Thread: The car that ate my brain..

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Originally Posted by Ken Thurm

Dave, All my X's live in Texas, no wait, I think that's a song

Yeah, I think I have one there, too.... It was an ugly divorce...she got the gold mine, I got the shaft.... (I know some country songs, too!!!)

Hey, all you have to do to pay China back is to buy a HumVee!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Yeah, right Pat. Bet him getting that award the other day really frosted you anti-Obama guys. Personally I loved it.

Bob, I never knew Marty's T was on there. Funny how the guys who owned those hot rods would let the studios beat the heck out of them for what, $ 50 a day? In one scene in the Brain movie the door on Grabowskis T smacks into the header, denting it.

Don

One doesn't have to be anti-Obama to be put off by the "award". The emptiness of the "award" is not the Presidents doing, it's a reflection on the Nobel Prize itself. We now award a "Peace" prize for good intentions? Maybe I should nominate myself for a Nobel in Literature.............all I have to do is "intend" to write a good book. Right? This is very much like the silliness that dictates children playing a game where nobody keeps score, or everyone passes a class regardless of their having learned or not, just to "build" their self esteem. Reinforcing reward for doing nothing just further degrades a declining culture. It's sad to watch but difficult to stop. I find it most troubling when good people miss the point.

Yeah Pops, it looks like the two cars in the "race" hit wheels a couple times, could have easily bent a wheel, axle, smashed a hubcap (though that's easily replaced I guess), but still. On the plus side, they built the cars to drive not tow, so they sure were drivin' 'em!! Hollmann's car was one of my favorites as I saw it from time to time driving down Ventura Blvd, or Van Nuys Blvd.......one of the benefits of living in So. Cal in the early '60s.

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

One doesn't have to be anti-Obama to be put off by the "award". The emptiness of the "award" is not the Presidents doing, it's a reflection on the Nobel Prize itself. We now award a "Peace" prize for good intentions? Maybe I should nominate myself for a Nobel in Literature.............all I have to do is "intend" to write a good book. Right? This is very much like the silliness that dictates children playing a game where nobody keeps score, or everyone passes a class regardless of their having learned or not, just to "build" their self esteem. Reinforcing reward for doing nothing just further degrades a declining culture. It's sad to watch but difficult to stop. I find it most troubling when good people miss the point.

WELL I AM GOING TO PICK UP THE RIDDLERS AWARD IN DETROIT THIS YEAR. WELL HELL I THINK THEY SHOULD GIVE ME ONE .NO NEED TO BUILD A CAR .THEY KNOW I CAN .SO JUST GIVE ME THE DAM THING YOU CAN HAVE THE NOBEL BOB ..I TAKE THE RILLERS

Hey Bob,
Nice videos. I'm not a T bucket fan but I too loved to watch them on those shows in the 50's. Never had the money to build a really nice rod back then, just a few semi fast beaters. Wish I had a few of them back (don't we all).

Jack.

Nice videos Bob. This show aired before my time, but seems like a great motivator for hot rod building!

Well thank goodness for the NFL to take my mind off the falling dollar, but back to cars that "ate my mind". Much of my psychic energy throughout my early years was focused on the ecomically unattainable holy grail of a fenderless '32 roadster as inspired by my copy of the hot rod handbook which I have nearly worn out but still have even though I lost the cover somehow. Although I liked the "Kookie-Car", a chopped deuce roadster has always been my favorite and you folks with '32s are lucky dogs. I bought into my '29 because I thought it would be cheaper to build than a '32, Hah! So here is my favorite picture and it's source from 1952. Man, I have dreamed over that picture for many years!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Don, It's cheaper to build an 'A' then a '32 - to a point. The deuce chassis and body, though similar in size are quite a bit more expensive. After that purchase, then the pain to the savings account stays the same ------ and you already know how I came to that deduction