Thread: Just curious...

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Don, the picture you posted is interesting, and may be one of the reasons there can be so much debate about rat rods.

It would be really intresting to have a little history about the car, primarirly when it was built and when it was parked.

I think the only way it could be classified as shown in the picture is "as found" or the current term.... barn fresh.

Now for ME, it would depend on the quality of the original work, and what the curent owner decided to do with it.

Heres an example, assuming the car has been sitting for a considerable amount of time, and the new owner decided to throw air/new tubes in the dry rotted tires, some brake fluid in the master cylinder, didn't do anything about leaking seals potentiually bad brake lines etc, then yes I would classify it as a rat rod.

On the other hand if the minimum amount of effort was expended on safety items and road worthyness checks, it would definatly be a time capsul/era correct car.

Man what a neat project.