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Gorgeous powerplant!

 

Sweet...love white "soft" parts.

 

On yours, none of the mentioned items BLATANTLY SHOW. Outside maybe the wheels on the 55 nothing on any of those screams street rod or mod rod or what not and they pass the 30 ft test.
If a guy has to lay on his belly on the hot pavement to look under your car to be able to bitch and point out that you have a couple of things changed that don't meet the 100% stuff sold before 1964 or a certain date he is too frigging snoopy.

I've put 300K plus on my truck running an I beam since 1973 with another 80K or so running a Camaro subframe. I've earned my I beam axle and leaf spring creds with that truck. It gets something that rides and handles a lot better this time around as my 71 year old body is getting tired of dealing with what is under it now. The big head shaker might be the stretched cab but some guy in a body shop "could have done the work I have planned in 1957/58. Everything else outwardly visible will appear as what was available in that time frame. It will have AC but my wife of 49 years who turns 69 this year has earned her creds riding in a truck wit no windows and no ac in 110 weather in Texas including our trip back down there in 1981 when they had around 50 days of 100 + and the streets were melting in Abaline when we drove through. Although the engine is a later 6 I have more finned cast aluminum for it than one engine should be allowed to have along with cast iron headers. Guess I could get a date coded (probably have one in the junk shed) 62 Chevy alternator and matching regulator to stay pre 64.
I've drug who knows how many guys with Chevy trucks that didn't meet Hamb Criteria over to the Chevy truck board where the criteria is that it has to be a Chevy or GMC commercial vehicle and there is a subsection for most year groups and models . I've sent just as many over to https://www.hotrodders.com/ where just about anything goes and there are a lot of special interest subsections. I haven't been on there much since I joined the Hamb though as too much there just doesn't interest me. There is a group out there for just about anyone where their ride fits in without needing any changes to be in. Why some guys bitch and whine when they get slapped because they want to show photos of or discuss their off topic cars or the off topic parts of said cars is beyond me.

 

Traditionally Inspired Hotrod

Why? Not worth discussing or seeing...
as its off topic

Like Larry's Hotrod this Inspired Hotrod would have evolved through
flathead Ford powered and drivetrain transitioning to its 6 carbed,
smallblock powered, 57 chev rear ended status over the years to what
I refer to as a 1962ish look where I like to say the clock stopped...
not near letter perfect but it is somewhat basic, viable and primitive.

It is also a 2010 build of which I credit the builder with having
a admirable handle on Vintage Hotrod ambience or what it might have been.

I will not post this as a Traditional Hotrod or in Traditional Threads
in respect to the Board and Membership.

I am going to change a few more things in time
but despite these changes bringing things more towards a traditional
look it will still remain a
Traditionally Inspired Hotrod

The Hokey Ass Message Board Forum
is the Forum for anything related to this
Traditionally Inspired Hotrod

Larry Your Hotrod's evolution went beyond 1965 to the seventies which causes conflicts, especially with those who understand the obvious...It sucks to build your Hotrod to suit your vision and come here and attempt to find common ground where so many details are just not common and it ain't rocket science but you built over the threshold so you have to sorta tiptoe and your not enjoying that.

On Fitting In...I sorta feel like that at cruises surrounded by things that seriously do not interest me...I am sure the people love their cars and are good spirits but a 1992 Indy Pace Car Vette is really not something I want to talk about or spend time researching and trust me I ain't going to convince them to show interest in a rattling Ole Hotrod. I don't try to influence anyone I just smile and enjoy the things I like...and chit chat with the people and if they like the Hotrod...great

Do the same as me and the others keep post 65 stuff not a topic of discussion...if your Jag stuff was a 1960 install and you had 50s Buick Wires with Bias Plys I am sure things would be less abrasive...but they are not theres a paper trail...
ya got ink...

In Inspired Shoes too...

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I know that I will get some guff for this but I gotta say, my understanding of this site has always been that the majority of the members want to preserve the integrity of what is or once was cool and "on the fringe" of normal society. Hot rods after all are a way for people to explore their vehicle's speed and performance capabilities and more importantly, express ones individuality. While some feel that using newer technology cheapens the overall integrity of hot rods, I gotta say that selectively, it just makes sense in some cases. What I think is most productive about this site and what I try to learn about is being able to learn from all the experience that is offered here and trying to meld that into something that is my own creation. I get and fully accept the need to maintain some class here and with few acceptions, I will try to incorporate what I learn with respect to maintaining integrity. Thanks all for the information you provide here. I'm looking forward to absorbing as much as I can and will limit my posts to pieces of my builds that I feel are appropriate for the site.

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These last 3 posts are exactly what I was getting at earlier. Moriarity confirmed this too in his last post. My traditionally inspired hotrod will just have to be focused on the HAMB....and I'll bet a good 90% of the cars will be there too.

Awesome stable of HOTRODS!!

 

Ole Larry wanted some respect for his highly detailed beautiful chassis. That's why he kept on about it. If you've done this shit more than once It's apparent that lots of love, time and dough went into it.

At least 47 times he was told that chassis is off topic here, quit posting it, read the rules, and was spoon fed explanations of "why" 47 times. At least 47 times he didn't get it. At least 47 times he explained why we're all wrong and the HAMB is biased and mean. Someone allowed an entire thread full of more spoon fed explanations, for a little while.

What else can you do?


Bring your baseball glove and gear onto a football field and get butt hurt because you can't play football? Tell everyone geared for football they should play baseball and get butt hurt because you are in the way- same shit. Get some football gear and play, get in the stands, go find a baseball field anything you want but get out the fuck of the way.

 

Ok, I talk too much...lol.. but,.... here is the only local cruise I care to go to out in the boonies.

See that yellow repro/retro yellow 33 Ford sitting next to mine? Nobody was looking at it, and more important to me, nobody was talking to him, so I did. Then it went from what is was, to where he lives...shit, he lives like a half mile from my last temporary beater house in a very yuppie town...then I told him that I did live there awhile, then he points to a satin black 51 Ford 2dr coupe and blurts the owners name out as living in his town.. "Johnny xxxx"....

No shit!!!, that 51 Ford owner...I have not seen or talked to in 50 freaking years! He was the young son back then, of a gas station repair garage that his Dad ran, and my Dad had a part time job there! Johnny used to take my Dad and me fishing right up the road from here back then in his 59 Ford! Then the 33 owner (in the yellow shirt) came back with Johnny all smiling, and said my Dad was the best mechanic his Dad ever had there!

Keep going in this pic.. the young guy walking towards me in the Johnny Cash t-shirt, in front of that yellow 33, he came down with a brain tumor last fall when I also had brain issues...we are good friends, and even more so now. He brought his friends jacked up square body Ford 4x4 you see there to the right. It came as a 2wd from Texas, and he did the 4x4 conversion! Then hidden behind him, the young guy in the black T shirt and gray cap, has owned that turquoise 77 Chevy squarebody truck since he was 12 years old...he also now owns my Boston built in 1959-60 1930 Chevy "early Olds powered" chop/channel RPU.

The 47 Dodge truck next to mine is also a 26 year old friend who thought nobody would want to see it, and he'd never been to a show with it for that reason! I talked him into going. He and I picked up a new friend I kept meeting around my area since March..he is a visiting Professor from Austria that has very vintage VW busses back home! He was so thrilled to ride in an old time USA hotrod to the show! and he about shit when I showed up at his rented home at UConn with that Dodge following me!

my point is...we are all humans and we all have "some damn thing in common"...so get out there and "meet and greet".
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Just in case someone needed some non-traditional solution to the bleeding.... Throwback/wayback when we had senses of humour.[/QUOTE]
Don't make me break out the pics of my old Pinto daily driver.....