Yup. ratbikes were around for al least a couple decades before anyone ever heard of a ratrod. I built one myself back in 79. It had a 34 VLD engine and frame.Quote:
Originally Posted by HOTRODPAINT
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Yup. ratbikes were around for al least a couple decades before anyone ever heard of a ratrod. I built one myself back in 79. It had a 34 VLD engine and frame.Quote:
Originally Posted by HOTRODPAINT
i grew up in L.A. in the 60's and i dont EVER remember seeing unpainted ,slapped together cars.
i asked my uncles about it.
they claim is wasnt cool to drive a P.O.S.
i do remember a bunch of ghetto guys stealing those concrete parking bars and throwing them in the trunk to make a lowrider......:whacked:
If it looks like crap and is falling apart sitting still,.....and you're proud of that.... yours might be a rat rod!
Who knows. Beauty or Rat is in the eye of the beholder. Rebellion perhaps. Although Even if you don't like the "rat rod" you have to give them credit for thinking outside the box. I saw a build on this site, a 53 chevy pu (i think), fenderless. I thought the concept very cool. I know where I could get one and it made me want to do the same thing. This build is very well engineered and put together from what I can tell, and well above what I could come up with on my own. The truck is by no means "ratty". But if you had built that truck fenderless 30 years ago alot of people would have called it a "crap rod". But I love it. Junk is junk, weather it's a 31 model a, a 49 merc, or a honda. Unsafe is unsafe. But I like the rat rod style, at least some of it. But then I grew up on Roth (RAT FINK), Barris (the crazy show rods), and Tom Daniels (crazy show rod models) most of which were just that models. When my friend and I had no model kits to build we would get our parts boxes out and a broken model or two and just make some kind of hot rod out of it. If they were real cars now, they would probably be called rat rods. No I personally don't care for the ones that look like they magnatized (spelling) a frame then drove it thru the scrap yard and then welded everything to it that stuck, but then it ain't my car. So long as its safe and those decorations don't fly off and kill me or somone else then great. I would rather look at some of them than some "tuner car" (had to phrase it that way to be p.c.). And I have seen more kid's (anyone under 30) interested in hot rods and rat rods, than 20 years ago. I am not technically an old fart yet, but what happens when we all die. Someone has to carry it on. To some it will be just a fad, like punk, but others will get a little older and have more resources and they will build that next cherry 32 5 window, with a flattie or olds engine, that alot of us would kill for now. I know I would.
Why can't we all just get along.............:whacked:
This is my definition of a Rat Rod!
http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/h...uck/003-29.jpg
http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/h...ruck/026-2.jpg
I like all styles of cars, Stock, Muscle, Traditional, Custom, Sports,......
This truck also has "eyeball". See the relationship of how the radiator shell is mounted to the body line? See how the top rail of the bed is parallel with the beltline of the body? EYEBALL!Quote:
Originally Posted by dmw56
Ahhhhhhhhh. I see. You said mine had "eyeball" didn't exactly know how you ment that, i took it as a compliment, but I understand now Exactly. I like this truck as well. Looks ballanced. Not all cockeyed, like you see some. Although I have seen a few coupe's with that raked modified drag look that are very cool though. But you got to cary that theme throughout the vehicle. Would look broken on a full fendered street rod type or one more traditional 50's with skinny tires and so forth.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by techinspector1
I meant it as a compliment. Your truck is very pleasing to the eye. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by dlotraf33