I watched Rides " Ratrods" last night and learned a new prespective of the term "Ratrod", it's just people that drive there hotrod if it moves and is road legal, they don't let it sit till it's finished, they also do it cause of low budget, the people that were interviewed on the show said they would get painted and finished just driven b4 there finished or even " Cosmeticly appealing ", they wearn't the rat rodders that ran it without brakes, the rod they built was a '27 T that was chopped 4" and channeled over a '31 A frame that was Z'd, had a older V8 Buick and a 3 speed caddy trans, and the steering box out of a '52 ford pickup, they didn't say what rear end it had, it had '49 Ford Drum brakes all the way round. I guess by the way I'm doing my car, I could be considered a rat rodder, soaking money into it when I have it and drive it when I dont but, I'm gonna paint it for too long, b4 summers out. The '27 T had no roof and I think the only window it had was the windshield but I could be wrong.