Thread: My 1930 model a project

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Great lookin' ride!!!!!

What many people seem to have forgotten in their search for a "traditional" Hot Rod is that "traditional Hot Rodders" built what they liked in the way they liked doing it with whatever funds they could spare----usually someplace between $50.00 and a gaziliion bucks!!!!!!! yeah, there were hi-dollar cars back then, too!!!!

Hmmmm. Kind of seems to be the same today!!!!! If the guys on the Hamb or anywhere else get on your butt for the big meats tell them you had to go with big tires cuz all the guys in the copy-cat-crowd had bought up all the skinny's!!!!! Oh yeah, and you could also mention that you have a REAL engine and not some little wussy thing with a poser cam!!!!!

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Great lookin' ride!!!!!

What many people seem to have forgotten in their search for a "traditional" Hot Rod is that "traditional Hot Rodders" built what they liked in the way they liked doing it with whatever funds they could spare----usually someplace between $50.00 and a gaziliion bucks!!!!!!! yeah, there were hi-dollar cars back then, too!!!!

Hmmmm. Kind of seems to be the same today!!!!! If the guys on the Hamb or anywhere else get on your butt for the big meats tell them you had to go with big tires cuz all the guys in the copy-cat-crowd had bought up all the skinny's!!!!! Oh yeah, and you could also mention that you have a REAL engine and not some little wussy thing with a poser cam!!!!!

Yea I have seen alot of them look like they woul haul as# but only running 13 in the quarter blown That is one thing I was thinkin when pickin out all my mods on the engine. Didnt want it to look like it would run then civic beats me
I grew up luvin watchin the pro street movement, Rod Salsbury, Rick Dobertion, Pro street look just stuck with me. Bringing back the pro street look ,one car ata time

[QUOTE=PRO53;365610]Yea I have seen alot of them look like they woul haul as# but only running 13 in the quarter blown That is one thing I was thinkin when pickin out all my mods on the engine. Didnt want it to look like it would run then civic beats me
I grew up luvin watchin the pro street movement, Rod Salsbury, Rick Dobertion, Pro street look just stuck with me. Bringing back the pro street look ,one car ata time [/QUOTE


Yeah, Pro Street will always be kewl. Big and littles have been around since Lassie was a pup!!!!! I just really hate it when the "experts" have to catagorize everything and establish a bunch of stupid criteria about what constitutes a Hot Rod.....

Oh well, I guess it's far easier to just be a copy cat and make your parts and customizing choices by comittee rather then exercising a bit of ingenuity and building a car to your own liking....

Congrats on taking the initiative to design and build your own rather then getting in step with the "experts"!!!!!!

Dave, Could not agree with you more..... Man that could be dangerous to a fellers mental state.

The Hamb is a cool place, I lurk around over there some. Great fabrication going on there and cool ideas to be found. Same is true with the triple R and Killbillet. I remember some of why the "Rat" rod or traditional rodding thing got started. Its not hard to understand that some folks in Hot Rodding were getting a little tired of being PUT DOWN and even refused entry to some of the shows a few years ago. The so called Billet or Coddington Boydster type cars were in favor and "SOME" of those cats thought it was there way or the high way. Most of those cars were Bought cars and a lot of the folks building driving around Hot Rods that they had built themselves in time were at opposite ends of the rodding spectrum with the guys with enough money to buy anything they wanted. In time that evolved to were the High Dollar crowd didn't want those "Ratty" cars parked next to there's at the show and shine. Well this quickly turned into a Oil and Water type of mix, and some of those "Ratty" types split completly and went there own way.

That actually is a cool thing or at least it was in the begining. Those Traditional or Rat Rod guys, thought they had been put open just once too often, so they started laying down this set of rules for "There Interpretation" of what a REAL hot rod was. In a lot of ways they became what the hated the most. They became the most "EXclusionary" segment Hot Rodding has ever seen.

If you don't build it "There" way, and use only parts "They" determine correct your just not welcome. Just look at the rules for the KillBillet shows.....

I personally like Hot Rods ---- ALL Hot Rods, and I'll be damned if I am ever going to be told what to think is cool or not. I actually already know what I like and don't like.

And as to "TRADITIONAL" I would guess that means what who ever is talking at the time means as "TRADITIONAL" I never could find that Old set of Traditional rules, and I looked..

RS