Car pics too cool not to share

[Squatch]

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.
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Man, I haven't heard the term "gow job" in decades! Bet there are some who've never heard the term.

 

[BlueC]

Man, I haven't heard the term "gow job" in decades! Bet there are some who've never heard the term.

I've only heard it from guys of that generation, almost exclusively via interviews.

 

[Squatch]

I've only heard it from guys of that generation, almost exclusively via interviews.

Same here. It's a term that definitely didn't get passed down like "hot rod", or even just "rod".

 

[BlueC]

Same here. It's a term that definitely didn't get passed down like "hot rod", or even just "rod".

I think the only person that I've ever heard that term from in person was an old car guy named Clint Bivens. Clint was born around '36 so he came up in that "go-job" to "hot rod" era, but he mostly called them "hot rods" or "hot roddin".

 

[lBasket]

My rat rod patina dreams have been crushed thanks to @chili_pepper

 

[chili_pepper]

My rat rod patina dreams have been crushed thanks to @chili_pepper
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If it's any consolation, your obvious lack of masking (again) made my asshole clinch like a bull's in fly season...

 

[lBasket]

If it's any consolation, your obvious lack of masking (again) made my asshole clinch like a bull's in fly season...

I did a little

 

[chili_pepper]

I did a little

Hmmm....yes...I can see it, very clearly defined....on the wrong edge of the tape...

 

[chili_pepper]

My rat rod patina dreams have been crushed thanks to @chili_pepper

If we were local, I could demonstrate so many things for you to promptly ignore.

 

[lBasket]

If we were local, I could demonstrate so many things for you to promptly ignore.

Like taping things off?

 

[chili_pepper]

Like taping things off?

Yes, one of...

 

[Squatch]

Bitch, bitch, bitch...

 

[reddvltj]

Man, I haven't heard the term "gow job" in decades! Bet there are some who've never heard the term.

For those who've never heard it and those who have that might just find it an interesting stroll back to yesteryear.

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/gow-job.34415/

 

[srimes]

I did a little

should've used a brush

 

[lBasket]

should've used a brush

Hmm I do have a roller

 

[chili_pepper]

Hmm I do have a roller

I now understand why some species eat their young on occasion.

 

[chili_pepper]

Bitch, bitch, bitch...

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Don't be a hater.

 

[BlueC]

Alright @chili_pepper get off your broke ass and pull out your wallet. Looks like a cheap driver is available near you.

And don't look too hard at that filler. That just means you can actually daily drive it and not worry.

https://www.hagerty.com/marketplace...1c7906fe532a902e1bcf6cdc28d7b3037d21b407b598f

 

[chili_pepper]

And don't look too hard at that filler. That just means you can actually daily drive it and not worry

Eh, NY state car, I'd bet that thing is rotten in ways you can't imagine. I have no issue with the drivetrain, for the record. But I shall pass.

 

[RangerTJ]

Eh, NY state car, I'd bet that thing is rotten in ways you can't imagine. I have no issue with the drivetrain, for the record. But I shall pass.

Credit: "Actually, there's not a whole lot of rust..."

Debit: "That's because whatever's not rust is Bondo"