Chopper build off revenge

[rondog]

I tried to watch that shit last night, couldn't even make it 5 minutes.

Guess I'm from the old school. I prefer taking an old tired or wrecked stocker, and then building it into a basic chopper. Something that goes good, steers good, handles good, and STOPS good! If it looks good too, well, that's a plus. But ya gotta do it yourself, "checkbook choppers" don't impress me whatsoever.

I feel the same about street rods. Something that someone else built up, or something that was built with a pile of catalogs, that's just a custom car. A real street rod, IMO, was built by the owner by scrounging junkyards and swap meets, trading parts or labor for what ya need, and making parts with a welder, lathe and milling machine.

This is my brothers' car, a '34 Ford 5-window coupe. A real one, he bought it from an old lady back in '58-'60 or so, and I doubt there's a half-dozen catalog parts on it. For that matter, he built it long before the internet (most was done before push-button phones!), and there were only a handful of parts catalogs anyway.

This is a swap meet/junkyard/machine shop car, built with what he could come up with, has a 1961 401 Buick Nailhead engine in it, built to the hilt. He even made the progressive throttle linkage for the two Carter AFB's on it, and built the headers a piece at a time. Those Laker wheel covers? Found 'em at a garage sale for $5. He does wish now that he'd kept the original flathead V8 that was in it, but in the early 60's they went different directions.

All steel, not a speck of bondo on it. Painted in 1975 and still looks like new. He does have all the hood/cowl parts, they're just removed for this photo. Only original parts left are the running boards, they're still in good shape and he's too cheap to buy repros. But if he found somebody that had a set of NOS ones......

This, by God, is a Street Rod! Not a fiberglass copy built with catalog parts and a Chevy 350. And yes, he drives it. A lot.