Trucksters - traditional?

Oh and if I were to throw my $.02 in I live by the rule that nothing after 1934 should be left without fenders. That's just me though....

 

For some, it always will be...

 

Nobody has posted pics of Norwells ride? Dont care about the "tradition" debate on his, its just plain fine!

 

Best post on the entire thread.

 

Norwells isnt a bobber/truckster/Rudy/Poupe, its too old.

 

-x2

 

Never saw one in the 1950s/1960s at Nixon's/Whirleys or Harvy's. But I did see a Tail-Dragger 32 Roadster at a Kustom Show in Baltimore in 1960. I was stationed at Aberdeen Proving Grounds the Winter 0f '60/61 and the East Coast rods/kustoms didn't look like SoCal.

 

I'm glad you guys are having fun with this thread, some of the posts just crack me up ........I mean It's not life or death is it?
My hotrod is a keeper and I'm as happy as a pig in **** with it...........
after all it is Neotradish..

 

Gotta make sure we have covered all the bases....checkout the powerplant. (this dude ought to be put to sleep).

 

Now that is a wast of a perfectly good engine. I wonder if I could by the whole deal cheap?

Actually if not for the engine that one would look like a semi that got shrunk. Its a Mack with a Louisville cab.

 

Roflmao! Hey and its got 16" steelies with beenies! Its HAMB friendly...

 

Oh yea, I'm as serious as uncle Joe Stalin here...

 

Agreed,,and I bet it's a ***** to kick start in that configuration. HRP

 

that kinda **** woul;d get your legs broke around here. ive got a frame just waiting for that engine!!! rigid of course.and a girder frontend.

 

One of the "older guys" in town when I was in highschool, he was all of 33 and ran the Shell station along with owning a 62 409 Impala had a "Rudy" looking 36 Ford pickup that wasn't that low and ran a small block of some sort. The truck was bright blue and almost always was sitting at his station. I think I picked up the sectioned grill shell off it at a swap meet about 20 years ago and have that hanging in my garage.

 

I'm sorry but the Traditional Police say "It is absolutely impossible"

 

Actually if you were refering to me I said I had never seen one "back in the day", I went on to say that it no doubt had been done by someone at some point.

I still fall back on this, whenever I see one I think it should have big ol' gin poles and be driving around at a mill or logging camp.

 

Not refering to you Bean just having some fun too.

 

I never saw anything like the bobber trucks back in the 50's or 60's,,unless it was some sort of Shriner's clown cars!

That's not to say they didn't exist but had they been as common then as today surly Hot Rod magazine would have featured them. HRP

 

I figured but I did give everyone else a chance to not get their feelings hurt.

Actually you could have been talking to me we'd still be friends on the nect thread.

 

They obviously did exist. I have seen and even posted a few pictures of them. I found 2 examples of fender less post '34 trucks in photos winning races at my old local dirt track (which BTW was one of the oldest and most famous dirt tracks in the Midwest). I am willing to bet it would not be a stretch for a 16 year old kid back then to see a truck like that winning a race then go right home and start tearing the fenders of an old truck and build something similar and run it on the street or try to anyway. While I also agree that 99% of them today are hideous and probably nothing like the ones that were around back then but, I still find it funny that the some folks will stomp their feet and jump up and down screaming they can’t be (traditional), when obviously technically they are. Aesthetics does not make them traditional, the fact that they were around at least in small numbers in the 50's and 60's does.

If I can find 3 examples of them this easily, they certainly had to be around in other parts of the country too.

 

Its all good, I shouldn't be wasting time on this stuff anyways. I've got to ***emble one of those old slow Flathead motors today. What a waste of time and money

 

Although I'm about as traditional as one can be and I've never been a fan of the bobber trend, I do agree with your statement above...

 

I really don't know one way or the other, but is something that was an anomoly in the 50's/60's traditional today?

Just throwing it out there.
Larry T

 

Well, even if they hadn't featured them, you would have seen some in the letters or for sale section. And you dont. there arent any, because they didnt exist. And the oval track racers that are obviously built for some local regional truck cl*** are not traditional hot rods either, they are oval track racers. Amusing, fun to make jokes about, but not traditional hot rods. EVERYONE here knows this as well, and the guys that are saying "oh yea, here proof that poupes are traditional hot rods" are being deliberately obtuse. Just another red herring, to help a bunch of guys justify themselves. I guess the guys that really are into traditional cars should take this as a compliment, that SO MANY guys are SO DESPERATE to label thier cars as "traditional" that they will go to such ridiculous lengths of self delusion.

So far, we have one photo, of ONE truck. As Larry said, thats an anomaly.

In deference to Amaverick, and his post regarding the literacy of most bobber/poupe builders, I'd better add this...
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/anomaly

Oh, and heres another one.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/tradition
You may want to ask yourself if one photo of one truck would somehow fit this definition, then again, you may not. It may make ongoing self delusion difficult. While it HAS been fun, the basic premise of this thread is a complete crock of ****. But you guys have fun and knock yourselves out "playing traditional".

 

It is if you want it to to be badly enough...

 

Two of those pics look like they could be of the same truck.

But even if they aren't, they dont have the stance or profile the current Bobber Trucks have ( front axle pushed way forward, .5" ground clearance, etc)

Rudy's truck looks more like those to me, than the more recent versions it inspired.

But if those pics are proof that it was in fact a style of building cars, then you guys go with that...


Remember that old movie of the Old Chevy sliding around in the snow on the street?
With all its front end sheetmetal removed?

That must have been a style of building cars back then too.

Afterall... The photographic evidence is there...

 

If you look up tradition in Websters, you see stuff like customary pattern; commonly accepted as historical; continuity, etc.

Kinda leads me to believe that not everything that has been done in the past is traditional.
But that's just my perception.
Larry T

 

I can think of many one off type cars that would never be called into question.... Too funny. Must be some kind of elitist thing.

 

I can ***ure you Larry is no elitist...