Anybody build a Traditional hot rod??

[mikec4193]

Hey Rat Rod guys and gals...

I got to thinking I know several of you folks are over on the traditional hot rod site (I am as well)....so have any one on here built a period correct hot rod and how did it compare to any of the Rat Rods you have built??

This is the only one I have attempted...more race car than hot rod but I was saving a piece of New Jersey oval track history...

I love the looks of all the TROG cars...that period correct stuff really appeals to me...

Thanks for any replies...

 

[gene49]

I've been skirting the rules over there for more then 20 years. I was building rat rods before they were identified as rat rods. I like the traditional look, but would really rather have a more modern drive train (I drive my stuff around 10K mile a year), and I have always built my stuff a week at a time. Up until about 6 years ago, the paint on my stuff was the $20 a gallon implement paint at the local farm store. I'm a welder, I have this thing about new and old rusty metal together on my car (just doesn't look right in my eyes), I don't mind the old faded paint, or natural rust. That cheap implement paint was fading in 4-5 years.

This is my 48 Plymouth coupe just before the last repaint in 2018. At that point the car had logged around 70,000 miles, and had been in 27 different states. This pic is the side view of the car, this is its 2nd paint job and was about 5 years old, this round of implement paint was sprayed on, the first paint job was the same paint (same gallon!) brushed on.

This pic of the back window is the reason the car got redone this last time, the metal around that window was rusted through and was leaking rain water into the car. The paint job after this repair had the blue exchanged for red, and the white exchanged for a light cream color. That was real car paint, professionally done. The car now has around 90,000 miles on it.
I'm considering doing it again, taking it back towards its original design, now that it isn't the primary road car anymore.

This is how the car currently looks. the truck in the background is my current ride. Its also the same truck behind the coupe in the 1st pic.

 

[bob w]

Gene, your story is inspiring.

 

[bob w]

Gene, your story is inspiring.