Oh yea, those are really cool, expecially when that gal you have been trying to get a date with for three months burns here hand on one of them the first time she walks up to the truck. I'd imagine that the guys who run them on their Dodge diesel pickuips now are the grand sons of the guys who ran them on thier pickups in the 50's.
At the YMCA in Buffalo, in the 1950's, the boys had to take swimming lessons naked. So you'll understand me fully when I say that just cuz they did something in the 50's doesn't mean it's any less creepy.
I'm not into stacks . I like zoomie headers. Take a look at this truck. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbxqOwngIOA&feature=related
in the 60`s i made lots of them with electric conduit, a hand hacksaw and torch and brass, had a lot of strength and ambition then, now just old but hAD A BURNING DESIRE TO DO EXHAUST AND FINALLY ABOUT 1990 bought a exhaust bender, that sure made things go smoother and fit better where did my mispent youth go to???
Back in the mid '70's there was some crazy Rodder built a '41 Chevy ton and a half truck with TANDEM rear axles, chrome wheels and stacks! It looked like a scaled down tractor trailer. Inside the sleep box thing, was nothing but life sized Hustler centerfolds! It had a Chevy inline 6, and two transmissions. (there was two chromed gear shifters comming out of the floor) Fenton splits and 3 or 4 inch STRAIGHT (no mufflers) stacks! I was in Winston-Salem back then, he pulled out of the fairgrounds, started shifting gears, you could still hear him shifting gears clear outta sight! Now those stacks sounded GREAT! I saw that guy one time in Gatlinburg, he mooned Norman Glabloski! (I can't spell his last name. Norman had a Henway Truck with stacks) Those stacks and gears were echoing off the buildings. Whenever I see any PU's with stacks, I always think of that '41. Any of you guys got pictures of that truck, (it was in a bunch of magazines back then) and know whatever happened to that guy?
It's the EXECUTION of a modification, that make or break the look. And that nudie swim meet with the boy'z is very creepy.
tingler can you believe this thread is still going ????? just sayihg hey...john...ps been seeing u on facebook
Ha! Answering a question from 2003.... YES Summit has them. http://www.summitracing.com/search/product-line/flowtech-purple-hornie-mufflers
well hell somebodies gotta tell yall whats cool seems some just dont get it......and stacks just aint cool...
There are good and bad ideas, and good and bad executions. There are certainly lots of examples of a tasteless modification done with fine craftsmanship; still looks crappy.
Yes, and everyone has one. I happen to like stacks and plan to put them on my 53 f250 flatbed. If you don't like it, don't look and keep your opinion to your self!
Theres a lot of guys on the HAMB who dont have any clue what a traditional hotrod is. I remember seeing stacks on the trucks in the hotrod magazines in the late 50s. In other words, stacks were considered appropriate for a traditional hotrod in the 1950s. They were called 'stacks'.
Every old service station when I was a kid had a old pickup with stacks and push bumpers on the front, usually 3 or 4 bumpers stacked up. they were COOL then they are COOL now !!! Chris
The deal with them is that they are gay, no matter what they are on wether it's a 12" stove pipe on some inbreeder's lifted dodge diesel with 28" rims and mud tires or if it's on a traditional hot rod pickup, doesn't matter, still GAY. Thats my opinion, if you don't like it then build a bridge and get over it.
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