Topic: Would you call this a rat?

[CowboyCoty]

I want your opinion, I heard one of the import guys call it a rat, what do you think?

[Redbeard101]

In my opinion NO...But what do I know...

[Sky]

Depends --- If it is not finished and it will end up all street slick , then no !!! BUT , if that is finished then yes  --- It's what they are calling """ STREET RATS """ in Europe and Central and South America in places like Rio and San Paulo it's a real cool scene !!! The young folks took oldskool US ratrodding and applied it to common cheap cars they can afford

[Greybeards Customs]

NO , a line has to be drawn somewhere and to me thats over the line . It looks like a car ready to go into the body shop not a rat rod . Besides how many true rat rods do you see with $6000 dollar 3-piece wheels ? It's a tuner car with out a bumper cover !!!!!!

[oldskool49]

Oh I'm sorry but I thought that I heard you say crap.....yes,yes....



 

[oldskool49]

Here are a couple of the many a friend of mine in Brazil has posted. You be the judge  of the South America scene.



 

[oldskool49]

Here is the other one that I was looking for.


 

[CowboyCoty]

Yeah this is done, according to them. I don't really know what way to go with this, I just wanted to hear opinions 

[Greybeards Customs]

This is kinda like calling the space shuttle an airplane , sure they both fly but they are totally different .

[Sky]

Here are a couple of the many a friend of mine in Brazil has posted. You be the judge  of the South America scene.



 

 DID I SAY THERE WAS NOT A TRADITIONAL RAT SCENE THERE ?  lololol I was talking about a """ NEW """ type of rat scene going on You may not like it , hell I don't like it but we don't have to .  And as for the post about the cost of those wheels --- I've seen plenty of true rat builders spend more on vintage Halibrands and remember that many old dudes who have been building since the early years think 50s and 60 can't be ratrods either lololol Let's try not to become the hamb 

[ezrat]

That one old sedan might be close but the rest are not rats...That does
not mean we don't like them, just not rats....

[oldskool49]

Here are a couple of the many a friend of mine in Brazil has posted. You be the judge  of the South America scene.



 

Different time zone, different culture, different eye on the style. To me a rat is more tradinal hot rodding than any thing else. At the heart of it all is a beginning to where this style was about the only affordable means of hot rodding. And there are a ton of kool ideas that come out of it. The picture of the whatever is clooser to rice than rat.............and hamb Hehehehehe. Dont think so. Been down that road.

 

 DID I SAY THERE WAS NOT A TRADITIONAL RAT SCENE THERE ?  lololol I was talking about a """ NEW """ type of rat scene going on You may not like it , hell I don't like it but we don't have to .  And as for the post about the cost of those wheels --- I've seen plenty of true rat builders spend more on vintage Halibrands and remember that many old dudes who have been building since the early years think 50s and 60 can't be ratrods either lololol Let's try not to become the hamb 

[billy]

NO , a line has to be drawn somewhere and to me thats over the line . It looks like a car ready to go into the body shop not a rat rod . Besides how many true rat rods do you see with $6000 dollar 3-piece wheels ? It's a tuner car with out a bumper cover !!!!!!

might as well put it back together and have a decent car.
then build a rod.

[obama]

Guess I'd be OK with whatever the owner calls it. I understand we don't all have old U.S. tin around to work with.
But the age (too new) lack of rust, foreign (to the U.S. only) and lack of any combining of this and that, kinda put it out of the rat pile to me. I'd call it 'a tuner rat".
 pull the body, and put on a 1940's vintage car or truck cab, and you be rat'n.

[OldMusher]

Since "rat rod" is a relatively new concept (5-6 years?) it is still in flux.  Some take "rat rod" as a cool concept, some are insulted.  It is also obviously branching out at least into "original/survivor" and "rusted beyond saving".  Both good concepts.  I would say that there is probably an implied year cutoff....but what?  Then there are "satin" cars.  Are they just a paintjob  choice, or something new?

I think there are rusty cars that are not rat rods.  I have a 66 F100 that fits that description.  It has rust that doesn't add character.  If I lower it 9 inches and coat it with roll on bedliner, is it a rat rod?

There are satin-finish cars that are not old enough to have character.  The above car seems to be that.  Fuel injected?  Doesn't make it.

Isn't a "ratty" ride more about character and attitude?  I have a 51 F1 that has character, dulled original finish and a little non-lethal naturally grown rust....but the elderly owner with no tattoos or piercings sort of derails the scene.  My wife resists being referred to as "Betty".

[hotwheels]

I just can't call that first car a rat.......It's different for sure, but it just appears to be a car that is missing body parts......nothing to do with rust, or patina, it just doesn't look like a rat...

[oldskool49]

I just can't call that first car a rat.......It's different for sure, but it just appears to be a car that is missing body parts......nothing to do with rust, or patina, it just doesn't look like a rat...

Looks like a ricer that had a driver that couldnt drive.