Were All In This Together
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I didn't know what to expect, but I'm glad you shared it ... and I'm glad I read it. 
Thanks Ryguy!
Thanks Ryguy!
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It is a shame, but that is all too true. I wish we all could just respect each others efforts and ideas, even if they are not to our own personal taste.
delfinomuro
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So true :/ but there's still those who respect your ride no matter what knowing that you doing all in your power to get it at where YOU want it and not others. There's a spot here in the NorthEast side of Houston where a bunch of different car clubs would meet up at a parking lot and just post up and chill give each other ideas and help each other out. NOW IN THIS TIME of generation, that no longer exist but people fighting and shoot outs..... not cool I miss the old days.
not cool I miss the old days.
65 Plymouth Satellite 426
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Good Article, Good Ideas And Individual Respect To Everyone Who Has Met At A Dragstrip, Cruise Night Or Just A Small Gathering of Motor Heads, And Brushed Back His D.A., Pulled On His Helmet, Smelled Alcohol And Nitro Fuel And Raced Behind The Wheel Of Their Own Creation!
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Yeah...LOL... Us narrow minded folks !! like that article too, doesn't mean we have to like everyone's choices in cars... we can still respect, that they are into cars or anything with wheels & an internal combustion engine anyway...
IMHFO you can't really compare the 50's or our grandfathers or my fathers era car/race scene, very much to todays era thou, that era was about inexpensive cars striped down hot rods not Rice rockets/Saki sippers with, high $$ Nos & turbos w/circus paint jobs, full on electronics running absolutely everything, mega Big Blocks Muscle cars, or even the street-rods with billet & chrome everything of today etc.... It was all about ingenuity & experimentation on "no budget $$$", $50 cars, going out hangin' & wrenchin' with the guys... You could never get away with that now, in a mega $$$ competitive organized drag race or most car cultures/setting today... even the Rat Rods now have become way over the top... Allot of things are still the same, we all still work on cars, but many things have changed so much, it's a stretch to really compare them, idealistically maybe/yes, but it's kind of apples & oranges thou... Even hard to compare the 70's to today even, my era vs my sons... Sorry to be such a buzz kill, it's not meant to rain on anyone's parade, it's the reality... that's my $0.02 cents
great read thou, great old photos too, walk back in history, thanks for sharing with us... RyGuyTooDry
IMHFO you can't really compare the 50's or our grandfathers or my fathers era car/race scene, very much to todays era thou, that era was about inexpensive cars striped down hot rods not Rice rockets/Saki sippers with, high $$ Nos & turbos w/circus paint jobs, full on electronics running absolutely everything, mega Big Blocks Muscle cars, or even the street-rods with billet & chrome everything of today etc.... It was all about ingenuity & experimentation on "no budget $$$", $50 cars, going out hangin' & wrenchin' with the guys... You could never get away with that now, in a mega $$$ competitive organized drag race or most car cultures/setting today... even the Rat Rods now have become way over the top... Allot of things are still the same, we all still work on cars, but many things have changed so much, it's a stretch to really compare them, idealistically maybe/yes, but it's kind of apples & oranges thou... Even hard to compare the 70's to today even, my era vs my sons... Sorry to be such a buzz kill, it's not meant to rain on anyone's parade, it's the reality... that's my $0.02 cents
great read thou, great old photos too, walk back in history, thanks for sharing with us... RyGuyTooDry
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Old school??? New school???? It doesn't matter. It's the "CARS" that are the thing. I'm gonna keep this link for the great pics and the memories of part of my youth...cr8crshr/Tuck
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:iamwithstupid: X2 I saved it too...
I blame it on computerized cars.
We're all in this together.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqK7H_XTd00
(Why don't the links put a video picture here like FABO? Computers again!)
We're all in this together.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqK7H_XTd00
(Why don't the links put a video picture here like FABO? Computers again!)
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That is some funny stuff right there... Red Green is usually spot on with his sarcasm...
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I guess I'm with the narrow-minded crowd. I'm an old school guy. I remember walking into Honest Charley's and scanning through the racks of carbs, intakes, gears, ignition systems, and other parts that I consider "real" performance upgrades. Now I go to the Performance section of a Pep Boys, and what's considered performance parts? Strobe lights and fart can muffler tips. Sorry, but I'm just not going to take someone who thinks putting a fart can on your tailpipe is a performance improvement very seriously.
Speaking of old school, I remember the 1980s when lots of young guys like myself were hanging up posters of Porches and Lamborghinis and Corvettes on their walls, and I would ask why they liked those cars and most of the time I could never get an answer other than "because they're cool", which I translated as "everyone else likes them, so I guess I'll like them". They never had a specific thing they liked about those cars, it was just in their minds it was cool to like what The Crowd liked. Groupthink people like this are just such a striking difference from people you ask "why do you like that car?" and they'll talk about some particular lines, or performance, or stance, or their Dad had one, or something that shows they genuinely like their cars for what they are rather than because it's an in-thing to like them.
I'm also old school in that I have tremendous respect for people who can make an intermediate car that was meant to seat six full-size people and carry a week's worth of groceries go really fast all night long through the use of engine boring, intakes, head work, carb design, rear-end gearing selections, and other performance upgrades. I have little respect for guys who think doing very little to make a lightweight import or modern car that can seat two full-size people and maybe a baby and a day's worth of groceries go really fast until their nitrous runs out. Using their standard, I could tape a bottle rocket to a matchbox that would blow their doors off and be king of the street. So if you're a guy with a newer Mustang, Camaro, or an import, that was 100% built by the factory, and think you're going to impress me... you ain't. If you're a guy with a car that you've modified to turn it from a grocery getter into a hot rod, which is what you're seeing in most of those Life magazine pictures, you'll have my full and complete attention.
Lastly, I'm old school because there's been heated debates about whose marque is better for as long as I've been interested in cars, and I know they've been around as long as my Dad was interested in cars. Ford vs Chevy vs Mopar, Chevy vs Pontiac, Ford vs Mercury, Plymouth vs Dodge, domestic vs import, big block vs small block, muscle vs sport, sport vs pony car... we are drawn together just as much by arguing what is good/better/best as we are by what we share in common. To minimize either intercourse would be like trying to have a top without a bottom... it just doesn't work.
I'm an old school guy. I remember walking into Honest Charley's and scanning through the racks of carbs, intakes, gears, ignition systems, and other parts that I consider "real" performance upgrades. Now I go to the Performance section of a Pep Boys, and what's considered performance parts? Strobe lights and fart can muffler tips. Sorry, but I'm just not going to take someone who thinks putting a fart can on your tailpipe is a performance improvement very seriously. Speaking of old school, I remember the 1980s when lots of young guys like myself were hanging up posters of Porches and Lamborghinis and Corvettes on their walls, and I would ask why they liked those cars and most of the time I could never get an answer other than "because they're cool", which I translated as "everyone else likes them, so I guess I'll like them". They never had a specific thing they liked about those cars, it was just in their minds it was cool to like what The Crowd liked. Groupthink people like this are just such a striking difference from people you ask "why do you like that car?" and they'll talk about some particular lines, or performance, or stance, or their Dad had one, or something that shows they genuinely like their cars for what they are rather than because it's an in-thing to like them.
I'm also old school in that I have tremendous respect for people who can make an intermediate car that was meant to seat six full-size people and carry a week's worth of groceries go really fast all night long through the use of engine boring, intakes, head work, carb design, rear-end gearing selections, and other performance upgrades. I have little respect for guys who think doing very little to make a lightweight import or modern car that can seat two full-size people and maybe a baby and a day's worth of groceries go really fast until their nitrous runs out. Using their standard, I could tape a bottle rocket to a matchbox that would blow their doors off and be king of the street.
So if you're a guy with a newer Mustang, Camaro, or an import, that was 100% built by the factory, and think you're going to impress me... you ain't. If you're a guy with a car that you've modified to turn it from a grocery getter into a hot rod, which is what you're seeing in most of those Life magazine pictures, you'll have my full and complete attention. Lastly, I'm old school because there's been heated debates about whose marque is better for as long as I've been interested in cars, and I know they've been around as long as my Dad was interested in cars.
Ford vs Chevy vs Mopar, Chevy vs Pontiac, Ford vs Mercury, Plymouth vs Dodge, domestic vs import, big block vs small block, muscle vs sport, sport vs pony car... we are drawn together just as much by arguing what is good/better/best as we are by what we share in common. To minimize either intercourse would be like trying to have a top without a bottom... it just doesn't work.
paladin06
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Good read. Thanks for sharing.
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67 coronet
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very nice read.i have always been a a fan of any well done vehicle.who cares what factory it came from.if you did a nice job of assembling it and/or designing it,i am a fan.once spent an hour looking at an amazing low rider at a show.all my freinds said,"why look at that pos?".my responce was,"have you seen the engineering on this ride?".i have way too many rock a billy freinds for someone who isnt one.they do have nice cars though.
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