I just found yall on here and I don't really know why I'm commenting on this. Reckun maybe because what I am seeing and hearing I miss so much. Folks that appreciate old things and have morals. Just wanted to say you are doin an old boy a lot of good with these videos. You are so right about the old police officers vs the new ones. I'm an old one. James
I THINK OF THIS WHEN IM SITTING IN MY OLD 77 F100 CUSTOM HOTROD, JUST SITTING IN IT DREAMING OF THE DAY THAT I WILL GET TO PUMP THE THROTTLE, TURN THE KEY AND DRIVE OUT OF THE DRIVEWAY. I PLAYED THIS FOR MY FRIENDS AND THEY DIDENT UNDERSTAND IT, I GUESS THERE IS NOT TO MANY 17 YEAR OLDS WHO ARE INTO HOT RODS.
I WILL ALWAYS SAY THAT ITS NOT JUST A CAR, ITS A METAL REPRESENTATION OF YOUR SOUL.!
@MrNitro65 Well it really is. And if you get it you get it. If you don't you never will, but if you do you'll never get past it. Better hang on to that ol' 77 truck.. hahaha.
Damn, really brought tears to my eyes. My Dad taught me the love of old Iron, He's passed on now and Im building a 27 pontiac rat rod! The memories of crusing my 57 bel air those summer nights long ago always bring a smile to my face and my heart. This poem pretty much sums it all up
I love this! it sums up everything that's good with the world. Hotrodding is more than a hobby its a way of life a feeling in your soul, this sums it up thanks!
this is really the best poem ive ever heard.... ever. its 100% true, as well. i could not have said it better myself. i am hopefully using it as a poem in a speech tournament. hopefully that is ok with the author.
Every so often - couple weeks or couple months - I come back and watch this all over again. Right after the National Anthem this should be read to start off every car show in America.
@Champ2x36 Thanks Ed. No, that was my step son. He was younger and faster than me, but I was pretty good at gettin' the car to the track every week.... We raced for a few years....
@poppanitrous DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE FUTURE, IM 17 AND I CAN SAY THERE ARE STILL YOUNG HOTRODDERS OUT THERE YOU JUST HAVE TO LOOK HARD ENOUGH, HOTRODDING LIVES!
@memcu30 Just sent it to you in your email. I also posted it above. Have had a few folks interested in having it, so thought I'd just stick it up top. Thanks.
Awesome and creative poem! And cars today, while more sophisticated, can't really capture what those cars had back in the day. Well, maybe a rich mans lamborghini or something, but back then anyone could drive a fantastic American car that was just full power and boldness. Some of those muscle cars could get to 60 in 4 seconds or slightly less from what I heard. Again great poem, a rarity on youtube.
@rpeek Thank you Mr. Peek! Been tough after loosing my wife and two kids 19 years ago. That's something that nobody should ever pass through..... Wish when I finally reach your age to be so young as you.....
Greetings from Greece and keep those videos (and rat rods too) rolling.
Not sure where I inherited the itch to go fast or the itch be in something.. something with CHARACTER came from, but I think I like it. My grandparents had a '57 beetle back in the 60s and my mom remembers riding in the little cubby hole she called it behind the back seat.. :) Ah, memories.. I feel like I was born in the wrong generation. "She ain't smooth, she ain't supposed to be smooth.." That part really rang true to me.
this is the greatest thing i ever heard! i cant stop listening. i dont want to stop. i havent even seen your other vids yet im stuck here for a while.
My grandpa has a 1967 Plymouth. It's a Belvedere II. It has the original 1967 LA 318 V8. It sounds beautiful. I have wanted to buy it from him but he doesn't want to sell it.
amen, your poem brought a tear to my eye, I am 21 years old and I love classic cars. I hate what cars have become now, plastic bumpers, quiet engines, 4 cylinders, where is the style, where is the brute force and raw power that made a man feel like a man and love his car. I look at people today driving their prius and their tiny ricer and think how ignorant these people are, how their sense of fun and pride for their vehicles has been striped away for better fuel economy.
you are truly a inspiration to young people that still love hot rods, i just bought a 77 ford f100 custom and i have to go out and pump the gas just to start it and i would not change it for the world. i think what makes these poems so great is you never actually state what make the car is, everyone can use there imagination to fill that in.
Im 27 and I wish I could have lived in the 50s and 60s, I have a hot rod now and I love it. its what I live for, but I dont think it compares to how it was back then....
1959 GM,,,Best and Biggest Fins And the coolest V8,s,,Then came Pontiac,,Best styled cars,,So ,the best I can do at this point is to shoe horn a 1975 Pontiac Grand Prix 400 ci into a 1998 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP ,,A Rear wheel drive ,Big V8,4 Speed car for a 1998 car
@MegaRiktane thats the idea its been since 69 dude, Ford suping up every bit of motor they had, Pontiac raming air down there throats, chevy would shoehorn a big block into most anything and mopar was multicarbing everything
Richard,I love it and I swear to the American muscle God that I will keep it alive after the older guys have past on. Thanks for sharing that. , Deron
Maybe someone can help me out with this,I'm trying to picture in my head when cars started using fins. I'm just 23. I know the 50s had plenty of fins but I'm picturing about a 1948 Cadillac is the mid to late 40s when fins appeared. Whats the oldest and model of car any of you guys can think of with fins? thanks
Hey Richard! I would like to post this video on my blog (blog:modeljunkyard:com). It is a great poem, specially for all of us who really feel that iron!
Pleae, let me know if I can post the video on our blog.
@Modeljunkyard I'd be honored if you did. I love your work. I spent a few hours lookin' at some of the model junk-yard videos the other night. They're fascinating.. Go for it. and thanks.
really arent better words to describe what so many of us out here fell in love with. I enjoy all your videos but this ones tops by far. Thank you for the smile Mr. Peek
Oh man...from one gear head to another, I gotta say, truer words were never spoken. Talk about inspirational, that, my brother, should be the rodders national anthem. Very well put.
Great work! one part about smooth engines made me remember the other day, I had my 08 Ram hemi with flowmaster duals besides my buddy's pontiac with a 305 and cherry bombs, the Ram just didnt have that good old rough, clugging, barking, rumble that the old Chevy motor did,.
@DodgeMan360 Yea, back in the day if they didn't run rough they probably didn't run fast either. I remember going to a dealership and sittin' in a brand new 1971 Dodge RT and the salesman cranked it and said "just listen to that" and it was impressive.. hahaha.
God bless ya, I'm going to the garage and breath the gas and oil in and think about being a kid in Detroit on Woodward dreaming of the day I'd have a license...
@samurai1833 That gas smell is good for ya. That's why I've decided to drive the hotrod to the Hunnert Car pileup this year. I think I'll live forever if I keep doin' this stuff.. hahahaha..
i mite be 19 but i drive an old gas guzzling V8 302 powered 1971 ford F-100 longbed it's beautiful and i love it keep em a live because when there gone there gone
@keyton91 I'm 16 and I have a 90 302. All my friends ask; "why don't you get a new truck?" I'm sure yours do the same. And I tell em that long ago, Detroit built cars not to meet EPA numbers or save gas. I tell em that Detroit hasn't made a car with personality in years and probably never will again. If we gave up on our trucks, they'd be gone..... that's what keeps me keeping my rig alive.
@DBORGHI71 It's like I get shit from people who drive mini vans and 2 year old cars about its gas mileage and inefficiency. I tell em which car will die first? Then we'll send their vans off to china for the plastic to be turned into 2 liter coke bottles. The old 302 will still be shining in the home depot parking lot with the other antiques on Saturday nights round here admired by people who still appreciate that sorta thing
Man I love your naration. Most of the kids that are running these little rice burner jap cracker tins that sound like a freakin chainsaw will never know what a real rod is about.
@compukenny It is true, and you can't fault them for that. It's what they've got to work with and they can't help it. People like me are quickly becoming dinasours. I'm okay with that. I'm just glad I was lucky enough to have been born when I was born..
@rpeek it more what they decide to work withthem, they think that it easier to get power out of their shit 4 bangers, when it not. Im just turning 18 and have a 71 mustang coupe with a 351 cleveland it, and its a blast to drive. I find kids these days dont understand anything about the old mucle cars and hotrods of the day.
@rpeek yeah i wish i was born in the older times i just dont fit in at the time at hand im an old sole i love the old life stile the hot rods the 8 tracks the vinyl records and the old drag racing on saturday i wish i could of new what it was like
i maybe in my 20's, but i'm not driving some little korean made battery plastic toy they call a car... i'm going to drive a good old gas guzzling V8 powered american chrome bumpered wide-white-walled land yacht and blast the elvis presley out of the a.m. radio till the day i die!
I've got an 85 C10 and a 96 Silverado. Both built from the ground, both have all my blood, sweat and pride in em. You either get it or you don't but when you hit the key and bring her to life its a feeling like no other. No one but us will ever understand why we do it. But who says they gotta understand?
okay, I've probably watched a dozen or so of your vids now. I'm betting you're not gonna win any literary awards for this poem, and that rolling piece of sculpture you call a car won't show up in any fancy gallery anywhere; but anybody who says you're not a true artist is a liar. What you do is real art, the kind that takes passion. What you've created isn't just a lifeless "thing" ,but a living monster of a machine, complete with a soul.
@rpeek thank YOU, folks like you are the reason i keep coming back looking for vids on ratrods; those those beautiful rusted out piles of "junk" , cantankerous machines thundering their songs to the heavens like a fist raised to the sky against the mortality of man. We all gotta go sometime sure, but this bucket is still got a bit of fire against the cold, and you're th man stoking it for us, a resurrection of rusted metal giving new life to days gone by. idk,it'sjustcool to hear that motor baby
Thanks for posting. I just bought a 57 F100 that sat in a barn for a long time. After some work(and money), I got the old girl running pretty good, though there is always more to do. Thank God for repro parts! Where do you think a 2010 model will be in 52 years? You either "get it" or you don't and alot of people don't. Like they say - "don't crush 'em, restore 'em
@davshaw5 I suspect most of the 2010's will have been melted down and turned into table lamps (not enough metal in 'em to make cars) and your old '57 Ford truck will still be runnin'..
In a school course, I was asked to write a poem about your passion so I wrote it about Hot Rodding. I used this poem to influence it. I wrote it about my dissatisfaction with these fake Barrett Jackson rides and these new 6k dollar paint jobs
@DuallyDieselFord Yea. Nothing wrong with fancy paint, but when it gets to the point that a guy with a vintage '69 SS Z-28 Camaro feels like his car ain't good enough 'cause the guys around him at the car show have spent $150k to make theirs all metal flaked and shiny, it's gotten a bit rediculous.
Awesome poem. I have a 1987 Ford Ranger, not a hot rod or american classic but it's an old american ford truck. I've had to fix and replace many parts, even a couple of engines but this poem shows exactly why I'm never going to get rid of it. I love my 87 Ranger and I'll keep putting in my wrench work and revving that engine as long as I can.
Awesome poem. I have a 1987 Ford Ranger, not a hot rod or american classic but it's an old american ford truck. I've had to fix and replace many parts, even a couple of engines but this poem shows exactly why I'm never going to get rid of it. I love my 87 Ranger and I'll keep putting in my wrench work and revving that engine as long as I can.
I got my trusty old 90' F150 302. My friends ask me why I drive an old truck and tell them cause it's got spirit and personality and i'll drive it till the motor blows and then ill just drop another in. I'd rather drive an old truck or hotrod around then a new spacebox they have nowadays. I'll have my ratrod one day. parked in the driveway right next to my ol trusty 302
I'm 17. I have a 1967 Ford Fairlane, it's got 386 horsepower and 670 foot pounds of torque. All of the other kids at my school drive little Hondas with their fart cannons and the gay wings on 'em . Y'know what I think the wing is for? When the car breaks down and they have to push it home like a big grocery cart.
I bomb around town in my tired ole 55 stude, staring at these non descript modern piles in disgust, they all look the same, have no soul in them. stomping on the pedal when the light goes green, showing the world and these junker modern piles, just what old american iron could do, has done and god willing, will forever do.
this poem brought teers to my eyes.... it was awesome. we just cant do that stuff any more with all the laws now were loseing our freedom. but we all still sneek out and burn some rubber down the street now and then and hope there's not a dam cop at the end of the street.......
We had friends visit us for the Labor Day weekend, I spent a lot of time showing off your videos. Everybody loves this one and the story about Darrell missing a gear. Are there any other poems that I've missed?
@originalzombie1974 Not that you've missed... I've got a lot of poetry though. I'm just trying to figure out how to make it work on youtube. I'd like to make movies to go with the stories, sort of like I did with this one and the old photos, but I don't always have what I need to make it happen, but it's in my mind...
thats so true about old american iron. They don't apologoze for anything.....they are massive, powerful, brutes......like my old 1962 chrysler newport, 2 door
Richard, I don't think words can adequately express the feelings stirred from this reading and the accompanying slides. Sure I'm Australian born and bred but a youth similar in it's core. Sure the Aussie car's had smaller fins but the passion was still the same. Every now and then some Champion would front up with some US iron and really light the fires in the hearts of the young men and women.
EPA and Insurance prices may try but our passion for old IRON will never die!
My parents tell me that i need to get rid of that ol' piece rust and get something economical like a toyota or honda. i tell them i'd rather drive this rust bukket spending 100$ on gas than to be seen driving a piece of foreign shit. then i lay a little rubber. and kick her sideways. i love my 1977 silverado C/10
@shinobiR1 Thank you! I've really got nothing against Japanese cars, in fact I've got an old Toyota truck to restore, but when I wrote this, I wrote it with the mindset of my American made youth. Thanks for the compliment.
Fine, fine poem Richard! I had a '69 camero, sold it like a fool, but that dang car would freaking fly! I raced a friend once, he had a mustang, got the jump on me, but that camero rose to the challenge passed him a few yards from the finish line. What a rush! If you don't mind, I'll post this on my Facebook page and probably on my blog too.
@ncpoet I'd be delighted! I had a '67 Camero SS 350 with a spread bore Holley. Never met a Mustang that could get close to it... They were awsome.. Be delighted to have you post it wherever you'd like. Thanks.
Really nice sir i really love the old chevys
chevy67292truckcst 1 month ago
@chevy67292truckcst Thank You!
rpeek 1 month ago
damn fucking straight!
sparkscarz 1 month ago
@sparkscarz Thank You!
rpeek 1 month ago
I had tear running down my cheek by the end of this, and there aint much that can make that happen.
GODZILLAMANASS 1 month ago
@GODZILLAMANASS Wow! Cool.. A real motor head.. Nice to meet ya.
rpeek 1 month ago
I love Japanese and European cars but as he said, their is nothing better than the rumble and sound of an all American V8.
9511eqloco 1 month ago
I listen to this at least once a week. Absolutely love it.
TheGarnerjustin73 2 months ago
@TheGarnerjustin73 Thank You! Glad you like it... R.
rpeek 2 months ago
I just found yall on here and I don't really know why I'm commenting on this. Reckun maybe because what I am seeing and hearing I miss so much. Folks that appreciate old things and have morals. Just wanted to say you are doin an old boy a lot of good with these videos. You are so right about the old police officers vs the new ones. I'm an old one. James
jebsr50 2 months ago
@jebsr50 Well Thank You James. Very nice to hear from you and thank you for your service for all those years.
rpeek 2 months ago
@brianszoo Yea, that's good for ya! haha.
rpeek 3 months ago
I THINK OF THIS WHEN IM SITTING IN MY OLD 77 F100 CUSTOM HOTROD, JUST SITTING IN IT DREAMING OF THE DAY THAT I WILL GET TO PUMP THE THROTTLE, TURN THE KEY AND DRIVE OUT OF THE DRIVEWAY. I PLAYED THIS FOR MY FRIENDS AND THEY DIDENT UNDERSTAND IT, I GUESS THERE IS NOT TO MANY 17 YEAR OLDS WHO ARE INTO HOT RODS.
I WILL ALWAYS SAY THAT ITS NOT JUST A CAR, ITS A METAL REPRESENTATION OF YOUR SOUL.!
MrNitro65 4 months ago
@MrNitro65 Well it really is. And if you get it you get it. If you don't you never will, but if you do you'll never get past it. Better hang on to that ol' 77 truck.. hahaha.
rpeek 4 months ago
@MrNitro65 17 year old hot rodder right here. right on brotha
DuallyDieselFord 3 months ago
thats AWESOME!
puck88stang 4 months ago
@puck88stang thank You!
rpeek 4 months ago
Damn, really brought tears to my eyes. My Dad taught me the love of old Iron, He's passed on now and Im building a 27 pontiac rat rod! The memories of crusing my 57 bel air those summer nights long ago always bring a smile to my face and my heart. This poem pretty much sums it all up
brokewrench1 4 months ago
I love this! it sums up everything that's good with the world. Hotrodding is more than a hobby its a way of life a feeling in your soul, this sums it up thanks!
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rpeek 5 months ago
Two people own Honda's and listen to Justin Bieber
TheFirehawk396 5 months ago 2
@TheFirehawk396 Who's Justin Bieber?
rpeek 5 months ago 6
YES! This is a piece of art!
beee1985 5 months ago 2
Billionth person to like this poem!
MrGotsquashed 5 months ago
@MrGotsquashed Thank You!
rpeek 5 months ago
this is really the best poem ive ever heard.... ever. its 100% true, as well. i could not have said it better myself. i am hopefully using it as a poem in a speech tournament. hopefully that is ok with the author.
BMX4LIFE8421 5 months ago
@BMX4LIFE8421 Yes you may! Good luck with the speach. Give 'em heck! hahaha.
rpeek 5 months ago
Exhilarating! Great video. This is one I'll come back too.
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You will NEVER cease to amaze me. Thank you.
Bisbonian 5 months ago
Every so often - couple weeks or couple months - I come back and watch this all over again. Right after the National Anthem this should be read to start off every car show in America.
AaronzDad 5 months ago
@AaronzDad Amen Brother! Hallelujah!
rpeek 5 months ago
awesome!
kkojeep 6 months ago
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This is AWESOME!! This went straight to this ol' man's heart, and then to my favorites!! Subscribed to your channel too!! FANTASTIC STUFF!
Is that a young version of you with the #13 Camaro at 2:04 in the video? I did a bunch of circle trackin' too.
Ed
Champ2x36 6 months ago
@Champ2x36 Thanks Ed. No, that was my step son. He was younger and faster than me, but I was pretty good at gettin' the car to the track every week.... We raced for a few years....
rpeek 6 months ago
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Champ2x36 6 months ago
Well said!!!!!!
greg197040 7 months ago
@rageofalphawolf Amen Brother! Preach it!
rpeek 7 months ago
Hey Richard you are so right with this poem AWESOME.
outlawracer1000 7 months ago
yea yea truth breda man truth
jabirusman1 7 months ago
Detroit muscle cannot never be duplicated,like Elvis cant be duplicated by any pop star...sad what the future will bring :(
poppanitrous 8 months ago
@poppanitrous DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE FUTURE, IM 17 AND I CAN SAY THERE ARE STILL YOUNG HOTRODDERS OUT THERE YOU JUST HAVE TO LOOK HARD ENOUGH, HOTRODDING LIVES!
MrNitro65 4 months ago
yo
buckeyeeddy 8 months ago
This is so right on. Easily the best thing I've found on YouTube. Thank you, for what you have done. You are truly an artist.
SomeGuyInSandy 8 months ago
hey man awesome could you send me a copy of that poem
memcu30 9 months ago
@memcu30 Just sent it to you in your email. I also posted it above. Have had a few folks interested in having it, so thought I'd just stick it up top. Thanks.
rpeek 9 months ago
Awesome and creative poem! And cars today, while more sophisticated, can't really capture what those cars had back in the day. Well, maybe a rich mans lamborghini or something, but back then anyone could drive a fantastic American car that was just full power and boldness. Some of those muscle cars could get to 60 in 4 seconds or slightly less from what I heard. Again great poem, a rarity on youtube.
rfsent5 9 months ago
You, Sir, made me want to live again...... Thank you!
Kujokouklos 9 months ago
@Kujokouklos That's awesome! Good for you...
rpeek 9 months ago
@rpeek Thank you Mr. Peek! Been tough after loosing my wife and two kids 19 years ago. That's something that nobody should ever pass through..... Wish when I finally reach your age to be so young as you.....
Greetings from Greece and keep those videos (and rat rods too) rolling.
Kujokouklos 9 months ago
@Kujokouklos Will do! Thank You!
rpeek 9 months ago
I wish i could have been around "when cars had fins" but i try to live life like i was great poem awsome cars
chevyguy7008 9 months ago
words of a true genius godbless
250xundertaker 10 months ago
@250xundertaker Thank You!
rpeek 10 months ago
words of a true genius
250xundertaker 10 months ago
:D... that is all
MoDSanti 10 months ago
Beautiful, man..
Not sure where I inherited the itch to go fast or the itch be in something.. something with CHARACTER came from, but I think I like it. My grandparents had a '57 beetle back in the 60s and my mom remembers riding in the little cubby hole she called it behind the back seat.. :) Ah, memories.. I feel like I was born in the wrong generation. "She ain't smooth, she ain't supposed to be smooth.." That part really rang true to me.
by the way, what is that green car at 1:04?
AnimaliaHolocaust 10 months ago
@AnimaliaHolocaust That was a 1939 Studebaker. It had a 396 4 speed in it. I swapped that 1915 C-Cab Model T for it that you see in the video..
rpeek 10 months ago
This was absolutely a masterpiece, thank you for sharing! Id rather have iron with a carb than a plastic car with fuel injection any day.
More350Power 10 months ago
@More350Power I'm so with you man..
rpeek 10 months ago
i can tell it came straight out of your heart, and straight into my heart. Pure gold that one, thanks again.
MrBlueroads 10 months ago
this is the greatest thing i ever heard! i cant stop listening. i dont want to stop. i havent even seen your other vids yet im stuck here for a while.
MrBlueroads 10 months ago
@MrBlueroads I'm glad you like it. I came straight out of the heart of an old koot hot rodder.. Thanks.
rpeek 10 months ago
My grandpa has a 1967 Plymouth. It's a Belvedere II. It has the original 1967 LA 318 V8. It sounds beautiful. I have wanted to buy it from him but he doesn't want to sell it.
blargblarghonk 10 months ago
@blargblarghonk I don't blame him... that is a beautiful car!
rpeek 10 months ago
this is magic
packardkid1984 10 months ago
can you send me the lyrics? I'd like to read this at a talent show that my school is having
toddrlewis 10 months ago
@toddrlewis Done. It's in your mailbox.. Good luck with your talent show...
rpeek 10 months ago
amen, your poem brought a tear to my eye, I am 21 years old and I love classic cars. I hate what cars have become now, plastic bumpers, quiet engines, 4 cylinders, where is the style, where is the brute force and raw power that made a man feel like a man and love his car. I look at people today driving their prius and their tiny ricer and think how ignorant these people are, how their sense of fun and pride for their vehicles has been striped away for better fuel economy.
rctrucknut 11 months ago
you are truly a inspiration to young people that still love hot rods, i just bought a 77 ford f100 custom and i have to go out and pump the gas just to start it and i would not change it for the world. i think what makes these poems so great is you never actually state what make the car is, everyone can use there imagination to fill that in.
MrNitro65 11 months ago
@MrNitro65 hahahah.. Yea. Everybody can love their own..
rpeek 11 months ago
Im 27 and I wish I could have lived in the 50s and 60s, I have a hot rod now and I love it. its what I live for, but I dont think it compares to how it was back then....
slipsonic 11 months ago
Thanks for sharing that, made my day, very cool.
ehurtx 11 months ago
@ehurtx Thank You for watchin'..
rpeek 11 months ago
hey where did you get the picture at 0:25 id like to have it saved to my computer lol
19mg94 11 months ago
That was just glorious thank you Real Steal Forever !!!!
deannaber 11 months ago
@deannaber Thank You! Rock on..
rpeek 11 months ago
that rumble! kabuka kabuka kabuka!
cassiecavazos1 1 year ago
Amen brother!
haaa16 1 year ago
1959 GM,,,Best and Biggest Fins And the coolest V8,s,,Then came Pontiac,,Best styled cars,,So ,the best I can do at this point is to shoe horn a 1975 Pontiac Grand Prix 400 ci into a 1998 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP ,,A Rear wheel drive ,Big V8,4 Speed car for a 1998 car
MegaRiktane 1 year ago
@MegaRiktane thats the idea its been since 69 dude, Ford suping up every bit of motor they had, Pontiac raming air down there throats, chevy would shoehorn a big block into most anything and mopar was multicarbing everything
ITS4390 11 months ago
1959 GM,,,Best and Biggest Fins And the coolest V8,s
MegaRiktane 1 year ago
that was good
chevorlet4x41 1 year ago
Now that's just beautiful right there!!
eyeballdude 1 year ago
Richard,I love it and I swear to the American muscle God that I will keep it alive after the older guys have past on. Thanks for sharing that. , Deron
DBORGHI71 1 year ago
Maybe someone can help me out with this,I'm trying to picture in my head when cars started using fins. I'm just 23. I know the 50s had plenty of fins but I'm picturing about a 1948 Cadillac is the mid to late 40s when fins appeared. Whats the oldest and model of car any of you guys can think of with fins? thanks
daytonpaul 1 year ago
@daytonpaul I think you've about got it right...
rpeek 1 year ago
Plain awesome!!
SaveOldCars 1 year ago
@SaveOldCars Thank You!
rpeek 1 year ago
Hey Richard! I would like to post this video on my blog (blog:modeljunkyard:com). It is a great poem, specially for all of us who really feel that iron!
Pleae, let me know if I can post the video on our blog.
Modeljunkyard 1 year ago
@Modeljunkyard I'd be honored if you did. I love your work. I spent a few hours lookin' at some of the model junk-yard videos the other night. They're fascinating.. Go for it. and thanks.
rpeek 1 year ago
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JohnnyGadgets81 1 year ago
really arent better words to describe what so many of us out here fell in love with. I enjoy all your videos but this ones tops by far. Thank you for the smile Mr. Peek
JohnnyGadgets81 1 year ago
@JohnnyGadgets81 Thank You!
rpeek 1 year ago
Oh man...from one gear head to another, I gotta say, truer words were never spoken. Talk about inspirational, that, my brother, should be the rodders national anthem. Very well put.
GR8XKP 1 year ago
@GR8XKP Thank you fellow gear head... Rock on!
rpeek 1 year ago
awesome
421GIXXER 1 year ago
wow, absolutey beautiful! That was a real soulful arrangement of words straight from the heart of a true gear head.
herbienbrian2 1 year ago
@herbienbrian2 Thank You..
rpeek 1 year ago
Great work! one part about smooth engines made me remember the other day, I had my 08 Ram hemi with flowmaster duals besides my buddy's pontiac with a 305 and cherry bombs, the Ram just didnt have that good old rough, clugging, barking, rumble that the old Chevy motor did,.
DodgeMan360 1 year ago
@DodgeMan360 Yea, back in the day if they didn't run rough they probably didn't run fast either. I remember going to a dealership and sittin' in a brand new 1971 Dodge RT and the salesman cranked it and said "just listen to that" and it was impressive.. hahaha.
rpeek 1 year ago
@rpeek hah it dont get no better.
DodgeMan360 1 year ago
this is great love the vintage pics to thanks
TheStump81 1 year ago
Goddamn that did put a tear in my eye and for you sir, I shall keep this heritage going strong, for I have and always will be a Hot Rodding American!
Dillon7932 1 year ago
Tear in my eye!
God bless ya, I'm going to the garage and breath the gas and oil in and think about being a kid in Detroit on Woodward dreaming of the day I'd have a license...
samurai1833 1 year ago
@samurai1833 That gas smell is good for ya. That's why I've decided to drive the hotrod to the Hunnert Car pileup this year. I think I'll live forever if I keep doin' this stuff.. hahahaha..
rpeek 1 year ago
Thanks for sharing your pix and your poetry!
Peel out man!
1CitizenEric 1 year ago
Just watched again for the umteenth time. You still bring me a grin with this one! Thanks!
helvistheking 1 year ago
@helvistheking Thank You neighbor! Merry Christmas!
rpeek 1 year ago
American, German, Japanese, were all car enthusiasts.
lowermk2 1 year ago
i mite be 19 but i drive an old gas guzzling V8 302 powered 1971 ford F-100 longbed it's beautiful and i love it keep em a live because when there gone there gone
keyton91 1 year ago
@keyton91 You're exactly right, and that's a fine truck. You take care of it and it'll take care of you.. Good luck with it.
rpeek 1 year ago
@keyton91 I'm 16 and I have a 90 302. All my friends ask; "why don't you get a new truck?" I'm sure yours do the same. And I tell em that long ago, Detroit built cars not to meet EPA numbers or save gas. I tell em that Detroit hasn't made a car with personality in years and probably never will again. If we gave up on our trucks, they'd be gone..... that's what keeps me keeping my rig alive.
DuallyDieselFord 1 year ago
@DuallyDieselFord ...ata Boy
DBORGHI71 1 year ago
@DBORGHI71 It's like I get shit from people who drive mini vans and 2 year old cars about its gas mileage and inefficiency. I tell em which car will die first? Then we'll send their vans off to china for the plastic to be turned into 2 liter coke bottles. The old 302 will still be shining in the home depot parking lot with the other antiques on Saturday nights round here admired by people who still appreciate that sorta thing
DuallyDieselFord 1 year ago
Man I love your naration. Most of the kids that are running these little rice burner jap cracker tins that sound like a freakin chainsaw will never know what a real rod is about.
compukenny 1 year ago
@compukenny It is true, and you can't fault them for that. It's what they've got to work with and they can't help it. People like me are quickly becoming dinasours. I'm okay with that. I'm just glad I was lucky enough to have been born when I was born..
rpeek 1 year ago
@rpeek it more what they decide to work withthem, they think that it easier to get power out of their shit 4 bangers, when it not. Im just turning 18 and have a 71 mustang coupe with a 351 cleveland it, and its a blast to drive. I find kids these days dont understand anything about the old mucle cars and hotrods of the day.
bradbullock4 1 year ago
@rpeek yeah i wish i was born in the older times i just dont fit in at the time at hand im an old sole i love the old life stile the hot rods the 8 tracks the vinyl records and the old drag racing on saturday i wish i could of new what it was like
keyton91 1 year ago
Amen
unstable112 1 year ago
i maybe in my 20's, but i'm not driving some little korean made battery plastic toy they call a car... i'm going to drive a good old gas guzzling V8 powered american chrome bumpered wide-white-walled land yacht and blast the elvis presley out of the a.m. radio till the day i die!
rockabillycat1954 1 year ago
I really liked this. I'm not the only one of my generation that feels like the best things in life came and went before I was born.
Grummur 1 year ago
I've got an 85 C10 and a 96 Silverado. Both built from the ground, both have all my blood, sweat and pride in em. You either get it or you don't but when you hit the key and bring her to life its a feeling like no other. No one but us will ever understand why we do it. But who says they gotta understand?
tillyb1989 1 year ago
caiseeeeennnn
chelamamonda 1 year ago
okay, I've probably watched a dozen or so of your vids now. I'm betting you're not gonna win any literary awards for this poem, and that rolling piece of sculpture you call a car won't show up in any fancy gallery anywhere; but anybody who says you're not a true artist is a liar. What you do is real art, the kind that takes passion. What you've created isn't just a lifeless "thing" ,but a living monster of a machine, complete with a soul.
amishrobots 1 year ago
@amishrobots Thank you, Thank you, Thank you...
rpeek 1 year ago
@rpeek thank YOU, folks like you are the reason i keep coming back looking for vids on ratrods; those those beautiful rusted out piles of "junk" , cantankerous machines thundering their songs to the heavens like a fist raised to the sky against the mortality of man. We all gotta go sometime sure, but this bucket is still got a bit of fire against the cold, and you're th man stoking it for us, a resurrection of rusted metal giving new life to days gone by. idk,it'sjustcool to hear that motor baby
amishrobots 1 year ago
@amishrobots Thank you..
rpeek 1 year ago
Thanks for posting. I just bought a 57 F100 that sat in a barn for a long time. After some work(and money), I got the old girl running pretty good, though there is always more to do. Thank God for repro parts! Where do you think a 2010 model will be in 52 years? You either "get it" or you don't and alot of people don't. Like they say - "don't crush 'em, restore 'em
davshaw5 1 year ago
@davshaw5 I suspect most of the 2010's will have been melted down and turned into table lamps (not enough metal in 'em to make cars) and your old '57 Ford truck will still be runnin'..
rpeek 1 year ago
More than talent there man . I hear love , Love for the American automobile.
kevykev38 1 year ago
In a school course, I was asked to write a poem about your passion so I wrote it about Hot Rodding. I used this poem to influence it. I wrote it about my dissatisfaction with these fake Barrett Jackson rides and these new 6k dollar paint jobs
DuallyDieselFord 1 year ago
@DuallyDieselFord Yea. Nothing wrong with fancy paint, but when it gets to the point that a guy with a vintage '69 SS Z-28 Camaro feels like his car ain't good enough 'cause the guys around him at the car show have spent $150k to make theirs all metal flaked and shiny, it's gotten a bit rediculous.
rpeek 1 year ago
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Awesome poem. I have a 1987 Ford Ranger, not a hot rod or american classic but it's an old american ford truck. I've had to fix and replace many parts, even a couple of engines but this poem shows exactly why I'm never going to get rid of it. I love my 87 Ranger and I'll keep putting in my wrench work and revving that engine as long as I can.
thenoyse 1 year ago
Awesome poem. I have a 1987 Ford Ranger, not a hot rod or american classic but it's an old american ford truck. I've had to fix and replace many parts, even a couple of engines but this poem shows exactly why I'm never going to get rid of it. I love my 87 Ranger and I'll keep putting in my wrench work and revving that engine as long as I can.
thenoyse 1 year ago
I got my trusty old 90' F150 302. My friends ask me why I drive an old truck and tell them cause it's got spirit and personality and i'll drive it till the motor blows and then ill just drop another in. I'd rather drive an old truck or hotrod around then a new spacebox they have nowadays. I'll have my ratrod one day. parked in the driveway right next to my ol trusty 302
DuallyDieselFord 1 year ago
I'm 17. I have a 1967 Ford Fairlane, it's got 386 horsepower and 670 foot pounds of torque. All of the other kids at my school drive little Hondas with their fart cannons and the gay wings on 'em . Y'know what I think the wing is for? When the car breaks down and they have to push it home like a big grocery cart.
mrtheroosterdude 1 year ago 2
@mrtheroosterdude Yep! You nailed it... Nice car you've got there..
rpeek 1 year ago
hey rpeek love the videos and this poem
do you have the txt for it so i can post it on my dorm room door to teach this kids some thing ?
colin340 1 year ago
@colin340 I'll see if I can knock up a copy..
rpeek 1 year ago
I bomb around town in my tired ole 55 stude, staring at these non descript modern piles in disgust, they all look the same, have no soul in them. stomping on the pedal when the light goes green, showing the world and these junker modern piles, just what old american iron could do, has done and god willing, will forever do.
suedebear 1 year ago
@suedebear Good for you! Keep it alive...
rpeek 1 year ago
this poem brought teers to my eyes.... it was awesome. we just cant do that stuff any more with all the laws now were loseing our freedom. but we all still sneek out and burn some rubber down the street now and then and hope there's not a dam cop at the end of the street.......
cbhonda90 1 year ago
@cbhonda90 Thank You! Yea, I go out and bark 'em as often as I can, hahahahaha..
rpeek 1 year ago
More poetry, please! It's incredible!
We had friends visit us for the Labor Day weekend, I spent a lot of time showing off your videos. Everybody loves this one and the story about Darrell missing a gear. Are there any other poems that I've missed?
originalzombie1974 1 year ago
@originalzombie1974 Not that you've missed... I've got a lot of poetry though. I'm just trying to figure out how to make it work on youtube. I'd like to make movies to go with the stories, sort of like I did with this one and the old photos, but I don't always have what I need to make it happen, but it's in my mind...
rpeek 1 year ago
great story and great pics were all those you cars?
HotRodAlley 1 year ago
@HotRodAlley Yep. All except the family's cars at the beginning and the car show photos at the end.
rpeek 1 year ago
Brought a tear to my eye...I love your videos man, you're my favorite subscription
ridewithES 1 year ago
thats so true about old american iron. They don't apologoze for anything.....they are massive, powerful, brutes......like my old 1962 chrysler newport, 2 door
inkey2 1 year ago
that car at 0:10, the green coupe,,,,,WHAT IS THAT, what kind of car?.....thats a GREAT body design.
I instantly fell in love with that one
inkey2 1 year ago
@inkey2 That was a '39 Studebaker. It had a 396 4 speed in it.
rpeek 1 year ago
Richard, I don't think words can adequately express the feelings stirred from this reading and the accompanying slides. Sure I'm Australian born and bred but a youth similar in it's core. Sure the Aussie car's had smaller fins but the passion was still the same. Every now and then some Champion would front up with some US iron and really light the fires in the hearts of the young men and women.
EPA and Insurance prices may try but our passion for old IRON will never die!
denyardar 1 year ago
@denyardar Yep, I can tell you've got some rust in your blood too.. It's good.. Thanks.
rpeek 1 year ago
nice work man, i dig it!
tfxbillet 1 year ago
that was beautiful i wish you were my grandfather
koolperson55 1 year ago
My parents tell me that i need to get rid of that ol' piece rust and get something economical like a toyota or honda. i tell them i'd rather drive this rust bukket spending 100$ on gas than to be seen driving a piece of foreign shit. then i lay a little rubber. and kick her sideways. i love my 1977 silverado C/10
Chevymen350SS 1 year ago
Although I have no experience in American automotive mechanics, I think anyone who enjoys wrenching can confide a little in this poem.
redbarronxxi 1 year ago
Ive owned one Japanese car. "Let's just say, I don't own it any more" Love the poem, and the slide show was perfect!
shinobiR1 1 year ago
@shinobiR1 Thank you! I've really got nothing against Japanese cars, in fact I've got an old Toyota truck to restore, but when I wrote this, I wrote it with the mindset of my American made youth. Thanks for the compliment.
rpeek 1 year ago
Fine, fine poem Richard! I had a '69 camero, sold it like a fool, but that dang car would freaking fly! I raced a friend once, he had a mustang, got the jump on me, but that camero rose to the challenge passed him a few yards from the finish line. What a rush! If you don't mind, I'll post this on my Facebook page and probably on my blog too.
ncpoet 1 year ago
@ncpoet I'd be delighted! I had a '67 Camero SS 350 with a spread bore Holley. Never met a Mustang that could get close to it... They were awsome.. Be delighted to have you post it wherever you'd like. Thanks.
rpeek 1 year ago
absolutely beautiful. made me tear up pretty good!
jbroad3 1 year ago
This is love right here if i ever saw it. Good job buddy
coronet1966 1 year ago
GEARHEADS FOR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! them there toners will never know what it is like to drive a real car.
77fordtruckman 1 year ago
I stumbled onto this vid, and now I'm wiping a tear from my eye as I write this comment. Damn good stuff!
ddoyle11 1 year ago
@ddoyle11 Thank You!
rpeek 1 year ago
I lived the day. Thank you
TheRickr69 1 year ago
i'm speechless Peek.....well said my friend!
1968hambone 1 year ago
Amen brother,I can relate to every word. God bless you, and keep up the good work.
hereIcomereadyornot 1 year ago
this is poetry, manly manly poetry
thebibleisfiction 1 year ago
@thebibleisfiction Thank You.. Yes, I think it is..
rpeek 1 year ago