Thread: The age old question!!!

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trailer??? I'm still using a tow-bar.....

I always drove my cars to the shows but now I take more then one with me so 2 get trailered and 1 gets driven. I use to hate to see trailers at shows but I see why now you need them. I drive my prostreet 31 to work everyday in MA even when it is freezing out, Street rod heaters work but not good enough for MA

I think the non trailer guys should just be happy that the pro-trailer guys are into hot rods. they could be driving those stupid import thingies that the kids all like. my father has a 41 ford truck that gets driven and trailered. its just good to get out to the meets and meet new people and see the cars.

yunnie!

i'm more a pro drive it guy myself. i feel if you're gonna have a car drive it. all the cars i've either built or had a hand in building are all driven. i think i might change my tune after i get this vette done. but it's a little different than the others and you can bet your ass i'll be driving as far as the power tour once it's done

I guess everyone has their own way of getting off on hot rodding - personally I REALLY enjoy building it then driving it everywhere, and the people I hang out with know that. That said I wouldn't drive it on bad roads just so I can say I drove it either! Guys want to trailer their car, let them, but make them park the trailers WELL away from everything so nobody miises out on a parking space for their hot rod, and DON"T let them be eligable for a long distance award!!!! My wife and I DROVE all the way from Victoria, BC, Canada to the Nats in Oklahoma and back (5700 miles) and lost the LD award to a guy that shipped his car from Australia to California then trailered it to Oklahoma! BUMMER!

I have one I've never trailered, and one that has never left here except on a trailer... Neither of them are finished, but the trailered one doesn't have a motor (installed) yet, so its difficult to move it any other way. Actually today it might take several trailers, since its in pieces...

The other is my daily driver and gets lots of comments at shows and cruises. People say things like 'patina' and 'potential' or 'unusual'.

No one seems to notice that it has bug guts in the grill and on the windshield. But people talk to me about my rod and that's something I enjoy. I doubt it would be much different if I trailered it, unless I left the trailer in someone else's way.

I hope the day comes when one will follow the other to shows because they are both done. They one of them will almost certainly be trailered.

I don't mind if someone trailers their car or not. My big beef is with the people who don't have a hot rod (or they do but they don't know what it's like to bust yer knuckles under the hood) and they say anything negative about any other hot rod at the car show. My buddy had a really great 426 Hemi Cuda. It used to sit in his garage because someone pointed out that 2 of the bolts were not OEM. He kept it in his garage for 4 years until he finally sold it. Now he doesn't want another hot rod.

Those are the people that need to stay home. For every season, there is a reason... turn turn turn...

Streets is right, its his car and his pleasure. I said earlier in the thread that its my car and I'll tow or drive as I see fit. Dubya30, yer bud should have asked the guy if he wanted to pull whatever he had out and race. I bet that would end it. I don't understand why people can't just go to a show, cruise or whatever, and enjoy it. Look at the cars you like and talk to the people about them. My wife and I go to a car show/cruise and see people we haven't seen in a year, and meet a bunch of new ones. Thats what makes this hobbie so enjoyable. Its too bad that thoes people hurt your buddy so much he couldn't enjoy his ride. I can guarantee it won't happen here, as I'm not the quite type. I hope you can convince him to try again.

Depends on where I'm going and what I'm taking. I like the shows that have a cruise along with the show, that usually separates the "trailer queens" from the drivers. If you drove it or trailered it doesn't really matter as long as you can fire it up and cruise when you get there. For me the push it out and push it in car guys are just missing the other half of enjoying a car-- driving it. If the show is any distance away, I usually have to drag so much other "stuff" along that the trailer becomes a necessity, not counting the deals occasionally found at a show. Sometimes it is nice to be able to pack up all your new goodies in the trailer, then let whoever came with me drive mine home. Good points to either side of the issue.

Streets, I checked out you ride and I think that it's very cool. I think that cars are different than music. With music, you might like ole time rock and roll but you don't like country. Course I'm a little different in that I really like cars that are different. There's just something about seeing a car that you very rarely see that makes you go ... WOW that's cool.

Myself, I love to drive my toys. I don't know if I trust my mechanic skills enough to drive 3000 miles but I'm really looking forward to driving my wagon up to St. Ignace car show next year. (If I can talk my wife into it).

I trailerd the model A to the Pac. NW Nats so i could put my whitewall slicks on and go racin' when i got there....did'ent think that driving it 800 miles on slicks was a good idea....took a little flak from a guy who thought i shoulda "tied those slicks on top of the car and went".....yeah right. I have a friend who wants to build me a small trailer to tow behind the A , not a bad idea..... but for a couple of events a year? Screw 'em all, i'll load on the trailer and go racin! The rest of the time my car gets driven.

I dont hold anything against anyone who wants to haul their car, what do i care? Some of those cars cost more than my house...not my thing, but its thiers and i can see why they haul 'em. Thats why its called a "Free Country".......

I build two types of car...drivers and toys

All drivers are toys, but all toys are NOT drivers.

My f100, for example, would be miserable on a cross-country voyage. It has A/C, but the Smitty's glasspacks are loud and the severely lowered suspension rides like a schoolbus.

The fuel tank only holds 11 gallons, and I get 14mpg so you do the math.

The f100 is an in-town cruiser that gets parts-hauler detail when needed (the new air ride is sweet...I can carry more than 100lb without scraping now!!!)

The Corvair is a reacher. I designed it for reliability and overengineered everything. I will convert to a Pertronix unit soon, but not until I wear out this set of Blue Streaks!!!

Corvair: driver with "toy" status.

f100: toy that could be a driver if needed.

i don't see why you can't trailer a really expensive car a long distance... but there are cars i see that guys spend who knows how many thousands of dollars on some blown ten billion horsepower engine and the farthest it gets driven is from the trailer to the show.... if that! now if your building an automobile... it justseems logical to me you'd want to drive it right? it should be illegal or something... and it makes me mad anyway! old guys buyin up all the old cars makes them out of my pricerange! and then to top it off they don't even drive the things! just upsets me to see such a beutiful car being built just to look at....

nothin against old guys with cars though... i'm just jealous!

nothin against old guys with cars though... i'm just jealous!


As well you should be

Seriously, a lot of my cars started out as $200 shells purchased where I could find them, or were dragged off to get them out of someones way. Us old farts just tend to look a little harder.

It would take me a week and a half to get to Hershey driving the 12 T. I would much better prefere a trailor. A lot less accidents also!