Thread: I Need to Get This Off My Chest!

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One question,... do you build your cars for yourself,... or to impress others ?
I build my cars for just one person (he can be a jerk sometimes, to demanding, long hours, but I put up with him,...cause he's me). If you don't like my car so what?,.... I may like or dislike your car ,... so what? there is only one person that needs to look at your car, get that big stupid Hot Rod grin on his face and say,..... "Man you really nailed it !" and that's you.

Over the years there seems to be more elitist snobs and "experts", but this is nothing new, In the early 70's during the resto-rod craze chopped cars were considered butchered. everyone was using corvair IFS, small block chevys, wide Ansen Sprints with N-50-15 tires that stuck outside the fenders 6 to 8",
winged moto-meters, step plates.

I had a chopped deuce 5/W with a Flathead at that time,.... and everyone gave me advice on what I should do with it,.... you know they would start out with "If it were mine I would",.......... or "You know what you should do with this is",............ I liked my car just the way it was.

I was with Frank Mack once and after the 15th or 20th time I heard someone say "thats a cool car BUT, He should change those goofy looking headlights"
I said to Frank,.... "Did you ever consider changing the headlights? seems nobody likes them." He stopped what he was doing and said to me, sure I could change the headlights, or paint it orange like someone else suggested,
change the wheels, take the hood sides off, I could just keep changing it a little at a time until it wasn't the car I wanted and built for myself, I built this car for me ! not to win trophy's, or other peoples approval,..... He also told me that everyone will have a opinion about your car and everyone of them was a Hot Rod expert in there own eyes,....

I guess what this all comes down to is, make some sparks, get grease under your fingernails,... take your car out and kill bugs with it,... thats what we build them for,..... and for all the elitists and snobs,..... just ignore them, they have always been there and they always will be (trying to prove to you, there friends and them self's just how cool of a hot rod expert they are) .


Here's Frank Mack's roadster. won all the marbles at the first Detroit Autorama in 53'