Thread: 17 hour build

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So friggin' what..........................Its obvious looking at the body that it has no tranny tunnel and probably little floor in it now............

Pile's of parts before.....and not much better now. Just thrown into one pile.

What truly impresses me is how you ( hotroddaddy ) can still come here to this site and talk to these a$$ holes. You have a stronger stomach than I do.

I was originally going to stay away from this thread because I felt from the moment I saw it that no good was going to come from it. There was too much potential for it to just turn into the same old " I like rats.......I hate rats" controversay that we have seen time and time again. However, let me just say this about the build.

The man who spearheaded this event is named Austin, and he is the Administrator of Killbillet.com. I have participated in that forum since early last fall and although I am not a true rat rod builder, I really enjoy it because of the nice people there, and this includes Austin. From all of my dealings with him, he is a standup guy, and has created a very family oriented, fun forum that addresses a particular segment of our car hobby. I also enjoy posting there because the young guys are very hungry for knowledge about how to build a car, and the word "safe" comes up a lot, and they take each other to task if they see something that they feel is not properly done. This alone is a great change from some of the garbage we have seen in the past coming under the umbrella of rat rodding.

The event hotroddaddy mentions takes place in Las Vegas, and Austin thought it would be entertaining for people to see a car come together during the weekend event. It was not intended to be any different than when Spirit Industries built that T bucket kit during a show, or some car club does a demonstration of chopping a top at some event. It was meant to be purely entertaining, and educational from the standpoint of letting people actually see the nuts and bolts that it takes to make a car come together.

Is this a perfect car? NO. It is as barebones as they come, and in only 17 hours of work it could not be anything other than that. But it is an achievement to go from zero to running driving car in only 17 hours. It takes me that long to build a license plate bracket.

So, please just take it for what it is...........a little show put on for fun at an event. Do we all want our cars to look and be like this? Again, NO, but that doesn't make it all bad. Hotrodddaddy was just trying to bring another subject to the table to look at and have fun with, not to create another controversay. Let's take it for just that, please.

Don