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Secret handshake! That's a good one! LMAO!

Greg, your point about the "muscle" guys hits it real close. People tend to be sloppy with terminology that's of little to no personal interest/significance to them. They don't "suffer" the...

I have the solution!

Take the term. "rat rod" out of your vocabulary. No two peole agree about it's meaning, so it's no good for communication, anyway.

I propose using the words "great car". ...

HOTRODPAINT: You were doing pretty good until you got to that "vagrant" part.
I'm beginning to see why those people who choose to build rat rods come with a chip.



Read it again.

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Mike, I never did think of it as a criticism, or a judgement.

To me it's always been a descriptive term for a certain intentional "look", produced with flat or aged paint, an abundance of vintage...

Mike, Donsrods and Bob,

As I read through your posts, I see quite a few different parameters that you each use to define a "rat".

Era, patina, mechanical correctness, safety issues or...