Reason no front brakes is because rat rods are junk rods made on a budjet and back then they didn't have brakes, barely any floors, people would use sheet metal from roofs, shingles, etc. That's why. Now I am sure you wan't a rat rod look with bare metal clear coated or flat black with wide whitewalls but still wan't the truck to operate good. That really isn't rat rodding but has the rat rod look. Just paint the thing either flat black or sand/media blast it to bare metal and put a clear over it, drop the hell out of it and then wide whitewalls with moon caps or something like that over it. Or even spoked wheels and motorcycle tires on it. Go to the cars for sale section on here and about 10 threads down there is a rat rod truck for sale, look at that for ideas, that is a nice truck
Sweet S10 by the way.