47-55.1 Why I Don't Follow Trends With My Truck Builds

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What's funny is most who look back and cut on old fads are at the moment following the current one. Now it's hip to do early era traditional style. I watched that go away and all the trends since and not too many guys can say they've stuck with the traditional throughout. Maybe for some it's 'going back'. But it's going back after 60 years after building the street rods of the '60s & '70s into the 'glass & billet kits through the '80s & '90s. People are doing things to trucks now that they will be cussing in the future.

Another funny thing is I can honestly say I never lost the love for how things were done in the '50s and '60s. I kept my tastes with the tradition stuff. Didn't like the wheels that kept coming and going, trick paint, etc. BUT... I can totally appreciate a ride from any of those eras done to a T. I like seeing an era taken from the past done right. Especially considering how great life was at that time. That's what the traditional rodders are doing now. Who's to say the trends of the '70s, '80s, or whatever won't come back and people who cut on those trends now won't hoppin' on the bandwagon. If you truly don't follow trends it's because you have your own creative mind and know what you like and that's all that matters.