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

I've just never seen where anyone gets off telling someone how there car has to be built.....Where I grew up, the guy writing the checks makes the decision and an intelligent decision maker considers all options available to him and settles on what is best for him.....

As for building a car, I'm as non-traditional as anyone!!!! I've never followed the fads, always gone against the "if you ain't got this you ain't **** crowd.

I'm just always pleased to see someone building what they want in a style that is all their own and to heck with what the "experts" deem as correct......

As for you agreeing with me.....I'm sure stranger things have happened, just that nothing stranger comes to mind at the moment!!!!!!

Boy,you guys would have fun down here!!!We have a 'this is how it should be built and if ya dont you are not really welcome'' brigade.There have been some quite spirited ''discussions'' on that subject amongst our rodding''elite''and if it aint a 32 or 34 ya not welcome either!!!
I believe in correctness to a degree with early iron,but it is up to the individual to build his/her car the way they want it,and not up to some one to tell them otherwise..
PRO53,your sedan is a radical rod,very kool,and its bound to upset some,tuff.
Anyway,someone define TRADITIONAL for me,traditional 50s,? traditional 60s? traditional 70s?.......where does it stop??



Finished ramble..

Hey thanks for the encouragement yall, was gonna change some stuff up again, but now going to leave it. Rolled the roof on an english wheel the other night. It didnt look very good So a different approach today, He some older picks of the car and changes. It used to have a roof, but I used to heavy of a gauge and I didnt like it ,was to flat

Well I got the roof done, car is blasted and epoxy primed and waiting for me to start body work. I made an engine rotessieri out of 2 engine stand work great. Everything that wasent chrome on the front end is at the platers getting chromed. The headers are being cermic coated. The engine is at the machine shop getting freshened up. I need to hurry on the body work now
Sorry for some of the crappy picks.

Originally Posted by PRO53

Well thanks for the kind words, I found a site that doesnt frown because I have big tires I am on the Hamb and they rag me about the pro street look. Will post up some more build picks.

I quit going there, seems like a bunch of adolescent no-it-alls, everyone has a rude comment and BS opinon. Kinda like spoiled rich kids finding there way, the wrong way! Very very good looking Hot Rod....

I'm with you on the pro street look, I want to go fast , you can't do that with skinny tires. Your car looks great, I love the look. I thought you might enjoy what I'm building, it's in the same direction.

Your car looks great, love the pro street look. Here is the car that I am building, has a similar look.

I love that Model A, it has a great stance, and it's totally bad ass. Keep the photos comin. I agree with you guys about the bulletproof movment, it was free thinking in the begining, now it's got really narrow minded. You have to run certain type of wheels, give me a brake. I always thought that hot rodding was about going fast, those guys are like Amish hot rodders. With the amount of HP you are making with that big block you have to haver some serious meats on the back, and they look great the way you have tubed them.
I am just finishing a 28 model A truck with a pro/street/altered look, I hope to nostalgic race it. I tried to post it here but it wouldn't let me. I have my photos on photobucket but can't get them on this forum. Anybody know why?

John

I love that Model A, those tires are perfect. What a bad ass look. I agree about billetproof people, they insist you have certain wheels, give me a brake. They are like Amish hot rodders.
I am just finishing a 28 Model A truck with a pro/street/altered look, I want to go fast. I tried to post it but couldn't , guess I'll keep trying.

John

Well sprayed the first guide coat of slick sand on this weekend, had to see what the body work was lookin like

Originally Posted by jforbes

I love that Model A, those tires are perfect. What a bad ass look. I agree about billetproof people, they insist you have certain wheels, give me a brake. They are like Amish hot rodders.
I am just finishing a 28 Model A truck with a pro/street/altered look, I want to go fast. I tried to post it but couldn't , guess I'll keep trying.

John

Dude that model a pickup is awesome. My kind of hot rod big tires and motors. I guess to many years of reading Catroons as a youngster