hot rods, muscle cars, customs...

[homeforsummer]

Office conversation turned to trucks today, and I was enlightened to the early 70s Chevy C10.

I'm aware they came in colours other than black, but black ones do look rather good.

 

[TexRex]

A new page, yay!

 

[AnthonyD1993]

That generation of C10 is on the list of trucks I want to buy.

 

[Turbo]

A new page, yay!

It's only taken five months for this to happen.

 

[homeforsummer]

Another '72 C10.

From here.

 

[TexRex]

That's better than the others.

 

[Gedi69]

Any pics of peoples mustangs

 

[Turbo]

70's style:

 

[Razor440]

@Turbo Nothing will beat that 70’s look...damn are those just some beautiful rides.

 

[Draggon]

The first one looks pretty mean, the second seems to have some trouble figuring out if its a muscle car or a custom. The Nova looks pretty good sans the hood. Double extra credit points for the dropped straight axle.

 

[homeforsummer]

@Turbo Nothing will beat that 70’s look...damn are those just some beautiful rides.

I mean... I find each and every last one of them hideous, but I guess variety is the spice of life! I love some of the cars that were around in the 1970s, but for me the customisation trends of the 70s were pretty atrocious. The decade that taste forgot...

Few assorted pics I've discovered over the last few months:

 

[Draggon]

Few assorted pics I've discovered over the last few months:

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Rolling Bones Hot Rod Shop built that and also did this one.

 

[homeforsummer]

Love salt flats racers. The focus on aerodynamics, even if it's fairly rudimentary, gives them such a pure aesthetic.

 

[TexRex]

Love salt flats racers. The focus on aerodynamics, even if it's fairly rudimentary, gives them such a pure aesthetic.

Though some were a bit less primitive, such as the drop tank cars and scratchbuilts like Eddie Miller Jr's streamliner.

The latter, during its restoration about a decade ago:

There's a flathead Pontiac six in there, backed by an inverted glass-axle Ford banjo third member (engines weren't making obscene amounts of power and the salt acts like a cheap clutch preventing damage under load) sitting above the driveshaft and connected via a simple gearbox that Eddie created himself.

My personal favorites, though, are the narrow jobbies such as Stuart Hilborn's (yep, that Hilborn) V8-60 roadster.

 

[Team THRT Drift]

This might be tacky but I've come to gain an obsession with dog dish steelies.

I want to put them on almost every B body out there

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[eran0004]

Today was the annual car meet in the village. Lots of muscle cars, old and new (mostly old).



Found a new company car for @Jordan as well, almost looks like the gtplanet logo

 

[Draggon]

Here's one for you @Team THRT Drift . When you get the tire size and wheel offsets perfect it's so sweet. This chassis is going under a C-10.

 

[TexRex]

When you get the tire size and wheel offsets perfect it's so sweet.

I agree, but I don't feel that's been achieved in the example provided.

Bigs 'n' littles and staggered offsets have their place, but I don't get it when running dog dishes or poverty caps. I don't mind those, of course, they have their place, but they look out of place when combined with either significant change in placement in relation to the outside edge of the wheel, or significant staggering from front to rear.

I know lots of people like to run them "because sleeper," but they stick out like a sore thumb on low- or reverse-offset wheels and highlight massive rubber.

 

[Team THRT Drift]

and highlight massive rubber.

Personally this is why I would do it.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

 

[7up747]

Those black c10s on the top of the page always reminds me of one used in "dazed and confused" movie.

 

[Team THRT Drift]

Saw an inspired DIY Camaro like this on my local track. It was an absolute monster on the time attack runs.

Same driver had a Datsun 720 he used for drifting and that too was an absolute monster. Constant reverse entries and 180s and 360s.

 

[Turbo]

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

I've had my mind on IMSA GT cars lately...

 

[TexRex]

Those kooky '60s and '70s T-buckets are a guilty pleasure of mine. Examples such as the 'Red Baron' that I posted elsewhere recently, Danny Eichstedt's 'Leg Show T' with its 15x19.5" Buick Skylark wire wheeles shod in Goodyear Can-Am racing rubber and Terry Brown's T that it inspired--the incredibly wide but still relatively low profile tires further exaggerating the already tall windshield and top--the truly absurd 'Hard Hat Hauler' (presently owned by comedian Jeff Dunham and featured on Jay Leno's Garage), and you just can't leave out Dan Woods' flamboyantly painted 'Ice Truck' and 'Pizza Wagon' C-cabs with Indycar rubber all the way around.

My favorite, though, has to be Steve Scott's 'Uncertain T' with its "tame" Hilborn-injected Buick Nailhead. Simple paint and stubby chassis with conventional (for a T-bucket) rolling stock, it possessed one feature that had it drawing massive crowds...

 

[7up747]

^ ^ Make America great again

 

[Volksauto]

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[TexRex]

I came across this cherry 1905 Stanley CX at the Milwaukee Concours 'D Elegance. No this isn't a hot rod or muscle car but still is an AMERICAN CLASSIC!
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It'd fit in fine here or even here.

 

[homeforsummer]

 

[Volksauto]

Some Shelby Cobra 260s

pretty slick looking with white line tires^​