No Boring Cars!

neat!!! saw it in person, its one fast booger!!!

 

I need morphine.

 

That is a clusterfuck,same reason people look at a car crash. Seems 70% of those postiong love the ratrod style. That the majority like this shit wont ever change my attitude toward calling it what it is.
It being at the Drags dont make it right either. I went to billetproof and more cars looked like this than traditional so I haven't went back.

 

There's a LOT of different things going on there. Kinda confusing. Oh well.

I'm no prude, but I sure wouldn't have "FU*K OFF" on the back of ANYTHING.
"cartoon-come-to-life"?

 

I got the magazine in the mail a couple days back. At first I thought is was just thrown together. But that is not the case. Like the look or not, it has considerable engineering and work involved.

 

That about covers it.

 

too wacky looking. yes it's fast, but too wacky looking.

 

Got it< good read and congrats

 

The corvair was kinda cool...

 

That's funny. A friend of mine who barely speaks any English, and is has no understanding or interest necessarily in hot rods jokingly sent me a text the other day that said "this is you car" and it was that car. Even he knew it was ugly.

That's a rat rod, I don't care how fast or well built it is, it's gross. And I don't think it takes balls to build something that looks like that, 90% of the world thinks rat rods are cool. Probably gets tons of thumbs up from dudes in walmart putchased OCC t shirts.

The fact that it's fast does interest me, that part is cool. But why not build something wicked fast that is also pleasing to look at? "Different" doesn't do it for me when it's done in blatant poor taste.

 

one more for the non-haters

 

Sweet skulls bro

 

Being only 40 years old I have to ask...has the world always been like this? Can't just keep your mouth shut and let somebody enjoy their moment? Pretty rude stuff.

 

Krass and Bernie didn't come around til 75 but that is my first thought when I see something made from mismatched junkyard left overs to go fast. Yes I understand the engineering just talking about the look. Sorry

 

^^^^^^you just described the birth of hot rodding

 

DirtyJohn, is your avatar your T?

 

yes

 

It is a well built race car, draped in Rat Rod body. Why? Why the cliche?

 

I hope for his safety he puts a rollbar adequate for a 9.00 /147mph ride.

 

I can't speak for Mark so I can't say why he chose it to look how it does. I think it's incredibly creative and edgy but that's just me. There are plenty of cars in our group that lack shiny paint and have some rust spots. We are a drag race group so I guess the best answer I can give you as that it just looks meaner. All hot rods have become a cliche to an extent wouldn't you say? I mean it's VERY difficult to create a totally original ride. I could point out many cliche looks that are HAMB polite but I won't. I think Skull Orchard is anything but cliche.

 

Congrats on making the cover of Hot Rod. Your buddies truck has a ot of interesting stuff going, but IMHO, would have looked much better with nice shiny paint. Oh well, not my truck. By the way, your T looks killer from what I see of it.
(edit) The fake looking patina is more of an issue then old paint.

 

This car is NHRA certified to 8.50.

 

that thing looks stupid,,,i saw the new hot rod tonight at walgreens ,the cover said something like "NO BORING CARS",and i was thinking to my self how much HOT ROD magazine has really went down hill...to put a turd like that on the cover...

 

Quoted for eloquence.

 

Yup!... It's a rat rod..

 

Maybe the pics but didnt see 10 points. Notably the diagonals behind the seats.

 

Must kill some of these guys to see that HAMB plaque on that firewall! I love it, congrats on the cover. The car featured right after it is pretty killer too.

 

...big block 69 camaros are fast too...maybe we should post them up on the hamb too ,,because they are just as traditional as 10 second rat rod trucks....(edit, congrats to your bud on making the cover, but this is a traditional hot rod website,,so dont get yer panties in a bunch if people dont agree with you)

 

If you read the editorial, it is about making money. they claim this type of rod on the cover sells mags. If shiny paint sold more mags, they would put that on the cover.

When a legislator holds up this book and says that is what congress or state legislators have to outlaw, these unsafe old cars, we can say that it is very fast and they will surely understand.

Rat rods will get everyone outlawed. The ironic part is that Hotrod magazine started out with a mission to change the negative public opinion, and this latest crew doesn't care about public opinion .

I got Hotrod and Street rodder on the same day. As I held them in my hands the Street rodder was twice as fat. Makes you wonder.

 

Fight as we may over build syles. The fact of the matter is that us so called traditional baby boomers are no longer the top priority for advertisers. So grumble as we may about things not looking as we want them, or expect them to look. Or threatening to not go back to certain events cuz they don't offer or cater to our whims is not gonna matter anymore. Like it or not there is a younger generation that is being catered to now, and what they like is now what matters. Maybe we need to grow up.