From Rat rod to yuppie, a sad pic!

[titus]

heres my A tudor in the summer of 2002, i drove it everywhere and had a blast, but i sold it to build my 34 pu and someone changed it!! Alot!!

[titus]

and heres what he did!sad huh?

[Stevie D]

Race the gremlin Race the gremlin

[Stevie D]

Delete the second pic it makes me sad..

[titus]

i think itd beet my A, thats the one we put a 454 chev in! plus a th400 and 9"inch rear

[spudz]

In the most redneck voice I can utter....... GAWD DAMN BO....

[quickrod]

titus,did you at least get the pipes back?those are kool.

[Django]

I see it's for sale now... how much? Hight price to pay for one that lost it's SOUL. It can still be saved though... again...

[four-thirteen]

shit, he got half the damn car back when he sold it. that thing was so damn cool too....

[tokyo]

titus...is that a fiberglass body? i think i saw it at chubbies this last summer. The nailhead looked nice...but it is sad...yours had sooo much more style and persona..

tok

[MercMan1951]

If it's for sale now, obviously he's not happy with it! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Shame...

I hate selling cars to anyone local. When I'm done with them, I don't want to see them again. Case in point.

Oh, well. You should take solace in the fact that you have taste and he doesn't...

[ikillspies]

wait a minute, titus, from what i gather from this, that oxide beauty was yours, and that monster defiled it like that, that guy will go to hot rod dumbass hell.

[Southfork]

GeeZ, Titus, that is/was some cool rod! Tell us about the drivetrain from front to back. I guess the new owner didn't change that, did he? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

[Fraz]

What? He finished the roof, painted it decent. Left the nailhead, didn't fool around with too much that I can tell. Only thing that looks bad are the wheel and tire selection. That can be easily fixed.

[Evilfordcoupe™]

thats funny, he made it his own.

-Jaosn

[titus]

well, it a 59 buick 364, wiend drag-star 6-twos intake(got 15 mpg), home-made headers,65 riv rad w/4 inches cut of each end(ran 180 degres all the time) with a th400 adapted tp it, an 8 inch rearend, duece mor drop, juice brakes, buick finned drums had a f100 box in it, 40 ford wheel little barstool looking seats 40 olds tailights, four-thertien was correct, i got half the car back, most of it went on my 34, I got back the headlights taillights intake and carbs headers dropped axle and wishbones, seats dash steer column and wheel, wheel and tires radiator grille insert, steering column drop, and some other misc stuff!!!! take a look at my pu and see if theres some stuff that looks the same!!

[Sam F.]

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heres my A tudor in the summer of 2002, i drove it everywhere and had a blast, but i sold it to build my 34 pu and someone changed it!! Alot!!

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who cares,its not yours anymore

[titus]

i dont i got the money but it still sucks!

[Bondo Slinger]

Yer "new" truck looks like a blast! I bet right after that pic was taken you went and did a bunch of donuts in a snow covered parking lot eh?

[titus]

maybe!! that was taken at the end of last winter, i drove the shit out of it, des moines goodguys ,blue earth hamb chop, louisville nsra natnlns, and it was my only mode of transportation all summer it was a blast all while getting 17-18mpg!!

[metalshapes]

So how does the former owner of your truck like it, the way it is now?

[CharlieLed]

I'm with Fraz, the guy took a car that looked half-finished and finished it. I wouldn't have put those tires and wheels on it nor would I have flared the rockers, but all in all I like the finished look. I grew up drivin' POS's because we didn't have the money to paint our rods; today folks seem to be doing the same thing for different reasons...

[titus]

so sorry if i stepped on your feet, it was just my opinion anyways, and what are those different reasons??? i heard rumors about how we have no talent and thats why we do it, or we dont know how to or lots others, well i think thats bs, i do it because i think its fun, and thats the whole aspect!

[metalshapes]

Your responce was probably to Charly and not to me.
But wat I was trying to say was, Wouldn't it be funny if that guy was complaining on a different board, about what you did to "his" truck?
I like it the way it is.( Dont sell it! )

[titus]

not realy to anybody, i dont even know exactly what charle meant, just exspresing my opinion!

[briggs&strattonChev]

titus, was that truck cruising around BTT50's? Im sure I saw it there and took pics of it. I think tim told me you made the box?

[titus]

Yep, all day long, and i did build the box from scratch!

[CharlieLed]

When I was just old enough to drive, sometime in the mid 60's, we built cars that never saw any other paint than primer, never had wheel covers, had the crappiest JC Whitney/Checker Auto/Pep Boys plastic seat covers, and a driveline that was held together with baling wire and a prayer. None of the guys I ran with ever started out building a POS, it just ended up that way because that's what we could afford (and still have some cash left over for gas and a date). Today it's in style to purposely build cars that look like the POS's that we built 40 years ago.
Here's my point, nobody that I ran with or knew personally ever wanted to keep our cars in the state that they were currently in; we all had visons of slick paint jobs and tuck & roll naugahyde interiors. Unfortunately by the time we had the money to put into the cars we were married or in the service and we were buying station wagons and "reliable" family transportation.
Today it's called "kulture", in my day it was practicality.
Here's my point, have a good time with the nostalgia but remember where and how it started. When I see a car like the ones I owned and drove (like your rat rod) I feel a twinge of nostalgia...but then again, when I see that car finally in a state of "completion", I'm even happier because I see a dream that many of us had come to be fulfilled. It's hard to explain, I guess it's one of those things that you had to live...

[FoMoCo_MoFo]

Charlie,
Thats pretty much what my Dad told me a few weeks ago when one of his pals asked me if I was ever going to "paint" my car. I agree with the dream fulfilled, but for a fair amount of guys unfinished is just that.

None the less my car will be getting shiny & tuck and roll after the holidays.

[HAAS]

Aside from the wheels and tires I cant see much wrong with it? I dont really dig the flames, but all in all I kinda like.

[daren]

And here I am waiting for my bonus money when the contract I work for is renewed and the extra cash from my tax return to buy some spindles for my model A "rustbucket" sedan. Maybe even some dropped spindles for my 50 Ford or some rust repair panels that I badly need for same car.

Most things over $100 dollars I need to feed my hot rod habit I have ta wait for "bonus checks" such as tax returns and so forth. I'm 26, have 2 kids and a wife so money is tight.

I came outside to go to work one morning and one of the dry rotted tires on the rear of my 50 just popped ( betcha never saw that happen) sitting there. Good thing it happened there instead of the interstate. Being Christmas and all I couldn't afford new tires right now. So a swell coworker offered up the steel wheels and tires off his late model Jeep Cherokee he just wrecked if they would fit. Hey if its free its for me, by the way they bolted up perfect and are damn ugly ( soon to be fixed by some flipper hubcaps) but at least i'm back on the road.

The paint is just bubbling up and flaking off so now a paint job is in order. But being that a good paint job these days can run upwards of a couple a thousand dollars it looks like primer will my my saving grace for awhile. My car is getting a "patina" that I don't want! Yes I would love to have the top chopped, finest tuck and roll interior and smooth candy paint just not in the budget right now, saving to buy a house. All this and the 8 track player just blew up yesterday, yes I said 8 track, remember what I said about free? Found in my attic no less! Car CD players ain't free.

If my rusty model a ever comes together I doubt it will ever see paint due to the fucked up body and birdshit welds on the body. I did score a complete set of 48 Ford brakes at the last swap meet for $35 dollars so its coming slowly but surely

So basically most people know it takes money to play in this game and someone even had the nerve to tell me I should sell my cars to "someone that can afford them". Boy was I ever pissed, I still have hot rod dreams just like anyone else.

So basically Charlie I can see where you are coming from and from a few folks primer ain't about fashion or "kulture" its just a means to get by.

I wouldn't rip the guy for putting shiny paint on that model A, it looks good other than the wheels, but if mine is ever to come together it will probably look more like the first pic.

[Morrisman]

Charlie,
Whatever things we moan and bitch about now will be remembered as "the good old days" in ten years time, so the POS cars that guys had when they were much younger and much poorer are now happy and fond memories. Nothing wrong with trying to re-live a few good memories, whatever it takes to make it work. Of course, this could take us back to the old 'what IS a hot rod' argument http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Just my humble opinion.
Paul

[rickyracer1962]

with that title i was expecting to see a picture of savage.

[DamnitDave]

You got that guy's number?!?! I wanna call and see if he's still got the old intake and carbs... I'm sure he'd part with that "junk" pretty cheep... gotta make a payment or two on his tudor, I'm sure...

[rosie55]

I hate to tell u titus, I can see where u are coming from but I LIKE UM BOTH!!!!!!!!

[quickrod]

actually,both versions are pretty cool in there own right,PERSONALLY,i like tituses version because for me it reminds ME of a time when hotrodding seemed more about a persons ability to do the best they can with the means they have.lets face it fellas, there were'nt NEAR as many "hot rod" shops a guy could drop into for high-po speed parts,or a custom paint job,or even a trick suspension set up for that matter.it never ceases to amaze me to read or even listen to someone like my father tell stories about some of the things they would do on there own because,like charlieled said,"they did'nt have the money".well,although i did'nt live it and i am "doing the same thing for different reasons"let me just say that my reason is,i admire the things my dad and guys like charlieled had to do to get by,and appreciate the insperation they give me to want to hotrod everything i own.although it may be easier for someone nowadays to quote:"finish"a car,mine will resemble something like what titus has as a tribute to people like my father,who helped make hotrodding fucking kool!!!.....quickrod

[hotrod54chevy]

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When I see a car like the ones I owned and drove (like your rat rod) I feel a twinge of nostalgia...but then again, when I see that car finally in a state of "completion", I'm even happier because I see a dream that many of us had come to be fulfilled. It's hard to explain, I guess it's one of those things that you had to live...

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this is what's also known as an "old man rod" or "midlife crisis rod"..much the same reason a rich old man buys a harley...it's somethin he couldn't afford to fix up and now he can.well,i STILL can't afford to fix somethin up but i KNOW i wouldnt have dreams of doin that to that car..the paint job was sooo tacky that it looked like a hotwheels toy.the point i'm tryin to make is i'm not knockin you for havin big dreams when you were a kid,but if those were your big dreams,man,you had some bad dreams!

[AHotRod]

Leason learned: AHOTROD say: Don't sell HotRod.

[DrJ]

"A hotrod is never finished, until there's a for sale sign in the window."
Then it's just a start for the next owner.

If ya didn't want to see it changed ya shoulda kept it or parted it out.

I don; understand what looks like aprons under the body and it needs "more" flames or none at all, but I don't see anything seriously wrong with the new "finished" hotrod.

[mytlo56]

Not really feeling the wheel and tire selection or the stupid flames.

Other than that stuff, if he didn't stick a bunch of billet on it and put a dumb tweed interior in it I think it could be saved. It has good potential as a 60's show rod. Throw some wild metal flake scallops on there & loose that gawd awful hood scoop & go back to the multi-carb set-up.

[36couper]

looks better IMHO

[hatch]

1975....Put this RS/SS 67 Camaro together, then sold it to a good friend for much less than it was worth....he had it a week and did this to it......I'd rather see it with billet wheels today.

[ikillspies]

what will nostalgia be 50 years from now


the HORROR!