Thread: Another Rat Rod ?

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You wont have to worry about legislation untill one of those dip S%&ts runs over some congerssmans kid with one of those death rods then were all F*&%^d.

I can not for the life of me understand why somebody would devote a great deal of time and energy to build something so hideously ugly. There is something very perverse about human nature. Its kinda like the fat ugly girl who has a bolt thru her lip and a corkscrew thru her eyebrow. At some level she knows that she will never be pretty, so she goes out of her way to make herself hideous. I think psychologists have proven that negative attention is better than no attention at all.---Brian

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

That's been my concern since the whole rat rod thing started. The public see them as all the same and if one is a POS death trap, they all are.... As with most any situation, the actions of a few can put restrictions on all of us.....

Agreed; I'm all for expression and building a budget rod. If you want to try to make it look like an old rod that might have been built in the 50's, so be it. But at least have safe brakes, steering, and put the fuel tank where it doesn't pose an instant death sentence. I'm not big on the whole open header deal, either. I like a little loud but that has to be painful after a while.

I think i want my exwife to ride in that car.

In general I like RatRods, but I have never seen them as something historical. To me they are just junkyard creations and I like the overall worn / poorboy look. That said ... I dont think it is at all glamourus or cool to build a car that is inherently unsafe to operate or control.

As for the car in the article, it is probably one of the worst "rat rod" creations I've seen from an asthetic point of view, for some reason it just dosn't look right, even for a rat. maybe that's what he was after but it dosn't do anything for me.

I like the thinking outside the box and low-dollar ideas some of these "rat" builders come up with. Actually, I think one day I'd like to try and build a basic, grass-roots simple type of rod with an old truck cab on a T-bucket type chassis...

Didn't they call such a creation a "bobber" back in the old days?

What I don't dig about these things is the exaggeration of everything-too low, too much chop/section to look "right", engine/intake setups that stand a foot taller than the body, and RUST! Damn, no paint looks like crap!

Each to their own, I guess, just wish they'd build them more safely...

Shea