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Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by HOTRODPRIMER, Jul 12, 2016.

  1. Another interesting thread. I have always been picky of the cars, that I like. and this is the reasons why. First I'm very sentimental, the longer I have anything the more I like it. Secondly It takes the same amount of time and money to build a Rod that I like, as one I don't. My taste has changed some what over the years though. My granddad wanted to give me his 49 Ford when I was 16. At that time I didn't like anything with 4 doors, or anything with a rear seat for that matter. I would love to have that car today. At that time I only liked corvettes , coupes or roadsters . But there was this one old Hot Rod delivery that ran around town when I was a kid. I didn't know what it was then. But I made it my life's goal to own it. And that dream came true in 79, and I still have her today. lol Ron...
     
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  2. Gold shoebox ford, don't remember the year, I was like 7-10 years old, my uncles car, was always so embarrassed to be seen in that car that I would lay down in the back so no one would see me in my home town, to this day every time I see one, my uncles old car pops to mind.....tastes change, our experiences and our friends influences us.....to be truthful, the HAMB is the single most important influence on me that has opened my appreciation of so many cars that I'd never have any interest in previously....heck, even HRP has influenced me to own a deuce, even though its going to be an OT deuce.....


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  3. mammyjammer
    Joined: May 23, 2009
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    My tastes have changed as well. From Sand Rails to motorcycles, I find myself drawn to vehicles with qualty workmanship and detail. Another thing that gets my attention now is a vision. Making a ugly car beautiful, following a theme or , for lack of a better term, making it authentic. Flashy stuff does not do it for me anymore.
    None of my stuff really has any of of the abovementioned traits, but I love them too.......
     
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  4. falcongeorge
    Joined: Aug 26, 2010
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    My tastes really havent changed. I was big into Jr Stock and Superstock in the late sixties, so I have always liked wagons and posts, when I was 10, I thought Tritak and Morgans War Wagon was cool as all get out. I have never owned a 4 door other than a wagon, and never will. The only thing that has really changed is the means to own some of the cars that have always been on my list.
    There werent any V-8 s-10s when I was young, but there WERE small-block Datsun pu's and chevy Luvs' dug those, pretty much the same thing...
    Dug V-8 Vegas and Pintos as soon as I saw them, had a pinto, I would do a square nose vega in a heartbeat if I found a nice body.
    I dug sixties style t-buckets, still do, dug '64/65 falcons, still do. Always dug '63/''67 stingrays, one of those still eludes me (and my means) always dug bevel drive Ducatis, managed to snag one of those:). Used to dig early seventies style, solid axle street cars, still do, but the flavour of the week bogus "gasser" bullshit has pretty much put me off ever scratching that itch. Maybe if they become un-cool again...
    Dug fifties style cycle fendered channeled hot rods with full wheelcovers and hemis since forever, its going to take a while to get done, but that itch is being scratched as well. Always liked '39 converts, never thought I would actually end with one of those, but life has been good to me.
     
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  5. Mr48chev
    Joined: Dec 28, 2007
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    Bought my 51 Merc coupe from the crafts shop teacher when I was 16 and it was already a semi custom . Busted the engine in it and sold it but bought it back three years later for 10 bucks with my name still on the title.
    Had a freaking 55 Nash Metropolitan convertible my sr year in high school that got me in a few fights because guys thought it was a toy they could mess with. Damned lucky I didn't kill one of them. That car was fun, cheap to drive and the girls thought it was cute though. Had a 50 Chevy hardtop for a while that I broke a piston in and sold. Bought a 55 Buick Special 4 door hardtop that the engine blew up in and I put the engine out of 55 Super Sedan in and drove until after I got drafted. Great car, fast as hell with the super engine in it and a lot of my friends didn't realize it was a four door until they opened the front door and tried to pull the seat back forward to get in. It was my friends car of choice to double date in all the time I had it. I'd actually like to have another 55 4 door hardtop.

    My 48 Pickup found me when I was really hunting for a 55/57 Chevy short box pickup. I had a real thing for a big window short box in the early 70's and all of them were out of my price range or in too rough of a shape for me to fix at the time. A guy in town who was moving out of town had the 48 with a 194 chevy II six in it and wanted 75.00 with a clear title. I bought it and drove it to work the next day and changed the title at noon. the tires were basically rags and one even had the cord showing in a spot and blew a few days later. After deciding that there was no way my T bucket would be ready to go to Tulsa (from Mcgregor TX) that year I thrashed on the 48 while still driving it to work every day. Swapped the front brakes out for 54 Wagon drums in the morning and drove it to work on Swing shift. Swapped the trans and rear axle out for a 3 speed open drive trans and a 61 Chev car axle I paid ten bucks for from another coworker and cut the brackets off with a the torch at work and a guy I worked with welded the new mounts on . Hauled it home and swapped trans and rear and drove it to work the next afternoon. The 69 Z28 Ralley wheels came from another coworker for 25.00 minus 1 cap that cost 7.50 at the Chev garage.
    My buddy down the street painted it and a friend in Waco did the seat and Tonneau cover for it. Total expense around 500 bucks in 1973 $$

    I've really never owned a car that was so uncool that I didn't want to drive it. I've owned a few that I wish I had never bought for one reason or another though.
     
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  6. Modelabc
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  7. Modelabc
    Joined: May 11, 2016
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    Modelabc

    Now that I look at the pic of my handsome 50 Stude I can see that it has become more beautiful over time....but alas, I think maybe I'm getting uglier.
     
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  8. Ned Ludd
    Joined: May 15, 2009
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    The beard is grey all right, and long overdue for a trim.

    One thing I'm finding: the nearer my fortunes get to the prospect of actually undertaking a project, the more realistic my dreams tend to be. Conversely, the direr the straits in which I find myself, the more fanciful my mental projects become. I don't think it's so much a matter of escapism as that a project might as well be over the top if a modest one is just as impossible. It's a short step then to stop bothering to grapple with the likely technical problems and merely to assume that an appropriate form of magic will be available - and soon thereafter to stop even trying to call the magic anything else.

    The problem is that fanciful dreams aren't necessarily more exciting. The fact that a car exists in real life and not only runs but runs impressively counts for a lot of excitement.

    I'm finding more of my interest revolving around a "Vintage" idiom, i.e. 1919-1930. I'm appreciating post-WWII cars less and less, and those I do appreciate tend to be technological anomalies. This follows years of thinking about why the automobile developed the way it did and not in any of the countless other ways it could have, with the obvious corollary of what I came to consider the automobile to ought to have been by now.

    At twelve I was fascinated by American cars of the late '50s. I was fascinated by '50s cool. I eventually moved on from that - which is why the Rockabilly/Kulture part of the "traditional" movement goes right past me - even before I began to learn to what extent the '50s idiom I saw at twelve was a constructed thing with only tenuous attachment to history. I don't want a tailfin car now. That isn't to say that a tidy '57 Chevy done as it might have been in 1968 won't bring a smile to my face. The same with "golden era" customs, which I discovered at around fourteen.

    I think we each live in several different mental rooms, as it were. And I think we all try to make doors between our rooms, which we can open and close as we see fit. That's why I tend to distrust identities which are all derived from one thing. Nobody lives in just one mental room. I've got a whole suite of mental rooms devoted to different sorts and different aspects of cars; motorbikes and other such too. My "Hot Rod," "Vintage," and "Hatred of Modern Crap" rooms all have doors permanently open to my "Anarchist Political Theory" room, and that has a door in the opposite wall permanently open to my "Christianity" room. They all interlead; they all exist all the time, but I'm not in all the rooms all the time.
     
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  9. Pinstriper40
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    As a younger guy who has been into cars all my life, I have found that I've gotten more conservative with my tastes. I find myself thinking, "Oh no, that one's too nice to cut up" and shortly after, "If I keep thinking things like that, I'll be restoring cars by the time I'm 60..."

    Hopefully it doesn't come to that.
     
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  10. image.jpg image.jpg Almost 69 years old; beard and hair are pure grey or white.My main fun is a 32 Henry Ford cabriolet roadster and my second car is a 47 English Ford Prefect(4 dr Anglia) Both vehicles are flathead v8 power.I have over 53 years flathead hot rod experience.
     
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  11. Danny,
    Firstly I hope you are all good.

    As I am very new to this beard thing, I thought as I was now driving around in my COE I should grow a beard,
    I have never had a beard in my life before, and as your thread says, funny how your tastes change.

    I have always been a Model "T" man,and still are, but over the years, and the various cars I've owned and built
    I am now loving the size and the drive of the truck.

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    However I am not sure if the grey beard is for me just yet but I'm giving it a go. :eek:;):D
     
  12. The truck is awesome!

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  13. bschwoeble
    Joined: Oct 20, 2008
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    I've always liked rods and customs. Having had hot rods, muscle cars, corvettes, customs , I find I've always liked hot rods the best. Not street rods , hot rods. At 70 years old I don't need billet or any other ginger bread. Not even a radio. There used to be a guy that wrote car revues for I think Mechanics Illustrated. Jim Cahill(?). He said if you need a radio in a car your driving, then you don't enjoy driving the car.
     
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  14. aaggie
    Joined: Nov 21, 2009
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    Mickey Gilley got it right, "the girls all get prettier at closing time". The closer I get to the end the less fussy I am. The important thing is having a project to work on and just be happy out in the shop.
     
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  15. [] "I have seemed to grow to appreciate the look & style of some of the chrome laden barges of the late 50's and the early 60's and a lot of other makes and models."
    I dunno, Danny. I just can't make myself like these giant, clumsy. ill handling, overweight cars. The Europeans made cars in those years that made more sense to me but I never owned one...I also never owned any of those barges except a 63 Olds Starfire coupe and I hated that damned thing!
    Conversely, I think the best car I ever owned was a 57 Pontiac "cheapie" Chieftain 2 door sedan. I put a '59 Pontiac 389 and a muncie 4 speed in it......was a 3500 lb car and I'd love to have it back.
    57Ponchoonstreet.jpg
     
  16. jnaki
    Joined: Jan 1, 2015
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    jnaki

    hello,
    i was lucky/unlucky? i wanted a 57 chevy nomad, but since my brother had a 58 impala, he sold it to me for cheap. he got a 57 vw van for his surfing needs. i thought that nomad was the coolest car, but started to modify the 58 impala. at one point, i had the hubs drilled to fit 56 buick skylark wires, ran exhaust cut outs, put in a 4:56 positraction, and ran around with a 3 speed until my mom needed a car to go to the store weekly. she gave up on me teaching her to drive the stick, so, she said to change the stick to automatic. lo and behold, i had a c&o hydro installed. she did say automatic and she only needed to put it in "d" to go... (another story) this car lasted from 60 until 65 when i sold it to a friend. i bought a 65 el camino for our desert racing motorcycles.
    over the years, 2 -40 ford sedan deliveries, 2 el caminos, a corvair, a harley sportster and a porsche 911 t, we have settled on reliable cool cars to last us into the years. cars come and go, but the bottom line is that they have to be cool and be reliable as a daily driver. so, anything that fits those parameters is acceptable in my book.
    thanks,
    jnaki
     
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  17. jnaki
    Joined: Jan 1, 2015
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    jnaki

    hello,
    this was almost 1.5 years after the 40 willys clutch explosion and fire. it took a long time to get out and about. but my brother went back to his like for surfing...not cars, anymore. after all, it is so cal...beaches, weather, great surf spots, etc. so did i...surfer with a 40 ford sedan delivery with boards sticking out of the back... it was a sight tooling down coast hiway to various so cal locations.
    jnaki
     
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  18. World of Truth there.

    Today, I like 'em all. "Back in the day", it had to be a Pontiac or Chrysler B-body. Whatever I was driving had to be the fastest, and it had to look like a fresh-pressed shirt with tie on.

    Oh yeah, I had plenty of clunkers and turned some good machines into trash too. But my "ride"? - Had to be all in or nothin' at all.

    Nowadays, love is blind.


    Hells bells, just the other day, I stopped and looked at a guy's Crosley. Just a regular old, driver of a car. Now right there, that is transcendent. Yeah, freakin' weird. Now I'm wondering what a mini Indy style 1-seat roadster would look like with a Crosley motor innit?
     
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  19. I've always been a nut for '40 Fords since I was a little kid building models of them. Must have built a dozen of 'em. Still love 'em today. 07032014.jpg
     
  20. Had this one for 26 yrs. now. 12019836_1246272985398185_3439067659535294387_n.jpg
     
  21. Now I'm 65 yrs. old and still love '40's. My horizons have expanded though........as well as my beltline.:D DSCN7764 (1).JPG
     
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  22. Always had a thing for Deuce High Boy Roadsters as well.:D DSCN7763 (1) (1) (3).JPG
     
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  23. But now I want a chopped 30-31 Model A Coupe in the worst possible way.:(
     
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  24. oj
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    I have developed an appreciation for the DeSoto, I was old enough back when to get the feel that DeSoto were undesirable, not a car you wanted to be seen in. You'd never consider buying one. The people that did buy one were different, stodgy and conservative. The old dentist that caused pain drove a DeSoto, probably.
    But now I look at the little detail things done in DeSoto and find it remarkable they took the time and effort to create them, they really are treasures.
     
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  25. oj
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    Damn Don, why didn't you say so? Let me throw a coat of wax on it and come get this one! DSC00288.JPG
     
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  26. Just watched a couple minutes of Vince Gill being interviewed by Dan Rather. On liking today's music artists he quoted a comedian friend, who in turned repeated something his grandpa reportedly said: "Heck son, if we all liked the same thing, everybody would be hitting on your Grandma!"
     
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  27. falcongeorge
    Joined: Aug 26, 2010
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    Loud and fast then, loud and faster now...

    Ned, guess I'm still an anarchist at heart.
     
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  28. ................I love it, oj. Is that yours or a customers? Is it actually for sale? Very nice Model A and very much what I want.
     
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  29. ...............I always appreciated their grilles.:D;)
     
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