Not even close

[Greg Myers]

[Crazy Ed]

   If the Car was intended to be a Tribute to the '17 Flyers, I'm guessing they/he just might have missed the mark. Maybe marked up as one of  Oddball's Tanks from Kelley's Hero's would have been better.

Edited August 9, 2015 by Crazy Ed

[Greg Myers]

[Ace-Garageguy]

I don't get the connection either. I never have seen a B-17 made of rusty junk, covered in bubblegum welding and sporting fake parts. Guess I'm just not cool enough to understand.

[62rebel]

I don't get it, either. And I usually go for artistic representations. Even the iconic "Red Baron", an admittedly silly looking rig, comes off as more acceptable tribute than that does.  (And I love the Red Baron car)

 

I have to admit, I find myself asking this question when I see these art rods; would I ever build a real car like this? Would I try to pull the build together with "theme" parts, like fake gun barrels for headers? And, almost every time, the answer is NO. the basic car is barely within any particular style or era, and the addition of "theme" parts just doesn't finish the scene. 

[1930fordpickup]

Maybe his grandfather was a pilot in the WWII . 

 

[Greg Myers]

My Father in law was a bombardier with 35 missions over Germany and I'd never do anything like that.   His office . . . 

Edited August 9, 2015 by Greg Myers

[Roadrunner]

The turret illustration on the rear, looks like it may be B-24 related, but certainly not B-17.

[mk11]

He carried the theme out inside as well. Unfortunately the 'less is more' concept didn't figure into things when he piled all the stuff on the front 

 

mike

 

[PeeBee]

I don't get the car / WWII aircraft connection.  It's either a road vehicle or an aircraft.  I get that some early rods used the seats out of bombers, and perhaps other parts to contain fuel, etc., and those would be neat details to include on a traditional hot rod build or restoration.  But this is like, yeah, yeah, we get the joke already!

My dad flew bombers in WWII and this would be the last thing in the world he'd ever be seen driving.  Then again, my parent's generation were grown-ups...     

[AC Norton]

......is there a point to this post,,,,thought this was an automotive model site.......the ace..........

[PeeBee]

For general model car hobby or 1:1 automotive related topics ONLY.

[Greg Myers]

gets ya thinkin' 

[FASTBACK340]

I don't get the connection either. I never have seen a B-17 made of rusty junk, covered in bubblegum welding and sporting fake parts. Guess I'm just not cool enough to understand.

Easy Ace…. Don't rattle the rat rod cage. Next thing you know, they'll band together with the negative camber guys and beat us down. 

 

We recently chased one of those things out of our shop. Scary stuff being built in the name of fashion. 

[Daddyfink]

Yeah, I'm thinking its stupid

[slusher]

Inside is better the the rest of the car but a big fail...

[Greg Myers]

machine gun barrel steering column, AND cup holders. 

[DaveM]

Don't you all get it?  It's a "Traditional" rod... you know, the way they used to build them back pre '62...  Boy you old people just don't get how things used to be!  

 

(Huge dose of sarcasm there, but it was funny hearing some kid who was born during the Clinton administration tell that to a Korean War Vet at a car show)

Edited August 10, 2015 by DaveM
Too old to remember basic grammar!

[Lunajammer]

Inside is better the the rest of the car but a big fail...

Agreed. The interior is brilliant. Should continue that tone through the exterior. I'll just say the dude's not finished yet.

[Snake45]

Most airplane "tribute" cars look horrible and this backbirth is one of the worst I've seen.

The interior looks much better than the outside.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Inside is better the the rest of the car but a big fail...

I agree the interior is better than the outside, but then again...REAL aircraft sheetmetal work is beautiful. It doesn't have wonky edges, gaps, and jerky curves. It's as good as you get, and this is a very poor imitation.

[Skip]

My Father in law was a bombardier with 35 missions over Germany and I'd never do anything like that.   His office . . . 

That would be a late in the war B-17, Boeing painted the full exterior surface on the early ones, then as the missions stretched farther and farther into Germany less and less got painted until at last they were nearly all raw aluminum except for the cloth covered control surfaces.  In the interest of weight savings, by that time the Gremans knew they were coming anyway, no need to hide.  When I worked for Boeing I worked with a guy who was an Engineer on the predecessor to the B-17 once they delivered the plane to the Army-Air Corps he took a leave of abscence to fly those same B-17's over Eastern Europe.  Amazing guy, would only talk about his WW II service when pestered to, had some cool stories to tell.

Back to he Rat Rod in question, nothing traditional about that thing, nothing even close to a B-17 even in the Artsy sense of things.  There one or two interesting features in the interior, I wouldn't want to see them on anything I'd be driving though.  Agree the interior is better than the rest of the car.  I like Traditional Hot Rods, I've got tons of little pages and early Hot Rod magazines with examples of them.  Don't believe any of them contain anything remotely close to this nightmare!!

Edited August 12, 2015 by Skip
Spelling error, then everything disappeared!

[Draggon]

Obviously a lot of work went into that. Suffers from "the sum of the parts is greater than the whole" I cannot imagine how much "fun" it would be to drive it on a 100 mile cruise. 

[3100 chevy]

Bombers didn't have white walls last I checked

[Greg Myers]

Edited August 14, 2015 by Greg Myers
because