shows like this do NOT represent what real car enthusiasts of "the age" were really like, instead they represent what the Hollywood Scene (movie pictures) did TO the idea via phony "older people" concepts based upon their own ideas of what "would be" cool were they to have "their way" ... ie, all kinds of gaudy accessories added on, like little (and large) "chrome accessories", hubcaps, horns, do-dads, just extra trim added wherever it could be tacked on, the more the better (as far as they were concerned) ... while the true enthusiasts, the real people that were actually involved rather than the wannabees hangers-on types, were more "minimalist", strip it down to bare necessities, less was better (and truer for people that sought "performance" rather than glitz and glitter) ... the real versus the hollywood picture ... the latter reminds me of the silly "beach-party" scenarios and other cookie-cutter contrivances that never ever really happened in the day, but seemed "the norm "afterward" by the johnny and betty "come latelies" that NEVER lived it except thorough their "imaginations" provided by the movies ... fake and phony BS! IMnsHO and E so far.
Jerry Thank you for viewing and commenting on my videos. American Graffiti was a vision of George Lucas and which the Graffiti movement grew out of. I cruised the streets of Modesto and went to MJC at that same time. The Modesto Graffiti Museum was created by many of those that came out of that time. They are trying to preserve those times, that Gene Winfield (see my video) George and Sam Barris, Dean Jefferies and Von Dutch created with customs. Vic Edelbrock, Barney Navarro, Ed Iskenderian to name only a few that created performance equipment dating back to the end of World II. The Oakland Roaster Show Hi-lited the Hot Rod movement starting in 1964. The ultimate Hot Rod, started prior to World II, and today is still one of the worlds iconic cars. The Doane Spencer Roaster, now in Bruce Meyers Collection. The Black and Mexican Communities had their own take at that time. It is all subjective. The Modesto American Graffiti Museum is building its base on that time and place in this unique American Movement.
shows like this do NOT represent what real car enthusiasts of "the age" were really like, instead they represent what the Hollywood Scene (movie pictures) did TO the idea via phony "older people" concepts based upon their own ideas of what "would be" cool were they to have "their way" ... ie, all kinds of gaudy accessories added on, like little (and large) "chrome accessories", hubcaps, horns, do-dads, just extra trim added wherever it could be tacked on, the more the better (as far as they were concerned) ... while the true enthusiasts, the real people that were actually involved rather than the wannabees hangers-on types, were more "minimalist", strip it down to bare necessities, less was better (and truer for people that sought "performance" rather than glitz and glitter) ... the real versus the hollywood picture ... the latter reminds me of the silly "beach-party" scenarios and other cookie-cutter contrivances that never ever really happened in the day, but seemed "the norm "afterward" by the johnny and betty "come latelies" that NEVER lived it except thorough their "imaginations" provided by the movies ... fake and phony BS! IMnsHO and E so far.
Jerry Thank you for viewing and commenting on my videos. American Graffiti was a vision of George Lucas and which the Graffiti movement grew out of. I cruised the streets of Modesto and went to MJC at that same time. The Modesto Graffiti Museum was created by many of those that came out of that time. They are trying to preserve those times, that Gene Winfield (see my video) George and Sam Barris, Dean Jefferies and Von Dutch created with customs. Vic Edelbrock, Barney Navarro, Ed Iskenderian to name only a few that created performance equipment dating back to the end of World II. The Oakland Roaster Show Hi-lited the Hot Rod movement starting in 1964. The ultimate Hot Rod, started prior to World II, and today is still one of the worlds iconic cars. The Doane Spencer Roaster, now in Bruce Meyers Collection. The Black and Mexican Communities had their own take at that time. It is all subjective. The Modesto American Graffiti Museum is building its base on that time and place in this unique American Movement.