Is it one of those cars that use the tractor loophole so they can be driven by a 16 year old? Has to have a solid rear end and only 1st and 2nd gear available. Or has this been stopped more recently? Mart.
it is cool - from the side, the chop looks like the roof should have been lowered more in the front and the back of the roof left a little higher... maybe. Because the rear end is too low it might throw it off some. Then you see that front angle where it looks like a jeep and think that it either needs to be chopped way down or rounded off. I am suprised so many people are bashing that thing.
I saw it as well but did not waste any film on it... (and even worse, I think you did manage to capture my daily driver Grand Cherokee in the background...)=
Weird, I´m sure that the casting mold has been broken after that case... But to be honest, try to imagine long, lower ***, maybe some fins or something, fenderskirts. Plumper roof.... Can you see the potential.....? Or am I as lost as the builder?
Or the other way round? OK, it´s one o´clock at night here, maybe I´ll better get some sleep just now!
I'm just wondering if you could get this thing up to 100MPH, then pop both doors and see how quickly it would stop?
Ya know, there are a whole lot of you guys that are about as two faced as people can be! We have a guy on this board that is welding together an "A front end to a 50s Olds rear and making it into a pickup and you think thats cool, But this guy takes a 40s Olds front and adds it to a pickup box and you slam it????? WTF??????? It may be a little rough, but there has been a whole lot of work put into it and it is going down the road. I thought the idea of this board was to promote being different and not following the pack. Honestly, sometimes some of you guys sound like poser street rodders! I like this ride. He put to gether something from parts he could scrounge and made something different. Different is good, I like different things. Cut the guy some slack. I can see a few things I would change if it were mine, but its his, and he may like it just like it is. I'm cool with that. Rant Off. Gene
Uh oh... Gene, I think I can tell you what's going on here. I ***ume you are talking abouot Plowboy. Check out his space truck. It's a wacky idea that kicks *** because it was not only creative but also extremely well executed. His new project will surely be the same way. This truck is also very creative but it was simply executed. Not neccessarily extremely well. It is unique and it does have potential but it isn't there yet and seems to have a pretty long way to go to get there. Not sayin it couldn't be cool but it isn't yet. I agree that he deserves credit for making SOMETHING and drivin it and maybe it's just a start for him too. I wouldn't bash him but it's nowhere close to Plowboy's stuff.
Sure, it's different. Creative, absolutely! Ugly as F**K!! You betcha. If it's the Lunar Lander you're talking about.....??????..WHAT PLANET ARE YOU FROM? Let me clue you in Mr Magoo. Take one hellaciously talented FABRICATOR/WELDER. Add some cleverly diguised left over orphaned parts and an unbelievable imagination and you wind up with the Lunar Lander. On the other hand, a case of Bud and some drunk *** whose never seen a welder before and you wind up with this eye sore.
I've seen Mr. Plowboys Lunar Lander up close and personal. It is nice, better then anything I've done. That being said, The concept is still off the wall, just as this guys truck is. Plowboys exicution was better, and he has a large stock pile of parts to pick and choose from. There are a few notable differances, one being, this one was in Sweden. I would suspect available iron to be somewhat more difficult to come up with over there, but since I've never been there, I don't know. Another difference is that we have only seen Plowboys Lunar Lander in its finished form. We do not know if this truck is done or not. If plowboy slammed a drivetrain in his new project and threw some primer on it and took it to a show, would it fair much better then this truck? The point I was making was: We are all en***led to our opinoin. We can comment on the things we would do (or wouldn't do) differently, but I think we are out of line for slamming the guy because he tried something we didn't. Breaking new ground is always risky business, and sometimes we are unable to exicute the vision in our heads. If you have done any amount of custom work, I'd bet some of your stuff didn't work our quite right every time, and if you try telling me your stuff always was perfect, I want to know who your BS'n. You may have been able to not show your inperfection in public, but not everyone has that option. Gene
We have a saying at work when somebody really screws up .You need to skip a day or maybe you need to double up.{it is about what booze or dope they are doing}. Should this guy skip or double up?
That thing looks ****ing retarded, and comparing it to the spacetruck or the lunar lander is even more retarded. So he tried something different... big deal. He drives it, great. But that doesn't mean that the thing doesn't look like a piece of ****. it's completely out of proportion, and the small *** wheels in the back make it look even worse. Maybe he should have drawn it out, or thought about it a little bit before he started cutting up cars and gluing them together. There's a differance between planning out a radical groundbreaking car, and welding a bunch of **** together to make something different or wierd. The thing is probably a joke car.
it's different. I'll give the guy the benefit of the doubt. maybe he created this thing out of junk that would normally have gone to s****. oddly enough I've seen worse. You guys see that episode of Pimp My Ride (don't ask) where the car was tack-welded and liquid nailed together? That was worse
I see great potential for a master craftsman-- the concept is kind of cool. Just not executed properly, what with the flat roof and square pillar posts. I think the cab top might be an early '50's Dodge 5W cab instead of the Chevy cab. Only the top must have been rotted and they replaced it with flat sheet. Boy, with some sculpting of the top and some swoopy rear fenders, that thing could be a work of art.
I see taste has taken a nosedive around here. That "custom" (makes a mockery of the word) is executed with so many flaws, it makes me wanna puke. This belongs in the "a that starts fights" category. -Crew
you know, the whole time i was reading this thread i could hear johnny cash singing "one piece at a time"
[ QUOTE ] That thing looks ****ing retarded, and comparing it to the spacetruck or the lunar lander is even more retarded. So he tried something different... big deal. He drives it, great. But that doesn't mean that the thing doesn't look like a piece of ****. it's completely out of proportion, and the small *** wheels in the back make it look even worse. Maybe he should have drawn it out, or thought about it a little bit before he started cutting up cars and gluing them together. There's a differance between planning out a radical groundbreaking car, and welding a bunch of **** together to make something different or wierd. The thing is probably a joke car. [/ QUOTE ] jonnycola - wise words coming from a young buck... great things are in your future.
And this is why everybody is en***led to thier own opinion! my opinion: it doesnt even translate to words!
[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] That thing looks ****ing retarded, and comparing it to the spacetruck or the lunar lander is even more retarded. So he tried something different... big deal. He drives it, great. But that doesn't mean that the thing doesn't look like a piece of ****. it's completely out of proportion, and the small *** wheels in the back make it look even worse. Maybe he should have drawn it out, or thought about it a little bit before he started cutting up cars and gluing them together. There's a differance between planning out a radical groundbreaking car, and welding a bunch of **** together to make something different or wierd. The thing is probably a joke car. [/ QUOTE ] jonnycola - wise words coming from a young buck... great things are in your future. [/ QUOTE ] I just get bent when some guy welds a bunch of random **** together to be different, creates some frankenstein ****box... and then some other guys comes along and goes... "Dont beat up on his car, he's creative, he drives his car, and he put a lot of work into it." It's a poorly made, and even more poorly designed, waste of good hot rod parts. Any ***hole can weld a bunch of **** together and call it a hot rod. It's the style and thought that get's put into it that makes it either some ****box swedish pickup, or Aaron's Spacetruck.
I agree with jonnycola 100%. If you have seen aarons project. And you are comparing it to this ****box you must be either blind or have no taste of style/cl*** look at these two and tell me how they compare.
the sad part about it plowbow will probably have less time in his than this other guy has in his abortion.
Im glad i missed it when i was at that show, the cab is probably coachbuilt from a Volvo or Scania heavytruck or something similar, they look like that, some with flat tops too!
It needs little pieces of yellow corn kernels painted all over it to really pull off the effect they were going for.
Gene, I truly hope you're not bagging on plowboy's creations, because if you are, you've lost your mind dude. I've given the Scandinavians and Europeans multiple props in the past, but this creation is in no way defensible. What is the reason for wasting time and materials to build something this hideous? If it was a desire to be different, well they succeeded, if it was to make something pleasing to the eye, they ****ed up big time. Different is not good, ask the man who puts his pants on in the morning, one arm at a time.
I wouldn't go and say that I am a master fabricator or anything. As a matter of fact, I used the old "case of beer method" in constructing the spacetruck. I learned how to weld on that one. I think that truck has some potential, but they went off in a different direction here and there than I would have. Here is the current state of my new project. Is it ugly? Maybe to some. If it turns out ugly to me, there is always e-bay to unload it, I suppose! By the way, yngrodder is the only one on the HAMB that has seen the lunar lander in person. I beleive there is some confusion with the spacetruck.
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