Thread: Who took the "hot" out of hot rod?

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For 20 years- I was into tri-five Chevys.
I got so bored with it, I could have screamed! For me- it was running a motor on the ragged edge of self destruction on C12. For awhile- many wanted performance too. The Prostreet scene came, went, came back & now is in some sort of limbo.
Now what are they building? C6 suspension, crate motors, big 20 & 22" wheels, A/C, DVD, Lexus leather interiors, motor covers, hidden & smoothed everything- all the creature comforts of home. Other than color- they are all clones!
AAAAAAAaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
What the hell happened.
Then the ultimate sin?
Taking Project X & turning it into a real yawner......TWICE!!!!!!

Ok, I'm calmer now.

I'm pretty much on the same page with Pops. The 4 cars in various stages of completion are all throw-backs of a kind. The '36 roadster is just a car that had always appealed. They were, and are, hard to come by in steel, and the lines are just way too appealing to my tastes. The '33 3 window is going to end up much like one that used to be parked in the street on my second paper route. It was the guy's daily driver in the early '60s. Loved the look of that car and lusted after it. The '65 Dodge calls to the hemi SS craving we had in the mid '60s, it will end up very much like the new A990 car we drooled over in the Mashak Motors showroom just down the street from Bob's Big Boy on Van Nuys Blvd. And the last one will be the car I wanted to build in 1980 but it just didn't work out at the time, another project got in the way (during my sports car period). Living in the past? Yeah, maybe, but all good things come in time, and I just see these as "goals" that are finally coming to fruition.

As for being selective about what "winds my watch" and gets attention at any kind of gathering it's probably a product of years of "refining" my tastes. In a brief glance there are going to be some cues that will either draw me in, or just tell me to keep movin' on. It would probably take some amount of over analysis to pin it down, but it's just that some things look "right" and some don't.................those that display "right" get more attention.

In an odd way I've had some similar thoughts to Jay's though. A few months back I started a folder in my photo files called "Cookie cutter cars". This will probably piss off some folks, but it was prompted by the guys who scoff at cars they deem "too nice" to drive, even though they more often are than not. The neuvo rodders who think they are the saviors of what they term "real hot rods". Whatever..............here are some examples of what I see as current day cookie cutter cars.......

Hey Bob
That second pic reminds me of a car at a recent show- the guy had used a can of spray-on Christmas tree snow to mimic salt on the car!

Sounds like you just need to take a step back and look further for creativity. I spent some time in Nepal and saw some real funky stuff, bet you never seen wheels like this:

http://photography.nationalgeographi...pod_image.html

Some custom accessories:

http://www.catnaps.org/islamic/islamimages/flagcar.jpg

Sean

Originally Posted by Steves32

Hey Bob
That second pic reminds me of a car at a recent show- the guy had used a can of spray-on Christmas tree snow to mimic salt on the car!

Can angel hair be far behind?