When is fake ok ????

I think if it's on your car it should be working, so no blocked of carbs, gutless blowers and no mock up nonfunctional nitrous systems!! Why put some thing on a car if it does not serve a purpose? Just to look the part? I don't dig on the olds valve covers on a chevy either, if you want an olds, than for gods sake get one!!!! Buick drums with discs inside, how sad! If you want disc brakes run them don't hide them, I have discs on my model "A" ford and I don't hide, I figure it's my car and if you don't like the way I run it your lucky 'couse you don't got to drive it!!

 

Corvette valve covers are okay on any small block, because we put them on back in the day -- they're not a thing today's wannabes are doing 50 years later, they're what WE did back then when WE were wannabes. Ditto the dummy Appleton spots. They were put on every lead sled around back then, and they were publicly acknowledged as DUMMY spots. The thought was that they made a chopped Mercury look better. If they p***ed muster back in the 1950s, why shouldn't they p*** today?

 

The thing is, in just about any case, when it comes to putting non functional parts on your car that look cool, the only people you will fool won't know any better and won't care, and people who do know enough to care (fellow hambers and gearheads) won't be fooled by the nonfunctional part anyway. Then you look like the proverbial posure. (in my best french accent)

 

Exactly! If you open an old Almquist catalog from the early 50's, fake stuff was the hot seller! I'm a pinstriper and nothing is funnier to me than DOLL-UP STRIPES! But, that is traditional, so all that fake stuff, even some of the things guys have come up with since then is acceptable, as long as they are DRIVING THEIR CARS! Phony doo-dads can be annoying, but nothing is worse to me than guys who have awesome cars and don't ever drive them, guys who build race cars and never race them, or guys who are building a car that they never work on and is never finished. Those are HOT ROD fakes and much worse than any 6 carb Weiand Drag Star only running 4 carbs!
(wow, I type a lot faster when I'm drinking...)

 

Not fake:
http://georgiadragracing.com/photos/gdrphoto/GDR-00112.html

 

Well, not to stir up controversy, but in general I consider traditional hotrods fake. I mean usually the goal is to make them 'look' like they were built 50 years ago. That is not true, thus fake. Now, I don't have a problem with fake. I even once built a kit GT40 (fake).

All of this does bring me to one of my long standing quandries that I can try and explain with this question.........Why is it that a guy who started with a Model A in 1960 and built it using all modern 1960 speed equipment is cool, but a guy who starts with a Model A in 2006 and builds it with all 2006 speed equipment doesn’t “get it”? Wouldn't it be "less fake" to use modern speed equipment to build a hotrod?

As far as fake, fake rust REALLY bugs me. Causing your car to rust to give it the "old look" REALLY bugs me too.

Mike

 

if you are going for a period look thats fine and well as long as you stay true to it.

its the real fake **** that gets me.

a hilborn converted to efi is fine
a hilborn covering a 4brl is realy fake


this thread is about the true fakes not the whole what was done back then and not done.

 

alright well i read early in this post about fake ****s being ok but i have to strongly disagree!!!!!!!!

if i wanted to touch a fake **** id just play with my knee!

the real deal tear drop is the only way for me.

thats just me though.

oh and blowers with no guts is like a 200 mph downforce wing on the back of a beat up honda with a fart can for a muffler! just ghey!

 

there are plenty of REAL 4 door g***ers out there, me and my dad know a guy who bought a '57 chevy 4 door in the 60's stuck a straight axle under it, has a peppy hopped up 283, drove it to the strip, AND whooped alot of 2 doors on the track. and the car is still driving around today with that same 283, still running tough.

 

The only person you have please is yourself, just build it like you want to, because no matter what you do someone will not like something you did!

 

Anyone that is not OK with fake ****s should not ask if they are fake or not. I mean **** you are playin with ***ies right?, who cares if they are real or not. If they bother you that much______I can't even say what I wan't to say anymore too many cry-babies____ ****. Anyhow I hate all fake things except ****s. Fake blower=GAY fake Hilborn=GAY everyone knows they are a ***** for the street so, run something else... OH yea, I step over the line Pete&Jakes ladder bars on a traditional car=GAY When do you think they started makin those things any-how. I mean you can take it on and on and on...New 32 3 window body=GAY.... it's fake right? OK this thread is GAY.

 

you dudes aware this thread is two years old???????????

 

AND?? Are you a Hamb cop?

Fake is fine when it makes the builder happy. I personally wouldn't run fake induction of any type, but would put 331 Caddy covers on a SBC at least until I got a real 331 Cad. I'm gonna run a C4 auto with three pedals in the cab to get my RPU on the road and then I will switch to a Stick so it is a REAL Hot rod.

Whatever ya gotta do to put it on the road.

 

Real- IS whatever I Actually DO to my cars
Real- IS whatever You Actually DO to your cars
Fake- IS perceptions & opinions based on the prejustices others may have to what has been DONE.

Whoooh! Deep!

 

Not OK:

Fake ***s
Fake ******s
Fake emotions

OK:

4 door g***er. I've got an old photo of someone's 4 door 41 Stude doing a wheel stand on the launch.

 

A M E N Brother.

 

Is it FAKE (and therefore GHAY) to bring back 2 year old threads and pretend you have fresh, ground-breaking opinions ??????????????????????????

 

I think most of the kind of guys on here are into whats practical and not fake,but to each his own.I think fibergl*** cars are kinda like fake ***s,everybody would rather have the real thing but they wouldn't turn em' down.

 

Thanks Paul

 

Some dumb*** noobie decided it would be funny to bring it back from the dead so he could make a joke about fake ****s.

This thread should have been locked in 2006.