Jesse James is jacking up the price of my 54 chevy

[gonowhere]

Went to a car show on Sat, and I drive a chopped 54 chevy, and a whole bunch of jackasses wanted to buy my car. I called one guy, and told him $11,500 which is completely oputrageous, and he is actually considering it. Not only did the Jesse James phenomenon ruin iron crosses for me, but now my chevy? WTF. I guess I can't blame him though, it is the sheeple that ruin it.

[Elrod]

Why is the fact that your car is now worth more "ruining" you? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

[gonowhere]

I'm just bitching for the sake of bitching really, kind of boring at work today. I do get tired of everybody yelling "Jesse James" whenever I drive anywhere though. If somebody buys my car because of it, cool.

[Tuck]

I was wondering the same thing... there are a ton of those chebbys in my neck of the woods. Take the money while they're still HOT.

[gonowhere]

Yeah, I hope he buys it. There aren't very many around here, but I'm sure that will change.

[zman]

Man sell, sell, sell. You can get whatever you want with that much, Hell you can get 2...

[gonowhere]

Oh, you know what I've got in it, and what is wrong with it. I'd be crazy not to sell!

[Unkl Ian]

So sell it for $5000,and you will feel much better.

[Roothawg]

So are you gonna sell out too....... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

[gonowhere]

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So are you gonna sell out too....... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

[/ QUOTE ]I don't know if Jesse James is selling out or not, but I'd be one selling out mofo for the money he makes!

[JamesG]

Pics?

[fordiac]

this whole thread is gay

[so-cheap]

<font color="red">Take the suckers for all they are worth </font>

[gonowhere]

i'll try ot post a pic

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid104/p0ed0a579709c188eaa79f819bf4de38e/f9986d0f.jpg

[gonowhere]

Here is a pic of the mill...sbc bored 40 over w/305 heads and 4 holley 94's on a weiand intake

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid104/paa761953820476e2ed76d613e01710c4/f9986d00.jpg

[Iceberg]

Never been a fan of Jesse or Chevys, but I like money. Take the cash and buy or build something you like. Life is too short to worry about all the other assholes in the world.

[gonowhere]

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this whole thread is gay

[/ QUOTE ]66 fords are gay

[Fat Hack]

Jesse James or no...your Chevy's pretty damn cool! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

(I actually like Jesse's too!)

I can see where the trend-riding TV rodders would easily liken your car to Jesse's, and want to own it...but if you have ANY reservations about selling it, then don't cave in. The fad will pass, and they'll all turn their noses up at your nasty old heap once more and all will be right with the world again!!

(Unless you were actually WANTING to sell it and get into another project...if so, then no time like the present!)

[dondanno]

An old friend said one time about being able to get a lot of money for some car of his and he turned it down, " Thats where two fools met, one for offering and the other for not taking it". Just think what you could do with the next one. But if you dont want to sell it I wouldnt. I have been offered money for my 48 Chevy coupe, its nothing special but I have done a lot it and I just dont want to sell it. But if some fool offered a stupid amount for it I would run out and buy another. Just my 2.5 cents.....Danny

[Machinos]

I had some Hispanic guy in a Land Rover offer to buy my Chrysler at a gas station a few months ago, while it was being dragged up onto a flatbed after the battery died no less, and when he asked how much I wanted I said something like $1500 more than it's really worth, and he said "Yeah I'll buy it for that! Lemme give you my number!"

Then I lost the number http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

[Jester]

well the only thing that really bothers me is that people will say that "hey you got one them cars like Jesse James" well you know what I saw Jesse's car for the first time on the fuck'n autozone comercial but people will still say that its modeled after it. Chopped 54 and 53 chevy's will have that stigma for awhile and if you ever wanted one you better find one fast cause you won't be able to afford one for awhile. 57 chevy's are the same way everyone thinks they where hand built from one solid peice of gold or titanium. This will be very unpopular but I'd much rather drive a chopped up 50-54 than drive anything from the tri year models (same breath......I wouldn't turn down a free one) oh well Kluge kleine Katzen kratzen keine Krokodile. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Germ]

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i'll try ot post a pic

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid104/p0ed0a579709c188eaa79f819bf4de38e/f9986d0f.jpg

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WORSHIP THE DEVIL
Thats the TRUE WAY to SELL something,
Hey what color rims are those?
Is that thing painted with ROOFING TAR to give it that FLAT LOOK??

JESSIE JAMES WOULD MAKE YOU HIS BITCH...

You drink water from a FISHTANK, while the SOLDIERS DRINK THEIR OWN URINE...

10000 for that?
Did JAMES DEAN BUY IT?

[whitewallslick]

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57 chevy's are the same way everyone thinks they where hand built from one solid peice of gold or titanium. This will be very unpopular but I'd much rather drive a chopped up 50-54 than drive anything from the tri year models

[/ QUOTE ]

Would you drive mine? It's hand built from a solid piece of primer (with a little magnesium sprinkled on) http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
http://simoncomputerservice.com/pics/wag.JPG

[Jester]

uhh uhhh you got me there Kat http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif but........ http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

[52Chief]

Don't make Jesse James the reason you sell your car.

If you like it, then keep it, but if some loser offers you big bucks, take it and laugh all the way to the bank! Otherwise, when people make that comment, just smile and drive on.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

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this whole thread is gay

[/ QUOTE ]66 fords are gay

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so are corny car club names

[repoguy]

While we're blaming Jesse James for stuff,

I'd like to go ahead &amp; blame him for my rear window trim piece falling off yesterday while I was driving home.

And I think he may have stolen my mom's lawnmower last summer.

The sellout bastard! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif

[fordiac]

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this whole thread is gay

[/ QUOTE ]66 fords are gay

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im really surprised that you didnt lok at my website and see that i have a 79 MG midget, and call that gay instead.

[FoMoCo_MoFo]

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So are you gonna sell out too....... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

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sometimes you gotta sell out to eat out... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[JamesG]

I dont know about ya'll, but most people I hear that are talking about Jesse James allways are refering to his bikes, not his cars.

I'm glad that he's hooked up with AutoZone now. Maybe all of us can go in there and say, "We are " RATRODDERS " and we are like Jesse James and he is kool, so can we get a discount"?................lol........ http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[**DONOTDELETE**]

If you want people to look at your car, just start a thread that says "hey look at my car" I do it all the time.

The route you took on this one is fucking stupid. Take both pages of this gay ass thing and blow them out of your ass.

[du$ty]

if i was single...id take full advantage of people being on the jock of jj...and play out as many white trash chicks as i could.look at the glass half full instead of empty.

[TheDooWopKid13]

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this whole thread is gay

[/ QUOTE ]66 fords are gay

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im really surprised that you didnt lok at my website and see that i have a 79 MG midget, and call that gay instead.

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your right it is gay

[Boones]

Cool, maybe the same guys I tell each year my wagon is not forsale unless they step up to xx. will actually do it... but now I have to raise the value again for inflation...

Just think when they all get tired of it (no AC, PS, PW and Cruise like their Audi's) and the fad goes away, they will sell them all and since no one will have the money they will lose and we may find some good deals

[geno_86ed]

I wanted a 54 Chevy when Jesse James had a six shooter, not a TV show. Bought mine and love it even if people will think it is a Jesse clone. But for that reason I am going primer grey instead of black, but what are you gonna do?

[SwitchBlade327]

looks like I shoulda looked for a 54 Chebby instead of getting my shitbox, if I had maybe I could actually get rid of the damn thing. If that guy is gonna pay you that dude, take the money and run. This thread got retarded. Your all homos.

[ESnacky6]

Jesse James didn't even build that '54 Chevy...he just bought it....

Pretty much anything that makes it onto TV becomes 'popular'
for at least a little while... because most people can't fucking
think up their own ideas...they have no VISION or STYLE...
(now I'm not saying I like most of the stuff he builds, bikes etc... I don't..!!)

but I'm SO tired of people bagging on Jesse James for being a 'sellout'...
who the fuck are you..?!? jealous motherfuckers...

if you can do it better, get off yer ass and DO it..!!
and if by some fluke, somebody comes along and offers you shitloads of $$$
come back and tell us how you passed it up like a FUCKING IDIOT..!!!

At least Jesse James has proven over and over and OVER that he has
actual SKILLS in CREATING and BUILDING stuff... not just bolting
bullshit chrome stuff together and calling it a custom anything...

I say he is marketing genius... getting his name recognized worldwide..???
and for what..? building custom cycles, and silly whatnots from crap..?
and selling t-shirts, stickers, etc. EVERYWHERE..!?

It's not he seriously fucked over anybody in the process...
or am I missing something here..??

He can now afford to do whatever the FUCK he wants to do,
whenever the fuck he wants to do it...!!
Seems to me he's enjoying his life...
doing what he likes to do and is getting PAID for it..!!
a self-made millionaire...

a RULER in my book...!!

[Jkustom]

I agree with snacky, but at the same time alot of these guys who wear the WCC shirts and think it makes them an instant badass are the same guys who are gonna find ways into other things, such as a kustom 54 chevy, and thats definetly gonna cheapen it a bit... But fads pass....And I will still have my 54 chevy, and Ive always been a badass, even though I dont own a shirt that says so...

I definetly respect JJ for what he's done. And hes got pretty good taste in cars, but its all his fans that get under my skin....

[CadillacKid]

Yeah Jkustom, I agree...these are the guys with the Arnie Cunningham disease (the kid who bought Christine in the movie)...he was a dork, but once he had a pretty cool car, he was an instant badass....makes me puke...anybody who's real will know...they're still dorks...gotta respect JJ for making it for himself too...it's like this: I can call Christina Aguilera a slut all day long, but she's got more bread than I'll ever have, so I'll guess I'll just shut up and keep watchin her nakedness... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[Ham]

Ditto to what Snacky and the others said. I get sick of people bagging on others just because a guy got some recognition and is doing well for himself, plus he has the skills to back his shit up. Instead of bitching get out and do something! Later, I'm heading to the garage...

[Jasonic]

Why couldn't he have been driving a 64 Rivi in that damn commercial?

[kustumizer]

i think that everybody who disses jesse james is gay!! I would do anything to be as talented as he is. Do You guys think he just woke up with his talent and they gave him a tv show??? Im sure he worked his ass off to get where he is and i think he deserves it! Who cares if he sold out, i dont think he did! Why do you work??? To get money, why do you think he does the stuff he does?? to get money. You think everything he does is free? im sure he has bills like the rest of us. I think that there is alot of f**ing jealousy here. Look past the auto zone commericials and carp. Who cares what he does. I like his bikes , his cares, his attitude and everything. You guys can say whatever you want, but he is one talented guy! Nate

[saltflataddict]

I agree he is a ruler!!

"Jesse James didn't even build that '54 Chevy...he just bought it...."

He didnt build it?? I bet he has the skils to build it though...

[voneyeball]

what's autozone? you guys watch tv??? should i chop the olds and put a chevy grille in it????? please help. i want something to bitch about too!!

[52Chief]

I'd be glad to sell out if it ment not having to worry every month about how I'm gonna pay the bills. Just haveing the financial freedom to build that kind of car, (I'm sure he could have too), would be worth doing any number of t.v. shows/silly car commercials in my book.

Damn I HATE being broke! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Petejoe]

Quit picking on that creative artist. Be happy your car falls into the same category of being popular because of the mass media. Where would the original cutting edge people and vehicles be without it. Does George Barris fall into this same poser category because of his popularity?
As far as I see it. Every time we come up with a new rod to build. We are always emulating some era, time, person or vehicle. He has fallen into a different category. He is creative, enjoys his work, and more importantly was lucky enough to become popular. Most of us are mimicing some style or era few, including JJ are creating new trends.

[gonowhere]

I just reread my original post, and I don't see any talking shit or saying that he was a sellout or anything!?!?!

[junkboy]

Here's an idea,,,,,,,,,,Turn OFF your tv. tell a friend who will tell a friend,,,,,,,,,, who will tell a friend. until no one is watching and the powers that be become so confused at how to stuff bull poop into peoples' perspectives that their brains explode http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif