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Nearly $40K and he's put those wheels on it?
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Yeah, if I was going build an Iacocca box-car . . . . Reproduction U.S. Mags Indy wheel.
I agree with those who say he doesn't really want to sell it . . . ."So if you wait long enough, the car will be like new! I'm not happy about selling it though, and that is why my price will not go down any more. I would just as soon keep updating it and hand it over to my son someday rather than sell it for less."
One thing about this one: It's going to be a lot more visible at a typical cruise night than most brand-new Detroit muscle . . . .Comment
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Looks like the car used to make the scene in brown (I'm guessing that's paint code 5J "Ginger Glow" or "Dark Ginger").Comment
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hmmm... Washington - I suspect that plate would get you strung up in Seattle... presuming they even know what it means.Doing it all wrong since 1966Comment
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^^ it just means that the guy likes to ride ATVs, that's all. Say something about the Tread Lightly program and the greenies will probably bugger off.Editor-at-Large at...well, here, of course!
"Remy-Z, you've outdone yourself again, I thought a Mirada was the icing on the cake of rodding, but this Imperial is the spread of little 99-cent candy letters spelling out "EAT ME" on top of that cake."Comment
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So the guy is serious. He looks serious. I think the thing about Bothell is pertinent because of it's closeness to the word brothel....Comment
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Awwww.... DAMN, GP! You just HAD to put a face with the car. Just in case he shows up here *I* started it, yes, BUT *I* also didn't say anything bad about the car!My hobby is needing a hobby.Comment
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Memories, like the corners of our minds.... Misty water colored memories. And *I* fought the good fight.
My hobby is needing a hobby.Comment
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Somebody tried it AGAIN in Tahoe, but it flopped big time..... 8K miles 8K dinero....
Man pedal + GMG + Beers = $16KMy hobby is needing a hobby.Comment
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I'll bet he's a nice guy who is just doing the best he can with what he has (which is better than just dreaming about it from a La-Z-Boy (R)).Originally posted by RockJustRock View Post
If you build enough cars, you'll get criticism. It comes with the territory, as the cliche goes. And if you build something outside of a very narrow (and expensive) mainstream . . and/or build it in a way that's not in lockstep with the current fads, you;ll get even more negative "feedback."
Unless you're a car-building MacGyver (who is part ArtCenter designer, part junkyard Smokey Yunick, part scratch fabricator, and part Gene Winfield with a spray gun), you'll soon find out that forty stacks really don't go very far anymore. If that guy's outsourced a lot of the work on his car, I have no doubt he's spent a bundle.Last edited by Gateclyve Photographic; April 25, 2018, 07:30 AM.Comment
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If we can ignore an owner's delusional perception of what return they can get on what are essentially vanity expenditures (I learned early on that a $400 car, plus $150 in parts and paint, plus a sh*t-ton of work, only equaled $500 back in my pocket and that was doing pretty well), many of us could relate to having somebody looking over what to us is a pride-and-joy and responding with only bemusement, or even utter contempt.
My first-car '67 Nova/327 referenced above, after dent-pulling, bondo-ing, sanding and more sanding and a gallon of what looked on the paint chip to be a really-neat color, as reviewed by a potential buyer: "Why...that's baby-shit brown."
My laser-straight black, lowered, flared, 215 V8 canyon-racer '74 Vega (this is around '82) as reviewed by attractive 20-something female at the Glendale CA 7-11: "Why do you have a Vega? Aren't those really crappy cars?"
Our '59 Impala convertible, mix of nice original parts and top-quality re-paint which I'd figured out how to do by then, lowered on 16x8- and 9" Torque-Thrusts, from an onlooker who didn't stop to imagine if I was the owner and looked me straight in the face and laughed "What-the-hell would make a person want to own a car like that? Is that like, the first pile of sh*t they got laid in or something?"
My '70 SS-396 El Camino, fresh from a re-do with burgundy metallic and black stripes, looking as good as it ever had, as reviewed by a business customer from Chicago who incredulously spit out: "You like those kind-of cars?! Only...you-know...drive these..." To this day I don't know who "you-know"s were. Another guy at a parts store, again one who'd never stop to think who he might be talking to, snickered about all the paint and chrome which at that point were weeks fresh, "Ahh bet that thing out there trying to be a truck has never carried a goddam thing in it's life..." My reply could have been that it's hauled more stuff than his ratty-ass half-ton ever will but, whatever...let people be people and call it entertainment.
So I know that if I ever go to fix up our old '86 front-wheel-drive Celebrity wagon that's rotting out in the back just because it has every possible option and looks just like the one in the sales brochure (or did once) and besides all the travelling we did we brought our youngest home from the hospital in it, and maybe nobody else has ever thought of saving one...I'm going to get some friction for it. Or at-least I would for 40K.
Edit: I'm kinda still laughing about the "first-pile-of-sh*t somebody got laid in" line, that was actually pretty funny.Last edited by Loren; April 25, 2018, 08:23 AM....Comment
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Well said, Loren.
The biggest lies in all of hot rodding are:
1. "You'll get hot chicks with a street-sweeping machine." Reality: 90% of "hot chicks" see nothing but a weird, loud, old heap (often mirroring the weird, greasy driver) .
2. "Building a rod is an investment." Reality: Most of the time it's like burning money out in the front yard, and you'll get back pennies on the dollar.
3. "Dare to be different." Reality: Excluding a handful of designer machines, "different" is usually just weird (which isn't necessarily a bad thing).
4. "There are no rules for hot rodding." Reality: See violation game . . . .
5. "Anybody can build a 'bitchin'' hot rod on a budget." Reality: Not even your squeeze believes that canard anymore.
6. "Aftermarket parts fit." Reality: Aftermarket parts fit . . . something else . . . .
7. "Building a rod is always fun." Reality: Cold concrete . .. frozen hands (in most states) . . . stuck parts . . . rust and more rust . . . paint and petroleum products everywhere . . . stiff joints and aching muscles . . . .
8. "Proper stance is everything." Reality: Dragging off bits and pieces at every speed bump and parking lot entrance gets old.
9." . . . it takes a real man to cut 'em up." Reality: A correct restoration is generally much more tedious, time-consuming, and often even more expensive than building a modified vehicle.
10. "Mo Betta! You can't have too many cubes, too much compression, or too much cam." Reality: Single-digit fuel economy and race gas
11. "It's a daily driver." Reality: On select summer weekends . . . .Comment
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Coming in at the tail end of this....debacle.
All that time and energy he spend making that car look like total shit could have been better spent on community service or furious masterbation to midget porn.
I mean, I am not one to bag on anyone else's creation but christ on a cracker that is bad...and the interior? I've never been so happy to own rotted and clapped out mopar.
If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower. - Mark DonohueComment
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Whoa! Cold, Bro.
We all have a right to our own opinions on what's "good" and "bad" in the appearance of street machines and rods.
Case in point: One blog with a decent number of page views totally went off the snarkometer on this:
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Even the pros create aesthetic divisions sometimes . . . .
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