Hard Rock Vegas Car Show Pin Up Photo Shoot Rat Rod Ruckkus 2010

Car show @ Hard Rock Photo shoot ,This is a video test .And in very low res. It is what it is .Just a test .A development of hot rodding, the change in name corresponded to the change in the design of the cars being modified. The first hot rods were pre-World War II cars, with running boards and simple fenders over the wheels. These were modified by removing the running boards and either removing the fenders entirely or replacing them with very light "cycle fenders". The object was to put the most powerful engine in the lightest possible frame and body combination. The suspension was usually altered to make the car lower; the front was often made much lower than the rear. Much later some hot rods and custom cars swapped the old solid rear axle for an independent rear axle, often from Jaguar. Only rarely was the grille of one make of car replaced by another; one exception was the 1937 Buick grille, often used on a Ford. (In the '50s and '60s, the grille swap of choice was the '53 De Soto.) The original hot rods were plainly painted like the Model A Fords from which they had been built up, and only slowly begun to take on colors, and eventually fancy orange-yellow flamed hoods or "candy-like" deep acrylic finishes in the various colors.

With the change in automobile design to encase the wheels in fenders and to extend the hood to the full width of the car, the former practices were no longer possible. In addition, there was tremendous automotive advertising and subsequent public interest in the new models in the 1950s. Hence custom cars came into existence, swapping headlamp rings, grilles, bumpers, chrome side strips, and tail lights, as well as "frenching" and "tunnelling" head- and taillights. The bodies of the cars were changed by cutting through the sheet metal, removing bits to make the car lower, welding it back together, and adding a lot of lead to make the resulting form smooth (hence the term "lead sled"; lead has been replaced by Bondo). By this means, "chopping" made the roof lower;[1] "sectioning"[2] made the body thinner from top to bottom. "Channeling"[3] was cutting notches in the floorpan where the body touches the frame to lower the whole body. Fins were often added from other cars, or made up from sheet steel. In the custom car culture, someone who merely changed the appearance without also substantially improving the performance was looked down upon.

Paint was an important concern. Once bodywork was done, the cars were painted unusual colors. Transparent but wildly-colored candy-apple paint, applied atop a metallic undercoat, and metalflake paint, with aluminum glitter within candy-apple paint, appeared in the 1960s. These took many coats to produce a brilliant effect — which in hot climates had a tendency to flake off. Customizers also continued the habit of adding decorative paint after the main coat was finished, of flames extending rearward from the front wheels, scallops, and hand-painted pinstripes of a contrasting color. The base color, most often a single coat, would be expected to be of a simpler paint. Flame jobs later spread to the hood, encompassing the entire front end, and have progressed from traditional reds and yellows to blues and greens and body-color "ghost" flames.

Painting has become such a part of the custom car scene that now in many custom car competitions, awards for custom paint are as highly sought after as awards for the cars themselves.

Engine swaps have always been commonplace. Once, the flathead, or "flatty", was the preference, supplanted by the early hemi in the '50s and '60s. By the 1970s, the small-block Chevy was the most common option, and since the '80s, the 350 cu in (5.7 l) Chevy has been almost ubiquitous.[4]

Once customizing post-war cars caught on, some of the practices were extended to pre-war cars, which would have been called fendered rods, with more body work done on them. An alternate rule for disambiguation developed: hot rods had the engine behind the front suspension, while customs had the engine over the front suspension. The clearest example of this is Fords prior to 1949 had Henry Ford's old transverse front suspension, while 1949 models had a more modern suspension with the engine moved forward. However, an American Museum has what could be the first true custom, built in 1932, amongst its exhibits.

With the coming of the muscle car, and further to the high-performance luxury car, customization declined. One place where it persisted was the U.S. Southwest, where lowriders were built similar in concept to the earlier customs, but of post-1950s cars.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• 66SIX Test video
• Rat City Rukkus
• 2010
• Car show
• krazy kreations custom cars
• Don Chartier
• hot rod culture pin ups
• pin up photo shoot

[XIS99]

Strobes would be great but ac power to make them work would have been better.

[VETTE1000HP]

I watch Rat Rod TV and this should be on the show.

[XIS99]

@VETTE1000HP I also watch Rat Rod TV ... OK how do I win a welder ?

[onjoFilms]

I try to do that too during a model shoot, grab their legs, feel them up, grab the ass, the whole works. That was Amy Winehouse, right?

[XIS99]

@onjoFilms ,I strive to be a professional , I don't even check out their rack or if the wind should blow up their skirt ,I look the other way as not to embarass the model ,and I always show respect , Oh and I stopped drinking beer and am thinking about joining a church ,and I want to start acting like an adult ,it's about time I grew up .

[onjoFilms]

@XIS99 You'll get over it in a few minutes.

[XIS99]

@onjoFilms Your Right .... Thanks Man ... What was I thinking ?

[TheGmantx]

He should have shot this with studio strobes or at least strobist.