Worst trends in hot rodding over the years

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dartfreak75 said:
Fuzzy dice? Lol
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Excuse me.
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Kern Dog said:
I hate those diesel trucks that are lifted and run on 24 x 10" wheels and low profile tires.
Remember the mini truck trend of the 80s? Lowered so much, they couldn't clear a McDonalds cheeseburger...Fog lights no brighter than a dim candle, blue dots in the taillights.
Earlier still....the 70s with the leaf spring shackles, the chrome side pipes, sun visors above the windshield, big, long antennas, airbrushed graphics, tires sticking waaaaay out past the body,
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When I bought my plow truck it had modern wheels on them, 20s

I hated them

I replaced them last year with the smallest wheels I could find that still cleared the brakes...18s

Truck looks 100% better

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These new giant wheel fads ! I bet land fills and scrap yards are full of them .. I never like big tall wheels !! Worst thing in my book .
 
I really dig some of the low riders. The real traditional ones that got their start in Mexico and southern California. Some of those builds are astounding. Some of the best paint jobs you'll ever see.
 
RustyRatRod said:
I really dig some of the low riders. The real traditional ones that got their start in Mexico and southern California. Some of those builds are astounding. Some of the best paint jobs you'll ever see.
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the paintjobs on those lowriders, and the paintjobs of the streefreaks and drag racers of the 70s seem to be kissing cousins
 
I agree that today's wheel designs have taken ugly to a whole new level. But on the performance side? The "Fart can" exhaust! WTH?

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cojohnso said:
I agree that today's wheel designs have taken ugly to a whole new level. But on the performance side? The "Fart can" exhaust! WTH?

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Just saw a late model Charger last night, probably an SXT with "Fart Cans" on it and the dude was on the gas :eek:. From the sound of it, it may as well have been a Hyundai :rofl:MFAO.
 
memike said:
These new giant wheel fads ! I bet land fills and scrap yards are full of them .. I never like big tall wheels !! Worst thing in my book .
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and im olf school, on trucks, the only wheels that look good are the one with the round holes like i put on my truck
if it has spokes, i dont like it

same goes for all this black, unless its stamped steel, i dont like em black
 
Unconventional said:
Just saw a late model Charger last night, probably an SXT with "Fart Cans" on it and the dude was on the gas :eek:. From the sound of it, it may as well have been a Hyundai :rofl:MFAO.
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I believe each generation must by definition piss off the generation it preceded? My dad hated my Muscle cars. He would say. "You just like to be loud. Like your music." In his world? If the car wasn't the size of an aircraft carrier? It wasn't an automobile. So all this "Tuner" crowd is doing is finding their own style. (Or lack there of?) And in doing so? It must anger its elders. It's nature?

We'll see how the next generation EV crowd effects the Tuner culture?
 
Hotrodding? Taking what the factory mad and making it BETTER??
Custom? Putting your "personality" into a build??
And then there is stupid chit? as in hold my case of beer and lets see what happens??
 
diymirage said:
and im olf school, on trucks, the only wheels that look good are the one with the round holes like i put on my truck
if it has spokes, i dont like it

same goes for all this black, unless its stamped steel, i dont like em black
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Your "olf school"... all right...:rolleyes:..
 
I wouldnt consider any of these mods hot rodding. More like customizing.....Im talking the 70's mechanical stuff. Hilborn injection on the street? Not terrible but a terrible choice on a street car. How about Pro-streeting a Pacer? Now that is just a waste of resources.
 
Why is it this is what I was thinking that OP was talking about...
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And then the thread turned into all this bashing of cars with big wheels and fancy paint jobs....
When any three of the best a-bodies on here couldn't pay for one paint job for one of the lowriders..
 
pishta said:
I wouldnt consider any of these mods hot rodding. More like customizing.....Im talking the 70's mechanical stuff. Hilborn injection on the street? Not terrible but a terrible choice on a street car.
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Then I did take it correctly...
 
Big dummy said:
Why is it this is what I was thinking that OP was talking about...
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And then the thread turned into all this bashing of cars with big wheels and fancy paint jobs....
When any three of the best a-bodies on here couldn't pay for one paint job for one of the lowriders..
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I love gassers, I used to have a Nova painted that same color. I'd still have it if it looked like that. Lol
 
Does anyone remember the ones I was talking about in the first post. These were not even solid axle cars, they were chromed out chassis and motors and the body was literally 4-5 feet off the frame. It has to be in an old Hot Rod magazine somewhere.
 
Scamp Rhonda said:
I love gassers, I used to have a Nova painted that same color. I'd still have it if it looked like that. Lol
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I seen one of these jacked up I don't know if it was quite a Gasser but it did have that kind of feel to it.. it was a late '60s early '70s Nova and God darn it it was badass... It made me really think...
 
pishta said:
Does anyone remember the ones I was talking about in the first post. These were not even solid axle cars, they were chromed out chassis and motors and the body was literally 4-5 feet off the frame. It has to be in an old Hot Rod magazine somewhere.
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Yes I do and again as I just described I seen one of the car show a couple years ago and it was done so right and that's why I was saying I didn't think it was a Gasser cuz it didn't have a straight axle as I recall but it was jacked way up and it was very very clean....
 
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