what a huge show again this year. We get a lot of cars down from Canada, each year it seems to get bigger and bigger. I have noticed over the years that there are so many high dollar cars being built. Seems to me always trying to out do the other guy. The crowd is getting older each year that are building these high dollar cars. So what are the younger folks doing? Well this is interesting, even though I have no empirical data, I can tell you where the crowds around certain cars were. They certainly were not around high dollar street rods. Most of these 75-100,000 dollar cars sat lonely, occasionally with its owner behind it sitting alone wondering why people are just walking by all this beauty without nary a look. I can tell you that 5 years ago it was a different story, guys like me dreaming for retirement age so we can drain our 401 K accounts to finally build the high dollar highboy or full fendered roadster. Now not so.
I think it is coming full circle again. Meaning the high dollar check book cars are not getting all the attention, the crowds are going nuts over ratrods-delapidated early iron unpainted with hunks of metal welded here or there in no semblance of uniformity. Fewer and fewer Chevy350/350 combos but older stuff like rocket 88 ,buick nailheads, chrysler polyhemispheric engines , flat heads seem to still stand the test of time along with old caddy and Y blocks and tripower 348s.
T buckets still generate a lot of interest especially with younger folk now. I heard conversations from some teens yesterdaythat were excited that it was legal to drive without full exhaust systems and no fenders, and huge DOT tires that looked like slicks. Cars of the forties and fifties and sixties are really hot too. I cant tell you how many 62-67 novas I saw.
Maybe economics is forcing a change, people dont have the cash to put into high dollar cars anymore instead they are worrying about health care until you hit medicare age.
I'm not saying street-rodding is dead but I am saying hot-rodding is alive and well; Rat rod interest is off the scale.
Maybe my plans have changed a bit since yesterday, the fat tired polished alum. wheeled and chromed out t bucket may give way to a black primered cheater slicked T with a skull shifter.:lol: Either way buckets are still tops in my book.
I think it is coming full circle again. Meaning the high dollar check book cars are not getting all the attention, the crowds are going nuts over ratrods-delapidated early iron unpainted with hunks of metal welded here or there in no semblance of uniformity. Fewer and fewer Chevy350/350 combos but older stuff like rocket 88 ,buick nailheads, chrysler polyhemispheric engines , flat heads seem to still stand the test of time along with old caddy and Y blocks and tripower 348s.
T buckets still generate a lot of interest especially with younger folk now. I heard conversations from some teens yesterdaythat were excited that it was legal to drive without full exhaust systems and no fenders, and huge DOT tires that looked like slicks. Cars of the forties and fifties and sixties are really hot too. I cant tell you how many 62-67 novas I saw.
Maybe economics is forcing a change, people dont have the cash to put into high dollar cars anymore instead they are worrying about health care until you hit medicare age.
I'm not saying street-rodding is dead but I am saying hot-rodding is alive and well; Rat rod interest is off the scale.
Maybe my plans have changed a bit since yesterday, the fat tired polished alum. wheeled and chromed out t bucket may give way to a black primered cheater slicked T with a skull shifter.:lol: Either way buckets are still tops in my book.