Thread: Who really does the work?

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Being from the generation of fix it yourself, I have noticed that most of thies really nice hot-rods are farmed out to have all the work done and the owners just put up the bucks. Boy how can anyone have pride in their machines if they just opened up their wallet and let someone else do the work? Owell I can say like Frank Sinatra said "I did it my way". Can you imagine being at a hot rod show and an owner says "yep this is my car and you ask him about it and he says better contact the builder!"

Already had to face that.......it was awkward, I started asking questions about his frame set-up and he just bobbed his head up & down like one of those dogs that you used to see in the package trays until I stopped, and then he told me that he just bought it that way and had no idea what I was talking about. I guess the look on my face was something close to the one you make when you step in cat poo, and I tried to "make a save" with Well you bought a nice one...but his head went to bobbling again as he said Thanks, and I knew it was time to go......

I really don't have a problem with it. For those of us who like to build, it's not the approach we would take. But why couldn't a guy have pride in a car he commissioned? A great many of them think out and plan the concept, decide the running gear, pick the paint schemes and colors. Maybe he runs his own company, and needs to spend more time keeping his people employed than in his garage with a wrench.

I'm detecting a line of thought here. It apparently isn't right to hot rod a rare car. It apparently isn't right to have a hot rod unless you build it yourself. "Those guys" just don't understand like "we" do.

Not what I was saying at all...I was just embaressed that I missed on my conception of him. Not a good way to intrest perspective buyers, and I pick up a lot of work from the shows.

I look at it this way, some guys have the money , but dont have the know how to build one , but love rods. Keeps some one that has a HotRod shop stay in business. A WIN/WIN situation, as long as he guy doesnt try pushing it off as HE Built it, just tell the truth.

Some have the Know how but no cash & an understanding wife, so they build what they can afford , or scrounge up.


I really dont care as long as they are safe to drive !


Spray

Well like they diffent strokes for different fokes. Just thought I would get a little excitement here for such a subject. I guess you might call me a big offender of not doing it your self as I had my old car painted down at Maco and didn't do it myself.

i dont have a problem buying your cars either, in my case if i couldn't build it i think i wouldn't wont it, but ill never know that i hope, but ive got a brother that got a top of the line 55 chev. and a first class 34 ford, that he bought. hes not supposed to have a hot rod because he cant wield? he works 15 hrs a day building houses getting filfty rich while i spend all my extra time and money building hot rods. when he finishes a house hell make a couple 100,000.00 and i might brake even not counting my labor. i wish i was the carpenter and could go buy anything i wonted.

Wanna sell that 34 Streets?

Hell yeah, or I'll trade ya my Tall T & some cash...it's a tin lizzy with all the wood spokes...lol Nice rodding material.

34 3 door steel car ... wtf? 3 window?


I have 33 tudor body I will sell ya hambiskit.

still dont know what you mean....

Its a learning exprierence, I like turning a wrench. But I am learning from a lot of sources like this one. My brother would like to have a project of his own, but never really turn a wrench. I am trying to learn from all of the money I spend on engines rearends and so on, what works and what I can work on. So maybe some guys don,t like turning their own tools, but like the hobby. What ever it is have some enjoyment in it.

67 cougar

Already had to face that.......it was awkward,

Jim,

I should have been more clear with my response. I wasn't responding to your post, but to JIPJOBs.

I have been in the same situation when I asked about a car. When it became obvious that he didn't build it, I didn't press the issue because a) I wasn't going to learn anything, and b) he was going to be embarassed.

I'm with Streets, though. Claiming someone else's work as your own is unforgivable. When I was in the machine design business, I had a potential client ask for a presentation on a machine for his plant. He declined our bid. A year later on a visit to look at another possible project, I found OUR machine design in service.

Id say the guy who did it all himself has more to be proud of maybe. but like said earlier, there are plenty of you who built the chassis & basically put the car together, but farmed out the paint, engine build(maybe even bought a crate engine ), tranny build etc.. Or possibly had someone build the entire car to your personal specs...or maybe hust bought it from someone basically the way it is. As long as your having fun. Some people dont have the know how or resources to weld, paint, powder coat,engine build, fit rims etc.