This old question about Rats vs the rest of the car world come up from time to time, probably to often. The always seem to be raised by some one who is a PRO- ponent of the Rat Rod Scene, I do not think I have ever seem this debate raised by anyone else.

The debate usually starts out with why and how Rat Rods have been put down by some dude with a High Dollar car. Yet in everyone of these debates that (I) I have seen it is actually the Rat Rod guy putting down people. The argument is usually about "If you have a REAL Hot Rod you drive it were ever you go. Boats are for trailers is a comment I have heard at least 50 Times, and never once have I seen it applied correctly.

Think about it, some guy in southern Ca wanting to go to the Pigeon Forge show in Tennessee, is "NOT" a real Hot Rodder unless he loads his wife and his three kids into his 1934 Ford Roadster and drives them across country with the wind and bugs in there hair and teeth. Never mind the fact that for this 5,200 mile round trip he has a perfectly good 2010 Dually Crew Cab and a enclosed trailer setting in his drive way. Come on dude "MAN UP" and drive that Hot Rod, or don't even bother to show up. I mean come on you don't think someone might actually like to see it if you didn't drive it?

I am afraid that today the real "Prejudice" lies with the Rat Rodder's and not with the rest of the Hot Rodding world. An example of that would be any of the "KillBillet" shows. At KillBillet they have a list of rules two pages long of what they do and do not accept to simply gain entrance to the show. On the reverse side of that coin there is not a single "Major" car show that I know of were Rat Rods are not accepted, and they have entered and competed at
most of those major shows across the country. Including the old Oakland Roadster Show or the World Most Beatiful Roadster Show. At those shows a well designed and executed Rod Rat is more than welcome.

The arguement is turning out to be an old one. There is and should always be room for all of these cars, we are after all a group with a very similiar interest.

I well built car will always speak for itself. What it cost to build should never be the most important part of any car. If you can build a car for a few dollars man thats very cool, but me personally I also dont look down on a car built with money, there not really my kind of deal, but I don't reject them just because of there price tag....

Roland