5 Differences Between A Hot Rod And A Custom
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- A common question that we get a lot is how to tell the difference between a hot rod and a custom. The line between the two types of builds are not set in stone and with car styles such as a show rod, some stylings can be pulled from both. If you have any other differences that you feel separate a hot rod from a custom, please let us know down below in the comments!!!
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Custom= for show. Hot Rod= for go.
I think that's why Rods usually had an unfinished look to them (I HATE the term "Rat Rod"). Guys were spending the majority of their cash on performance related stuff.
Thanks for sharing a friend from Canada Rob 😎✌
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Charles, maybe in the past. But now we are seeing both rods and customs at small car events and cruise ins. I love all cars. Even some rat rods are built well with amazing ideas built in.
I just hate to see a nice original of any brand or year turned into a chopped, dropped, dechromed rod or rat rod. There are still a lot of rusted out cars better suited for a hot rod than a restoration.
Just remember, it's your car. Build it the way you want it!
Hi Matt, Thanks for
the Sunday Service. Built for “speed or comfort”. After this I watched Full Custom Garage with Ian Rousell on MAV TV, and he was doing a ‘46 coupe . He did susp, with a 302/ C6. It looked great when he was cruising with stance, wheels, and smiles. Amazing how these channels are growing , thanks !
Hey Matt
Good explainations of car styles.
I think the main thing a new comer needs to remember is just do it !
Make it your own !
Not everyone is going to like it but not all people are the same, so goes the vehicles !
Injoy your ride !
Whatever you want to call it.
Be Safe, Well and Warm
EVERYBODY
I always thought with a big wheel on the back and a small wheel on the front it was faster because its always going down hill . 🤣 LOL
Can ALWAYS coast "DOWN HILL" to the gas station!!
no, it was for better gas mileage
Flattens out the uphill too!
This channel is the path, the way, and the light. I look forward to every video. And am especially enjoying the tech tip and top 5 videos. Thanks Matt and Mike for your contribution.
Good information. One thing I would recommend would be figure out what era rod or custom you want to follow and buy magazines from that time for ideas. For example I'm getting ready to build a rod from the '65 to '70 era and I have several magazines from that time. (Andrew's T would have been the perfect start)
Good advice
I remember a old saying "Chrome don't get you home".
You are a walking encyclopedia of hot rodding!
That's my old '37 Chevy @ 1:43 I built. That picture was taken by Chuck Vranas at the GG show in Rhinebeck, NY in 2011.
The Car won the Street Rodder Top 10 Pick for the year, and the Good Guys Kustom of the Year Finalist Award at that show.
Morning Matt, thanks for the early morning video!! Be safe, God Bless!!
I’ve got chrome acorn covers on my flathead that’s my extent of customization.
A chrome generator cover and coil cover might be too much!
you never stop learning.....👍👍👍 very interesting video Matt!
Hot rod, street rod, lead sled, custom, ....... I appreciate any and all combinations or labels even “rat rods” enjoyed your thoughts as usual
Thanks for the comparison between Hot Rods and Customs. You guys have given me inspiration to get my butt out in the garage and start plugging away on our project. Just came back in from rebuilding the wheel cylinders on a 39 Ford truck front end that is in mine and my wifes' Model A project.
Hey Matt, alot of great knowledge there, but don't forget the original ones. Thanks for the video
Thanks for posting this, I’ve gotten the question for years on my blog and never took the time to write it out for everyone, now I’ll just send them this link.
I am building an early kustom tail dragger style out of a 1949 vauxhall . 3 inch roof chop ,frenched 59 caddy tail lights ,frenched head lights ,Lake pipes and a set of ful face hollywood flippers on 15 inch steelies with wide white walls .283 Chevy with a 350 trans and an 8 inch with air bags in the rear . classic kustom touches to a car that was not really ever done
a Vauxhall? that would be cool.
Good job Matt!... and thanks for using the pic of the engine-turned dash in our old Deuce Roadster (~12:17 mark) to illustrate a Hot Rod dash ... made me laugh when it popped up in the video ... ‘cuz it was the exact dash that came to mind when you said “the more gauges the better you are” ... and then you showed that pic of our old roadster’s dash (when Michael Russell owned it)
Another good primer on fun car basics.
Thanks, and Woof to Moon.
Hi Mat; I really appreciate your time.
I would like to see you do a basic garage, size, needs and where to put the big stuff.
I notice you have several big thing's going on in your shop.
And still have room to park three or four cars.
Thanks Bob from South Dakota.
I think a bigger breakdown on customs would be a good video. Hot rods have I think better defined "lines in the sand" on what makes a hot rod a hot rod, where the evolution of customs from the late 40's through the 60's changed rapidly along with the various levels of customs from mild to radical. That would also lead into car shows of the era and how they pushed customs to get crazier through out the 50s and 60s to all that weird stuff by the end of the 60s.
Great video and education. I agree 100%. For my Edsel, I spend more time doing research first. Then I buy the parts I need second. I also reference a lot of books and magazines for ideas and tips. You guys are on the right track!!!!
Another great morning in the garage.
Cool video! "Cars are for picking up girls - Hot rods are for keeping girls off your mind" Robert Williams. PS Thanks for the stickers! They got here fast - Jeff in SC.
Thank you for the information on this !
Very cool video 😁😁😁😁🥲 And very helpful you know your stuff that’s for sure ty Steve
Matt, Love to hear you talk about bias ply & radial tires. What you prefer, brands etc.
Great video Matt! Thanks for sharing. Kevin
Hot rod with the California Rake , the front is low the rear is notabley higher.
Cool stuffF😉⚡⚡😎☝️
Very informative.
Have yet to see a custom Model A 😁😁. Great info Matt, I appreciate your discussion on wheels. Hub caps are the best way to set your car apart from the rest instead of "cookie cutter" custom wheels.
Really? There are loads of 60s ones. IMO most look awful though, customs look best when done on a post '34 car
When I think of a "custom" car" I think of it slammed in the back, skirts, wide whites and a heavy chop. A Model A screams hot rod. I have a 41 Willys coupe, it screams hot rod. Seen a couple as taildraggers, just doesn't look right.😉
Most 41 Willys you see done as gasser clones, which is cool, but they do look awesome slammed as a nose down west coast raked 'rod, i prefer them that way
Good job on this information Matt! Now how about difference between Hot Rod vs Street Rod.I believe there is a difference here as well. Thanks for your programs.
Matt..... Not sure if you said what size tire are you running on your dad's car..... I'm working on a 42 sedan.... Running a 15 x 6 rim... Thanks keep up the good work!
34 and earlier, hot rod. 35 and later, custom. But not always! 😎
33/34 could be the blurred line where you could do either, when looking at Fords, but a 32 is nothing but a hot rod
@@camaroboy1968ss Except for something like Chili’s 32 maybe
You have it as I have always known it Bill! Good job! Any other would be in the gray area. .... The reason being is a hot rod can always goes faster and still look good without fenders. It's still a hot rod through 34 with fenders though. I would always stretch the term hot rod to basically anything modified for competition because of the gray area.
Good synopsis, Matt. I'd like to hear your opinion of wide whites on a hot rod. Does fender or fenderless come into play? I'm building a '36 Ford 3w coupe (with fenders) and have been going back & forth in my mind about tires. I'm shooting for a late- '50's to early '60's street driven look and have been thinking about 2" WWW's with '56 Olds Fiesta covers or open wheels with chrome lug nuts & mini-trim rings. What say you ?
Either way.
Great overview Matt. Where do you usually get your vintage tires from?
I'll bet he gets them from Coker Tires.
Every car is individual. Hot rod, custom, cruiser. Some are a bit of everything.
Matt, your taste in cars is not mine, though you do some interesting things and cars.
In my late 60s I know of rods that have been around 50 years.
Most Rods I know are fairly tame in the mechanicals
Great discussion. Street Rod vs Hot Rod! Lol
I think it comes down to what the purpose is. Customs are about creating automotive art, but hot rods are more about the driving experience.
Back when I first got into modifying American cars in the 70’s and joined the NSRA, one of the caveats was a Hotrod had to be Pre 1949. A Kustom could be anything from 1950 on through to 1960, Street Machines were 1970’s on. Then Pro Street came along and anything was fair game.
That's why when I bought a panel truck I bought a 1948 Chevy. Up till early 1954, they are pretty much alike. Cars changed to the Shoe Box and torpedo look after 1948.
Now new Cameros, Corvettes, and Mustangs sit next to Rice Rockets at car events.
why the need for labels? if it’s old & put together well then it’s cool.
When you're learning about art, it's helpful to learn the basics. I've been a car guy my whole live, but I never made a distinction between East-Coast and West Coast hot rod styles. The labels help me understand the history more. And I've seen really good work that's put together well, and is a confusing mashup like Matt describes. It's a valuable distinction if you're starting out in the field, identifying the classic elements, so if you say "Something just ain't right"... he gives a couple of reasons it might hit you that way.
@@87mini jeesh ... stick with painted pictures of fruit ... it’s hot roddin not art. you artsy farts folks have ruined enough shit by assigning labels and then claiming “it’s art” ... I know cool when I see it and I don’t need no damn label.
matt do you guys are drive up to the car show in bloomsburg pa in may or august cars show
Customs all day
amazing video today
Hi Matt So where do Street Rods lie, between a custom and a hot rod?
They aren't really true 'customs' in a traditional sense, they are customised yes, but really to smooth out and modernise a hotrod.
Street rod...DVD player, power windows and AC..
Hot Rod...none of the amenities.
If you did it to the car to add speed, it’s a hot rod.
If you did it for aesthetics, it’s a custom.
A whole episode could be done on wheels and tires alone. I did a short on what makes a chrome reverse wheel a chrome reverse wheel and not just a chromed smoothy or stock wheel.
Too me a chrome reversed wheel and baby moons is as good as it gets.
“customized hotrod” 🎱
In the bike world, in the older days a bobber was a hot-rod. Baggers (AKA Garbage Barges) were the customs.
The ass up face down hot rod stance also changed the caster on a straight axle car giving it more caster for straight line driveability/stability.
Negative caster is when the the king pin eye in the axle is angled forward. Positive caster is when it is angled backwards. Raising the rear of a car decreases the caster angle, not increases it.
You missed the biggest one! 1948 & earlier is a hotrod, 1949 & later is not.
Make it a sleeper hot rod
Matt....What got YOU into hot rods?
Its All Hot Rodding
My dad's was noise high on his 46 in high school
Odd Rod or Wacky Packages?
What about a custom- hotrod or a hotrod-custom ?
For years I bought "Rod & Custom".
Great tutorial on this, very dialed in.
Wheels always seem to date your build.
Matt missed it Customs are for picking up girls, Hot Rods are for Loosing them.....Customs are cruisers, Hot Rods are Racers.
General Rule :
hot rod - cars up to and including 1934....... customs - cars from 1935 onwards
Don't tell my kustom its wrong..it likes it's blower..
Suggestion: Make sure you do not violate state law, if driven on the street; or find out the hard way with driving on the street, through criminal financial penalties, when you get pulled over = $$$$$$$$$$$. Solution: Contact your local: hot rod or custom non-profit organization for assistance and contact your state motor vehicle dept. Note: Through 'public record request' obtain regulatory stipulations regarding custom/hot rod requirements for street usage. Why? Answer: The Motor Vehicle dept. in your state is NOT legal advice. Also note, that if you abide all legal requirements for a 'road worthy vehicle', you may STILL NOT be able to obtain vehicle insurance and therefore will not be able to drive the vehicle on the street, which is dependent upon the state. Added suggestion: Get an vehicle inspection statement/sticker, dependent upon the state, which can in turn, WHEN YOU ARE PULLED OVER by the police, you hand them that inspection statement.
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To me it looks like safety wasn't too much of a concern I don't see any roll bars or nothing protecting these guys on these little hot rods or even the customs let you know those big ol custom they can take some punishment but them hot rods no way pretty dangerous
stick to the plan. don´t care about people who don´t know. if someones wants to know the net is full of info. and if they need such simple explanations they won´t last long in the hobby
??? Are you admonishing Matt for an educational video? I think what's important here is that Matt cares about people who don't know, because his mission is to keep the sport alive. And everyone needs simple explanations - the smarter you are, the better you are at explaining things simple. There are lots of other TH-camrs who do work and don't care about teaching - I'm 67, know a lot, but don't know it all, so I'm fine with Matt doing whatever he likes. I learn something every video.
You left out Rat Rods.