View Full Version : Check this Rat Rod Survivor out!
Levis Classic
10-30-2003, 11:09 PM
A great story as well!
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Anderson
10-30-2003, 11:19 PM
damn...thats fugly
McGrath
10-30-2003, 11:22 PM
Definitely different.
DrDano
10-30-2003, 11:54 PM
Damn, someone should just shoot that thing and end its suffering.
greaseball
10-31-2003, 12:09 AM
Ummmm....
I don't really consider ANY
hot rod from "back in the day"
a "rat rod",
That's a term that came around because of TRENDS-
You know, like "Von Dutch Originals"?
Or, qoute: "BITCHEN'!"
Do you think TARDEL builds RAT RODS???
Fuck no!
Modern traditional guys scorn that term...?
Or at least they SHOULD,
Cause every PRO-STREET FAGGOT
out there needs a
"rat rod" now...
It's getting more use than a britney spears pin-up poster----
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LUKESTER
10-31-2003, 01:08 AM
AWWW come on.... "pro street faggot" that's not very nice....... LUKESTER
Skate Fink
10-31-2003, 04:37 AM
THAT is COOL!! It's history fellas. The roots of TRADITIONAL hot rodding. I doubt that the builder had a bunch of tattoos or wore a Von Dutch shirt. He probably didn't get drunk every weekend and puke all over himself, but.......... he DID build a "hot rod" before it was "cool."
Wish I had the bucks. I'd go after it's ugly ass.......... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
kustombuilder
10-31-2003, 04:49 AM
pretty cool. ugly but cool none the less. great story too.
fatassbuick
10-31-2003, 06:42 AM
I like the hell out of it.
Missing Link
10-31-2003, 07:18 AM
Queer as a football bat that fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
SKR8PN
10-31-2003, 07:41 AM
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Queer as a football bat that fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
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But it's still pretty fucking cool.....
At least it doesn't look like every other duece roadster you see........
roadstar
10-31-2003, 08:21 AM
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At least it doesn't look like every other duece roadster you see........
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Hey now, I'm offended. I tried real hard to make my Duece Roadster look like ever other one you have ever seen.
Hell, even went as far as gettin one of them new fangled fibre glass bodys http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Seroiusly though the old HOTROD as a lot of character. Sports cars seems to have had a big influance on amarican hotrodders in the 30's and 40's.
Definetly not everyones cup of tea, but a piece of our automotive history non the less.
Rocky
10-31-2003, 09:37 AM
cool.........
I can't get passed the end of the story...sniffle....sniffle....Tito could you please pass me a tissue..... 1932 Kaiser roadsters are very Rare and somebody owned them....kinda the same story....
HOTRODDICKIE
10-31-2003, 09:56 AM
The Mutts nuts!
Kevin Lee
10-31-2003, 10:01 AM
To expand on Rocky's reply, very cool. I do believe that is a hot rod.
fatassbuick
10-31-2003, 10:28 AM
I'd say it's more of a hot rod than 90% of the stuff on this board or at most of the shows. But that's just my opinion.
G V Gordon
10-31-2003, 10:50 AM
A lot of "Specials" were built back in the 50's and like the story said raced against the sports car boys in road races. Ak Millers road racer being the best known. Every car magazine from Hot Rod to Mechanics Illustrated had how toos for building your own. I like it. A Lot! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
George
Deuce Rails
10-31-2003, 11:09 AM
Wait a minute...
Isn't that a famous movie car?
Wasn't it in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
I just bid on it,
still well below "buy it now" though.
I may have to go down and take a look.
Oly's only 'bout a half hour from my house.
Paul
SamIyam
10-31-2003, 11:17 AM
I think the "it's ugly" comments come from people's limited knowledge of hot rodding's road racing side... remember Old yeller, Cad Allards... "ugly" by todays refined "hot rod" look... but bitchen none-the-less.
Sam.
Deuce Roadster
10-31-2003, 11:17 AM
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It is ugly.....
The workmanship looks kinda shadey.....
It is so small I would NEVER be able to drive it.......
It need a bunch of work..........
I love it...........just wish it was a little closer to the South http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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fab32
10-31-2003, 11:40 AM
I could find a place for it in my shop. Looks like a lot of other "specials" that kicked some foreign butt back in the day.
Frank
mytlo56
10-31-2003, 11:46 AM
I like the idea of it...but damn that thing is ugly as hell! Maybe if you got rid of those front fenders and replaced them w/ cycle fenders, and got rid of that grille for something more, um, aethestically pleasing, and... oh hell, it's hopeless. It'll never be pretty. I still like it though.
Jive-Bomber
10-31-2003, 01:13 PM
The guy wants 10 k for it- Thats actually not too bad.
If the body deterioration is as bad as it looks , you could pull it off, and put on an A or T roadster body- The drivetrain and chassis stuff looks like a nice list of parts to me, worth 10K with all the gauges, lights, bomber seats.
Maybe its wrong to tear an original, complete hot rod apart though, eh?
Kojack
10-31-2003, 03:17 PM
I was thinkin' the same thing... if the price wasn't so high, if I bought that I'd just take it apart. I don't really care for the looks, but it's got some cool stuff on it that would be useful for other projects...
just steve
10-31-2003, 03:43 PM
. . . maybe even hella cool.
It's kinda bulldog ugly -- still loveable though.
I hope whoever buys it retains -- maybe refines -- its unique looks and doesn't part it out or alter it beyond recognition. It does represent a substantial part of the hot rodding movement in the '50s, and there is a very rich tradition of these junkyard dogs whipping up on the euro-trash.
Wonder how it'd autocross?
Steve.
Darwin
10-31-2003, 04:14 PM
If one were crass enough to want to pitch that surpassingly weird body, history notwithstanding, there's a whole bunch of seriously cool period parts there that could perhaps be better used elsewhere. Not that I'd do it but "I'm just sayin". There may be some sort of ineffable postwar sports car "flavor" there but it has about as much of that left as six month-old Doublemint.
haring
10-31-2003, 04:26 PM
I enjoy this part of the description:
"Will ship to Japan at buyer's expense. "
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