Thread: Rides " Ratrods"

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Originally posted by pro60chevy
Seeing as how you brought it up, do ya?

Yea, a whole block O' cheese. I know a whole block is an odd request but I can cut the cheese.

naww............. no more b/s unless its needed

Originally posted by Streets
@ 52 I'll betcha can SQUEEZE IT TOO.PROZZZZZzzz..

Naw, not me. I won't be 52 fer a looong time yet. He HE HE

Originally posted by gassersrule_196
im not buidling a rat rod right now. but i plan to. i can only plan until i save enuf money to get a shell. and 72gto judge im goign to copy and paste something off a diff forum that u posted on QUOTE:Rat rods are not by definition unsafe, and not all "rat rodders" hate every finished car on the road. It's the lack of creativity (off the shelf unmodified fiberglass bodies, 350 engines, boring paint jobs) that rat rodders don't like, end quote this is what i have been trying to say. and ive also got the 2 grand saved up for the 56 chey thats going to be my gasser. the same guy has a few old 20's and 30's shells i am looking at. the point is i am trying. and it will be done before im 21 ......................................scooter

i agree with you on this 350s are always in rods nomatter what it is everyone sticks 350s in there rods it gets boring seeing
i much as i dont car to much for fiberglass bodies
i would sport a fiberglass rod over a rice mobile anyday
i will update everyone on the progress of my wagon

I knew Dick Courtney very well. Is this the same Dick Courtney that lived in Fullerton and Buena Park, California? If so, I remember his first roadster. I was only a kid back in the 50's but I remember that hot rod.

Dick worked at Stanford Truck and Paving Company back then. I worked with him during the summers.

He also built a few more roadsters during the 1980's, I think. I have a magazine with an article concerning him and his roadsters (just have to find it).

Dick passed away in about 1992 or 1993. The last time I saw Dick was in Sept. 1992 at my father's funeral. He died shortly thereafter.

Verl Stanford
Buena Park, California

Originally posted by Bob Parmenter
To add to Henry's comments, you're not seeing the historical perspective either. For almost a year now we've had a steady parade of self professed "rat rodders" roll through here. With the exception of only a couple, everyone of them comes on like an acre of garlic. It's like they've got some chip on their shoulder. Look a few posts up. The guy says his whole deal is to piss people off. That attitude crap is gettin' old.

This is like a club house, or even your house. Some guy comes in, and before he gets to know anybody he starts in with the "rat rods are the root of rodding", "only rat rods are real", "only people who build everything on their own car are real rodders", and blah blah blah blah blah. Lately, we even get the guys who get into serious name calling in two or three of their first posts. Would you welcome that kind of boor into your house? Henry makes some good points. With the exception of Streets and his "suck" remark, most everyone else here is pretty ambivalent about rat rods until the self professed "real hot rodder" starts in with that attitude thing again. Then they start reacting to the jerk-like attitude more than the choice of car.

And for some of us who've been around the scene for more than 40 years these self professed "keepers of the flame" show their ignorance. Not all cars from the '40's and '50's were ratty looking. Most of these "high and mighty" types probably have never heard of Dick Courtney, Doane Spencer, Fred Mack, Bob McGee, Fred Steele, Ed Iskendarian and several hundred more REAL rodders who built well finished and high quality looking cars 50 years ago.

Get acquainted and you might find there's more similarity here than you realize.