Hot Rodding is dead

[Motorhead350]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXU3N9wT3u0

Thought I'd share this. You may have seen it before.

Enjoy.

[RacerX]

You actually posted something cool! Thanks! :beer:

[slickster]

Lol. Till 2:am but I have no garage just grass surrounded by snakes and rats and red ants. No I'm no car guy

[blackhueys]

Don't forget the people that go to car shows on the weekend after they just dropped a ton of money for their car at a dealership on friday!! then they win as well, what the ******??? How is that hot rodding? Where are the people that had to make their own fender? or they could not get a part nearby? I had a 73 lincoln mark series try finding stuff for that! lived in cali and had to buy stuff from ny state! I do not go to many car shows any more as to me people who judge them don't want to learn about cars or even seem to know about cars. I am done arguing with people that yes my car is factory marauder no I did not make this one off car I have even had to argue this point with judges. I love the old school rat rides that some 16 year old kid made from old scraps at his grand dads farm. I feel that hot rodding is not gone just that the new kids out there have to be taught but they dont want to learn to much work I guess easier to just plug into a laptop and tune that way. Me I used a thing called sense of smell to adjust my carbs listen to the engine as I timed it. Who here still knows how to set dwell? I still have a sun dwell adjustment tool and will never sell it. To me it represents hot rodding as it used to be. Yes I realize times are changing but we need to bring back a mandatory High school class for general automotives with a bit of history thrown in (I am sick of helping people who cant change a tire or check their oil cause they dont know even though that owners manual thingy will tell them) Guess it needs to be on a computer for them or something? Well just my two cents I know that not everyone is like this now a days but seems like it is getting to be more and more forgot the history of cars and rodding.:bigcry:

[SC Cheesehead]

Old School, gotta love it! :up:

[massacre]

That was pretty cool Dom.

[Blown3.8]

Last minute of dialog was awesome! Really hit home.

[MrBluGruv]

I don't know if I fully agree with this.

If hot-rodding is exclusively comprised of turning a junked out vehicle into a nothing-but-speed machine, I guess it's dead, but I don't see how the "$6,000" paint job automatically disqualifies a vehicle unless it specifically has to look like a piece of ****.

Buying a kit car pre-assembled is one thing, but building a kit car is another. Whether you source your stuff from a junkyard half-way across the nation, or from right down the street, or you buy new or NOS, the only argument against it being hot-rodding then is if you aren't FORCING yourself to do things the hard and unreliable way.

I'd argue that as important as the vehicle is to considering it hot-rodding or not, the mentality of the driver/builder/owner is just that much more important, and the "buy it just to take to shows" mentality is, IMO, definitely NOT what hot-rodding is....

[Motorhead350]

I am glad you guys liked it. Sometimes I wonder if the Marauder is by definition a Hot Rod. The way you can fix it out of a junkyard and build a fast one outta parts never meant to go on it... Eaton swap, to me fits the definition of Hot Rod. However, lacking huge fenders or no fenders, a chrome bumper and having a ton of plastic I would say it's not a Hot Rod. Who cares? It makes us happy.

I'm going to watch the video again.

[Shaijack]

Great post Dom.

[BlkRauderMatt]

Here's my 27 Model T that I'm building from the ground up:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-L_V305GrTZI/TmA4Rnp22jI/AAAAAAAAAGU/NBGgAZISfuw/s400/finished.jpg
This is what my uncle and I started with

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7uH5zRzq40M/TmA8LmtsKoI/AAAAAAAAAG0/xrI3Gi9cqaw/s400/DSC03630.JPG
302 engine and Mustang II front end mounted...

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-08AjUs-oItU/TmA4QlAB2HI/AAAAAAAAAGE/ASiPPeM6z4U/s400/DSCN0330.JPG
And here is where we're at now, getting the rearend set in there and secured...

This is what I'm aiming for... --VVVV-- Only I'm going to go with a DTR color scheme and a few other odds and ends to make it different from my uncles:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-5xrrmn7a2YM/TmA8LLdB0sI/AAAAAAAAAGw/T1CVYbsjq-s/s400/DSC03675.JPG

:burnout: Hot rodding is not dead for me........

[DOOM]

Badass!!! :beer: