Thread: '57 Chevy gasser build

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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.


Don