Be Honest Guys...How Many of you have...

I'm what you might call established,nearly 50,steady job,kids out of the house. To me anything over $1000 buy in for any car is enough. Of course I don't buy finished cars,only projects. To me the building is what it's all about. That being said,I would go out on a limb for the right deal and that would have to be something I could turn a sizable profit on.

 

Porknbeaner touches on a good point here. When I worked for a highend retail boutique, I spoke with the owner who was based out of Memphis. Now you TN guys know that there's some large money out there but it belongs to a select few and flows in a big circle. It also helps that they all intermarry. I feel like if I give money to another HAMBER, this place thrives and so does our little 1000+ member clique.If any of the newbies want to know why we care so much about people pimping there stuff out here, they have to understand our little 'economy' first. If somebody wants to make a sticker, it should read
"SAVE KUSTOM KULTURE-BUY HAMB PRODUCTS"

 

Yep, I just bought a house in Urbandale (Cob will know where that is) now I have no cash for anything.

 

How long you been doin' Brad Pitt?


Mutt

 

Bottom line..Im broke.

 

I'm more than broke. I borrowed money from my 401k to buy my cadi and get it started.

 

hell i got more time than money.

i agree, if i had say fifteen large burnin a hole in my pocket and mama said go buy a car, it'd get me a shitload of parts and junkers. . .

there are times my car dont get worked on cause i aint got money for a sheet of tin, or if i got the materials, i gotta work extra runs to keep the freekin heat turned on. . .

phone bills need payin, mama is so hard on vehicles that i cant keep up with her breakin shit so i said fuckit and bought her a brang new minivan just to have the warauntee and i aint gotta fix it, so there went about all of my "liquid cash" every month.

oh well, there is always next month right?

as its been said. . . if we had cash we wouldnt be here

 

All I wanted was to see her naked and drink some beer!

JIm

 

Reflecting on my own junk, I think how smart I could have been and just bought a completed driveable pile and been a hell of a lot cheaper than my collection of parts. Unfortunately that skips a whole step for me. The assembly/fab/figuring shit out/drinking beer phase.
I've seen some rides I'd love to own, that ended up going in the 10k range. Too bad I don't have 10K, but in the process of collecting one piece at a time, and doing it myself, I'll have over that in it, but I'm counting beer in the cost so.......I should end up with a driver for eleventy billion $Texas.


BTW nothing is more uncool than asking about money. Cause if you ain't got any you don't want anyone to realize how little you've got. And if you have a lot, fawk those guys they're street rodders.

 

Me too but in a few more months !!

 

I have no money So I cut the pockets out of my pants. I have kids so at tax season maybe!! Today I am looking forward to friday. Just to keep the power on and gas in the car!

Josh

 

you GOTTA be goin to ALL the goodguys shows with sh*t like taht comin out of your mouth... im broke as can be, can fix ANYTHING, and dont mind buildin em, and sellin em toyou folks with that kinda dough..... makes it more fun to build a modified for $1000, and have offers over 10k for it

 

And More importantly...

What is you're favorite color?!

 

One time there was this kid in town that had a bitchin Redline factory race BMX bike...

I wanted it real bad, but my dad said he couldn't afford it. I got a Kuwaharra...

I still wanted it but I just couldn't mow enough lawns to afford it.

But that was when Regan was in office...

Fucking Reganomics.

 

I'll put it like this, If I had the money I'd keep that "T" and just build another car. I've honestly never owned another car that I felt "fit" me perfectly. It's not perfect, and it needs some work, but I love it to death. Do I consider myself a street rodder because I didn't build it, fuck no. But then again fuck calling people a "street rodder" like its a bad name. The term "street rodder" is alot older than most people on here(check out some 1950's magazines).

Back to the point, because of my limited funds, two kids, and the constant threat of deployment looming over my head. I just flat out ain't got the time or money for your holier than though attitude. I sure would like to settle down long enough to start a real project of my own or to finish my 34 that been sittin at my moms for years, bit since We don't stay in the same place more than a year or so, I ain't dragging that shit around from duty station to duty station just to have to put it in storage the next time I go overseas(yeah I just got back from Korea about 11mo ago) not to include going to the field every couple months for a month+ at a time and I'll be bouncing again here in the next few months.

I don't know how I got sucked into reading this post or why I got so upset about your "street rodder" comment(not you Cob) . Maybe because I resemble that remark. Fuck that, my situations and limitations don't allow me to be as fucking cool as you.That does't mean I don't have the as much of or more passion and drive for Hot Rods. Thats it I've finished with this one.

Oh, and just to answer your question: I honestly don't think its totally appropriate to ask how much money I've(We've "everyone here on the HAMB") got but since you did, I ain't to fuckin proud to tell ya, I ain't got shit (till payday that is) because I've earned just about everything I got(and borrowed the rest). As for play money ZER0. I ain't spent a dime on my car in months, thats part of the reason I've desided to sell it, that and I want a sedan for the whole family to enjoy.

Laters,

Drew

 

ive got money... more than most of you will ever have in your lifetime... got it all giving lapdances to leapors in Bangladesh.

my next project is a nitrous injected turbo supercharged Rocket ship powered by 2 million RC car gas motors.

 

Hell man.......I'm so broke.......I had to get a co-signer at Krystal the other night.

 

I just lost my house due to divorce & my brother is kind enough to let me stay at his place free of rent, so I have SOME money to finish up (make almost safer & almost roadworthier) my '56. I wouldn't buy another car, but I can work on the one I have.

 

Yeah, it sucks how the Regan years really fucked up the lawn mowing, lemonade stand and newspaper delivery industries.

 

RED! I'm a financial loser. I have no credit, no credit cards, no bank account, no retirement, no investments and no savings account. What I do have is an old fruit jar stuffed with every extra penny I can manage to save and when the need arises, like now, I sell whatever daily hack I'm driving for loads more then what I gave for it, just to fund my hotrod habit.........which means that sometimes, I have to rely on the kindness of others for a ride to work, but at least they understand that I have an addiction!
xxx
Brandy

 

What is your quest?

 

And to the rest of the readers of this, sorry for the bad words. I next to never type like that. And for the record, I have no physical proof the Cob is a cocksucker. That is all hersay and rumors. [/QUOTE]


I love it when you talk that way......gggrrrrr

 

Drew, ya got me all wrong here. If I had a lump sum to buy a car, I doubt I would at this point in my life. Maybe if I had less time I'd buy rather than build. I have nothing against, or even see anything wrong with that approach. Just cause a guy doesn't know how to weld, shouldn't keep him from enjoying this hobby, and the blasts to the past that we get from it. My "Street Rodder" comment is based on the evolution of the term Street Rodder. As it doesn't mean what it meant in the '50's today, you talk about a street rodder today, and you are referring to Boyd cars, and SpeedStars. Guys that are running from the GNRS, and the AMBR, where budget is of no concern.
If you offended, by that well grow thicker skin. Also I checked your car over up close at Roundup, and loved it. I think the conversation when we were looking at it was how cool it'd be to play poker on the roof. How many GNSR winners can claim that.

 

Poverty Builds Character

 

I guess I just read the one millionth "If you didn't build it you suck" and snapped. I apologize if I offended anyone, I try not to get the "internet tuffguy" attitude. I'll tell ya this much I didn't waste 2min of my life for anyones sympathy, I just wanted to speak on my own behalf. By the way, thanks man, I really dig it also, maybe the next one I'll build. I kinda wonder somtimes if "back in the days" people that had guys like Barris and The Alexander Brothers build cars for them got a rash of crap for not building their own cars? Somthing to ponder huh. Anyway hope I didn't ruffle anyones feathers too much.
Laters
Drew

Drew