John Wards looks like such a mellow and cool guy plus his stuff is art work and his attention to detail is perfect. Everything he gets it bigger and badder brakes,engine,exhaust.
Jonathan: Yes you know us we like to age certain things to match the original patina Adam: Yes it looks just WOW WOW WOW Small annoying guy: Are those custom rims? Adam: So Jonathan, tell me what else you've done here.
I'm 70, born 1944, you spent a lot on the wheels, which to me look silly as hell and not in keeping with the rest of the car which looks authentic, why not semi real looking wheels and tires ??????? I realize it's not a restoration but those goofy wheels probably cost enough to do a restore, so it's an object of art, okay, the GM designers beat you with their wheels and caps (your hubcaps were nice, awful expensive though)..........
Hello Eddy, I'm Mike, born '62 - nice to be the young bloke again. The object is not to restore a '40s car so it looks like it did when new. The object is to take an old car and lift all the old paint and rust and charm and character that it's built up, and slip a new car underneath, that performs and brakes and handles like a modern sportscar - and goes pretty fast too - and then slip that old paint and rust down over it. The original hotrod boys put new engines in old cars to get performance. These boys are sort of doing the same, but they also want to keep the style and appearance of the old car. If you put wheels and tyres on it that looked even half authentic, then it wouldn't grip or corner or handle anything like a modern sporty car. And you couldn't fit modern disk brakes of a large enough size. The sort of person who would pick something wasn't 'right' about the wheels and tyres, are probably the people who are going to be most impressed by it. They're car people.
"The original hotrod boys put new engines in old cars to get the performance" that, I will stipulate. However I will argue, the original hotrod boys did not, purchase a ready built faux patina'ed car with custom one-off made, pseudo period rims to hide modern equipment. This is a millionaires club, not that millionaires are bad, but don't pretend that you scraped up the money and this was all you could afford, forgoing paint for performance. It's a slap in the face to all the blue collar hotrod guys who spend every extra dollar to build there dream car. And get rid of that god awful lizard on your cars, it's not cute.
grey man Yeah, I hear you. The one & only car that I have hot rodded was a $2,000 car that I spent about another $3,000 on. That's all I had. It had a certain amount of patina that I actually tried to hide - cheap cans of spray paint that didn't work terribly well... LOL. It was a 20 year old bucket of bolts, but It went a whole lot faster than the original stocker, and it handled like a gokart. It rode a bit like a gokart too...
