Hot Rods It really sucks driving a hotrod in December!

Beautiful car!

 

Every year is a bad year for wild fires around here, rain or no rain. if we get a lot of rain it just makes all the brush and chaparral grow fast, then it dries out in the summer and by fall it's fire food. If we have a dry year, then everything is dry and goes up easy. We can't win. The only place I know of where there is a "fire season". We don't get rain & snow, we get winds, and the winds drive the fires. Every damn year.

 

Don't move to Texas, it's way too crowded, the hill country is ugly, it seems to be turning blue, and the weather is so horrible you might have two or three days a year that you can't take your ride out to enjoy yourself...

 

They're talking 50 here on Friday sooo...

 

When it's your only vehicle, you drive it

 

Been driving mine every December since I moved to Henderson NV over 30 years ago...

 

Been driving the 40 as it's been unusually warm and dry here in Nebraska. With a little possible snow coming Thursday and Friday when I went by the state shop this morning all the plow trucks are loaded with salt and pointed toward the gate waiting to end the 2020 hot rod driving season!

 

We Drove our coupe to a food drive in Blue Island Ill. last Saturday . It was it was an hours drive from Crown Point Ind. to the Blue Island Brewing Co. Where we met up with the hosts the Romen' Chariots and some of the members of O.T.J.A (Old Timey Jalopy Association). Temps in the low 30s but dry.

 

Weather was ok Saturday & Sunday... Got some fun in the while it was dry !

 

They started to salt the roads here last week and the 55 also caught some snow. I gave it a good wash Saturday and put it away until the weather improves... this year we had an early start for Winter...

 

Me and Tesla went for a last spin in the Model A this weekend.

 

Thats too Kool, like the striping too

 

I don't think the cops can see your plate there....mine's in the glove box, looks like the day I got it, wait.....its been there since I got it....

 

Wow, what are you driving there? Some of it says Dodge Brothers to me. Am I even close?

john

 

Drove the ‘39 to work today. Taking advantage of the good weather.


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Plastic Jesus? Cool. Snowman

 

hey .get a warmer hat and some long johns
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My wife and I took the coupe out for a coupe hour drive Sunday afternoon. Outside temp made it to 44 degrees, and it was partly sunny. The coupe has heat and defrost, but also has some air leaks. It was a nice day for a ride, but we were happy to get home by 4pm, the temp was dropping and the wind was picking up. The way this year is going, we may, or may not, get another ride before we get blasted. Gene

 

It's a 1930 Ford AA frame, 29 Ford body (original to frame). GM Corp 14 bolt cab and chassis rear, 32 Ford fat beam front axle modified (offset drilled) to take 58 chevy model 38 king pins. Stock 131" wheelbase extended to 147". Number of other mod's, sorry no Dodge stuff at all.

Earl

 

Who need heat anyway!

 

I DO! I DO! Its my son's fault!
We went to the Hundert Car Pile up in Morison one very cold winter like day. My son insisted we take his 46 Plymouth that didn't have heat. The day before I decided to install a coil of copper tubing to hopefully take some of the edge off the cold, but the car had way too many air drafts. There were 3 of us in the car, two in front, one in back. The only person that could feel the heat from the copper coil was who ever was riding shotgun.
It was a cold ride there, it was cold being there, and it was a cold ride home, and it was starting to snow when we left. It was a 4 hour ride home. We all took turns riding shotgun, we probably stopped 6 or 8 time swapping positions. The 1st thing I did when we got home was take a hot shower, I think I was still cold the next 3 days. That was the last time I rode in a car without heat! Call me a wimp if you want, I need heat when its cold outside. Gene

 

What an awesome car!

 

Had the 49 F 1 out on Tuesday for a short drive. May break out the 34 today. Might get a taste of snow tomorrow and then it is the OT truck.

 

I'm enjoying the cooler (40-50) weather that we've been getting lately, the air has been dry and it's suiting the carb jets better.
I'll say I'm glad I've got a heater though! Roll down the window, pop the quarterlight open to kill the draft up my sleeve, heater dialed to HOT, slowly cooking my ankles and roasting my buttocks. Great big iron boat anchor under the hood helps keep the heat in the system, and even better when it's parked up for a few minutes because the hood becomes pleasant to lean against when you stop somewheres.

Plus, there's always a fun comment or two to be had from people not expecting the car to be out and about in winter (not that our winters down here are anything really to write home about).

Short days, cool air, not so many bugs out, a good heater and decent headlights. Sounds about right to me.

Phil

 

You can say "roasting your ass" on this site....

 

The sun came out, and it made it to 54 degrees yesterday afternoon! I jumped into the coupe and drove across town to my buddy's shop to shoot some bull yesterday afternoon. It was a great afternoon all around.

They are calling for snow Friday evening, but today is still suppose to be nice yet. I might have to jump into the coupe to go someplace this afternoon as well.

Its not often we get a chance to drive our old heaps this late in the year, I'm going to get as much of it as I can. Gene

 

The title says “It Sucks To Drive a Hotrod in December “, I would say it would suck to not have a hotrod to drive in December!

 

The title is tongue in cheek.

 

went to monthly coffee run
kept a look out for snow
temp 32C ,no salt on road

 

Smart A&$!