thus is what makes me mad about people who use the term "rat rod"
a real rat rod isnt something people pullout of a barn that barely runs and is rusty and sell for 15000 and lable it rat rod

A TRUE RAT ROD or you could just say hotrod IS!
hillbilly couldnt afford parts back in the day in sted they would use chevy frames with a ford body or something powerd by any thing worth having in the junk yard, they would use beer bottles for overflo tanks and hand paint there cars, i mean they werent much to look at back then but by time they got done with it i was pretty mean
a rat rod bacially means a hot rod thats been hillbillied haha
like my ride i have a 1927 T bucket on a 33 chevy frame, powerd by a 440
and it just so happens i'm a hillbilly ..so it works out

CHEERS
Jimmy