What are some vintage things you AVOID?

I still have all of those things, but I do use a fuel filter to block the vintage goo from the Model T gas tank that's in my trunk. And.... I've hated those dirty hippies ever since Nam.

pigpen

 

Chicken wire could be the answer! Maybe add a little Razor wire in the mix and some broken gl*** on top like they do in the Philippines. Robert Heinlein once wrote that "Good fences make good neighbors". Chicken wire, yea, that's it! (Keeps the unwanted critters out too).

pigpen

 

-hose clamps for ****** mounts
-hose clamps for engine mounts
-hose clamps for alternator brackets

 

Rust

 

-chevy's dumb *** 49-52? bellcrank steering set up
-old bias plys
-all the above on vintage michigan roads!

 

In dedication to former Hamb member "Kojack".....I avoid Fulton Sun visors and any other goofy doo-dads you frequently see adorning gawdy low-ridered
out 40's cars with gold plated daytons

 

I also avoid vintage tin that has obviosly been sitting next to that certain farmer's house for way too long to even think he'll sell it to you......you'll get the " I'm gonna fix it up some day or my grandson wants to fix it up some day"

 

Dynaflows and closed drive shafts, Yet I've owned 5 Buicks so I guess I dont avoid em I just hate them. Kind of like how you love your old lady but you still want to puch her in the face sometimes.

 

um people who still think its 1950

 

Any engine with only three main bearings.
Not that they're bad.
It's just that I avoid them.

Flatheads, 'bangers, and air-cooled VWs are fine for OTHER people.
I love they way they look, but I need reliability for myself.

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Hey hey hey!!! Quit picking on us hippies!! Be nice, you might need parts for a Microbus or something. My ol' hero, Doug Sahm is a Saint to Texans and the Hippies. You gotta love Sir Doug, or you'll NEED to hide behind chicken wire. In Texas or Californica, "She's about a mover"! NUFF SAID!

cp

 

Wow- Lots of great responses here..

One vintage item I plan to avoid (and I don't seem to be alone here) is MUDFLAPS! Lots of vintage pics I've seen show rods sporting crazy huge mudflaps. I've seen some rear mudflaps from back in teh day that went all the way across the rear of the car. I've seen them with car club logos on them. I've seen them lettered with the owner's name, the owner's home town, etc.

I left my '58 Impala (348 Tri-Power, natch) in the care of my father when I left Buffalo in 1984. He and the car are still there, doing fine, but he's chosen to add a few things to it while I've been away. Guess what...?

It's now sporting a pair of nasty white mudflaps behind the front wheels...and he justifies it by saying "That's the way we used to have them"...and I'll be damned if my research doesn't show he's right...

...but that still doesn't make them look good.

I guess it could be worse...at least there's no curb feelers.

..at least not yet.

Scotch~!

 

It made me also..........call myself Boones...........

 

I pretty much live off of boones farm stawberry hill.....its ****in trad...I rule...buahahahaaha

 

Hey I used to run sawdust tires in the winter. They did bite good in the snow, I guess because they were real soft.

I try to avoid brakes without self adjusters, not because they are dangerous but because I'm lazy.

Toilet roll oil filters, not a good thing.

Curb feelers, they looked cool but were basically usless for anything except snagging some poor woman's ankle.

 

Good responses! I forgot to check up on this thread.

It started out such a disaster and then became interesting.


I forgot about those old JC Whitney toilet paper oil filters. I thought it was a joke the first time I saw one!

 

Anything that ****s at high speed. which includes:
-bias plys-maybe I'd put em on a show car but not on a hot rod.
-mechanical brakes- i dont even need to explain.
-flatheads- yea i know its sacriledge but they're just too damn slow.
-lacquer- obvious reasons.

I guess that doesnt leave much vintage stuff left but I'd rather go fast than look cool. vintage speed equipment on the other hand, is awesome (hilborns, offenhauser parts, etc.)

 

This makes a lot of sense, except the flathead part. Flatties can be fast with cubic money. I can tell from your post that you'd be one of the fun guys to run with on a road trip.

cp

 

Lacquer paint and torque tubes.

 

and Rader mags, they ****

 

You were a hippie? Ok, you're forgiven... this time. One of my friends in the Navy at Pt. Mugu thought he wanted to live in a commune. He took me there once. What a nasty place. Girls with no makeup, and squalling brats, and a large sink full of dirty dishes. Nasty! After that, I didn't even bother to wear a long haired wig, just to get a date. Finally got hooked up with a second generation, California transplanted Okie farm girl, that tried to screw me to death. Life was good then, back in the day. "And that's the way it was, movin' west". (Wagon Train)

pigpen

 

Ampmeters; a voltmeter is better and safer.
Bias ply tires.
Recaps
Straight weight oil
Off brand or junkyard belts and hoses.
Any wiring that is crumbling, that old stuff is cloth covered rubber.
Pop rivets
Flexpipe exhaust
Radios with ********s
SBC's

 

Old Gasoline turned to varnish
Nylon Belted Tires.
Women with lots of cats.
4 Track Tape Players
Recycled motor oil.
Recarb-Co
Drunks
Old drunks
Bomb Shelters
Plans to build your own bomb shelter.
Messages from the Chairman of the Joint Cheifs of Staff that say things like:

"I regard a full fallout shelter program as being coequal, if not preeminent, in relation to the whole damage-limiting program."

Bumper jacks
sheet metal screws
Body spe******ts who solicit my business in shopping center parking lots.
Multiples of Nash Metropolitans
The Austin America
Any car with 3 lug wheels and whose name begins with Renault
The Dauphine
Financing
Bondo
Lowest price anything
Midas!!
Aamco!
Martin Sinor paint
gutter flashing
Platformate

 

Forgot Dry rotted drag slicks!!!!!!!!!!!

 

-**** tails
-Cable-operated cutouts
-Port-O-Walls
-"Chem-Chrome" paint
-Lectra-Scope engine ****yzer (but if you got one, I'll buy it)
-pinstripe decals
-JC Whitney "Mini Supercharger"

 

Of course I was a hippie. In fact, one of the original Vipers, who has p***ed on was "The World's Fastest Hippie", Mike Mitchell. I used to use too much pomade and that mutated to too much hair! ha ha People who live in communes are communists I always thought, hmmmmmm.

The style I fit nowadays is drag strip trash and garage rat. It ain't Hippie, but it's HIP enough…

And, Rich? I've seen pix of your cars, life is good RIGHT NOW as far as I can see. You just need to trade your Peavy stuff for Ampeg or Galleon Kruger stuff. And I need to trade up to a Bag End 15" cab.

cp

 

Radiators
Cars built in Yugoslavia
MC Hammer Pants
Renault Le Car
Sea Monkeys
Lawn Jarts
Slim Jim simulated beef snack
Professional Wrestling
Super Soaker
Hitting Thumb with Hammer