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    How the heck do you remember something from 3 years ago Bob??? Heck, I don't remember what I had for breakfast this morning..... Hmmmm, wonder if I had breakfast this morning?
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    Quote Originally Posted by HOTRODPAINT View Post
    One last observation. I have been obscessed with customs and rods since '58. What other car, besides the '57 BelAir, is almost never dechromed, or restyled??? It is almost a "stand alone" achievement, in the world of auto styling! (The '53 to '55 Studebaker might be one, of very few.) :-)
    I would tend to agree with you Jay, it's hard to improve on the original style. Only a few have been successfully done. I lean a little more toward older stuff and would also throw the '40 Ford into that ring. With the exception of the El Matador (and only because it's such a well done radical custom that almost completely disguises the original), there just about isn't a single restyled '40 that is an improvement over the original.
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    During the same time the 57's where around,GM used to hold competitions for kids to build clay models of cars for the design teams to use for new ideas.It was more of a open door policy then ever before.They held clinic's for teams of high school kids to go and figure out what was wrong with a car that GM set a problem for them to solve.There was more support for kids to get involved.GM made it seem as a kid you could become anything you wanted to be.

    Sorry Dave-I honestly don't want to hi-jack your thread.Just some memories.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 1gary View Post
    During the same time the 57's where around,GM used to hold competitions for kids to build clay models of cars for the design teams to use for new ideas.
    Let me momentarily highjack the thread.... This brings up something I noticed years ago. My own drawings that I did as a "highschooler" seemed to have more imagination, than I do now... after almost 40 years of custom painting!!!

    The answer I came up with is that we all become conditioned to think alike, by reading the same magazines... building the same models... watching the same car movies... idolizing the same "hero cars"... and eventually tend to think "inside the box". Kids are fresh to the hobby, and tend to be more original!

    This was all a culture shock, for me! {:-o

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    I agree with Jay on us losing some of our willingness or ability to do different/unexpected things to our cars as we age. I am on a couple of rat rod forums, mainly because I like the other members and have become friends with some of them. And even though some people knock rat rods as being crude, trashy, badly constructed, etc., there is a lot of that "thinking outside the box" that Jay mentions. They are willing to use unconventional components in unconventional ways, whereas us older guys would be hesitant to do the same things, perhaps.

    We can argue that it is because we become smarter or wiser as we age, but maybe we also lose some of the excitement we once had for our creations. I have sat on a chair in my shop and thought "If I had owned the cars I now have when I was 21, I would have been beside myself with excitement......but at my age it is not quite the same level of excitement."

    Kinda like the first few times you had the pleasure of being with a young lady............it was always more exciting when you were young.


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    I do like the way the rats often have unusual bodies and other components. They also will go with a more extreme appearance. There is some variety in the engines too.

    They still have some "group thinking" in the choice of flat black... red & white striping... red wheels with white walls... header wraps... and horse blankets.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HOTRODPAINT View Post
    I do like the way the rats often have unusual bodies and other components. They also will go with a more extreme appearance. There is some variety in the engines too.

    They still have some "group thinking" in the choice of flat black... red & white striping... red wheels with white walls... header wraps... and horse blankets.
    And spider webs.

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    That one got past me. :-)~

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Severson View Post
    How the heck do you remember something from 3 years ago Bob??? Heck, I don't remember what I had for breakfast this morning..... Hmmmm, wonder if I had breakfast this morning?
    It happens to you to does it,Dave??Maybe something to do with solvents??I remember what happened a few days ago,and sometimes a few years/decades ago,if it was ground breaking...but what happened an hour ago??yeah right...

    Yeah,love the 57,and what ever you do to it,it will surely be ultra kool...
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    Man, I tell ya...anymore if I don't make a note or otherwise write it down, it's gone!!!

    Hoping to get some time next month to get going on the '57. Getting some things planned out (another couple pages in the notebook) and fending off questions from all my "friends" about what the heck I'm doing with a Chevy!!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Severson View Post
    Man, I tell ya...anymore if I don't make a note or otherwise write it down, it's gone!!!

    Hoping to get some time next month to get going on the '57. Getting some things planned out (another couple pages in the notebook) and fending off questions from all my "friends" about what the heck I'm doing with a Chevy!!!!
    Dave,good idea,I need a notebook too..The 57...well,I have been told that I am biased,maybe I am..I seem to have had more Fords than anything else in the last few years,apart from the Dodge..but when the opportunity arises to grab a car already sorta set up as a gasser..what else do ya do??You cant be predictable ALL ya life...Gotta throw a curve in there now and then,What would I do with it??hot small block,4sp,period rear end,ladder bars,all it needs to make it look and perform like its just dropped out of a time capsule,,Yee haa,,then do the same to a 57 Ford,for a peace offering to your friends...You got a winter coming at you,so you can lock yourself in the workshop with your ''pondering stool'' and plan...
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    Yeah, want it look like it's right out of about 1966 when it's done.... Might sound selfish or egotistical but the main reason I got the car and will most likely build it myself is to keep it from falling into the wrong hands... Hate to see it go to someone who would rat the thing out, then try to tell me that's how it was done "back in the day", car is too nice for that!
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    Dave,I dont blame you for saving it..It needs to be built the way it was/should be,period style gasser..With a bit of luck,there will be a bit of a resurgence of this style..We have three tri 5s down here now,one of them being Golly Adams old 56 that he built when he lived in California,a friends BBC 55 in Auckland,and another 55 that was built and finished early this year,and even if there are about three million tri 5s in the country now....these three stand out from the rest,cos they are GASSERS...
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    Still think a FORD power plant would bring grins to thousands of onlookers!
    " "No matter where you go, there you are!" Steve.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stovens View Post
    Still think a FORD power plant would bring grins to thousands of onlookers!
    Are you sure they're grinnin', look closely now!!!

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