Thread: Describe your Rat Rod project here.

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I don't know if it will be a "rat rod" by the definitions of this forum, but it won't be pretty anytime soon:
A have a '63 Corvair which was once given a fiberglass skin and a nose patterned off of some kind of Porshe. It was never really great, and sitting outside for 25 years hasn't helped.
However, I am doing a transplant of powertrain- the poorly done SBC is out, and am preparing the FWD 3.8 from a '87 Olds to go into midships of former 'Vair.
The motor and trans will stay stock until I get suspension, brakes, and all that stuff sorted out. Then, I have a turbo from an older 3.8 T-type to help things along...
Won't be a world-beater anytime soon, but should be a fun toy...
photos later.
jay

Why is it that every time rat rods are brought up this unsafe stuff starts my wife and kids drive mine and it needs a goverment saftey to be one the road. I do agree I want 4 brakes on my car to but if every rat rod only has two than every show car MUST have chrome rotors right because I have seen at least 4 or 5 in my day and I now have the right to say that thay all do.Please stop the KRAP I still like the part of the hobbie I belong to.

ow wow Big Meanie those are some cool looking bikes some real classic. I can remember haveing one some what similar to those sure wish I would of held on to It but I had to have one of those 5 speed stingray bikes when they came out and the old one whent to the garbage dump:confused

Period Rods?????? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
OMG, looks like a period to me too. Which period did that spanking new 350 LS-1 come out of? You can afford a crate motor but not a can of paint, because your making a statment?? Then you get upset because the statment is negative?
What a bunch of punks...you want to build a rod to "take it back to where it all started" crap- then get it right, use the same equipment that they had available, THEN let's see what ya got, besides your head up your butt, and an attitude about it.

I would realy like to know where these 80.000 paint job are at I want to cash in I dont know any one that has paid that much my truck only cost never mind I learned to paint it myself but still it would of only cost at most 3,500 only cause the color I chose but most paint job Ive seen range from 1,500 to 10,000 depending on color beside you always got maco starting at 200.bucks

Originally posted by Streets
Some dweeb wuz pushin' his Rat Rod up muh driveway yesterday, said he lost his rear brakes and didn't have any front brakes at all and ran into the big rock at the bottom of muh driveway... So I went and got my Remington (rattrap)10 gauge loaded w/00 buckshot, and put it outta it's misery forever, then I buried it in the back 40, (needed the fertilizer) he crawled away in his old rodent fashion..hehehe

ow yea streets lets put some more wood on the fire need some good reading

ya wasted a good /00 shell

Just in fun are you sure he wasnt a kamakize and just ran out of gas a little short of the strike zone.

Yawn--------DDSS. Read Dave Brisco's post again, then read it again, then keep reading the thing til you realize that you are not going to change anyone's mind or opinion concerning your rat rod... Cultures, sub-cultures, geez, been reading out of yer psychology 101 textbook again? Just quit labeling and catagorizing everything and everyone, build what ya want, nobody else really cares anyway. Just don't tell me that I'm wrong for building what I like. Never had a rat rod, never wanted a rat rod, never will own a rat rod. And by the way, if you're doing it as a form of protest, go find something worthwhile to protest.

Somebody kill this thread, Please.

I agree. My dad has a 31 model A coupe. Currently primered and chopped and sports a real hot flatty with and all the tricks. But it's no rat rod. It's gonna be shiny black, with a 50's style white and red tuck and roll interior. The chassis is a beautiful gloss red. To me, retro style and rat rods are two very different things. I really like the retro, but really hate the rat rods.

I just bought a 47 coupe that I'm making a early 60's style rod. It is yellow with white interior (not tuck and roll, yet!) It's stock flatty is going to be warmed up, and I need to give it a nice rake. I'm thinking of chrome reverse wheels and wide whites. Again, retro, but sure isn't any rat rod.

Bang, it's dead

I just had to share this did not know where to put it so figure this would be a place since were trying to kill this post one last funny

Hey Streets, that claymore should certainly do the job!!! Got them lining the driveway????? Tee Hee Hee

sorry if you meant me i was just having fun like i said at the first

Okay, my T bucket, which has sat for nearly two years without me touching it is a 1918 T with a 200 six banger and 3spd ala a '65 stang. It has a mid 30's fors rear with no brakes, a model a front end with again no brakes. The being brakless problem doesnt bother me as shes very far off from being road legal.

My 24 dodge roadster is on a hombuilt frame with the horns from a model a frame graftes on, 40 ford front end, brakes yet to be rebuilt so ive only got rears right now. 1970 dodge 318 and torqueflight, 8 3/4 rear, vw steering column and gear box, 65 stang seats that I stole from the T. Shes not all that far from being streetable, maybe a months worth of afternoons if i was actually motivated.

Then there my driver, shes closer to a rat rod than anything else. Just a basically stock 53 plym. Flat blacked, partially dechromed, desoto rims and caps, flamethrower which barely works and a chromed 94 on an offy adaptor to work on my single barrel intake.