There is only one word that goes with this car, say it with my with some appreciation for style and cool shit - Cadzilla... lots of letter L love.
sedanette custom? GTFOH with that bullshit. Damn newbies.
Friday, July 24, 2020
when people like cars (bless their hearts) and post about them on Tumblr, but don't know an effing thing... you get this bullshit caption
There is only one word that goes with this car, say it with my with some appreciation for style and cool shit - Cadzilla... lots of letter L love.
sedanette custom? GTFOH with that bullshit. Damn newbies.
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Um since the car started out as a 1948 Cadillac Sedanette wouldn’t that make it a Sednatte custom?
ReplyDeleteJack.... was something I said not comprehensive? Work with me, just roll with me. Or, why are you looking at what I'm doing?
DeleteSorry I guess I'm missing something, I like what you are doing, check in almost every day. I just thought the caption "1948 Cadillac sedanette custom" was somewhat right. So hook me up with the correct caption. thanks.
ReplyDeleteCadzilla
DeleteIt's not like any other Cadillac.
It's not some custom Caddy
it's Cadzilla
Didn't you read under the photo?
There is only one word that goes with this car, say it with some appreciation for style and cool shit - Cadzilla... lots of letter L love. Like, pause while saying the Ls in ziLLa.
Before and after https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/05/what-cadzilla-looked-like-before.html
and the terrific Cadzilla itself
https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/01/cadzilla.html
when or if, YOU look at something you respect, a work of art, or a masterpiece... do you refer to it in terms of material construction?
DeleteDo you refer to Michelangelo's statue as that marble statue? That Italian sculpture?
Or do you give it some respect and say "David"?
Do you see Da Vinci's painting of that woman as an oil on birch wood? Or do you say, no, that is Mona Lisa?
if you respect works of art, cars, masterpieces, unique items - then look at this one of a kind fantastic ZZ Top album cover image in full scale hot rod glory, and say "Cad" pause a moment to seperate the mundane from the awesome "ZiLLa" with a hint of reverence.
This ain't no damn Cadillac. It's a Boyd Coddington masterpiece for "Reverend" Billy Gibbons and ZZ Top.
See, to me, what I'm doing here, is mostly showing respect for the cool car stuff.
Sure, lots of WW2 tanks, bombers, and steam trains, and even soap box derby cars.
There's a lot of everything.
But more than anything else, there's my respect and admiration to and of the art of hot rodding, custom cars, powerful motors, and the guys that created, adapted, improved, raced and tested cool stuff.
So, when I see some mook who put a website together who "likes" these creations, but DOESN'T get it? Doesn't understand the importance, the significance, of these customs, and fails to know what the hell the car is CALLED?
That's just not acceptable.
It's contrary to the nature of hot rod love. If you love something - not like it, not take it for granted, but love something?
You show the love, you share the love, you pass along the admiration and adoration for it.
Like religions do.
It's respect and love for the cool stuff your tribe has accomplished.
Can you feel me? Am I getting through?
Some cars have names, and a lot of people building cars name theirs.
ReplyDeleteBut not all cars with names are famous, and not all named cars are unique enough to deserve a name.
But some do, and when they do, and they EARN respect, it spins me up to see someone with a website like the one I was looking at, not in turn give that car respect.
So, while there are cars that are a tiny bit famous, to only a few people with an encyclopedic memory, other cars are known to most people in the car world, like Ed Roth's customs he made for the car shows in the 60s. Road Agent, immediately comes to mind. Druid Princess. Orbitron. Beatnik Bandit. Tweedy Pie
Other cars are one off's and the guy who made them only made one famous car, Little Deuce Coupe for example. Mormon Meteor is another.
And some builders did a couple that were well known, but don't seem to be name recognition level to the majority of car guys, like the cars the Alexander Brothers built, or Darryl Starbird.
But some cars earned a lot of recognition, and the Eliminator, the California Kid, Cadzilla, Jade Idol, Dragula, Moonliner, Golden Submarine, Pure Hell, Deora, Herbie, Chezoom, Mefistofele, Beast of Turin, Ol Yeller, Hirahota Merc, Manta Ray, Black Beauty, Baja Buggy, etc, earned it.
Yes, Foose names every car he works on. Doesn't change a thing. He probably needs to as he works on that many, just to remember what car he's referring to.