MercuryMac
Builder Junky!
I was pretty sure that I built a hotrod, but I don't know that it's 'traditional'.
Anybody build a Traditional hot rod??
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I like the period correct ones and my rat rod leans that way but I don't have the scratch to do it like those guys do. I went with the Caddy flathead to be different and I just couldn't put a Ford engine in a Buick. I do want to switch to bias ply tires but those things aren't cheap. Holding off for now.
Old Iron
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I build what I like and if someone else likes it I'm appreciative then it's a win win
mikec4193
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White walls...chrome steel wheels...a car hop too...does not get much cooler than this right here...
mikec4193
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1932 Fords to me scream traditional old hot rod...
mikec4193
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A another black and white 32 Ford roadster...a really young fellow...cuffed up blue jeans...white t shirt and a hopped up flat head...traditional for sure...
I grew up around old hot rodders, it was just normal to me that the old man had a '55 Mercury Monterey with a 312 and triple Strombergs. He had a Model A roadster pickup, juice front brakes added, with a high compression head, side draft carbs, an open drive shaft and a late 50s Fiat rearend. We had a slingshot dragster with a Mercury 8CM and a 4 barrel Edmunds boat intake, a Culbert in and out gear box with a narrowed Caddy rearend. My uncle still tooled around in a hot '31 A coupe, lil flat 4 sounding great.
My first car was an old '53 Plymouth, the six went to hell and she got a Desoto 276ci hemi. Then we lowered it, hood got peaked (with lead) and the body partially shaved. Eventually a Tijuana tuck and roll upholstery job. We bought, sold, tinkered on tons of rigs, too many to mention. Later I got a '24 Dodge roadster, that ended up with a '40 Ford front and rear, dodge 318 and auto. Whole thing was channelled over a Z-ed Model A truck frame. The last hot rod we built up a '67 Chrysler 300, the rear got jacked up, straight piped, it was a beauty but after that 440 got built... she roared like a lion.
The old man passed away, my mom sold everything for peanuts. My Plymouth and roadster were soon stolen after (I suspect a certain relative). I didn't touch another classic for 25 years, not till I found my lil '27 Ford RPU body.
I need to go through some photo albums, upload some pictures.
My first car was an old '53 Plymouth, the six went to hell and she got a Desoto 276ci hemi. Then we lowered it, hood got peaked (with lead) and the body partially shaved. Eventually a Tijuana tuck and roll upholstery job. We bought, sold, tinkered on tons of rigs, too many to mention. Later I got a '24 Dodge roadster, that ended up with a '40 Ford front and rear, dodge 318 and auto. Whole thing was channelled over a Z-ed Model A truck frame. The last hot rod we built up a '67 Chrysler 300, the rear got jacked up, straight piped, it was a beauty but after that 440 got built... she roared like a lion.
The old man passed away, my mom sold everything for peanuts. My Plymouth and roadster were soon stolen after (I suspect a certain relative). I didn't touch another classic for 25 years, not till I found my lil '27 Ford RPU body.
I need to go through some photo albums, upload some pictures.
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Please stand by.......
My uncles 32 as I remember it when I was just a kid....the one that got me hooked
