About this forum

Hot Rod Owners Forum opened in November 2025 for people who build, buy and drive street rods and customs, and who got tired of reading restoration-correct arguments when they just wanted to know whether a flake roof will crack in an unheated barn.

Street rods and customs here means the 1932 Ford deuces, the 33 and 34 coupes, the fat-fender Fords, the 40s and 50s customs, resto-mods and pro-touring cars. Flatheads, small blocks, LS and Coyote swaps, bags and coilovers, steel and glass. A hundred-thousand-dollar show car and a primered driver get the same answers.

It is run by Wade H., who posts as mod_wade_h. Wade has been building Fords for a long time out of a pole barn north of Loveland, Colorado, where he keeps a two-post lift, a bead blaster and a 1931 Model A coupe with a flathead and juice brakes. He reads the contact mailbox himself and is slow about it in the summer when there are cars to drive.

What it costs

The server is eleven dollars a month and the domain was twelve for the year. Wade pays both. There is no advertising on any page, no affiliate code in any link, and nobody has paid for a thread or a spot in one. If that ever changes it will say so here first.

House rules

• Chassis and engine in your first line, and say steel or glass if it is a body question. A bagged LS 34 is a different car from a flathead Model A on coilovers, and the answer changes.
• If you bought it, say what you paid. Buying reports without numbers get a friendly note from a mod asking for them, and most people fill them in.
• No selling cars or parts inside a thread. There is no classifieds board, on purpose. Linking a public listing to make a point about price is fine.
• If you draw a check from a shop, a paint booth, an insurer, an auction or a transport company, say so in your posts. People posing as owners when they are not get removed.
• Be civil. The flathead purists and the LS swappers all share four pages and none of you is converting the others.
• Mods move posts to the right board and leave a note where the post used to be. Threads get locked rarely and with a reason written in them.
• Accounts are by email request until the spam settles down.

What this is not

Not a shop, not a broker, not an insurer and not your state DMV. When somebody here hands you a pedal ratio, a torque spec or a titling step, check it against your own car and your own state before you trust a canyon road to it.