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Post by stingray on Jul 13, 2018 19:56:46 GMT -5
I have started my tribute build. It has Cragars and Goodyear Polyglas tires all around. Is it trakable?
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Post by jbailey on Jul 13, 2018 20:27:03 GMT -5
Pic isn't working for me.
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Post by stingray on Jul 13, 2018 20:58:54 GMT -5
Another one
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Post by stingray on Jul 13, 2018 21:25:34 GMT -5
Pic isn't working for me. Ok. I fixed it. I hope this hosting site doesn't shut my account down.
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Post by jbailey on Jul 13, 2018 21:46:16 GMT -5
Both working now! I'm no expert but, it looks trakable to me.
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Post by spex84 on Jul 13, 2018 22:24:43 GMT -5
I think it could squeak in as a late 60s kind of vehicle. When I went looking for images of 60s trucks built as rods (not customs) I didn't find much, but I know they were around!
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Post by skip on Jul 14, 2018 21:28:31 GMT -5
Figure it this way, Hot Rodders and Custom Shops have always had to haul stuff around in a truck. From some of the guys I know or knew who were around when those trucks were new, they say that nearly from the beginning the post war Chev and Ford trucks started showing up with custom wheels, Hubcaps and other modifications done to them.
A guy that I used to work with bought a '52 Chevrolet pickup brand new, swapped in an automatic transmission due to the fact that he had two prosthetic legs. He said that he could drive the pickup with the manual transmission but the automatic just made it easier, (this was before hand controls were common). The next thing that he did (himself) was lower the pickup down with around 8 inches ground clearance. Add some custom caps from the wrecking yard and call it a custom. Pictures I've seen show the pickup from the time he bought it until he sold it in around '68 or '69 running full hubcaps, next chrome reverse with spyders and finally a slotted aluminum mag. Just after he retired he got another '52 and pretty much did the same modifications to it as he did when he first got it, and it was a sharp looking pickup!
I remember trucks running around in the early to mid '60's time period with mostly chrome reverse wheels or a full chrome hubcap. It wasn't until maybe '66 - '67 that trucks (cars too) really began showing up with a mag type wheel like Cragar or Radir Mags. One of the biggest reasons I've seen in print (Rod & Custom article on Radir mags) talk about the fact that early mag wheels were not trusted on the street, they were thought to be too fragile for every day use. Romeo Palamedes changed all that with what we know as the American Mag wheel starting around '63 - '65 when many of the LA Roadsters cars begin to be seen with mag wheels on the street. Since LA Roadsters club got tons of print in the national rod magazines,it was no coincidence that they started showing up on the street when they did!
Either way you look at it, I think that this is a Trackable wheel modification. The other reason I think it's OK, is that you are building a "Tribute" model and for this reason alone it wouldn't bother me a bit if there were some non-Trackable modifications done as long as it is or was true to the vehicle that you are modeling. As a subscriber to "The Rodder's Journal" (since like twenties issue numbers, long enough that I have four totes full of them), it has shown me that historical and tribute builds are two different genre of restoration. The historical restoration, recreation is just that a snapshot in time where the modifications were documented as having existed at the time chosen to represent the vehicle. The Tribute Restoration, is a snapshot of the vehicle during a time the vehicle existed as a hot rod, race car, custom, where it takes a broader time period of 5, 10 years or as long as a person owned the vehicle. I have even heard of cases where a certain type of vehicle was restored with the type modifications the owner wanted when they had the vehicle but basically couldn't afford; we see these type of restorations and hot rod builds all the time at car shows especially "high school hot rods". So I would say, a Tribute is a pretty broad definition of a restoration, it is more about recreating the feeling, versus the actual vehicle.
Like I said earlier, I have no problem with non-Trackable items on this vehicle for the reason that it is a Tribute for your Dad; most of us only get one guy in our life that we call Dad so don't worry about Cragar Mags. I realize that we have a specific set of build criteria that we try to adhere to; this however is that one special case I'm not going to get hung up over anything.
Now, if you started hanging billet doo dads all over, dork wheels, fluorescent underbody lights or splash graphics, I might just rescind my opinion!!
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Post by stingray on Jul 14, 2018 23:08:41 GMT -5
Thanks guys. I'll post in onda bench section these and somemore mock up and build pics.
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