Re: Rodder's Dilemma-- everyone's dilemma
Posted by scott on February 03, 1998 at 23:35:55
In Reply to: Re: Rodder's Dilemma-- everyone's dilemma
posted by Brian Burkert on February 03, 1998 at 22:28:42
Posted by scott on February 03, 1998 at 23:35:55
In Reply to: Re: Rodder's Dilemma-- everyone's dilemma
posted by Brian Burkert on February 03, 1998 at 22:28:42
| Rodders don't want new cars, they want cars with style and charachter that they can drive like new cars. I'd say we'd all be better off at the pace of a Model A, but the world just dosen't quite move like that these days. This summer I drove my street rod 6,000 miles over the course of two week-long trips...I could not have done these trips in the same time and safety in our stock A...and I would like to do some long distance touring in it, and if I needed to I wouldn't hesitate to jump in the A and head cross-country... but either one requres an entirely different approach. Why does one restore a car?...usually money or enjoyment, for me and most of the people here the answer is enjoyment...that is where I run into problems with this duty bound feeling of "preserving history"...would you be trying so hard just to presrve history if there was no enjoyment in it for you?...That enjoyment of it all is the same thing that motivates a streetrodder. Preserving history the best we can is a nice side benefit of restoring an A but I don't think it is typicaly the main motivation. Most rodders are working on the same small budgets most restorers are...it is simply usually much more cost effective to buy a fair original than a reproduction...with a new steel body in the $6,000 range and then all the other stuff, too...that is more than I have in my rod now, I couldn't even begin to dream of building one from a pile of repop parts. Every now and then I have a twinge of remorse about making it a rod...but that passes very quickly. |
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