Thread: Funny Rat Rod at NSRA TAmpa, FL

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aw this Funny Rat Rod at NSRA TAmpa, FL. No billet on it that's for sure.




Barb wire on headers for protection!!!!

Trash cans for seats wrapped with garden hose on the edges.

Somebody needs to stop sniffing glue.............

to each their own....but I dont get the rat rod thing.

I get it I have one, but that one is just scary! Probably not very safe either like those brackets on the front axle and the cam for a drag link. That's gonna break the first pothole. As a matter of fact that whole front suspension is a mess.

The whole Rat Rod thing can be hard for a lot of guys to understand. The Rat Rod crowd will say they want to get away from Cookie Cutter cars and build with what they have. To use a group of electic parts in a amalgamation that is cool and works.

Well, that is cool thing as well as an obtainable goal, and from that "CAN" come some nice and inovative and different cars. As an example witness the Boober Trucks that have sprung from the "RAT" theme. Some of these Booper trucks are very cool and they are in many ways a new Type of Hot Rod not seen before at least not seen in there current form. That is a good thing.

And then there are cars like the one pictured here---well I guess you could call that mess a car, yea on a good day maybe. Nothing cool about throwing together a ton and a half of junk, in the most unsafe and "UN" pratical manner and calling it a Rat Rod. I guess that would be the difference between a Rat and just plan RATTY.

And Florida, you are mistaken about -- No Billiet, this clown even missed on that simple requirement of rat rods--- The air cleaner scoop is in fact Billet Aluminum.

RS

Junk by any other name is still junk.... Of course it draws a crowd, so does a car crash.....

Funny, we all put rat rods down, but 4 of the top 10 threads on this site are "rat" threads. Go figure.

I don't mind rat rods and in fact like some, but the ones like this one with purely stupid stuff like that cam/drag link are what is going to cause all of us hot rodders problems down the road. A few of these start falling apart on the road and the powers that be will lump us all into one big group of trouble makers. We hot rodders have come too far respect wise to have "cars" like that set us back 50 years.

Don

I agree completely. If they are unsafe they have no business on the road.
There are "Rat rods" and then there are "Rat Crap."
I wasn't condoning them, just pointing out something I have noticed on the site.

Rat Rods are somewhat preplexing. Some of them are well designed and thought out projects. Example these 4. All self proclaimed by there owners as "RATS"

And then there is the other end of the spectrum, which begs to ask just two questions---- WHY??? and --- What could they have been thinking ???

And by the way that slant cab F-100 pick-up is a running driving vehicle.

Here is an interesting Rat.

Like I mentioned, I have nothing against what some call rat rods as long as they are safely built. Not everyone wants a shiny car. I've posted pictures of this rat before, it belongs to a friend. Bill used to drive funny cars and has been a hot rodder for many years, but he absolutely loves this car. It has been driven a zillion miles so far to places like Illinois, Texas, and God knows where else. It looks ratty but has a crate motor and is actually built pretty well. At shows he just sits on his lawn chair and smiles at the reactions of onlookers.

Don

most have no design in them at all ! most are just piles of shit.

quoted from a recent Hot Rod magazine:
"Rat Rods are what Gen Xer's think the 50's and 60's were like, none of us drove around in cars that outlandish, these kids are more concerned with looking like they are into cars then actually being into them. For us building a car was about speed, for them it's tacking as much rusted crap on a car as possible"

nuf said,
lotsa