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What automotive trend are we in now?
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Hey Sahara, did I say Rat Rod?
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Rolling coal...man I hate that crap but it finally died here and the ones with fast diesel trucks learned how to tune for power and not being a gross polluter!
My first Dakota was a 90 extended cab bought for a business then a 92 V8 swb reg cab w/3.90 gears bought for fun. Got my dad's first Dakota when he started talking about trading it in. It was an 87 V6 and ran pretty good. Now I have his 95 since he passed in 98 but it's not doing real well with the electrical system. It was kept outside most of the time.
Man, can even find a V8 Dakota around here in decent shape anymore
And a Challenger door can make a nasty door ding!
Yellow is probably the safest color but ya never see them much.....White, silver, black, & gray vehicles. These are "safe" colors so that they can more easily sell the lease return vehicles.
Or are getting divorce in their 'golden' years. Heck, my wife leaving me took the gold but made the lead shiny!Lefty pretty well hits the nail JMHO, I have watched the fat fender street rods go from top of the heap down to { please buy my car }
The guys that were building rods in the 50s/60s have or are aged out, many leaving car collections for their wife or kids to deal with.
Now here we sit, grew up in the 60s and 70s, muscle cars are our thing or well most of us anyhow. We are having our run now but there is a end and that's ok its just the way things go.
If a guy has any cash burning a hole in the pocket, start grabbing 80s Irocs , 5.0 stangs, 80s malibus and the like, Not my favorites for sure but they will be the next big wave in the old car market. The guys that grew up with those are just now getting the kids out of college and the house paid off.
Also, the cars you mentioned are not my favorite either....I hope not. Got sick of going to decent sized car shows/swap meets where there were those people dressed up like that and playing the music. It was a good time but got sick of the act and hearing the same songs all the time.
Ain't this kinda like the weekend 'bikers' wearing all sorts of leather and conchos then back to the suit and Allen Edmonds for work on Monday...Rolling coal...man I hate that crap but it finally died here and the ones with fast diesel trucks learned how to tune for power and not being a gross polluter!
My first Dakota was a 90 extended cab bought for a business then a 92 V8 swb reg cab w/3.90 gears bought for fun. Got my dad's first Dakota when he started talking about trading it in. It was an 87 V6 and ran pretty good. Now I have his 95 since he passed in 98 but it's not doing real well with the electrical system. It was kept outside most of the time.
Man, can even find a V8 Dakota around here in decent shape anymore
And a Challenger door can make a nasty door ding!
Yellow is probably the safest color but ya never see them much.....
Or are getting divorce in their 'golden' years. Heck, my wife leaving me took the gold but made the lead shiny!
I hope not. Got sick of going to decent sized car shows/swap meets where there were those people dressed up like that and playing the music. It was a good time but got sick of the act and hearing the same songs all the time.
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Where’s my noose... ok, maybe just ear plugs, lol.
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I see a huge mix with the bikers. Usually the suit guys don't have long hair and beards....but my CPA had long hair up until recently lol.
True - I wouldn't want to make the mistake of asking a hard core biker if he's a CPA, doctor or lawyer...lol
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I used to like Harley’s, wanted to get a Sportster. Then my accountant got one, and the Michelin Man kinda guy down the block.
Doesn’t seem so neat anymore.
Doesn’t seem so neat anymore.
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I'm not sure myself, I notice a wide variety nowadays with not one trend standing out except Rat Rods and that's only at the shows. I see plenty of 4×4's, Jeeps, newer muscle cars like the Mustang's, Camaro's and Challenger's but not an abundance of any one given trend. The Fast and the Furious fart pipe car trend seams to have faded thank goodness, that was getting really old!
Myself I build everything the way I want and don't worry about trends as is the case with everything in my life.
Myself I build everything the way I want and don't worry about trends as is the case with everything in my life.
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This summer I have noticed a huge increase in 4 door classic cars. This Wednesdays cruise night had to have at least 20 or more. I guess because the cost of a 2 door anything these days is becoming off the charts expensive. Most were 55, 56 & 57 Chevy Bell Airs. There was a 4 door 65 Olds Cutlass that the guy did a concourse rotisserie resto. It was nicer than any other Olds I have ever seen.
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I agree. I like a nice crew cab also.
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For drag racing, a modoor has a bit more weight on the rear tires or the weight bias is better. The down side is....there's more weight.
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Trend (?) lux'd out, comfortable, with all the amenities
O/D, A/C, Electric windows heated/cooled seat,
big brakes, wide tires, great handling, decent mileage etc.
Pro-touring or Resto-mod is trending
Trend ?, I'm not sure it's a real trend,
IMO it's more of a 'new era', later end of the baby boomers & youth
an era of electronic controlled/computer aided
direct injection, EFI mods & resto-mods/pro-touring,
some bringing OE restoration money or more, for truly quality builds
HP wars era, even for the rwd 'American' V8 cars
even if most are built in Mexico or Canada
Electronics Technology making way better power, hp per cid
out of much less cid
Boosted & turbo'd everything era, even moms cars & minivans
era of lots of superchargers on pony/muscle cars from the factory
Drag Pack, COPO, Cobra, factory 9 sec. racecars, off the hauler
better if you choose to do so, 7 sec.'s 3500+#'s
Electric car era, some good some not so good
(some real rip offs/scams, federally funded/propped up, shoved down our collective throats)
it's a special kind of stupid era, for some
a new era of performance & mileage combined
traction control & electronic/magnetic shocks era
5-6-8-10 speed trans as the norm
lux'd out leather interiors are the norm
hopped up trucks & especially full size diesels/pu's
which use to be just tow rigs, work/farm-trucks & grandpa trucks
or "rolling coal" is cool now,
now diesel with pollution control & DEF std's
Hellcat/Redeye 797hp, Hellcat 707hp, 200mph
or the Demon 9.47 @ 146 840hp street car,
I can say supercars, that can pull the front wheels,
that actually legally street driven, all from the factory/new
use to be a full on racecar to get 700+hp, let alone 840hp
especially out of a wedge engine, many still not run in the 9's
unless it was 500 cid - 600+ cid & trick hi-$$ professionally porter heads
custom grind roller camshaft etc., all available over the counter/www now
The second coming of the HP wars mostly
great time to be a car guy/gal if you have the $$$
O/D, A/C, Electric windows heated/cooled seat,
big brakes, wide tires, great handling, decent mileage etc.
Pro-touring or Resto-mod is trending
Trend ?, I'm not sure it's a real trend,
IMO it's more of a 'new era', later end of the baby boomers & youth
an era of electronic controlled/computer aided
direct injection, EFI mods & resto-mods/pro-touring,
some bringing OE restoration money or more, for truly quality builds
HP wars era, even for the rwd 'American' V8 cars
even if most are built in Mexico or Canada
Electronics Technology making way better power, hp per cid
out of much less cid
Boosted & turbo'd everything era, even moms cars & minivans
era of lots of superchargers on pony/muscle cars from the factory
Drag Pack, COPO, Cobra, factory 9 sec. racecars, off the hauler
better if you choose to do so, 7 sec.'s 3500+#'s
Electric car era, some good some not so good
(some real rip offs/scams, federally funded/propped up, shoved down our collective throats)
it's a special kind of stupid era, for some
a new era of performance & mileage combined
traction control & electronic/magnetic shocks era
5-6-8-10 speed trans as the norm
lux'd out leather interiors are the norm
hopped up trucks & especially full size diesels/pu's
which use to be just tow rigs, work/farm-trucks & grandpa trucks
or "rolling coal" is cool now,
now diesel with pollution control & DEF std's
Hellcat/Redeye 797hp, Hellcat 707hp, 200mph
or the Demon 9.47 @ 146 840hp street car,
I can say supercars, that can pull the front wheels,
that actually legally street driven, all from the factory/new
use to be a full on racecar to get 700+hp, let alone 840hp
especially out of a wedge engine, many still not run in the 9's
unless it was 500 cid - 600+ cid & trick hi-$$ professionally porter heads
custom grind roller camshaft etc., all available over the counter/www now
The second coming of the HP wars mostly
great time to be a car guy/gal if you have the $$$
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Nobody has even mentioned a Demon. This is a Mopar site damit!!
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I'm into Ratty Muscle. Kind of like Rat Rods but with old clapped out muscle cars.
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I did & it's the post right above yours
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