Thread: Rides " Ratrods"

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your spose to drive em!!!

I didn't realize we were SUPPOSED to do anything with our rods - other than what we wanted. Isn't that what you expect of your rod? Is there a rule book that I missed somewhere?

id rather fix dents then holes

I'd rather not fix anything, but that doesn't keep me from doing what I can to make my ride what I want it to be. I'm certainly not going to put on a crappy paint job just because it might get dinged - and if it does get dinged . . . I built it, I can fix it. If I want a nostalga or old-school look, I'll do it. And, I'll do it because I want to, not because I'm afraid of someone denting my fender.

the people who do have trailer queens whats cool about that

In your mind, it apparently isn't cool. Fortunately, and I mean REALLY fortunately, you're not the sole arbiter of cool.

thats liek the complete oppisite of hot rodding

"Opposite of hot rodding" is a little too abstract for me. Some things don't have an opposite. What's the opposite of house, for instance?

Gasser, what you don't seem to grasp is that no one cares what you build. Hot rodding isn't either one thing or the other, it's a continuum running from the "I bolted it together with parts I found in the pasture" to "I wrote Coddington a check for $300k." You seem to have some need to justify rat rods when all most of the folks are saying is, listen up, now: "Build a rat rod if you want . . . I just don't happen to want one." If you just quit justifying your ride by knocking those who don't see it your way, your adrenalin level will drop back to normal, and you'll quit messing up level five on your game boy.

Oh . . . perhaps this is the opposite of hot rodding:

Henry....... brace yerself' . Here comes the ............ yabut'

He HE He

i've never owned a game boy in my life dude. and the way you are taking bits and pieces of my post's apart is childish. and if you do think triler queens are cool explain why. and to dave 18,000 miles damn thats no daily driver lol.

HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHEHEEHEHHEEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEH ........... Told ya' Henry. I woulda' had more trouble predictin' the sun will come up .................... Tomorrow. LALALALa .......La.

Originally posted by gassersrule_196
and to dave 18,000 miles damn thats no daily driver lol.

18,000 isn't a daily driver but it's not a trailer queen, has too many miles to be called that. You got to look at it this way, there are some people who want there cars as an investment and maintain a value and possibly increase that value each year or so, it's cars like that that go for mucho bucks in the Barret Jackson auctions. Now I'd like to drive my 62,000 mile original car but keep the miles down to retain value of the car and I don't have a trailer, and can't afford 1 and don't want 1.and then theres people who want to have fun and drive them daily, that's fine in my book. People have regular daily drivers like newer cars maby cause they can't afford the " It'll pass anything except the gas station " economy and or/ they have it for an investment, Inshurance is also more with an older car as a daily driver cause company's like Hagerdy and Grundy won't except a " Daily driver " and you have to show proof of inshurance of your daily driver.

you guys provide entertainment for me also. considering....................................

Dooooood,

Look up, because my point just sailed about 6' over your head. Trailer queens don't have to be cool to you or to me. They just have to be cool to the owner.

Ratrods don't have to be cool to Dave or me, they just have to be cool to the owner.

No rod has to be a daily driver unless the owner wants it to be.

The gameboy reference was an allegory . . . look it up.

Finally, I don't have to take your posts apart, they fall apart by themselves.

Pro . . . Yup . . .

im sorry i ever came here because you guys dont know shit. i have talked to so many old guys that know so much more than you people do its not funny. so go read your magazines and if you get the balls to try something differnt ill talk to you, other than that whatever. i will probably get bitched at for this but i am sorry these are the words that needed to be said and were all men here so im sure we can all handle them.

Oh Stop Yer slayin' me
Spoz' a network would pick this up for a sitcom





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What ever happened to the old dayz' of ceramic J. Rods.

We may not know shit . . . but we know hot rods. Hang with the forum, and maybe you will too someday.

Oh, and . . .

So gasser, how many road tripping cruising miles you have on your ride??? How did ya like the big bridge down in Key West, and isn't that drive along US1 fun in Northern Cal??? I never said any of my rods were daily drivers, and would never use them as such, hard to haul lengths of steel, take motors to Keith's shop, go pick up shop supplies, pull cars to the paint shop, etc. with a hot rod. My pickup works much better for that. I use my hot rods for road trips and travelling, not for going to the store.

My point is this, other than swearing at people and calling them names, have you ever been anywhere or done anything in the world of hot rodding other than just cruise around town??? If you would just once drop the gangster know it all crap and listen you could actually learn something here. I have never seen you post anything positive in any of the threads you have participated in. As far as other geezers that know more than I do, geez I hope so. Knowing it all is a very serious impediment towards learning anything new. I've been at the old hot rod game about 40 years, and I try to learn something new everyday. Only a suggestion, but maybe you should try the same...

Dave,

Something just came to mind. Think it applies?

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
- Socrates

i never said i went everywhere and i have not been negative on every forum i reply to and HOLY COW you being a grown man and your bitching about someone cussing damn thats kinda weird to me. i suppose you say say oh darn when u break your knuckles on a wrench to? or oh shucks jeesh. and i didnt say my friends knew everything i said they know more maybe u should talk to them considering they have been rodding since the 50's and early 60's. and if i stuck to these forums i would only know how to make a 350 chevy work so no thanks.

So whats the hype about trailer Queens my old 65 pull s the race car to shows I dont call it a trailer queen I,d get a ticket if I drove it although it would be kinda fun so long as their no left turns. Ive pulled the 65 on a trailer and I know its not a trailer queen I only know of one car out their that can be called a trailer queen but he only paid something like 3,700 for it and its valued at 1000,000,000 its a 1957 T bird the guy went to dytroit bought it straght from the factory and rolled it in a glass trailer and sealed it that where it is today it never been driven now that a trailer queen some of us that do use trailers SOMETIMES do drive them

and another thing you guys have made chr a joke. anytime someones asks your opinion you bash there idea's and etc. im just glad i was raised around real hot rodders who are adverse and do differnt thngs with there cars and when someone needs help they get it not a lecture abouts the pros and cons.and if you guys are so good what are doing on a internet message board lmao nothing better to do? im only here for the entertainment and from day one when i posted and told that guy to do his str8 axel i was called a dumb ass know nothing kid. for no reason but other than that chr is just entertainment.