did you ever get this? Who said they were supposed to be functional? The original hot rod was a race car...built for speed...nothing more and certainly not functional in any other respect...over the year the line has vbeen blurred , but I've never heard it said that hot rods were suppossed to be functional!!!
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.............you need to do some reaserch!!!!!!!!! pick-up any one of don montgomerys books.....every hot rod from the early days was a dual purpose car they DROVE to the lakes took off their fenders and raced, screwed the fenders back on and went home providing they didnt break then a buddy in another hotrod who DROVE there towed them home.......

later on hotrods became race cars and still did that function very well , the RACE CARS i saw there were trailerd also, although im sure some of them could have been driven home also

 

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ThirtyTwo in your profile it says:
Car :32 pieces all over, not one car worth a ****

Maybe if you spent the time finishing one of your own cars instead of *****ing about trailered cars, you'd have a car to bring.
-Dane

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i caravaned with THIRTY TWO down there from nor cal... over 12 hours on the road at speed... i drove my new chevy truck 'cause i'm a *****... anywho,,, i don't know your abilities mechanically or with fabrication but,,,,, if i knew and was able to do a QUARTER of what THIRTY TWO is capable of i'd be a happy guy... no disrespect intended to dane,,,,, just in defense of THIRTY TWO,,,, a true HOT ROD HERO of mine and a LEADER.
nic

 

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I hate these ******* matches , but this just struck me as odd . If you have a 4000 H/P motor in streamliner , or some other nonstreetable type of car , of course you trailer it . . . to an event where you will then take it off the tralier and make it perform it's function , of going rediculously fast . If you have a regular plain old street driven 90 H/P flathead , or small block in your car , I dont see any real reason to take it somewhere on a trailer . especially if the event you are going to comsists of sitting in a parking lot looking at parked cars all day .

Hotrods are by their very nature purpose built to be as functional as possible . More emphasis on function over form . All aluminum seats , because they are light , and not comfortable , as opposed to thick heavt comfy seats .

I think if you are building a street car , or a car like many that were at this show , it would be silly to trailer it . That's my personal oppinion . There are too many variables to make this a black & white sort of argument . I do agree with whoever said " if YOU don't like trailers don't trailer YOUR car " . So far that has been the smartest thing said on either side of the argument . But to say that hotrods aren't suposed to be functional , doesn't make sense to me .

 

Hey 32...There's a vast difference between driving a few hundred miles to a dry lake, racing and driving back home and driving over a thousand miles to an event...where I came from a "hot rod" was a toy, something someone built out of every part available for next to nothing...and not very functional at that even...it was strictly a race car...none of this drive it there and back, it was trailered, even to the California dry lakes...

R-

 

I'm thinking of trailering my car to the HAMB drags. I'm sure I'll break something on the strip, and I don't want to get stuck somwhere. If I don't break something, but someone else from up by me does, they're more than welcome to borrow my trailer to get their ride home too.

 

This really makes me laugh! Its funny how its ok to trailer something and then another post bags on whats the term "Goldchainers".

So is it better to be a goldchainer and drive your car all over? Or is it better to have a POS and trailer it? Or maybe its better to not give a **** either way?

I personally don't care if the car is trailered or driven to the show. So long as when I get to the show I get to see a **** load of cars and trucks! I dont care if there so called billet machines or junk mobiles. Satin