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pretty interesting read indeed
I strongly dislike rat rod, but that article put it in a different light
 
I really don't get it, but some people don't get me and a muscle car. I give them a look on cruise nights. Sometimes it looks like a junkyard threw up, but if you like it, why not.
 
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Before my Dart I had what some called a rat rod. I called it an incomplete hot rod. Rebuilt a 62 F100 from the ground up but ran out of $$. So the body & interior were never redone. You build what you can & drive it! LOL
 
It's all a matter of personal taste. I would love to have a "classic Hot Rod" be it bright and shiny or a little weathered. Either way mechanically it would be sound. Some of those Rat Rods oy vey :eek: I saw one at a show a few years back with floor boards made of the same screen cloth we used to separate 1"minus rock from the rocks headed to the crushers on the rock plant :BangHead:. One good thing about that, you don't have to look far for a fire pit for the upcoming cook out :lol:. I appreciate their efforts and passion, but don't expect me to ride in it without me wearing my Cerveza Virus mask :lol:.
 
Ah the ratty muscle car. Most of all it our project in progress. lol

Some people I guess like the look, sorta like the dude that bought some old woreout jeans boots, and rusty spurs and headed to his dream vacation at THE DUDE RANCH!
 
Now here's a twist on the Rat that I have never seen personally.

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The Rat builders seem to be self taught metal artists some with some talent and vision others that are still living everyday in their doper fog!?? lol
 
Fad? Ummm, not really, more like “Fact” & “Reality” because we all don’t have deep pockets and would really like to enjoy driving the dam car instead of having it sit waiting for the owner to come up with some money, which never happens sometimes, you’ve read the stories, in storage 20-30 years with the dream that collapsed/never materialized.

Better to drive a rusty muscle car than let it sit in the garage or outside never getting to enjoy it!

Member Austin Griggs is having a RMC meet on 10/10/20 unless this Coronavirus puts a damper on the festivities.... In Alabama.

If you can’t enjoy the car, what’s the F’in point of having one? Just to say you have one in the garage? To state “I’m working on it” and it takes 20 years to complete a minor amount of work? Never getting to enjoy it except look at it and sigh and cry and wish....

Another fad in the hobby

Ratty Muscle Cars
 
^^ I admit I am always amazed at how many people have a project car that is in "progress" for how many years, decades. They will tell me how " family issues, lack of $$ to keep steady progress" that I understand but then the : "it has to be absolute perfect and that takes time" comes up!!
I got to get it on the road and then that perfect comes as it comes if ever!!!!!
I don't want to hear labor pains, I want to hold the baby!!!!!
 
I get asked all the time, “when you going to do the bodywork and paint it”? I tell them I ain’t! She is what she is, a hoot to drive and still turns heads.
 
I get asked all the time, “when you going to do the bodywork and paint it”? I tell them I ain’t! She is what she is, a hoot to drive and still turns heads.

Im pretty much the same way with my PU.

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Thanks for sharing that. I really like the traditional hot rods, but I'm pretty hit and miss on the rat rods. Some are done up tastefully, but others look like a cobbled up mess where the builder was trying way too hard to make something different or unique.

And then there are others that while they don't match up with my tastes, I can still appreciate the work that when into them. I saw this beast at Carlisle 4 years ago:

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Thanks for sharing that. I really like the traditional hot rods, but I'm pretty hit and miss on the rat rods. Some are done up tastefully, but others look like a cobbled up mess where the builder was trying way too hard to make something different or unique.

And then there are others that while they don't match up with my tastes, I can still appreciate the work that when into them. I saw this beast at Carlisle 4 years ago:

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Now for some reason I really dig that!
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I have built 3 "sorta" ratrods. Alot of fab and engineering goes in to some of them. The best part is anything goes . And park next to the Corvette club at car shows and piss em off when it gets more attention than they do.

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