This is my first Rod build. I find myself itching all the time for a Kustom. That may all change after the first drive though.
Not everybody workin on coupes and roadsters I got rid of my two coupes and started workin on these [ QUOTE ] [/ QUOTE ]
Well i didnt have any GOOD pics of the sedan body so im gonna show the motor. The car Itself is a 29 model A Tudor Sedan. I'm plannin on all channel but no chop. The frame is Z'd a few inches too. The motor is a 348 thats gonna get bored .040. Solid cam and lifters w/ roller rockers The tranny is gonna be a 3 speed overdrive and the rear is prob gonna be 3.73's or 4.11's....IM COMIN AFTER YA TMAN! BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
This may be a new guy's opinion or slant, but after buying and selling a few cars here and there and having to do some minor repairs and such; I have been drawn to mild customs but mostly speed and loud pipes. My 63's 390 bored yada-yah motor with 2 and 1/2 pipes is power and loud, but with the trends in GAS PRICES I am torn between putting even more money into my 64 and starting a hot rod. Some guys have been talking out some change-overs I want to do with the my stock 390 64 Galaxie and I might be better off just selling it and going hodrod (real hotrod) - parts from wherever 7-9 Miles per gallon isn't cutting it for me anymore. - that was part of the decision to sell the 63 - my "hot rod" I am ready for a garage kept topless\removable hardtop car that is lightning fast and super fun to drive.
Z-man, What is that frame?? Ilove that kick up. Also, is that a buick body in the little picture under your name. If it is, I have a 1920(?) buick roadster too.... know where there are any doors??
I'm trying to rustle up an A frame to build out of my leftover 46 parts. After I get my 46 on the road I should have a spare front axle and banjo with juice brakes, a flathead, pedals, column, and some other stuff. I figure I could build the chassis and then find a body for it. I like the T roadsters, so maybe one of those
I'm backwards as ussual.. I built the hot rod first, now i'm building a custom.. Youzzz guy's gots some nice projects going together.. Tony..
Heres mine... a 34 plymouth Work seems to have stalled out lately.I'm gonna have to find some new energy to get this one finished. I'm burned out on it. It really needs to get finished, but It'll probably have to change hands for that to happen.
[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] TRAILER QUEEN!!! [/ QUOTE ] [/ QUOTE ] OH MY GAWD!!! Levis Classic has gone "Goldchainer" on us and is having Troy Trepanier build his hot rod!!! ....
i started building my rod before i sold my custom. but i am putting as may tricks into the rod as a custom would have. chopped channeled sectioned suicide doors. it is the same thing as a custom but smaller to work on.
I want to see the picks of your other stuff.[ QUOTE ] I am building a three wheel hot rod roadster???? [/ QUOTE ]
Evel, Could be wrong but I think it's a cash, connection, knowledge, space kinda thing. People can typically find a fair sedan and turn it into a great looking custom without alot of hassle. You can take a custom to levels which require amazing skill or just put some skirts on and drop it. With a custom you dont need to even pull the body off the frame. To do a hot rod, you normally need to do it from the ground up. Takes some planning, connections, knowledge, skill, space and cajones to do it right. Im not saying that custom guys aren't as talented, the good ones are. Just saying that it's hard to go halfway on a hot rod. You're not gonna wake up one morning and start building.
Hot rods are where its at! Well thats my opinion, ive started in on building a couple of fat fendered cars but give up and sell em before i ever get em runnin, a t-bucket was my first car, so i got the early ford bite after that, built a A tudor, then my 34 p/u then my 32 fiver, then onto the 32 tudor, 34 tudor and a 29 cabriolet, cant decide which to get driving first, im aiming for the 32 tudor cause i have the most parts collected up for it, heres a pic of the body (in need of complete subrails and floorpans) i cant wait to dig in!! jeff
[ QUOTE ] I think a hot rod is a little cheaper than a custom. You can get one going quicker and easier than you can a later model car, something in the 50's or 60's. [/ QUOTE ] I can tell youve built a lot of cars!!!! 1st off I dont see any way a Hot Rod is cheaper a 50s/60s car. they already have a good start (chassis and engine) it is a simple rebuild and body work / paint. A Hot Rod you Start from scratch (Bare Frame) and then you have a lot of searching for that one right part. Just because there old parts in some cases dont mean there cheap. and there are a lot of new parts that go onto these things as well that cost a bunch, and all the nickle and dime stuff that you have to buy while building the chassis and other things will kill a poor man. Next time try building one instead of buying it and then tell us how cheap they are to build. Ive built both and I have a lot less in my 59 elcamino than I have had in any of my Hot Rods
My ever-lovin' '57 Effie. My first pickup, first intended to hot rod it out, and the more work I put into prepping it for paint, thoroughly redoing exterior and interior areas, the more custom-like ideas I come up with. But then I'll switch and work on the drivetrain for awhile, with speed on the mind: a lopey cam, a torque converter to launch it with, until I realize I'm really building a combo- something with looks, but not TOO much looks, something to rumble around with, with fast response when wanted. Might even take up countless friends' advice and get some white walls to go with the future chrome-reverse rims. For now, I'm about to cherry pick the 390, put it on a stand and go through it (the bottom end gave up). I liked yer points, Broman- I always thought a custom would be more complicated and costly, that a hot rod, or a '20s/'30s-era jalopy, would be much easier to fabricate parts for it. But in a way it all comes down to how much you can do on your own, or with what you've got.
WTF Hot Rods suck. I´m gonna restore this one Looks to have factory height and even all the wires seem to be there. Jaypee: five is fine !
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