What famous cars inspired you?

As a lifelong Social Distortion fan, I make it no secret that I HAD to have a '54 after I saw Mike Ness had one. Then I saw Moonglow and everything else out there and that was that.
What famous car gave you the hot rod bug? Was it the "lil deuce coupe" or the Monkeemobile? I can't imagine how many kids want a '55 Caddy with a mexican blanket interior after listening to the Brian Setzer song... Milner and Falfa's cars probably still get a decent drawing, and don't even get me started on the Pharaoh's Merc!

Anyone have a favorite that I'm forgetting?

 

For me its the Blue Danube and the Grapevine. Those are the 2 that inspire me with my chevy.

 

I'm a big purple people eater fan. I love the atomic punk, shine's truck, dragula. The list goes on and on and........

 

Any of the old 60's great gassers! I remember buying and building model cars in the early 60's and always gravitated towards the old Willys and Anglia gassers. Little cars with big engines were just too cool!

 

This one is i the back of my mind as I am building mine...



Mine will be shiny black with a giant Pontiac motor, but a similar vibe.



See ya, -Abone.

 

When you look in the dictionary under Hot Rod this is the picture you will see. Love it

 

^^^^ sooo true

 

Honestly, I'd have to say the Batmobile, in 1966, was my first real taste of custom heaven! When the show debuted on ABC in January 1966, I could not get enough of that car! As a little kid, I'll bet I had every toy version of that car that a kid could get!

The Beatnik Bandit and the Deora were also big favorites for me, and still are. The Munster Mobile was something I wanted as a kid, too.

 

x3 The 554 Coupe for me!

 

The lil' deuce coupe...

 

my favorite is rick dore's "Majestic" caddy, and recently McPhails fairlane has seriously influence my plans for my own vehicle.

 

Any 64 Fairlane Thunderbolt

http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/w2zero/64%20Fairlane%2062A/?start=all

 

The Little Coffin. A model I built, I think 1964. I was 10.

The Old Tinbasher

 

The Speed Sport Roadster out of Tucson for the first choice. The '32 Chevy convertible (old SS car from DC) and then the fast factory Fords.
Normbc9

 

I quess it was "Bonnie and Clyde' 34.......B4 tha' Bullet Holes..........Ya Know ?
I had to Settle !, fer a five window coupe, and then, thought I had to have '34 Phaeton.........been there, done that ! Fun Too!!!'

But Kustom Mercs, oh yea, Kustom Mercs......
give me a yard on, a hard long !!!
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Smoked up still ! But Stayin' Kool !

KADZILLA !!!! Gotta Love It !

 

I think the first car I remember was Norms T on 77 sunset strip. But my soul was stole by Bob H Barris built Merc

 

I guess you can say McMullin's car had an affect on me.

 

Tommy Ivo's Showboat

 

the aztec, winfields jade idol, the 38 buick y job, chryslers turbine, smokeys 66 chevelle stock car, pre 1961-62indy roadsters the list goes on and on

 

That's a no brainer for me.......

 

Although, sometimes I forget my brain.......

Here's the pictures that were suppose to go with the previous post

 

grapevine and rose mist...same car different paint...but very awesome!

 

Social D rox!
Me and my gal went to Hollywood (from Sweden) just to see them at the house of blues. Best spent money ever! Now they´ve been to Sweden two times and we went to both gigs!

As I was a youngster I played in a rockabilly band and I loved it, but it was´nt me.
I´ve started my own band and these days we play cool rock.
I like the lifestyle that SD stands for, the music, cars, clothing, tattoos and so on.
So it´s easy to say that music and who I am because of the music is the only thing that shaped my taste for cars. Because if I never had been introduced to the old rock´n´roll, who nows, I may have never got my eyes up for these cool cars. I´m driving a -48 Chevy Coupe. And yes, my spelling sucks. / Kris

 

I think american graffitti coupe,my mum said i painted a hotwheel car with her nailpolish when i was 5yrs old,dad picked me up as a baby from hospital in a 54 chev.I really cant remember?

 

The original filthy forty. National record holder and just a cool car.

 

Norm's T Bucket/Kookie car from 77 Sunset Strip....

 

I always thought grapevine needed a haircut, but I love the stance and front view!

 

Well, as a kid in England, the cars that got me into this were obviously all British!
Remember, this was the 70's in England!! These photos are from Mark Harley's Ally Pally album on
http://www.hotrodphotos.co.uk/Allypallyshow1979album2.htm

 

For me , there was no "ONE" Car. It was a collection of several .

Alexander Brothers Deora
Darryl Starbird's Futuresta
The Pierson Brothers 1934 Ford
Bill Cushenberry's Silhouette
scrubba

 

Don't really think it is a famous car; but Marty Holmann's "T" on the cover of Hot Rod in March of '61 started this obsession out for me.