Is Hot-rodding & Hotrods on their way out
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maybe you should take the "free candy" lettering off?
The youth likes them too.... 
MOPAROFFICIAL
If it has tits, it's a liabilititty.
I graduated from Francis Howell class of '78. Those were the days without a doubt.
I am SOooo old, my school, 1st grade thru HS did not even have AC or screens on the windows! But we did have indoor plumbing and they served lunch. 25 cents per day! The principal dished out free "behavior" corrections with a 3 foot long "paddle" 1 inch thick. He said, take out your wallet, hold onto my desk, and I will see how far I can lift your *** off the floor". Usually about a foot or so.
I remember it like yesterday, I must have a good memory for 77 years old? Or am I 87?? Don't remember.
surprised it only took 5 pages to get to the: these younger kids couldn't handle [blank], they're all soft and entitled. blah blah blah
*makes jerking off motion*
*makes jerking off motion*
MMissile
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What ya think the creatures in the top pic are looking at? Minstrels... video games?
don't make blanket statements, lest you get covered up too, dan.
there's always been rich people. that's the way of the world. when i was in highschool Jason got a new lexus and i [checks notes] was driving a 63 galaxy 500 with police interceptor 390 which by everybody's reckoning was "an old piece of ****".
[editors notes: it was not a piece of ****]
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They have recommended stops, sites, eats.
Forgot to mention, people/communities pull out all the stops and come out in droves.
From individuals sitting on their zero turn mowers waiving as you drive by, to car clubs having shows along the route, to my favorite, family had a party on the route, they had a sign and guys were throwing bucket of water on the road for impromptu burnouts!
I'm sure there have been cutbacks, as with literally anything in this world.
The core remains the same, car nuts getting together.
Super-Cuda
MOPAR .. Move Over, Plymouth Approaching Rapidly!
This thead's title, "Is hotrodding on the way out?" Really?? It evolves, and even thing runs a cycle(s). Been in thge hobby since the 80s and I am 77. Yea I got a late start.
Back in the 60s in rural small town S W Ga. where I was raised, not every HS kid wanted a "fast" car, if they did, most could not afford such, and few kids in HS drove any kind of a new model. Mostly old pickups, hand me down beaters. Couple of kids had a new one, but they had an after school /weekend job. Not every kid was a gearhead. MOst were not even close.
Is the hobby dying??? drove I dont really think so.
So fast forward to today, NOT every person, has a huge interest in classic cars. Just like back then. Just like back in the 70os, when the so called "muscle car" was the craze, not every kid wanted one really. He just wanted a "cool" ride! He usally got a 4 door not cool beater if lucky! And many of the kids from back then, that had a fast car in his early 20s or so, have no real desire to own own today... Usually the guy that wants one now is in his late 40s, 50 and older, that can now afford one, had some "desire" maybe earlier in life, but $ and family was in in the way. Point is NOT every person out there lusts for any kind of classic , not everyone is a gearhead, today nor 50 decades ago!
I say the hobby, has grown remendously since the "musclecar" era started in the 80s. Prices have risen and fell several times. People come and go in the hobby..Some stay till they die.
The models of interest models shift by generation, the supply of "real musclecar" builders keep decreasing. And not everyone is a gearhead!!!! The guy with no desire to build a project, but wants a classic, oif he can afford such, he writes a check!!!!
The hobby actually "started" back in the late 40s after WW11. Soldiers returned home, and a few wanted a ride that was fast, fun, and the Ford model A was cheap, light, could be built out of scrap and junk, if a guy had the desire,,,and so it (the hobby) began. Did every guy want such? No. Most wanted a car to drive that was COOL! Write a CHECK!!!!!! for a not so cool and NOT a classic!!
Agree Barbee!
All one has to do is research the number of the Shops/businesses restoring/modifying old and new cars and trucks these days.
Most have a 1-2 year waiting list! And its not all Hemi Cudas or Yenko Camaros
I'm in Eastern Canada and all the well known shops are fully booked for the next two years!
340six
King Of Bling
When I was young we walked to school. Worked a job. And Rode out to a kids house named Dan and put 3x5 index cards in his mailbox saying he never had a bike. Things were hard back then.
No fancy computer stuff back then
the circumstances are just different
every generation had its difficulties; just as you didn't have to mine coal or work in a cotton mill as a pre-teen, i didn't have to go war against my will. the current generations face their own adversity and have different hardships, so dismiss them out of hand is extremely short sighted.
and for the record, i know a lot of adults that fit your description of wanting everything right now and it having to be the best. so don't be trying to play that bullshit card.
lot of good that high school of yours did. your reading comprehension is like a 7th grader. but i guess things were different back then. tougher.
uphill both ways! in the snow! with newspaper in our shoes!
in the coal mine, second shift was at the cotton mill!
you mean you piloted your pennyfarthing?
don't complain! your family had a radio! all we had to listen to was the neighbors arguing and the train going by on the tracks!
damn right! and don't you forget it!
Subscribed! Talk about school, back in the day, Both of the people that were involved in a tussle were disciplined. No choosing sides for the teacher or principal. Like they said, "it takes 2 to Tango" Your choice fellas. Fair warning to stop the BS. "
Damn right and don't you forget it"
Damn right and don't you forget it"
OneOfMany
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Grade 4 they were renovating our school so both grade 4 classes were bused to another school for the year. It also had two grade 4 classes so it was inevitable there was some scuffle, snowball fight every break. Pretty much every recess and lunch the PA would come on and two or three of us boys from both schools grade would get called to the office, lectured by old Mrs. White, followed by a few ruler lashes to the hand. Best part it rarely was the kids involved. We just took one for our team... and let's face it, we all deserved it.
missing linc
Loose nut behind the wheel
One of the best parts for me was seeing all of the people who were lining the streets of all the small towns getting out and watching/encouraging burnouts, etc.
I also really enjoyed the route that took us down the secondary highways instead of the interstate highways. Far more scenic.
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TT5.9mag
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See him and his Miata at Miguel’s all the time! Tell him TT5.9 says hi.
TT5.9mag
Two atmospheres are better than one
Hell yea. Please tell me that’s still squirreled away in the back somewhere? I still have my older brothers first car. A 64 XL500 big block 4 speed.
nah, i sold it to finance some dumb mopars...
Not in my schools, all fights were finished in the gym on the mat. Gotta love the 70's.
Smear the gear? and bombardment always generated some good brawls.
MOPAROFFICIAL
If it has tits, it's a liabilititty.
I mentioned this a week ago in my thread about being locked out of a build discussion.
I'd say that's their loss, you have a bunch to offer in any build or porting discussion.
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