Thread: 17 hour build

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There ability has to be recognized but for rat rods im not a fan . They could most likely build a show winner which would blow someones out the door . They chose this entertainment build. For the welding I agree with Jim its the operator and his experience i'm very capable of taking my 110 and securing metal in a stress point . Maybe the cycle time is lower and you make make a multi pass but it would pass xray . Your filling a void making sure no impurities or air pockets are present , but i've pushed my 110 way over 100% of its cycle time in 10 years and a weld has never failed or the lincoln welder ..

I agree 100 percent on the few making everyone look bad........heres some good viewing on that very subject,lots of similairities here.Hopefully they can come full circle like the kids in the video The more you exsplain it Dave ,the more I get visions of the kid in this flick
http://www.archive.org/details/CoolHotRodA

I like it. I'm an a fan of rat rods mostly because it's cheap though, i'm as clean cut as they come and stick out like a sore thumb around most rat-rod types. the car dosn't have everything just right for looks-but they wanted to do a 17 hour job so this makes sense, as far as quality goes? I don't know because I can't inspect the car in person. However, if they took the time over the last three months to plan this, and could do it in that short of a period, i'm sure it was at least half-way decent. I agree that crappy unsafe cars are uncool but I don't think the people that build those cars could have pulled off something like this in 17 hours.