Ted Brown
Member
I want everyone to have a feel as to where I am coming from, as far as the comments I make here on the forum...
Way back years ago, when I first built my first T Bucket, I thought chrome and polish (bling as they now say) was the trick thing to have, so when I was putting things together for chrome and polish, I grabbed most everything that was small and a bolt on... If I had followed the rule I try and keep now (drive it naked for at least 1000 miles) I would have saved myself a ton of time and money... Why?? well because as it went, after getting the complete car together, chrome and all, and then driving and photographing the car from every considerable angle, I came to the conclusion that all (most all) that chrome did not add to the overall good look of the car... So on the photo's, I started Blacking out the chrome a little bit at a time, things like water pump, oil pan, motor mounts, Alt., fuel pump, header flanges, steering box, and all sorts of brackets and crap that did not add to the Beauty of the overall look that I really wanted to portray... Those things broke up the car and made it look cluttered, and shorter, plus you could not tell where one thing ended and another began, or that was all you did see... I then started either painting things Black (to match my engine) to make all those things disappear, or traded them off to customer's for stock parts...
Not to mention that an old Man that I talked with told me that all the chrome and polish holds heat like crazy, a lot more so than paint... Flat paint holds the least, as there is no insolating properties in flat paint... So I then changed many things that $$glittered$$, to Satin paint
SO, Please forgive me if it sounded like I was attacking anyone about how they would like their own car to look... I now believe that what turns one person on, turns another off, like sex, just the smallest thing will do (or kill) the trick for each different person...
I am a real tight wad when it comes to spending money that I do not need to spend while building a car, even though I find myself buying other things that later I regret, as wasted money... So I am as guilty as the next fellow, time tells the tale...
I have always wanted to save people all the time and money (that I wasted)while building the Hotrod of their choice, but forgetting that one big fact, it is the small things that turn people on... and it is "their" car, not mine... :hi: Thanks for the listen, Ted Brown
Way back years ago, when I first built my first T Bucket, I thought chrome and polish (bling as they now say) was the trick thing to have, so when I was putting things together for chrome and polish, I grabbed most everything that was small and a bolt on... If I had followed the rule I try and keep now (drive it naked for at least 1000 miles) I would have saved myself a ton of time and money... Why?? well because as it went, after getting the complete car together, chrome and all, and then driving and photographing the car from every considerable angle, I came to the conclusion that all (most all) that chrome did not add to the overall good look of the car... So on the photo's, I started Blacking out the chrome a little bit at a time, things like water pump, oil pan, motor mounts, Alt., fuel pump, header flanges, steering box, and all sorts of brackets and crap that did not add to the Beauty of the overall look that I really wanted to portray... Those things broke up the car and made it look cluttered, and shorter, plus you could not tell where one thing ended and another began, or that was all you did see... I then started either painting things Black (to match my engine) to make all those things disappear, or traded them off to customer's for stock parts...
Not to mention that an old Man that I talked with told me that all the chrome and polish holds heat like crazy, a lot more so than paint... Flat paint holds the least, as there is no insolating properties in flat paint... So I then changed many things that $$glittered$$, to Satin paint
SO, Please forgive me if it sounded like I was attacking anyone about how they would like their own car to look... I now believe that what turns one person on, turns another off, like sex, just the smallest thing will do (or kill) the trick for each different person...
I am a real tight wad when it comes to spending money that I do not need to spend while building a car, even though I find myself buying other things that later I regret, as wasted money... So I am as guilty as the next fellow, time tells the tale...
I have always wanted to save people all the time and money (that I wasted)while building the Hotrod of their choice, but forgetting that one big fact, it is the small things that turn people on... and it is "their" car, not mine... :hi: Thanks for the listen, Ted Brown