Our biggest local car show failed

4spdcuda66 said

That's a shame. I went to a show one time that featured (and I hate this term) "rat rod" style cars that all looked like they had been dragged out of a field. They wouldn't let us in with our car because it was "too nice." They didn't want nice looking cars with shiny paint and nice interiors. Car show snobbery has infected the whole hobby. Sounds like you used to have a really good thing going. Nice Dodge Bros., by the way!

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Rat rod used to mean a traditional style hot rod that was still unfinished but driveable. It may have had patina, primer, a home-brew paint job - whatever. Started in the late 80s as an alternative to the overdone and undriveable Pro Street cars of the era.

There's some that still build them that way today, but there's also a trend to create ridiculous looking contraptions with all kinds of tacky crap welded (poorly) all over the thing in an effort to be unique or quirky. Those types I refer to as junk rods.