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Rat Rod - Whats That ?

 

A Rat Rod is an older car or truck that's still roadworthy but has been stripped down to basics and then rebuilt (usually) with accessories and parts that date approximately from the same period as the original car.
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A Rat Rod may end up a LOT stripped down - missing fenders and hoods are commonplace ! The car ends up very much as an expression of the owners taste and lifestyle. The STYLE is important - everything should pull together into a dream auto.

This can be anything from bikers style through Greaser style to any other 30's style or later.

It doesn't have to be a car or pickup though - bikes are just as valid ! Its basically the ultimate in auto personalisation 0h.. and its FUN !!!

The style of the rebuild can be anything from 1920s through to 1950's (although some would say more !) so you will see lots of different styles varying through hot rods to Kustom Cars and pretty much everything between ! Look at the photos below and see what I mean !

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Dual Engine 1918 Dodge Brothers Rat Rod

Intial rollout of dual engine 1918 DB Rat Rod

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New Rat Rod Site Coming Real Soon ! 

read about it HERE !!!!

I'm currrently working on a NEW Ratrod Site which will be even BIGGER and have lots more hints and tips than I can fit on this site.

It should be ready within the week.
Now I need a NAME for it ...
Keith

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Suggest a name for my new Rat Rod Site.... not too rude please !

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Excellent Lens. I like the quality insight you have provided here about Rat Rod. Keep up the good work.

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petergrizzly

How about "Stuart"? No... "Splinter" then? It's not only a rat, it's a ninja rat.

Yeah, the joke's pretty lame. :p Anyway, "hot rat" or "the blazin' rat" could be cool. :)

Good luck to your new site!

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Posted May 26, 2008

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(You are of course veautiful enough already !)

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Here's a Calendar that won't break the bank .. 

The Most Popular Cars currently for turning into a Rat Rod are : 

** Model T Ford
** Volkswagen Beetle
** Chevy
** Model A Ford

Volkswagen Beetles Make Fun Rat Rods ! 

VW's are really easy to work on - bolt-on panels !

The Volkswagen Type 1, more commonly known as the Beetle Bug, is an economy car produced by the German auto maker Volkswagen from 1938 until 2003. Although the names "Beetle" and "Bug" were quickly adopted by the public, it was not until August of 1967 that VW itself began using the name Beetle in marketing materials in the US.

In Britain, VW never used the name Beetle officially. It had only been known only as either the "Type I" or as the 1100 (eleven-hundred), 1200 (twelve-hundred), 1300 (thirteen-hundred) or 1500 (fifteen-hundred), which had been the names under which the vehicle was marketed in Europe; the numbers denoted the vehicle's engine size in cubic centimetres. In 1998, many years after the original model had been dropped from the lineup in most of the world (production continued in Mexico until 2003), VW introduced the "New Beetle" (built on a Volkswagen Golf Mk4 platform) which bore a cosmetic resemblance to the original.

Its peculiar styling, underpowered motor, rough ride, and high noise levels compared to modern vehicles might have made it a market failure. In its day, though, it was more comfortable and powerful than most European small cars, and ultimately the longest-running and most-produced automobile of a single design (a record that will not take long to be beaten by its younger "cousin" the Type-2 Bus or Kombi, which is still in production in Brazil, with the same basic characteristics of the first series). It remained a top seller in the US, even as rear-wheel drive conventional subcompacts were refined, and eventually replaced by front-wheel drive models. The Beetle car was the benchmark for both generations of American compact cars such as the Chevrolet Corvair, and subcompact cars such as the Ford Pinto and Chevrolet Vega. In the international poll for the award of the world's most influential car of the twentieth century the Beetle came fourth after the Ford Model T, the Mini, and the Citroën DS.

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About the Model T Ford 

The Ford Model T (colloquially known as the Tin Lizzie and also the Flivver) was an automobile produced by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company from 1908 through 1927. The Model T set 1908 as the historic year that the automobile came into popular usage. It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, the car that "put America on wheels"; some of this was because of Ford's innovations, including assembly line production instead of individual hand crafting, as well as the concept of paying the workers a wage proportionate to the cost of the car, so that they would provide a ready made market.Ford also attempted a buy on time program to aid sales, resembling that of the German Kdf-Wagen forerunner of the Volkswagen Beetle. Ford's plan was not a success, either. The first production Model T was built on September 27, 1908, at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.

There were several cars produced or prototyped by Henry Ford from the founding of the company in 1903 until the Model T came along. Although he started with the Model A, there were not 19 production models; some were only prototypes. The production model immediately before the Model T was the Ford Model S Early Ford - models from the years 1903 - 1908; page 5, an upgraded version of the company's largest success to that point, the Model N. The follow-up was the Ford Model A and not the Model U. Company publicity said this was because the new car was such a departure from the old that Henry wanted to start all over again with the letter A. As it happens, the first Plymouth car (1928), built by competitor Chrysler Corporation, was named the Model U.

The Ford Model T was named the world's most influential car of the twentieth century in an international poll. [http://info.detnews.com/joyrides/story/index.cfm?id=75 Joyrides | Car of the Century? Ford's Model T, of course] Henry Ford said of the vehicle:

I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one-and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces.

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Vintage Car Parts For Sale 

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Vintage Truck Parts 

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Model T Fords for Rat Rods ! 

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Fenders and benders ! 

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Hot Rod Spare Parts ! 

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Lamborghini ! (don't try this at home ....) 

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Pinstripe is Not Just A Suit ! 

If you need Artwork/Pinstriping/Cartoons etc on Your RatRod

Then this is the guy to talk to :

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Some of the BEST Artwork I've seen and he does a nice line in Portraits too !

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Rat Rod Photos 

Rat Rod Dodge by Hugo90

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1966 Ford Galaxy by dave_7

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1966 Ford Galaxy

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Rat Rod Information 

"Rat Rod" is a style of Hot Rod or Custom car that, in most cases, imitates (or exaggerates) the early hot rods of the 40s, 50s, and 60s. It is not to be confused with the somewhat closely related "Traditional" Hot Rod, which is an accurate re-creation or period-correct restoration of a Hot Rod from the same era.

Most Rat Rods appear "unfinished" (whether they actually are or are not), with just the bare essentials to be driven.

The Rat Rod is the visualization of the idea of function over form. Rat Rods are meant to be driven, not shown off. Sometimes the customization will include using spare parts, or parts from another car altogether.

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Giclee Print of Rat Rods 

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Rat Rod News 

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Nice Rat Rod Lens. Lots of good info. Please visit
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Posted May 15, 2008

Rossman

Nice Rat Rod Lens. Lots of good info. Please visit
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Posted May 15, 2008

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Great bunch of rat rod stuff here, great job gathering all this together
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Nice Rat Rod Lens. Five Star *****

To see more Rat Rods, please visit my website: Old School Rat Rods For Sale

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I liked your lens alot and I'll be back. I lensrolled it.

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