Thread: Another Rat Rod ?

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Originally Posted by lurker mick

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.....

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

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

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.....

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.

I think i want my exwife to ride in that car.