Quote Originally Posted by Rufus View Post
Its not a "street rod"... Its a 50's custom.

I think hotrod57 means to say "street rod" where he is saying "hot rod". The NSRA is the National STREET ROD Association. By their own definition a street rod is a pre-49 modified vehicle. It says nothing about "hot rod".

Yes there are a lot of hot rods out there that are post '49...... they're just not street rods. He is also correct that the NSRA should change their name. In 2010 it will no longer be the NSRA. It will be the NBAA..... National Bring Anything Association.

Its fine for you non NSRA members to be supportive of the 30 year rule.... but there is no reason you have to berate those NSRA members who are against it. Join the NSRA first then your argument might hold some weight.

I've been an NSRA member for over 20 years and this will be my last trip to the Nats and I won't renew my membership. Why drive from Arizona to Kentucky to see the same cars I can see in my local KMart parking lot.


I quit being a member of NSRA better then 20 years ago..... Got to be nothing but a cavalcade of 'glass cars with sbc's.... and the "snobbery" of all the different factions within NSRA at the time almost brought about it's demise!!!!

Personally I don't berate anybody who is in NSRA.....but it's an organization that is changing it's criteria in response to what is actually going on in the world of Hot Rodding!!!!! Without profitability in putting on these shows, there will be fewer of them.....Obviously the folks in charge have seen the need to adjust their criteria to maintain the caliber of the shows....and now a few malcontents seem to think they could run things better....Well, start your own organization and see how things go with pre-49 only, and as someone else mentioned, add a touch of reality and make it real steel pre-49 only!!!!!!! Face it guys, there is very little on any of these cars that is pre-49.....just the body style.....so what is the big deal with ruling out others who have equal or higher quality cars????

hmmmmm. Nobody wanted to address the issue of "pre-'49" being applied to a 2009 glass body on a 2009 frame with a 2009 drivetrain??????

Around here in the mid 80's, there was many who believed NSRA actually meant "national sissy rod association" cuz most of the cars had IFS instead of a straight axle, air conditioning, multi thousand dollar interiors, radial tires, tinted glass, and all that other "modern" stuff!!!!! and yes, I DROVE my STEEL BODIED '27 roadster with a straight axle in front and buggy spring rear with Lincoln flattie, Zephyr trans, and Franklin quickie to the Nats in Oklahoma City.... It would seem the more things change, the more they stay the same!!!!

Actually, now that NSRA has pulled their collective heads out of the sand and looked around to see there is a whole world of cars they have been excluding from their events, I might just send them my $$$$$ again....and put their little decal on the quarter window of my '83 Mustang!!!!!