Wednesday, July 18, 2007

 

Just rambling:

I was just reminiscing about trends, but back when, I don't think I even knew about the word trend.
Trends are not started by any one person somewhere. They just start up. Sometimes a company
will say their product started a trend but if they look around others did the same thing hundreds of miles away
near or before the same time.

One example comes to mind. A company that I ordered supplies from was looking for a better way to get their
products to their customers. At the time they had delivery trucks and drivers on their pay roll. They came up with a new
system. They hired a guy to do all their delivers and paid by the mile. He had to have his own trucks, gas, insurance,
and up keep. He soon had 6 trucks and drivers, and delivered for other companies as well.
They thought they had invented a new delivery system, but come to find out it was already being done in other parts
of the country. Now it is a trend. Now very few companies make their own deliveries.

Where am I going with this? I am just rambling.

Trends and old cars, Hot Rods.

I have a saying, "nothing stays the same".
So it is with Hot Rodding.
I have even caught myself saying street rod. Why? Trend maybe?
See where I'm going.
Hot Rods begin to change for the first time in my eye in the fifties and sixties. And I blame the factories.
They came out with the musclecars. Hot Rods was left behind.
But then in the early seventies for whatever reason the muscle cars begin to loose favor. Maybe it was the
emissions scare. Gas shortage. Anyway Hot rodding made a come back, but with the new name, street rodding.

Street rodding change every decade. Trends again? No it just happens.
70s came the fiberglass cars. I still have an unfinished one in my basement.
80s we were building anything older than the fifties.
90s rodding was just plain screwed up.
Beginning the new century, street rods went to the most ungodly budgets.

Now today:
and I am going by my own out look, at hot rodding of today.
I am one of those that want to return to the simpler times.
I am going to distance myself from the term "street rod". I like to call it a "hot rod".
I want the personal touch of the days past. I don't think this will be a trend, unless doing
your own thing is a trend.
I would like to see and I will make my car have its own personal appearance and personality.
I hope hot rodding will become cars that are built to be driven from the fifties and predates the musclecars
that will find fame and desirability with hot rodders.
a trend if you will.

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