your spose to drive em!!!
I didn't realize we were SUPPOSED to do anything with our rods - other than what we wanted. Isn't that what you expect of your rod? Is there a rule book that I missed somewhere?
id rather fix dents then holes
I'd rather not fix anything, but that doesn't keep me from doing what I can to make my ride what I want it to be. I'm certainly not going to put on a crappy paint job just because it might get dinged - and if it does get dinged . . . I built it, I can fix it. If I want a nostalga or old-school look, I'll do it. And, I'll do it because I want to, not because I'm afraid of someone denting my fender.
the people who do have trailer queens whats cool about that
In your mind, it apparently isn't cool. Fortunately, and I mean REALLY fortunately, you're not the sole arbiter of cool.
thats liek the complete oppisite of hot rodding
"Opposite of hot rodding" is a little too abstract for me. Some things don't have an opposite. What's the opposite of house, for instance?

Gasser, what you don't seem to grasp is that no one cares what you build. Hot rodding isn't either one thing or the other, it's a continuum running from the "I bolted it together with parts I found in the pasture" to "I wrote Coddington a check for $300k." You seem to have some need to justify rat rods when all most of the folks are saying is, listen up, now: "Build a rat rod if you want . . . I just don't happen to want one." If you just quit justifying your ride by knocking those who don't see it your way, your adrenalin level will drop back to normal, and you'll quit messing up level five on your game boy.

Oh . . . perhaps this is the opposite of hot rodding: