What got you into traditionally styled cars?

amen to that!

 

The cars and guys of Vintage Rods in Carthage MO, got me into traditionally styled cars, cause I saw all their billet and contemporary styled "hot rods" and I knew there had to be a better way...

That and all the "why don't you just get a small block?" comments turned me this way for good.

 

Cool, maybe you've seen my Elky around there before I brought it to Maryland. The previous owner (Jeff Marshall) lived in Fremont. Cadillacinmarcus (ex-hamber)
sold it to me on Egay.

 

That kind of sums it up.

 

I'm doing it because it's the "in thing" now........


That and I wanna be like Nads.

 

I was looking for old style ideas to paint my motorcycle.

I stumbled on to these type of rodson the internet and realized that they have soul and are a reflection history from a time when life was innocent.

The other thing that amazes me is that all the speed equipment design was being invented at this point, not just copied ideas. It came for the love of cars and speed, not how much money can I make from it.

I am totally hooked.

And of course the type of poeple I meet who really appreciate it is a bonus.

Boy, my girlfriend would be happy if I could lay this kinda stuff on her.

 

I can trace it back to riding in my uncles '56 Chevy and hearing him talk about having a "Blue Flame Six" in it. That just sounded cool to me. This would have been about 1958.

I spent many a Saturday afternoon in my youth hanging out in a local salvage yard and sitting in the cars, and dreaming. I can probably tell you what was in every row to this day.

 

LOL! It will ALWAYS be the "in thing" for me. I know that's what you meant.

 

I was 4 years old (1974) and I was in my garage standing next to my pop's '32 tudor. The sound of that flathead throbbing away in the garage hooked me for life.

It also could have been the high level of carbon monoxide in the garage caused some sort of brain damage since that thing always ran way too rich (still does to this day)......

 

my god fathers gasser in the early 70`s.i was very young but remember the sounds and the pictures on the slide and the shit load of trophies.he had a gasser 61 fairlane he used to race all over New England.my dad used to take me all the time to see him race...i was hooked from then with model cars and Rat Fink stuff..aaaahhhhh the memories!!!

 

When the Low Flyers hit the British Rod scene in the mid 80s, I was hooked. Before that I was building kind of Rally style stuff out of 70s tin.

 

Always liked cars, but my first (and last) car will always be the classic Mustang. In the mean time, I knew a 32 Ford was fun, and a lead sled was kool. It's taken this website to teach me what traditional style was, and so far, I love it.

 

When I was in high school I worked at a body shop and a 30 Ford Coupe came in. It sat atop deuce rails and was getting a tri powered 327 Chevy built for it. After working on it and seeing the flames my boss layed out over the black base...I believe that was the moment.....And I always loved straight axle cars.

 

I guess it all started when my dad put a 1958 Impala together... back in the early to mid 80's... he cut up a convertible to make this one. Over the past years since then he has gone through many cars... 1956 Nomad, 1968 Charger, 1936 Plymouth, 1938 Chevy, 1970 Coronet 500 Convertible, 1941 Hudson, 1966 A100 (Mom was so happy when that one came home!), 1941 Dodge truck... most of them have be reconfigured in some way... both my brother & I have the urge to beat & bang on cars... make them in our image... he has a 1938 Chevy & a 1965 Plymouth Satellite... So, I guess it's really back to... cars are in my blood... my type is traditional styles cars... I like to be different and jumped on the opportunity to build a Studebaker

 

i grew up at dirt tracks with race cars in the basement...ive been to hershey every year since before i was born (mom was pregnant) and i've gone to latimore for almost as long if not the same...i worked at a dirt track since i was 7 or 8 and always just wanted a flathead v8...we bought a 32 coupe about 13 years ago and its been in the shed ever since (old dirt track car) but ive always wanted a "hot rod" with a flathead in it...once i could finally afford it...the damn things got popular and im back where i started unable to afford things...

something about those open pipe flatheads at latimore...that just did me in for good and i wanted one for the road...its always been a coupe...only lately have i seen the light with the dry lakes racing and wanted a roadster


zach

 

actualy.........

the hamb

i had ben online looking all over for information on how dual exhaust sounded on different motors becasue i didnt want to run duals on my v6 and have it sound like a lawn mower when i wanted rumble, wow long time ago.

ive always ben around race cars and hot rods but nothing ever stuck like trad cars. so id say as far as trad cars go id credit tuck,rocky and the hamb

 

I have to admit it may have been the movie american graffitti, can't really recall anything specific, nobody I hung around with in school had anything remotely hotrod related, my uncle liked that sort of stuff and I got some of his old magazines to admire but I never seen much of him to get any influence from so I figure it has to be American Graffitti that actually took a firm hold admiring them rigs and plotting and planning one of my own but I never did have anything older than a 55 chevy til I got my current farm truck 49 ford

 

Well lets see, I guess it all started when I was about 6-7, my brothers were into hotrods and lowriders. At the time that hotrods did do that much for me but the lowriders were where it was at. I think I was the only kid at my elementary school dreaming about convertible 64's juiced up on D's. I also dug the Bombas, and when I was 13 I found a 51 Chevy foordoor in the paper for $500 bucks. I talked my dad into buying it for me and letting me work it off all that summer. He did and I had to sweep horse shit for the rest of the summer. My first intensions were to biuld a bomba out of it, untill one day I found some old Custom Rodders and Rod N Customs that my brother had packed away. It only took one look through one issue and I was hooked, been that way ever since.

 

I got the movie Two Lane Blacktop, loved the 55 chevy in it. I came to understand that in some cases you don't have to be the prettiest lion at the waterhole. I even went to Springfeild Missouri just to take a gander at the car in person. If I had that movie still, I would be fastfowarding to the good scenes on a daily basis. Well maybe every other day.

 

my preist as a kid was a model a restorer and a corvette freekjob. that and when i started to drive my dad got me a 63 fairlane after i totaled 2 rabits. and i didnt wreck the farilane.

 

I think this got me hooked



Me in the late eighties helpin the folks pull this outta the old chicken coup.

I think what really put on the traditional track was the appearence of the Idsky T roadster in the 93' Rod and custom. The car was over fifty years old but stylistically it looked brand new. It was just interesting to not see any of the tricks and fancy doodads of the cars at that time.

I'd say the real clincher was another Rod and Custom article, four of The Shifters cars were shown together. They all just looked radical, all the motors weren't commonly used with rare speed parts, the intereriors were bare bones. It was pretty much all over after that, I was hooked. Johnny

 

The lemony fresh scent of testors model glue...and my buddy's Dad's Black 40 Ford, with oxblood red interior...

 

Ok, dogpile stevilknevil for the fucking wide thread!!!!!!!

Jesse, funny thing, it has always been old hotrods for me. The first memory of the theatre I have was when my folks took me to American Graffitti back in 74? when it was first run. Same 55 in both films, blame my dad.

 

There's another way to build cars? I was 18 in 1966, first Hot Rod mags I have with my name on the subscription labels are 1962. Built a 27T coupe with Olds engine when I was 15. The 27 T roadster I am driving now was a body taken apart stored in my best friends brothers attic in '62. The '56 265 that I am going to rebuild & put in this roadster was in his t bucket back in '62. My friend & fellow Thunderbolt Olen Tieman drives a 32 5W he purchased in 1957, still has the bad ass 265 in it from his racing days.
What was the question?
Oh yeah, the HAMB got me into traditionally styled cars.

 

'Cause I don't have to spend a 1/2 million dollars on the build only AFTER a "designer" tells me how he wants it built, have a climate control garage, and use an enclosed trailer for those times when I want to "take it out" for a cruise.

 

The Eastwood & Barakat 32 sedan pulled me in...circa 1983!

 

Naturally, Graffitti opened the door for me in finding Two Lane Blacktop. I love all the cars in AG.

 

i am 15 right now, and i have always been into vintage drag racing, like the fuel altereds and what not. the first time i saw Graffiti i was probably 6-7 and about 3 years ago i got the movie Two-Lane Blacktop. that pretty much changed it all. i also remember seeing a vintage style rod at a Goodguys when i was around 6-7, i had never seen a car like that before. i cant remember exaclty but i think it was like a chopped/channeled 29 ford in primer with pinstriping everywhere. i pretty much thought it was the coolest thing i have ever seen. but after Two-Lane i never looked back

"make it 3 yards...."

 

Got tired of seeing all of the same car at hot rod shows, one day I kinda said something to my dad about it and he handed me a huge stack of old rod' magazines to think on.

 

My dad has been building cars for 40 years.Iv been helping hime sence I was old enough to pick up a wrench! Iv always been around hot rods,and customs my whole life.My first car was a 64 Impala sence when I was 15 and still have it and still working on it.Real cars have been a part of my life my whole life.Iv been a body man now for 4 years working at body shops, and Rod shops.Iv been doing stiping for about 6 months now,Im not one to brag or boast at all but Im really getting good with the help of my buddies letting me stripe their cars,toilet seats,and any other thing I can get my hands on.I just like stuff from the old school! Im kind of a cave man my self.I just think that the people,cars,music,t.v. ,and everything else was better back then so I just like haveing my little peice of it,if its a car,poster,or some old vynal.I just like that classic style !