Ratrod

Using the worst examples of rats on wheels is a slam dunk. The earlier, rougher stripped down roadsters & severe chops were referred to as 'rat' or ratty. The HD crowd had that term going on since the early '70's easy. Again, personal interpretation plays a role. This subject done to death what, 14 years ago here.

 

A fitting quote from the late great Pat Ganahl : "Never underestimate the stupidity of your readers". He ran some black primer early iron in those early '90's R&C. Dupont DP 90.

 

This thread answers some questions but makes others more prominent. Rat rods, not allowed, but how about people who fix up old field cars with decades of patina? Arent those by definition "ratty"?

 

The majority of RR are built with nod to shock value, if the rodent rod is chopped it is most always excessive, with a traditional hot rod the less is more is the way to go. HRP

 

There is always room, for a bit of comedy, purely in the visual realm.

 

Reading the article Gray did use the term but the cars posted in that article look traditional to me. HRP

 

Before this thread gets shit down, Gray was a old school hot rodder, his daily driver was not a rodent rod, the term I have always used is a beater, and it was very traditional, Gray drove the wheels off his roadster and didn't spend a lot of time on cosmetics. HRP

 

I've been told my cars are rat rods, but an unfinished car isn't a rat rod. That shit gets old.

 

Lloyd is this a hot rod or a rat rod?

 

Hot rod in my opinion. Old school jalopy. The way I see it, a rat is something built from this and that, not an unpainted model A Ford

 

Lloyd, I have heard the same thing said about my old 1932 sedan, it seems the average person only picks up on the current jargon, they have no idea of what a hot rod is nor do they care, I have learned to let it go in one ear and out the other, only if they show interest do I try and correct their way of thinking.

I have even heard someone refer to my model A pickup as a dune buggy, HRP

 

That’s my car from 1959 when I graduated high school. I still have it and it looks like this now.
And a picture of a real Beer Run. I did my the louvers my self Frank