Thread: I couldn't build it for $3 K either!

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Originally Posted by nitrowarrior

Or like the rodders of the "DAY"....we build what can't be done or what isn't available......rodding is not buying and displaying somebody else's wares, it's inovation and adaptation....make it work and look good.

Yep, that too!

Here is the magazine cover I mentioned.

Point is, tradition is in the eye of the beholder and open to a wide range of opinions. If you only choose to see a certain part of that history you are missing out on a whole raft of possibilities. If you look at any of the little books from that period you will see some very off the wall stuff, and it was all good.

Don

Is that Don with hair sitting in that red rider......LOL
Brad

Rodders of the day were very progressive and open to new stuff.

That's why early OHV V8 engines(Caddy, Olds and the mighty Hemi) quickly replaced the venerable flathead when they could be afforded.

The small block Chevy was high tech for the late fifties. I don't think if you had shown up at the local car hang-out in 57 with a 2x4 Power Pack 283 in your Deuce roadster you would have been shunned. I doubt anyone would have said "Man, that makes me want to puke. Why didn't you use a 292 Ford?"

Absolutely correct. I remember when a local hot rodder did exactly that to his '32 roadster...........pulled out the built flathead and put in a 265 with two fours. Everybody was drooling over those $ 17 Vette valve covers and the rest of the package.

And NO, that wasn't me with hair. This was me with hair............ I'm the good looking devil in the front. Man, was that really 45 years ago???????????

Don

As for the build info, what I've posted pretty much catches me up.

I've got to make a road trip(not car or bike related ) this week and won't be able to work on the T.

I'm going to make a real effort to stay caught up on progress reports in the future.

Getting the body and interior insert glued together is my main focus right now. I need to get the glass work done before it gets too cold. Not sure if that'll be very interesting, but I'll post it anyway.

That picture must be a fake! Couldn't be 45 years ago!

Those guys are way too clean-cut to be traditional hot rodders.

I don't see any tatoos or goatees! I bet your girlfriends didn't have any tatoos or nose rings either!

Mike

Heck, you were lucky if they had any leg showing! I do remember some pretty awesome tight cashmere sweaters the girls wore! If a girl would have shown up at school dressed like anything they do today, she would have been arrested!

Yea I know what you mean about the sweaters!

I tried to find a copy of Hot Rod mag with the Dick Flint roadster cover. Nice car and really nice sweater!

Anyone have a shot of that cover?

Mike

Trouble with the cashmere sweaters is that they would shed all over you if you got too close to your Girlfriend. Went home many a night with fuzz all over me. .


Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Went home many a night with fuzz all over me. .


Don

Some things are just worth the trouble!

WOW, nice work Mike. I love these posts on building! I've learned an awful lot from the Posts Don has made over the last ?? days, and then Brian's posts on building a hot rod frame/chassis, and now yours Mike. Also seen some blips from others too. First class work. And Don's boy Dan!!!! What can I say. ELITE. Sure wish all of you were close, I'd love to have any of you for mentors. By the way Don, I been meaning to ask you, on Dan's new frame, how did he get the square tube bent like that? Any progress pics on his RPU? oldrodder43

Hey Don...where was that picture taken? Kennywood?

Thanks, Oldrodder.

I hope my car just turns out close to what Don has achieved.

Not sure if I would qualify as a good mentor though. Kind of like asking Wile E Coyote how to catch road runners. Might wind up with lots of smoke and band-aids.

Lots of helpful folks on this site. Ask your questions and I bet you get lots of good answers.


Mike

When I was in grade school, girls who wore slacks had to wear skirts over them. In high school, one of the classiest girls in the school was sent home for wearing Bermuda walking shorts and long socks. All you could see was about 4" of kneecap.

Mike,

Your build takes me back to the day when I built my A-bone tudor. I totally wore out a very good sabre saw cutting steel flat stock and other miscellaneous pieces - not to mention a box full of grinding wheels. Couldn't afford it, so I had to make it.

I"m tucking this thread away in case I ever do another project.