Thread: So That's a Traditional Hot Rod????

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Originally Posted by billy zz

PS
hey dave.
dont hit me cuz my car is ugly!

Ugly and lacking paint I can deal with, especially on a works in progress car. It's the guys who try to convince me that it's how they all used to look 'back in the day' that gives me grief!!! Ain't nothing ugly about your's anyway, just need to keep tweaking on it til you get it where you like it...

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Ugly and lacking paint I can deal with, especially on a works in progress car. It's the guys who try to convince me that it's how they all used to look 'back in the day' that gives me grief!!! Ain't nothing ugly about your's anyway, just need to keep tweaking on it til you get it where you like it...

that back-in-the-day crap drives me batty.
my grampa would have been on new technology like stink on poop.
stronger,lighter,faster,better mpg?
heck yeah!

From Websters website.
Traditional:
1 a : based on a way of thinking, behaving, or doing something that has been used by the people in a particular group, family, society, etc., for a long time : following the tradition of a certain group or culture
▪ It is traditional to eat turkey and cranberry sauce on Thanksgiving.

So compared to eating turkey, "traditional hot-rodding" is when all sit around the garage an tell BS stories about days they know nothing of because they are too young?

So if the LS engine was available in 1960, the rodder of that time would refuse to use it because it was too new? Seems to me (that I remember from the sixties), all types of engines and transmissions were used especially because they were new! I remember guys putting Buick V6's in their T buckets cause they fit nice and had good power to weight ratio. Now you get evil looks if you use a 4.3L V6 or a 3.4L V6 from these so called traditional guys that are half your age.
That is hypocritical!