...is very of an era. I think it works with the whitewalls and chrome steelies, but would not be my first choice on a 32' highboy.
Car pics too cool not to share
- Thread starter Squatch
- Start date
...is very of an era. I think it works with the whitewalls and chrome steelies, but would not be my first choice on a 32' highboy.
Not really a photo, but a cool car pic nonetheless...
This whole reply button not working right is really dampening my ability to call @chili_pepper an asshole.
As beautiful as that Nailhead is, the car would really look much better with a full hood, or a minimum of hood top piece.
Hood top , open sides , lower the intake stacks just enough to have the open ends visible from the side of the rod. ( Serious ) . Oh ,one more thing , it needs a 16" diagonal touchscreen in the dash and no analog gauges , ( Welcome back @Zorba , a non serious comment , just for you ) .
speeding_infraction
TJ Addict
For the record, would probably be some form of scallop...
View attachment 670490
View attachment 670496
View attachment 670500
View attachment 670499
View attachment 670502
View attachment 670503
View attachment 670504
View attachment 670506
My favorite 32...
Supercharged flathead? Yes sir
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/rolling-bones-hot-rod-22/
Looks like someone bought a press and louver tools and tried to justify that choice.
The louvered hood top, top insert with exposed dzus fasteners, and louvered trunk lid are too much for me. It's just too busy and takes away from the car. I'd bet the guy who had that one built wears bedazzled jeans and Chucky Ts.
speeding_infraction
TJ Addict
Looks like someone bought a press and louver tools and tried to justify that choice.
View attachment 670509
The louvered hood top, top insert with exposed dzus fasteners, and louvered trunk lid are too much for me. It's just too busy and takes away from the car. I'd bet the guy who had that one built wears bedazzled jeans and Chucky Ts.
Had to explain it to the wife somehow
Looks like someone bought a press and louver tools and tried to justify that choice.
View attachment 670509
The louvered hood top, top insert with exposed dzus fasteners, and louvered trunk lid are too much for me. It's just too busy and takes away from the car. I'd bet the guy who had that one built wears bedazzled jeans and Chucky Ts.
Agree it's a bit
Looks like someone bought a press and louver tools and tried to justify that choice.
View attachment 670509
The louvered hood top, top insert with exposed dzus fasteners, and louvered trunk lid are too much for me. It's just too busy and takes away from the car. I'd bet the guy who had that one built wears bedazzled jeans and Chucky Ts.
The cheese grater look isn't right on a Rod . Some 50's style customs can almost pull the look off and be cool , but not a Rod.
Last edited:
A race Bugatti has louvers for function rather than styling. And it's a damn sharp car ! But louvers everywhere don't look right on a street rod in my opinion.
Indeed, though they ended up being quite stylish.
Yes! And I'm not joking when I say that if I could afford one, I would and I'd drive it daily/everywhere...because my parents did drop me on my head frequently as a small child. Jay Leno can kiss my ass!
I concur, though hoods, side panels and deck lids are pretty frequently louvered items in the rod world, rolled pans as well. I don't get the louvered roof panel at all on that particular car. I think the side panels and maybe deck lid would be pushing critical louver mass for me. Louvers aside, there's still a lot to like about that car...starting with the squeeze box on that flattie...
Rude. Haven't we already talked about the French and how wrong they are. It seem they can't keep from shoving thing into the wrong place.
For those who don't know; https://nypost.com/2026/02/02/lifes...-artillery-shell-discovered-in-patients-butt/
Rude. Haven't we already talked about the French and how wrong they are. It seem they can't keep from shoving thing into the wrong place.
View attachment 670547
For those who don't know; https://nypost.com/2026/02/02/lifes...-artillery-shell-discovered-in-patients-butt/
I feel fairly confident in saying it's highly unlikely Ettore Bugatti shoved artillery shells up his ass.
Last edited:
1978 Vector W2 , 600 h.p. twin turbo all aluminum Chevy 350 .
Few pics from the roadster show. It was my first time there it's a blast. Other than the 17$ beer it was awesome
https://www.nhra.com/news/2026/ed-iskenderian-beloved-camfather-hot-rodding-passes-away-104
"As he grew into a teenager, the Great Depression was on, and times were tough, but he noticed guys having fun driving stripped-down Model Ts [they weren’t yet known as hot rods], and he would follow these ‘gow jobs’ on his bicycle just to see them up close,” Sharp wrote in a 2021 article in NHRA National Dragster celebrating Isky’s 100th birthday. He basically grew up around cars, particularly fascinated by the hot rods he and his buddies saw around town.
Like so many returning veterans from World War II – he served in the Army Air Corps and flew supply missions in the Pacific Theater – he was at ground zero for the explosion of the hot rodding sport in the late 1940s, where new innovations and technologies were created on an almost weekly basis to feed the hunger of the insatiable hot rodders looking for a little more power for their machines.
He befriended Ed Winfield, a pioneer in the world of camshaft and carburetor design. Winfield once said he could tell from Isky’s questions that he was going to be big in the camshaft business someday and showed him how to build a cam grinding machine, and Iskenderian began grinding his own hot camshafts and making valvetrain parts out of a small shop in Culver City, Calif.
"As he grew into a teenager, the Great Depression was on, and times were tough, but he noticed guys having fun driving stripped-down Model Ts [they weren’t yet known as hot rods], and he would follow these ‘gow jobs’ on his bicycle just to see them up close,” Sharp wrote in a 2021 article in NHRA National Dragster celebrating Isky’s 100th birthday. He basically grew up around cars, particularly fascinated by the hot rods he and his buddies saw around town.
Like so many returning veterans from World War II – he served in the Army Air Corps and flew supply missions in the Pacific Theater – he was at ground zero for the explosion of the hot rodding sport in the late 1940s, where new innovations and technologies were created on an almost weekly basis to feed the hunger of the insatiable hot rodders looking for a little more power for their machines.
He befriended Ed Winfield, a pioneer in the world of camshaft and carburetor design. Winfield once said he could tell from Isky’s questions that he was going to be big in the camshaft business someday and showed him how to build a cam grinding machine, and Iskenderian began grinding his own hot camshafts and making valvetrain parts out of a small shop in Culver City, Calif.
Rude. Haven't we already talked about the French and how wrong they are. It seem they can't keep from shoving thing into the wrong place.
View attachment 670547
For those who don't know; https://nypost.com/2026/02/02/lifes...-artillery-shell-discovered-in-patients-butt/
TMI