looking for pics of 70's street freaks!!!

Wondering if anyone knows when it was actually released.

 

1969 was a date I found on a modelers site.

 

Wow! fun link. Where are my cut-offs?....

 

I remember building that model but the decals were too for me to put on so I painted it a metallic green and then I blew it up with firecrackers.

 

Nice Nova, I remember when Crap-in-the-Box used to look like that.

 

that,s richie,s chevy (rader wheel and the hot rod farms and one of the other guy,s from dead man,s they have the warm up party before lead east great bunch of guy,s

 

Nice duce,We had a county park we all cruzed and would back in a picnic spot and wax our cars and drink a few beers.Ever Sat man that was the place to beStraight axle cars and girls every where.No cars were lowered all were raised up

 

No. NO NO NO NO NO!!! NO, DAMMIT!!!!
Pre-1964 hot rods and customs/kustoms, people!

I gritted my teeth and kept my mouth shut when "gassers" started to appear on the HAMB, but this is just one step too damn far. THIS IS THE HAMB. I am no purist, but c'mon. You are KILLING me here!
The '70s was hands-down the worst era of all time for modified cars (and I am including the '80s!) In my opinion those are the ugliest, most dangerous cars I've ever seen on the HAMB and that includes the rat rods that sometimes sneak through. However, it takes all kinds etc. so love'em if you want to, but NOT ON THE HAMB. PLEASE!!

(And yes, I am yelling. Sorry, but it's morning here and I'm a little testy.)

 

I'll admit they are pretty fucked, but for those of us who were kids in the 70s, they bring back lots of good memories. Does one thread really threaten to be the demise of this whole site?

 

Brings back lots of memories , I was only a young teenager, but I had me a set of slapped bars , N50's and slots and air shocks, I don't post a pick of it because it was 67 mustang, with a killer Cleveland
. Well said by the way

 

N50s and slapper bars were still very popular in my neck of the woods up till at least the mid 80s.

 

Exactly!

 

SKIP it if you do not like these cars. More 'cheese' with the bandwagon black primer/black primer/black primer done to death. Yes on the HAMB. No on the street rod. This web site was started to counter those dark, souless billet era. Carry on with the Street Freak thread.

 

Yes! It is setting a precedent.
Next thing you know we'll have a thread extolling the virtues of pro street (which, if I recall, was the next big fad after these cars but I may be skipping something?) and then the floodgates of hell will open and we will all perish in a maelstrom of fire and sulfur smoke.

Okay, so maybe it's not THAT bad. But I will be sitting in the corner with my eyes closed and my fingers in my ear shouting "No no no no" until it's all over.

BTW, I was a kid in the '70s (born in '67) and I have absolutely no warm, fuzzy feelings about those cars at all. Airbrushed 'Vettes with fender flairs, yes. F-body Trans Ams with rear tires sticking out 3 inches past the fender? Yes. Jacked-up-to-the-sky '60s Novas? NOT AT ALL.

 

Serious question: how many of these cars were actually driven on a regular basis and how many of them were just show queens?
I am guessing the higher the car the less it was driven?
I have met one guy who claims to have driven a '55 Chevy jacked up about a foot as daily transportation. I believed him because he talked about having to take a certain route to work because he could not turn left at a couple intersections because he had no way of seeing oncoming traffic, but I am guessing most of these things were either trailered to shows or slowly driven around on a Saturday night?

 

No, that is not going to happen.

People try to post stuff like that all the time, and those posts get deleted, and the Users get Banned if they cant take a hint.

Agreed, this entire Thread is Off Topic.

We had two '70s Treads running at the same time, one got Closed and this one gets to go on ( at least for now, or untill it gets out of hand with posts of newer and even more O/T cars)

Yes, some Users might get the wrong idea, and it might make more work for us Mods.

But we let some O/T stuff slide, every once in a while.

 

AtomicKustom stay out of this thread if it bothers you so much or are you trying to get it closed on purpose by starting drama? Post pics and shut up!

 

Funny I was born in 61 and am just the opposite. I wouldn't hit a dog in the ass with a vette or turd gen GM product, but I can dig me some old jacked up muscle cars. Probably because I was around those kind of ridge running cars but I didn't know anyone that owned a vette.

But, yeah, there's a slippery slope and if something as big as the HAMB gets to sliding down it, it would be hard to stop if it wasn't for the hardliners hanging on. So I respect that.

 

This reminds me of my closest friend he had a 62 nova ht
that his father gave him when he bought a new car.
He had a summer job att the Gulf station and used his
first sallary to buy a set of General grabber N50 15
and rocket fivespoke 12x15. His parents thought that
was a real god investment
We instaled a 8 3/4 from a desoto i found in the woods
with long shackles and home made ladderbars
a 327, tunnelram , fenderwell headers ,m22,verticalgate shifter,
purple flake,white under with a spiderweb painted under the tank
And that by 2 kids 14-15 years old with no money no knowledge
And today you hear ooo i got no money im a cheap bastard
i use tractor paint, cant aford whitewalls i grind junktires,
But geting a tatoo for 1000 bucks its no big deal

 

she's still cute though!

 

Your nova was awesome, what ever happened to it , does it still have straight axle under it?

 

as i remember it we cooked the fish in the 70s *L*

 

Thank You Alex.
Glenn

 

Is this freaky enough for you???

 

Absolutley Perfect '70's style HotRod!

I would drive that everyday if it were mine, ....and I do Drive a Model A everyday.

 

Even though this 55 was jacked up more than a typical gasser, It was A Hot Rod and driven. I luv this 55 Chevy , cant remember which magazine it was in. I wonder what happen to it?

 

Same I've always liked that car as well it's radical!