Check out this Rat Rod Build Wow :HMMM: http://www.popularmechanics.com/blog...s/4292166.html
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Check out this Rat Rod Build Wow :HMMM: http://www.popularmechanics.com/blog...s/4292166.html
I didn't think Popular Mechanics was still around ! :confused::D
Don
You would be surprised at just how many of these are designed to look like this but when looked at close and in person have quite a bit of expensive parts and engineering that had gone in to them.
The old saying "don't judge a book by it's cover" applies to some of these sneaky builders.
Bill S.
Putting a gas tank right behind the driver's head, is hardly what I would call engineering.......:eek:....or, is that just a big head rest?
Well guys I do like the gate hindge gas pedal though I don't care for the placement of the gas tank!!! Kurt
Now that I took a Better Look at the Inside of that Build :eek: There is no Trans Tunnel Just open air :HMMM: Guess that's Good for keeping you warm on them Cool Nights .
I wish people would stop calling this crap "old school"......I'm quite sure that's not how they did it back in the day!!!....:eek:;)
I like some of it but that gas tank would have to go. I'd like to have at least a miniscule chance of survival if i have a fender bender.
looks like $H!t, rides like $#!t, steer's like $#!t, PIECE OF $#!t
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Originally Posted by cnile64
:LOL::LOL::LOL:Oh come on!!! Don't hold back, tell us how you really feel!!!!:LOL::LOL::LOL:
In the last 40 years, I've turned out a few cars that the majority of people didn't like but I gotta say, I never made one look bad or build anything with questionable safety features.... and the clown in the article commenting on all the jagged, exposed bare pieces of metal actually thought it was kewl!!!! I guess there's no accounting for taste, or the total lack of it.....
I really Don't think he would get to far on the Street riding that Thing :LOL: The Cop's Would Have Him Pulled over real Quick :eek: :LOL:
Don, your T could look just like that one. :eek: All you got to do is bring it up here to the rust belt for about 2 months. Mother Nature has a way with making things go from looking good to looking bad.:LOL::LOL:
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Originally Posted by cnile64
X1.......What a waste of time and materials.
I really like traditional hot rods, but there is nothing traditional about these "shock rods". I just lost a lot of respect for Popular Mechanics for giving this crap some kind of acceptability.
My biggest fear is that someone in power will see one of these death traps and get legislation passed that will affect all of us negatively.
Mick
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.....Quote:
Originally Posted by lurker mick
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
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Severson
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...:HMMM:
Shea:)