You might be a traditional hot rodder if:

You might be a traditional hot rodder if:

After having spent an entire, beautiful, sunny Sunday in the shop, grinding and polishing some old parts that someone with more common sense than you threw away forty years ago, you head for the bathroom, scrub yourself until you start to look familiar, and then shave, using Gojo "natural orange" hand cleanser for cutting oil.




Okay, who's next?

 

Been there my brother

 

Thats pretty much what I did today but I did ride my favorite twisty (gotta keep the chicken stip away)road early in the AM.

 

Are you talking about those mag rims you love so much? They will look good for about 2 days. Thats why I hate those things .

 

You know your a hard core when you spend the whole afternoon pouring over old hot rod pic's... with Ragtop ... like we did today. Even though the sun was out, I was having a blast!!.....We both have the sickness bad!!!

 

You don't carry a spare tire,because,you run diffrent sizes,front,and rear. You don't have a speedometer,just keep up with traffic. You dont listen to the radio when you drive,because you dont have one, and even if you did, you couldn't hear it 'cause you run straight pipes,and that's the best music in the world! ,Glenn

 

Dave, the perfect post at the end of a long day wading through aluminum chips.

Not so sure about the GoJo shaving cream though.

 

You might be a hot rodder if....
You spend Sunday changing out your new spindles for old ones because your buddy promised a customer new ones and UPS did not deliver on time. Which is going to require changing spindles yet another time.

 

two words...GEAR OIL POMADE.
nic

 

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Are you talking about those mag rims you love so much? They will look good for about 2 days. Thats why I hate those things.

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I put Gibbs Brand on all of my bare magnesium, aluminum, and steel parts, and they not only don't tarnish, you can't even leave a fingerprint on them. I'm not kidding about this.
http://www.roadsters.com/gibbs/

Jay, after a day of grinding and sanding, Gojo is the only thing this side of a bead blasting cabinet that will get my face clean.

Okay, You might be a traditional hot rodder if:

 

How about if you spend whatever nice days you have had welding and grinding in the garage rather than driving your hot rod....
Thats all i have been doing.
The only good thing is here in Rotten-chester, we've only had like 4 days that were nice, so i didn't miss too much.

Rat..

 

...if you keep the big pump bottle of Fast Orange " now with pumice! " in the shower.

 

You might be a trditional rodder if you LIKE the feeing of grinding filings stuck to your sweaty arms

 

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...if you keep the big pump bottle of Fast Orange " now with pumice! " in the shower.

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Sure beats the old days, when we kept our solvent and paint scrapers in the shower.

 

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You might be a trditional rodder if you LIKE the feeing of grinding filings stuck to your sweaty arms


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I don't really like it, but it's something i seem to have a lot of.Does that count

 

....a trip to a junkyard(not automotive recycler) is a religious experience.

 

You might be a traditional rodder if...you keep working after you sandblast acouple of partsand now have sand in places sand shouldn't be. Don't need pumice in the shower ...it's already there.
Clark

 

You nail the gas going over raised Rail Road Crossings in the road instead of slowing down like everyone else.

 

if you do a bunch of bullshit yardwork so your old lady won't get pissed about all the hotrod stuff you do

 

you think nothing of spending a hundred and sixty bucks on steel but you have a hard time justifying spending fifty bucks on groceries.

Paul

 

Yer piles are killin' ya, but you still roll around on the cold garage floor wrenching on the chassis!!

 

You use gas to rinse off the transmission fluid on your hands from changing a burst trans cooler line, while admiring the "handiwork" you left all over the road.

 

I thought I was the only one who WASTED a 73 degree day in Northern Michigan getting grubby in the garage. NOT!!!!!

 

You might be a traditional rodder if:

Your wife/gf bitches about the car parts that show up in every room in the house because you have no more room in the garage.

You bitch about getting up at 9am to attend a family function but will get up at 5am with no problem to attend a swapmeet.

you have a red transparent plug wire on your lawnmower.

while driving in unfamilliar roads you pay more attention to whats in back yards than to the road itself.

you said "that sound like me" some time during this post.

Billy

 

Then after you clean yourself up, you take those old parts that you ground, sanded, and polished, and put them in a special place in the living room.

- Dave the Slave
Arizona chapter,
Black Boogers M.C.

 

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two words...GEAR OIL POMADE.
nic

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um,that's 3 words,nic
Creepy

 

You might be a traditional rodder if:

You have ONE good battery and have to use it in all four of your cars.

ALL your clothes are "work clothes".

Once you discovered what a great degreaser hot trans fluid is, you opened a line to clean up an engine bay!

You've ever seperated a drum & hub by standing on the garage roof and throwing it down on the driveway!

The parts store guy knows you by name, but can't keep track of the car you're driving.

Your vehicle has one "community window crank" that has to be passed around to roll windows up & down!

You use the rust holes in your floor as trash ports while moving.

People give you cars that they intended to scrap...and you DRIVE them!

Your car has not had any mufflers on it since you've owned it...and likely won't!

You put a lawn mower engine on a girls' Schwinn bicycle!

You can't remember birthdays or phone numbers worth a darn, but can rattle off the SBC firing order any time!

You remove EFI and electronic ignition from a car to instal a carb and points!

You actually FOUND a way to build a points distributor for a Tempo using stock parts!

You bought your (now ex) wife a Crane Cam for her car on her birthday!

You've ever tried to ride a bicycle with a Ford C4 trans in the basket.

You managed to pick yourself, the bike and the trans up a dozen times without serious injury!

The guy wasn't home at the house where you trashed the lawn with a falling trans!

You have the HAMB as your home page!

You ever had to have your date push start the car while you steered cuz she couldn't drive a stick!

You ever drove a car home in reverse after the screaming deal you got cuz it needed a trans!

You can grab the upper radiator hose of a car and tell within five degrees what the temp gauge reads!

You know what gas, antifreeze, trans fluid, oil and brake fluid taste like!

It takes you 15 minutes to explain to someone how to start your car and put it in gear 'correctly'!

You ever carried a brick in your car for parking on unlevel ground...called it your "parkin' brick"!

You have at least one car grille in your bedroom!

Every one of these applies (or applied) to you at one time or another!

 

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You don't carry a spare tire,because,you run diffrent sizes,front,and rear. You don't have a speedometer,just keep up with traffic. You dont listen to the radio when you drive,because you dont have one, and even if you did, you couldn't hear it 'cause you run straight pipes,and that's the best music in the world! ,Glenn

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Amen Brother!
Although I did work on mine this evening I got to go for a nice drive this afternoon. It was beautiful man, just beautiful.

 

donlt know if im a hot rodder or not...but my day started at the junkyard for a few hours but still not getting the 39 tranny i found...then onto a car show at noon to get burnt to a crisp...then to a farm to look at a 41 rear (3.78's and not too bad 16's on it) and 49 truck roller(good brakes, shock mounts, and steering) im being given both of them...then home for grilled chicken...then worked till about 11 on the front suspension of my A...donlt know how that classifies me...but i sure am worn out and glowing red on my neck and lower half of my arms...and all i shaved was the top of my king pins on the lathe so i can check my caster angle...and i used 10W-30 for cutting oil

 

you may be a traditional hotrodder if you set the body on the chassis,bolt the exhaust to the mock block,tape the door to the body cause you haven't fucked with the hinges that are rusted shut,make a carberator/scoop set up outta an old hei distributor cap and cardboard,so you can set it on the manifold and sit in it{with your 10 inch superior wheel in your hand}just so you can ask your ol lady how the car looks with the ol skool dragrace graphics and numbers you drew on it with you kids crayons,with said 2 year old in the car next to you making car noises that you taught her,cause you don't wanna seem to strange by makin them yourself ......my daughter rules