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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: lazs2 on June 07, 2005, 07:48:37 AM
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0760321094/qid=1118148120/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-2032441-9246530
"Hot Rod Pinups"... Just picked it up. Coffe table book of rat rods in primer and the whole Hot Rod garage scene but with a nasty mean Betty Paige like twist to it...
Nasty 50's 60's models around even nastier Hot Rods.
Perfect combo. The Photographers and authors live and understand the real Hot Rod (not the sterile new shiny billet "street rod")
If you like beautiful nasty women and real, mean Hot Rods... this is THE picture book.
A lot of the cars are from areas around me...
lazs
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well... I guess a lot of you gay guys and furriners won't get it..
lazs
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LOL
Used to be an old guy that had an old tin garage close to us back when I was a kid.
He had hot rod pinup girls all over the wall.
They were a tad more revealing than those shown in the sample images.
Man................. I loved that place. :)
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Dreaming at Rats & Pin-ups is all is left to Laz's manhood. How sad that an icon of American machisum ends up is such a desolation. Not even his peers from the BBS to step foward and confort him.:o
You know you hit rock bottom lows when furriners teach you how to spell "Bettie Page".
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rr's are pritty cool .. they kinda bring back the CTA and the salt flat days .
(http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/j/Bettie%20Page.jpg)
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dry lakes scene.. car club garage scene.. garage scene. All the handbuilt stuff and very anti billet flash stuff.
I dunno... maye I am getting old but I sure like the models in this book better that the gynocolodgy lessons that pass for porn these days.
lazs
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ive got alot of early Edmonds stuff and old 4 cyl hilborn type ejection set ups that would look really cool on rat rods ..
id like to see more nailheads and straight 8's too .(everyone has a sb or hemi)
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Rats are getting fashionable again, they start to pop up like flees on my cat at local car shows, moslty drove by guys in their 20s. I guess it's the look cool movement againts the $$$ G-ride.
I'll see if I can sneak this book in my library without being intercepted by my GF.:p
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my son just let a 57 buick 2 door hardtop go... he allready regrets it.
lazs
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frenchy.... you might as well face it... you are Americanized.. ruined.
rat rods is where it all started and for many of the same reasons... money. Now... the rat rods cost a lot but still not so much as "street rods". I keep my Healey in primer and old style mags but... let's face it... it would be hard for a kid to come by a Healey body to work on or a gennie 32 ford.
A lot of the rat rods are safe and fun and pretty fast but no matter what... they are mean looking and very cool and fun to work on and drive.
lazs
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You guys should come up here for the goodguys nationals in August. Biggest rod show in the world.
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hehehe Laz:D
Psstt ... we all know what happened last time I tried to make an appointment with you Funked:o
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Woke up with a sore ass?
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Sorry, Freedomy. (http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=151408) :(
I live right by the place where the show is held, no excuses. :)
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that's some nice concept work, it's well done.
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well... I aint no kid but..
I kinda get tired of seeng miles of billet and candy colored cars that cost from 50-500k that are "driven" by old greybeards who don't even know how to change the oil and complain that the reason they don't have a stick shift is because... their leg get's too tired?
The energy of the rat rod guys is so anti billet and "reality" car and "chopper" shows it is lke a breath of fresh air after being stuck in an elevator with a chilli eating fat lady.
I am not interested in what the current "rod shop" or "chopper shop" tee shirt sellers and tv stars are building for pasty faced greybeards.. (well.... rarely).
lazs
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I watch the American Hot Rod series every once in a while.
Not saying that Coddington doesn`t put out some good looking stuff because he does, but what he does is "concept" work. It certainly isn`t anywhere near the traditional American hot rod.
The last episode I watched was where they started on supposedly "restoring" Vern Hildebrandt`s `34 roadster. The son wanted it restored just like his father had it. Didn`t take long for Boyd to decide it needed this done or that done the way he would do it if he was building one of his concept copy cars. Sort of a shame to see the old gal get hacked all to hell because some rich builder doesn`t understand the simple idea.
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jakal... I look at the big builders on tv as artists. What they do is very much like the russian guy who made all those jeweled eggs... facinating but you can't eat em and they don't have much to do with and egg and.... not many can own em.
I get bored watching em and I find that I have little in common with the people involved.
I can admire the artistry and the skills without really caring much about the product. I like some paintings but can only look at em once in a while and have no interest in buying one and hanging out with painting buyers. if any of that makes sense.
Rat rod guys can tell you what car the radiator came out of and how they made the brackets. that kinda thing.
in the early days.. used to be around ness's shop for one reason or another... Couldn't see the point in waiting 3 weeks for the gold plated bolts to come back... couldn't see the point if a bike that cost more than a vette yet was allmost unrideable.
lazs
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Don't be fooled Laz, like everything fashionable, RatRoads are already starting to be driven by greybearded men, and some shops are building them, putting extra attention on the rusty look for $$$. They are usually easy to spot : sparkling engine, with rusted exterior and even faded nose arts.
Even the youngsters that I met driving them, have not much of a clue of how to build them. They are pretty much like me, book worms that cruise the internet for the config they want, then ask a mechanic friend to hook it up. It's far from the original sunday wrench monkey in rollover tee shirt that wanted to look bad ass.
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Oh... I understand but, like you say, I can spot a real rat rod a mile away. If they can't work on em... they aint running.
worse... the rat rod will make the man... when they have to shift and not have the AC on or power steering or even disc brakes... solid axels and such... the pretenders won't last long in one of those cars.. It will toughen the sissies up.. so..
even a fake rat rod is better than a full billet candy car on a trailer.
Nothing wrong with nice cars... I just like the people who own em to undersand em... If that makes any sense.
My elky is fairly nice muscle car but.... I know every nut and bolt and have worked on it in the driveway and even in someone elses driveway when a braket or something let go... I am able to cobble it back together to make it home. I has paint and nice interior and AC and power brakes and steering but... It is a six speed and I drive it hard. see the diff?
lazs
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Oh yeah, I do. I can't work on them much because no one ever taught me, plus I don't even have a garage/driveway yet. I do know most of the nut and bolts, by looking over the shoulder of the mechanic, body guy, interior guy. (We know how they love that!)
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I always defined a rat rod as a car that would be painted up like a candy-car someday, but then a new cam was bought instead, or you got a deal on a set of heads, etc, forever, and just never got around to the foo-foo ****.