Quote Originally Posted by SirSpeedy
Boy you are a quick trigger dude - this is not what I am saying. Certain cars, trying to achieve a certain look, and a certain application...read - read - read
Well, then you can sit around and look nice and cruise with your bias tires!!! Me, I build all my own cars, and utilitze the best parts either I or the customer can afford. It's not a Hot Rod to me if it won't go fast enough to start your hair on fire and handle like a slot car when you get to the twisties!!!!! Traditional, street rod, hot rod, muscle car, restomod and all the other labels are totally meaningless to me. I build off my own ideas and my own plans. Should the case ever arise that folks feel one of my cars fits one of their "catagories" I could only say that it was done totally by accident. I'll never see what fun it could possibly be to build a catagory specific car and substitute "era correct" for "performance correct". All this emphasis on "traditional rods" is pure bs.... When the cars being copied were built "back in the day" many of these builders used cutting edge technology and there only concern was to find a few more horsepower or a bit better suspension then the next guy... Cars weren't built to fit a catagory then and IMO they shouldn't be now. Everything old is new again....whoopie... I've never built a car to impress anyone else or to meet their standards or criteria unless someone else is paying the bills... If some of the original hot rodders could be reborn today, I doubt seriously they would touch a flathead or a bias tire, they'd be building with those big huge rims, radial tires, blown and injected aluminum engines and they would sit around and chuckle about just how archaic their "traditional rods" were.....

Copying is the most sincere form of flattery, guess I don't take a whole lot of time to flatter anyone. Too busy looking, scheming, and dreaming about what the next great innovation will be, and how I can work it in to my next build... I never have been and never will be accused of building a car that emulates anyone else's. To me the past is history and the future is exciting....

Don't catagorize my cars as anything but "mine"!!!!!