Rotten Rodney
03-03-2004, 12:55 AM
Greetings Fellow Hamsters! Please allow me to improperly introduce myself. My name is Rotten Rodney. I was born in a junkyard and raised by watchdogs in Riverside, California but I currently live and work = play in North County San Diego, California. Somehow I've been fortunate enough to find a way to actually make a living just doing what I love doing. No, I'm not a male prostitute! I build hot rods and do restoration work for a living. More specifically, body and paint by trade with an emphasis on custom painting. I like to burn things. Okay, almost enough about me.
Over the years, I've probably had about as much fun with hot rods as most of you. As a second-generation hot rodder, I had some great influences growin' up. My Dad and Uncle were always building hot rods in their garages and I got to tag along with the Riverside Roadsters in the sixties. I'm still in touch with a handful of these guys today. I'd like to share these photos if I may. Stick with me here okay? It's not what you think.
This 28 Phaeton was my Dad's in the sixties. As a youngster, I watched Dad cut it all apart and build it all back up again but due to circumstances beyond Dad's control, the car never was driven more than a few miles. It just sat and decomposed in an old garage with a bad roof until about nineteen eighty-two when I'd purchased my first new TCI chassis. I'd planned to build a beater coupe much like my friend DRD57 but when Dad saw the shiny metal frame in the back of the junkyard pickup, he offered up the sheet metal from his Tub and I went on and built it in nineteen-eighties style, sorta smooth and red. I'm workin' on removing that flavor in my spare time right now.
Inching closer to the point, I've had a lot of fun with this ol' Model A but the best place I've ever parked it was in . . . MY LIVING ROOM! Yes, the living room. Q: Why? A: Because we can. Sure there's a long underlying story about a divorce and so on but we'll not dwell on the details. Long story abbreviated: This was the most fun my kids and I have ever had with this car. It spent nine months in the living room. It took a minimal amount of planning, a handful of good friends, five and a half hours labor and a keg to get the job done. I must be honest and admit that I enjoyed driving the roll-back through the ex's prize rose garden and the icing on the cake had to be the priceless look of astonishment on Ms. Ex's face the next day. Standing in the living room, lookin' all around her, sizing up all the doorways, "All right, how'd you do it?" My kids (teen age at the time) really seemed to enjoy their new drive-in theatre. The car faced the TV and even after it was back on the road months later, the TV remote remained in the center of the front seat as an auto-accessory.
Hope you'll enjoy the pitcher show and I'm lookin' forward to getting acquainted with yawl. The only burning question I have so far is . . . How long must I remain a "Junior" Hamster? RR (Rotten Rodney)
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Over the years, I've probably had about as much fun with hot rods as most of you. As a second-generation hot rodder, I had some great influences growin' up. My Dad and Uncle were always building hot rods in their garages and I got to tag along with the Riverside Roadsters in the sixties. I'm still in touch with a handful of these guys today. I'd like to share these photos if I may. Stick with me here okay? It's not what you think.
This 28 Phaeton was my Dad's in the sixties. As a youngster, I watched Dad cut it all apart and build it all back up again but due to circumstances beyond Dad's control, the car never was driven more than a few miles. It just sat and decomposed in an old garage with a bad roof until about nineteen eighty-two when I'd purchased my first new TCI chassis. I'd planned to build a beater coupe much like my friend DRD57 but when Dad saw the shiny metal frame in the back of the junkyard pickup, he offered up the sheet metal from his Tub and I went on and built it in nineteen-eighties style, sorta smooth and red. I'm workin' on removing that flavor in my spare time right now.
Inching closer to the point, I've had a lot of fun with this ol' Model A but the best place I've ever parked it was in . . . MY LIVING ROOM! Yes, the living room. Q: Why? A: Because we can. Sure there's a long underlying story about a divorce and so on but we'll not dwell on the details. Long story abbreviated: This was the most fun my kids and I have ever had with this car. It spent nine months in the living room. It took a minimal amount of planning, a handful of good friends, five and a half hours labor and a keg to get the job done. I must be honest and admit that I enjoyed driving the roll-back through the ex's prize rose garden and the icing on the cake had to be the priceless look of astonishment on Ms. Ex's face the next day. Standing in the living room, lookin' all around her, sizing up all the doorways, "All right, how'd you do it?" My kids (teen age at the time) really seemed to enjoy their new drive-in theatre. The car faced the TV and even after it was back on the road months later, the TV remote remained in the center of the front seat as an auto-accessory.
Hope you'll enjoy the pitcher show and I'm lookin' forward to getting acquainted with yawl. The only burning question I have so far is . . . How long must I remain a "Junior" Hamster? RR (Rotten Rodney)
http://drd57.hypermart.net/Rotten/rotten01.jpg
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http://drd57.hypermart.net/Rotten/rotten05.jpg
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