[QUOTE=Dave Severson;380887]I don't mind safely constructed budget Hot Rods, nor do I mind the in your face rat rods......

What I do mind is someone assuming that just because my car is in a trailer when I arrive I must be a poser or something.... Assumptions are a dangerous thing to make. Some of us with the trailer queens, actually the majority of us have built every bit of the car in the trailer... And now you want to tell me I'm not a Hot Rodder because I have billet on my car, some of which I made on my own lathe and my own mill that I bought with my own hard earned money... So, because of 45 years of nothing but building Hot Rods with my own hands and my own money now I'm not a real Hot Rodder because I have a Featherlite trailer and $50K plus invested in my car, plus the 2 or 3 years of labor??????

Like Roland brought up, I'm just too dang old to make a 2,000 mile round trip to and from an event in a small car with stiff suspension and a 10 mpg engine!!! I've paid my dues, slept beside my roadster in a sleeping bag and now if I have a room at the Ramada and my car arrives in a trailer, I guess I just really don't care what you think!!!

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This pretty much sums it up for me. I have built my own car because it's something I enjoy. I like the Rat Rod look as much as anyone else, but make it safe! I think the thing that bothers most people about the big money rides is the fact that a few of them are not as talkative as some of the others and that fact causes most to believe they are snobbish! If someone can afford to have their car built, then so be it and more power to them. A few times I wished I was in that situation! I too trailer my car when going to a far off show. I had 5 kids and my wife going with me and there just wasn't enough room in my sedan for everyone to enjoy the trip. Does that make me a poser and a snob? I hope not! I don't understand why everyone can't simply enjoy the cars for what they are and help to continue this hobby we all love so much....CR