Thread: Rat rod debate

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Originally Posted by billy zz

i'm poor and i am not a mechanic.
i am hiring my buddy to build me a car.
does that make me a tin-chainer?

I don't make the names up....but it seems logical. :-)

I think of them all as hot rods. Some have the parts and look I like, some don't, but I don't have an issue with how a guy builds his car. What I might have an issue with, is a guy who tells others how they should build theirs.

I haven't seen this happen in the hobby before. The worst backlash was the heavy billet rods, but the nastiness was not nearly as bad then, as the behavior of the last five years.

Originally Posted by HOTRODPAINT

I don't make the names up....but it seems logical. :-)

I think of them all as hot rods. Some have the parts and look I like, some don't, but I don't have an issue with how a guy builds his car. What I might have an issue with, is a guy who tells others how they should build theirs.

I haven't seen this happen in the hobby before. The worst backlash was the heavy billet rods, but the nastiness was not nearly as bad then, as the behavior of the last five years.

i am supposed to be helping him
but really all i do is follow him around and hand him stuff.
i am learning a TON.

Originally Posted by HOTRODPAINT

I don't make the names up....but it seems logical. :-)

I think of them all as hot rods. Some have the parts and look I like, some don't, but I don't have an issue with how a guy builds his car. What I might have an issue with, is a guy who tells others how they should build theirs.

I haven't seen this happen in the hobby before. The worst backlash was the heavy billet rods, but the nastiness was not nearly as bad then, as the behavior of the last five years.

i am brand new to the hot/rat rod scene.
and i dont think i like it much.
recently i joined here to learn how to build rods.
i can do without the shows/scenesters/tats/hairdoos and fake rockabilly.
not to mention the bickering/infighting.
but dont get me wrong.
there are some real nice folks here.
thanks!

I got away from hot rod for a number of years, I kinda gave up on the idea I could actually afford to build anything but a crap rod. So the whole rat rod thing started when I wasnt really paying attention. When I first heard the term I though of somthing entirely different. See I grew up with the Rat Fink, Ed Roth's crazy customs, Barris Customs, (not the early Merc's and such) and those Tom Daniel's models, Tijuana Taxi, Red Baron, Beer Wagon and so on. So I thought Rat refered to THE RAT (as in R.F.). Those out of proportion, overpowerd, hot rods, with monsters or the rat himself driving. And I don't recall any models or t-shirts with any rust on them......lol. But they (the rats) gave me the idea that I could do what I did and not be riddiculed or called a p.o.s. I have seen some really cool rats, (although most I thought would be really bitchen with some paint and some tuck n roll.). Oh well live and learn.

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