Hot Rods Tired of homogenized hotrods

And your model looks better than the real thing! HRP

 

Funny I never wanted to be different than anyone else, problem is I am only good at being me and my cars are just like that they come out how they do. Like me they are always one step behind and a little off to one side.

 

Cool, Looks like a giant tether car, nailed it

 

I'm with you Beener, I don't try to be different, but my cars tend to be a bit out of the mainstream. 36 Dodge roadster pickup, 32 DeSoto grill, AND it does have a flathead for the traditionalists.

 

Out of curiosity what are those wheels? They are pretty cool lookin wheels for an old heap.

 

Here's my turd. Still not finished...

This pic is by @travisfromkansas taken at the hotrodhillclimb.


I added the nerf bars and the final plan is for bobbed rear fenders. The idea is a crappy Chevy truck interpretation of the Lloyd Baken coupe. The nerf bars I built were a direct rip from that car.

 

Another old build 34 Ford 5 window this time from N.J.-

Channeled, no Chop, Cycle Front Fenders, Bobbed Rear Fenders

 

To find original uniqueness and creativity, I like to look at the earliest hot rods like these ...

 

That is a super nice, older build! The blue '34.

 

A shameless plug of my own build thread-

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/my-261-chevrolet-6-in-an-east-coast-model-a-truck.976419/

Model A

Channeled

No Chop

261 Chevrolet Blueflame 6

48-52 F-1 Transmissinon

Mor-Drop Axle

Halibrand Champ Q.C.

 

I think road runner and Robert are getting what I'm after here. Not ground breaking new ideas but build styles and parts that are totally traditional just seldom seen on new builds. Cycle fenders , one off track noses , nerf bars, clear hoods ect....

 

i don't see a lot of builds with flavor like these.

 

R-R; Ya I got it then. In this Hot Rod game you gotta have broad shoulders and a sense of Humor to keep things in perspective. That's where Tie Die comes from instead calling it a M Blanket. When all this Era Correct conversations and it is or isn't this or that come up I can't help but remember my Dad and the Fit he had back in the 60's when I drove home my New 32 3-w. He said "I told you No Damn Hot Rods, I know a Hot Rod when I see one". My defense was to tell him it couldn't be a Hot Rod, it still has a Flat Head in it. There's no denying what's as plain as day.
The Wizzard

 

paul Normand dips into this old bag of tricks to create some pretty cool cars.

 

32 Chevy?

 

More early rods...



Mid 1930s California


1918 Stutz modified in the early 1930’s to Speedster configuration with a 1932 Terraplane (Hudson) Power Dome six-cylinder engine and transmission; Dodge hydraulic brakes; and Buffalo wire wheels. It still sports the original 1932 paint on metal-clad wood body.

 

I like them era perfect and odd, so this is so fare a very nice thread.

Some dare to be different in a cool way. Some dare to be cool in a different way.

 

mine is kinda weird. Desoto tub made out of a sedan, grant grill, Chevy straight six

 

Nothing epitomizes the absurdity of "me-too"ism, like hiding disc brakes behind fake drum brake backing plates or inside dummy drums. Though I risk the scorn of the cognoscenti by even mentioning such a thing...

 

A couple spring ahead of axle-



This one has some kind of apron added to the grill

 

A couple more bobbed fenders-

This one with nerf bars from the Capital Region of N.Y.


Dave from Dave's auto machine in Fitchberg Mass. 32 survivor

 

one BAD - ASS - HOT - ROD

 

I LIKE THAT FRONT COOL

 

Yes Past-Yur-Eyes in seconds with the look to boot...

 

2dr 4dr Ooo hell it LOOK COOLLLLLLLLL

 

LOOOKING GOODDDDD

 

There must be 400 hours in that radiator shell alone!