i guess i never explained this... yesterday just as a random experiment i had typed "traditional hot rod" into Google Image search. this was one of the first things to show up. it was built by some japanese students. it was a Mazda carol which is apparently the first car Mazda ever built. it sits on a suzuki chassis. thats as far as i cared to read into it. i just thought it was kind of funny, what Google's perception of a traditonal hot rod is. thats all, just a totally random post.