Cool Stories & Cheap Hot Rods

[@usmclee65]

Great car, that is how we used to build them in the late 50's and early 60's THANKS for sharing!

[@HotRodDad]

Thanks! I was going for a late 40s to early 50s look, but it's really a mashup of styles from different decades of hot rodding.

[@grahamparsons1070]

You’re a good fella, love the way you explained your approach “I’m more of a slow cooker than microwave “ just perfect and in my mind the way the hot rod movement always was from its beginning as they were accessible and money was scarce. I don’t have much talent (can’t weld to save myself 😒) but have loved rods since a young teenager (51 now) when I found an old hotrod magazine at the local tip. Then one day up the dirt road we lived on a 28 ford drove passed us, well I was sold. Thanks for sharing I’m so glad I stumbled across this 👍

[@HotRodDad]

Thanks! I love building stuff on the cheap. It started out of necessity, but now I just like the challenge of it. It’s interesting to me scrounging for the right parts, and/or building them.

[@grahamparsons1070]

@@HotRodDad thanks for your reply, I have been collecting parts for a while now to hopefully build a Rudy style pickup. So far I have a cab 38ford, Bedford truck grille (I live in Australia and a 34 grille is like $3k au =sadly unaffordable) wheels. Now looking for a chassis and maybe some welding skills.then finally I’ll get the feeling you get 🤞. Thanks again for your video humbly inspiring would love to buy you a beer,all the best to you and your family mate

[@fantomson5035]

Love the fact that you used a different motor and trans combo on that little hot rod.

[@HotRodDad]

I love those little bangers. I like weird engines in general. I'd love to have one of the old Pontiac Trophy 4s.

[@fantomson5035]

@@HotRodDad you do know, if built properly, you can get north of 200 hp from those little bangers, right

[@HotRodDad]

@@fantomson5035, yes. I was talking to the legendary Joe Mondello once about those little engines. He told me he could squeeze 300 out of those little guys, naturally aspirated.

[@90FF1]

What a great slow paced video. Too many just gallop to get the most in they can. I generally watch those a a slow playback. 🥺 ❤the BLT. Novel suspension and the use of a small engine makes it refreshingly different. Thanks for sharing your story.

[@HotRodDad]

@@90FF1, thanks for watching!

[@scottrutherford5466]

It's always about the journey, Thank you for sharing your Story my friend

[@HotRodDad]

The journey is what I love most about building these old jalopies.

[@michaelhuddleston9262]

Brother, I am with on your hot rod philosophy. The feeling of finding the specific part makes all the headaches worth while.

[@HotRodDad]

Absolutely!

[@jamesholbrook7785]

I enjoy your videos. Even though I never got into HotRods, I truly appreciate the effort and beauty that you guys can bring out in these cars.

[@HotRodDad]

Thanks for watching, and the kind words!

[@TheDutchVanMan]

Thanks for a nice video and some stories on the BLT parts Dennis

[@HotRodDad]

Thanks for watching. Hope the van is progressing nicely. Cheers!

[@TheDutchVanMan]

@@HotRodDad litlle by little, you know how it goes, and the E200 parts are hard to find

[@BoxcarsGarage]

Love that BLT

[@HotRodDad]

I'm kinda diggin' it, too.

[@jimshotrod2519]

I am building a 30 coupe.....it is full of stories !

[@HotRodDad]

If these old cars could talk, I'd love to hear what they'd tell us.

[@jimshotrod2519]

@@HotRodDad I drive mine holding the original steering wheel sitting on its original seat and imagine the roads it traveled in Sacramento with its previous owners ....now its in Scotland making new stories.

[@kerrymcclure7503]

That was a very interesting story, Thank you. I have a 1980 square body Chevy pickup. My brother bought it new I bought it from him in 1983. Sometime in the 90s the 250 6 cylinder cracked its second head and I was tired of the 6 cylinder. I bought a complete 1977 Impala four-door with a 305 for $200. Use the engine and all parts I needed in my truck and then went to selling Impala parts. I sold enough parts that I was down to $60 in my engine a guy asked me what I would take for the rest of the body and I said $60. That left me with no money in that engine. The wheeling and dealing is a lot of the fun. I still have the truck although it has not been on the road in many years. I had it running and drove it around my yard last fall. Maybe someday it will be back on the road.

[@HotRodDad]

That's how you do it. The BLT represents about a 2K investment at this point, but in all honesty, I probably have less than 500 in it due to all the wheeling n dealing.

[@kdsboosted4954]

Very cool 🤙 I have a 26-27 roadster body and I think there's 4 coupe bodies out in the parts lot too

[@HotRodDad]

Sounds like you’re blessed with projects!

[@kdsboosted4954]

@HotRodDad maybe a few too many

[@HotRodDad]

@@kdsboosted4954 I know that scenario.

[@hotrodswoodshed7405]

I appreciate your videos. Think of autos like art...cause they are. We don't pay others to paint our pictures. The beauty of art is that WE paint and WHY we choose the colors we do. Every car/truck auto is art. It's just that we drive them from point A.... to B. We don't hang them on our rich house walls

[@HotRodDad]

I agree 100 percent!

[@dennisjones1642]

Hi Hot Rod Dad from here in the D Michigan hey the Motor city 😎 Thanks for your time and video of how to get started on a budget build Rat/Hot Rod 👍🤩🔥😎😁✅

[@leemiracle6840]

I was collecting parts for a 27 t roadster pickup and had an almost identical motor, mine was a mercruiser 4 out of a boat, basically the same but with the marine manifolds. Project got sold to pay bills.😢

[@HotRodDad]

This engine has a Mercruiser head, and intake with all the exhaust ports cut off.

[@frankm8533]

I love ur rides Oscar is a great truck for the money you got into it! I keep thinking about doing something like that I saw a extra cab s10 for sale 600$ body was trashed but the frame and suspension was clean that's all I want any way

[@HotRodDad]

That’s the way to do it. Sell off as much of the S10 as you can. I ended up with about 250 bucks in the chassis of Oscar. By the time I rebuilt the front end, brakes, and replaced the carrier bearing, I had maybe 500 in it. Now be on the lookout for an old truck body.

[@faroironandcustoms6577]

Cool story!!! I like the Hot Rods with something other than a v8. My next project may be a 4 or a 6.

[@HotRodDad]

I do too! I have an affinity for oddball engines. I’d love to have one of the old Pontiac Trophy 4s.

[@Dane_the_Pain]

real enjoyable video mate .. BLT has come along way in the last few months. building Oscar for under $4500 is outstanding - shops would charge six figures to give you a truck like that these days. thanks for the stories and cheers from Australia 🍻👍

[@HotRodDad]

It's mostly in just an advanced stage of mock-up at this point. Everything will need to be blown apart and finished, but it's getting there.

[@THROTTLEPOWER]

👍👍

[@robert4005]

Good stuff buddy ❤

[@HotRodDad]

Thanks!

[@clarenceherron2562]

Old school hot rod

[@HotRodDad]

It's not 100 percent period correct in parts sourced, the arrangement of those parts, or the execution, but my approach to building is certainly old school in that I do most everything with basic tools, build a lot of parts myself, and tend to use a lot of old cast-off stuff.

[@JohnnyJalopyArt]

Dang She is Kool!

[@HotRodDad]

Thanks! It’s getting there.

[@1966scoutcheif]

FINS UP

[@MikeMiller-fc2cc]

Your steering wheel is upside down

[@HotRodDad]

Is it, though??? It’s custom.😂