Thread: Looking to build an iconic 32 Hi Boy

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Bob.
"With flat paint and indian blanket hides it would hardly be "overdone". I guess I meant that too many people may have taken this approach and that I would be just building a cookie cutter car which would be considered to "ho-hum" . Loxahatchee is a Seminole Indian word describing the "river of turtles” now called the Loxahatchee River. Probably a good name for a slow moving So. Florida town built around the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, the last northernmost portion of the Florida Everglades, west of PGA National. Community dredged out of this river's slough.

I see your points about the chevy & vega box (yes, it was a slip saying Nova). When you speak about flexiblity in design, and that the '50s rod look is at an apex, a couple of questions come to mind. Is the '50's look flexible enough to be "modernized" as needed? What, in your opinions, is the next "craze" & is it affordable for a first time build?

Also, back to steel vs glass, liveing in Florida, is glass movement a major concern based upon temperature? Also, does the steel weight cause a dominoe effect creating a heavy build requirement? Usage will be mostly enjoyment, cruising and maybe a Hot Rod show or two.

No to get morbid, but with my time here getting shorter, I want to do one last car build, something I haven't done yet, and involve my 4 children (29, 25, 20, & 10) so they can have one last memory to share and so that they can remember me when they look at what we built together, years from now. No particular resale planned, but the logical businessman in me always looks at cost vs value.

brian, I'm not certain that the hot rod movement will die out any time soon... I see my future son-in-law (20ish) & his friends pimping out Hondas and PT Cruisers & they show strong interest in older rods as a more "extreme" expression of a pimped car... my 10 yr old daughter sees the older rods and immediately is attracted to them... a real "car gal", but brought up on Jags, MG's, mini's & POrsches... so there is still hope. IMHO. Bart