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Posted: July 22 2008 09:24 PM
 
cr shorter (aka cr55) [ View ] [ cr.shorter@yahoo.com ] [ Car Ads ] [ Blogs ]
dover, Delaware

 I thought that I knew it all , but..
 
My last hope for a Hotrodder in my family besides myself said the words that I hoped I would never hear. We were sitting at a red light and a Mitsubishi Lancer pulled up next to us with the hip hop going and the fart can muffler. My youngest said to me " Dad, is that a hot rod" I said no and he responded, "Boy is that cool or what "? Im very depressed now, He was my last hope out of seven kids!!!!

Where do you think I went wrong?....LOL..............CR
 
 
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Posted by streetrodder35  -  07/22/2008 09:31 PM
That is depressing!! My daughter ,who is 36 years old, has to ask me what make and year my cars are. Keep working on him, maybe he will grow out of it, LOL.
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Posted by orphans2  -  07/22/2008 10:46 PM
Don't worry CR, their attitudes change as they get older.
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Posted by cr55  -  07/22/2008 11:01 PM
I hope you're right, but the other six didn't! My youngest daughter likes going to the shows but that's about it. My oldest son starts to show interest but reverts back to the japanese cars with the funky mufflers and big wheels. I wish one of them would show an interest and come out to the garage with me. I always thought that my 3rd would be the one, but all he wanted to do when he was younger was pull the trigger on the air guns. I keep hoping !!!!!
I thought that I knew it all , but.. [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] dover, Delaware
 
Posted by dixie  -  07/22/2008 11:22 PM
Hey cr55 don't feel lost, my 11 yr old grandson thinks them rice burners are so cool but what do u expect all the video games have em,then theres the 20 yr old one all he thinks about is trying to total his 4x4 ranger in the woods he's about destroyed it then he called this morn an said it caught fire inside last nite, sad part is he owes more than it worth now, bought him an 72 chev p/u with a 355 roller in it an hes never touched it so i'm pullin the motor an selling the rest.
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Posted by 31tudor  -  07/23/2008 12:38 AM
Hey just stay on these kids! My 8 year old will tell you "Ricers suck!"
Eric Hibbs [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] St. George, Utah Charter Member since January 2002
 
Posted by 41 Kustom  -  07/23/2008 08:04 AM
My son was in to it when he was young. At 16 he had a 29 roadster he bought from a freind of mine with his own money. It was just a body. We built the frame and got it finished. He did'nt drive it much. Sold it and bought a 38 Olds I was working on. We chopped it and he drove it about a year. Sold it. He built a 5/0 Cobra that won about all the trophys in the area. In about 2 years he sold that. He has'nt had a street rod or any other special car in 5 years, to busy with family he says. I have to admit the grand kids are in to all sports and the grand daughter is in dance and theater localy. I hope he will come back to it, he's a good builder. One grandson shows some interest but I don't know if he will come around. I quess what I'm trying to say is as they get older ther interest in things change. Some wil leave it and some will start. Don't give up hope.

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Posted by blksheep  -  07/23/2008 11:24 AM
Wow,.............My Grandson is a die in the wool BowTie fan.

In this pic, he is expressing his appreciation for imports.


blksheep...That's my Boy...in Charlotte
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Posted by da34guy  -  07/23/2008 11:26 AM
Ya gotta luv it.

Raisin him right Dave.
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Posted by DaveHughes  -  07/23/2008 12:26 PM
love that pic!!! Thats how I have felt about ricers all my life.. My other half said she wanted a mazda- I said sounds good-- better check with the neighbors to see if you can park it there.. ...She got an impala...lol
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Posted by JAWS  -  07/23/2008 12:45 PM
I got a volvo, does that make me a bad person?
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Posted by 50pickup  -  07/23/2008 12:58 PM
My 33 yr old son likes muscle cars and wants to buy a 67 Nova. I took his 7 y.o. daughter (race girl) for a ride in my old truck last year. Squawked the tires a little & let the pipes roar, cruised up & down the road & when we returned the big eyed lass declared "TOTALLY AWSOME, dude!" She'd been to the races & really liked them but had never been in a loud car! My other son shows no interest at all and either do my 4 other grandaughters.
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Posted by 31tudor  -  07/23/2008 01:20 PM
Naw Brant, owning a Volvo don't make you a bad person, just means you're gay!


Keep it parked next to that fence, it almost looks like louvers in the hood. LMAO
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Posted by DaveHughes  -  07/23/2008 01:25 PM
LMAO eric you are killing me...I think it looks cool brant.... I like the fence louvers too.
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Posted by cr55  -  07/23/2008 01:34 PM
Good one Eric! At least if he runs into a concrete wall he'll be safe.......CR
I thought that I knew it all , but.. [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] dover, Delaware
 
Posted by tlp1968  -  07/23/2008 01:41 PM
You guys....now remember you can always go the route Al and Eriq did. Find something they like and work it into hot rods somehow. -BTW check out the video of JCHobbs, SMHobbs (his daughter) ORHotRod, OilmanPat, Brian41Chevy, Reneg8d, IXLRR8, and myself on the road during the hot time show.
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Posted by RedricoAdelphianet  -  07/23/2008 03:33 PM
blacksheep cant stop smiling, great pic.

cr55 things do change for the best, sometimes?
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Posted by Red's Place Custom & Restoration  -  07/23/2008 04:52 PM
Good one Dave sure that isn't a photo of you along time ago, here is my grandson he will be 3 in Feb.
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Posted by blksheep  -  07/23/2008 07:23 PM
Brant,........I read your reply to my Grandson and showed him the pic of your Volvo. He ask me if it was an American car. I told him no. He told me he would like to meet you,.........cause your wheels are dirty.
Red,....nope, not me. But, He sure does look like me at that age.

blksheep...in Charlotte
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Posted by HenryThe32d  -  07/23/2008 08:30 PM
Dave, Your grandson is really a keeper! Thanks for the chuckles guys. sometimes the kids come around, sometimes not. We must remember that most of us grew up with muscle cars or hot rods and love them today. Our kids for the most part it was the tuners. Remember that most of us that are pushing 60 never fell in love with Model T 's that our dad did.
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Posted by meangene  -  07/24/2008 10:49 AM
i've got 3 grandsons and 2 show intrest the other could care less and he's 13
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Posted by LBEE  -  07/24/2008 02:53 PM
Seems like now days Kids Like Street Machines & could care less about street Rods. I have noticed at Shows most people with the street Rods Have the GRAY hair & the younger people have Muscle Cars or Street Machines. I just hope that the street Rods are not a dying thing.
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Posted by flagator79  -  07/25/2008 05:55 PM
I have noticed as young folks pass by a street rod or my '59 "red Corvette" that they don't even turn their heads to look at them but if a foreign or compact with a rat farter stuck on the tailpipe pulls up beside them, they take notice and many times comment on them - go figure.
If the world was fair, the worm would eat the bird half the time [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] West Monroe, Louisianna Charter Member since December 2005
 
Posted by rat fink  -  07/26/2008 02:37 AM
I know how you feel cr55.....I have got three teenage sons.......not a rodder among em !!.....but they sure like the rap-hiphop !!!.....DEPRESSING !!!!.....I am 53......grew up through alot of music....and am pretty open-minded !!....but that stuff REALLY gives me a HEADACHE !!....is that the BEST they can come up with these days !!!....pretty sad !!....guess they REALLY have done EVERYTHING !
KEN COPE [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] RIGA, LATVIA, Other Charter Member since March 2008
 
Posted by ricko  -  07/26/2008 05:38 PM
Hey CR keep taking him to the shows my son was the same way he thought those rice burners were cool. Believe it or not he will grow out of it. He's 21 and he's building a 65 chevy PU also a 65 chevy Impala. All of a sudden out of the blue he snapped out of it. Hang in there!
ricko [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] ElCajon, California
 
Posted by trorie  -  07/26/2008 09:56 PM
Don't sweat it. He will come around. The young kids like the loud music and don't care about the classics and steetrods. There's a local show around here put on by a local Boy Scouts chapter. They let the boys judge. They pick the one with the loudest music and biggest rims almost each year. Last year I think they picked an SUV over some nice streetrods. He will come around. Just keep involving him.
trorie [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Pleasant View, Tennessee
 
Posted by flagator79  -  07/27/2008 02:54 PM
please don't do this.
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Posted by 31tudor  -  07/27/2008 02:56 PM
Uncalled for TxLumpy! Post this on a different forum!
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Posted by tlp1968  -  07/27/2008 02:59 PM
Sorry had to delete that comment - there is no room for that kind of talk here.
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Posted by 31tudor  -  07/27/2008 03:07 PM
Thank you Tammy.
Eric Hibbs [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] St. George, Utah Charter Member since January 2002
 
Posted by flagator79  -  07/27/2008 05:01 PM
THANK YOU PRECIOUS LADY. -NO PLACE HERE FOR THAT - A SIMILAR COMMENT WAS MADE ON THE "price of gas blob (raghead) . Please take a look at that one in consideration of elimination also. Thanks for your monitoring of this site -- that's part of what makes it such high quality.

skeet
If the world was fair, the worm would eat the bird half the time [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] West Monroe, Louisianna Charter Member since December 2005
 
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