"So, your building a RAT ROD... Stories

Ok, I wanna hear some stories of someone calling your ride a Rat Rod or think your a Rat Rodder of some sort..

I have several.. but the latest:

A girl I kinda know see me at a art show and says..."Hey, come meet my new boyfriend. He wants to talk to you about your flathead"...cool i thought.. "So you in to flatheads, hun?" I ask.. "oh, no.. I race street bikes right now, but I'm gonna buy me a 20's ford and paint it flat black, ya' know a real rat rod.. Are those flatheads any good?"... I quickly lied and said "oh, I was talking about flathead harleys.. gotta run, good luck with that rat rod thing!!"

 

was he wearing an OSR t-shirt?

 

haha good one

 

You completely blew it. you should have told him that you would build one for him and drop off the bigest piece of shit car you could slam together and tell him now you are a real rat rodder...

 

I have learned to nicely correct them and tell them it is a HOT ROD and not a rat rod which is a thrown together piece of shit. Why not try and promote what we do?

 

I agree. we need to keep spreading the gospel!!

 

snob ........... hahaha

 

Yes,
Most of the people now don't even know anything about Hotrodding, its history and birth. It would be a good opportunity to spread the gospel of being real. Who knows, you could even plant a few seeds for the future generations. pj

 

I'm the boyfriend you asshole

 

"What's a rat rod?" -Anthony

 

Ah man don't start that shit again. They are all hot rods, just some of us build them better than others.

 

Rats carry the plague.

Note the difference between the terms rat rod and rat bike. Rat bikes are usually ugly bikes, but have rough appearance with a wholly utilitarian purpose. Follow a function before form ideology. Rat rod has become a fashion terminlogy, really. Form before function. Could it be that rat rod was the little brother of rat bike that tried to aspire and just fell into a life of heroine addiction and sore assholes. Time for an intervention.

People ask me if I'm gonna make my New Yorker a 'rat rod'. I tell them no, and proceed to think less of them.

 

If I was a rat rodder, I'd rod right up to another rat rodder and say, "hey man, how's the rad-rodding?" Of course we would both know how the rat-rodding was, because we would both be rat-rodding. But it would be like a bond between us rat-rodders.

 

No. That's what you say to them there stinky.

 

some people are not worthy!

 

the term "rat rod" is insulting and demeaning to rodents everywhere... mickey and minny are considering legal action... Rodents are a hardworking, intelligent, industrious species that deserve better... but as admirable a species as the rodent are I in no way want my vehicle to be associated with the term... the new politcally correct term should be "poorly built cars built by poor craftsmen trying to emulate a style and purpose they know nothing about that are in no way interested in or should be associated with traditional hot rods or customs" or the "Rod-Challenged"...

 

gets my vote

 

...and you admitted it???!!?

 

Yeah my gf gave me his number so I can call him for help... haha wouldn't that be a motherfucker if I was actually the bf

 

I think this what I'm naming my new project.
Might as well have fun with it.

 

Grimlok - when you making it back to ChiTown for more thrill-a-minute ACN meetings? Next time I'll get you that free beer...

 

A guy was looking at the house for sale next door... sees my Model A and the '65 in the garage... and we start talking cars. He said he bought a '29 closed cab pu... but said "I wanted to rat rod it"... "but it is too nice to do that to it".

He's KINDA on the right track... so I pushed him over the edge and showed him Mike's av8 book... I told him to go buy one... and build a neat traditional styled rod out of it... "all the fun and none of the shitty workmanship"

Sam.

 

at work, me and a couple other guys call each other "rat rodders" as a joke..

in the morning instead of saying good morning we ask eachother if we did any ratrodding last night,,"ratrodding" meaning anything,,hahaha

if one of them ask me what im doing at the time i say with a straight face
"im ratrodding on this piece of shit(~insert~toyota/chevy/buick/whatever) "

whats funnier is that its fun to call this one guy at work(whose building a tbucket with modern stuff,,) a ratrodder cuz he gets mad and sez he's NOT a ratrodder cuz he grew up in the 70's when paint was good! so then we call his half primmered S10 a ratrod and then he cant say shit,,hahaha..its funny..

 

hahaha thats rad.. hows the rat rod seach going???

 

So last summer I'm at Sonic. Me and Hollywud are leanin against the tailgate of my truck(yea, the flatblacklouvered one) Jalopy43's A sedan is parked ACROSS the lot from us...this old geezer drives up, stops, looks at the sedan, then me, then the sedan, then back at me and damn near YELLS "is that YOUR RAT ROD!??!)

I ain't got one, but I guess I got the "look"

 

I had two VERY nice looking blondes tell me at a gas station they loved my "Dune Buggy" and it sure looked like a bunch of fun to ride in!
I didn't correct them (its a 29 RPU), hell no, matter of fact I DIDN"T SAY A DAMN THING as my wife who was sitting beside me fixed her evil eye stare on both of them!

 

There was this 8 year old girl at the gas station that asked me if I got my car from "Pimp My Ride..?"

I thought I was gonna have to kick her ass........




Kidding about the ass whuppin, but not the Pimp My Ride comment...

-Abone.

 

What he said!