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Title: Any rodders around Sedalia Mo
Post by: The Gassin Nebraskan on August 07, 2017, 04:49:41 PM
New to the page and I haven't built a rat rod before so I was hoping there was someone close by so I could pick your brain and look at what you made for ideas. :D
Title: Re: Any rodders around Sedalia Mo
Post by: lowboy on August 07, 2017, 06:10:16 PM
I'm Southeast of St Louis about an hour or so. Steelfest is coming to St Louis soon. It's a show you definantly need to make! http://www.ratrodmagazine.com/single-post/2016/07/01/September-Shapiro-Steelfest-Hawg-Pit-BuildOff-Weekend (http://www.ratrodmagazine.com/single-post/2016/07/01/September-Shapiro-Steelfest-Hawg-Pit-BuildOff-Weekend)
This is last years advertisement. Also on Facebook under https://www.facebook.com/events/1800372226841389/ (https://www.facebook.com/events/1800372226841389/) If you go to Grafton go early as the show starts early. We were late last year. KILLER TIME!!!! We got a motel and stayed so we could be at the Steelfest early as good spots go FAST !! Sam feeds everybody for free. Just donate to Wounded Warriors. We haven't missed but 1 since it started. It was the very first one and it was raining.
Title: Re: Any rodders around Sedalia Mo
Post by: Granpascrazzy on August 08, 2017, 04:53:22 PM
that facebook had a lot of great pics........it looked like the bug didnt have the mail box scoop.......is that before????
Title: Re: Any rodders around Sedalia Mo
Post by: lowboy on August 08, 2017, 06:20:40 PM
No it's had the scoop for many years. I can't find that picture
Title: Re: Any rodders around Sedalia Mo
Post by: Granpascrazzy on August 09, 2017, 04:00:39 PM
this one.......... says 2014
Title: Re: Any rodders around Sedalia Mo
Post by: Granpascrazzy on August 09, 2017, 04:29:47 PM
it was there last year 2016
Title: Re: Any rodders around Sedalia Mo
Post by: lowboy on August 09, 2017, 05:54:03 PM
Thats when it went from an  :o anemic 4 cylinder to a robust v-8  8) .  Now she has a junk yard 5.0.  >:(
Title: Re: Any rodders around Sedalia Mo
Post by: IlikeImpala's on August 09, 2017, 06:13:56 PM
It looks a lot better with the scoop. (I'm not going to say what that old picture resembles...) The scoop has to stay!  -lol


PS

I live in MO as well. But I'm not close to Sedalia. I'm something like 3 hours away on the east side of the state. Also I technically don't have a ratrod. I own ratty rusty cars. But no true ratrod.
Title: Re: Any rodders around Sedalia Mo
Post by: lowboy on August 09, 2017, 06:50:58 PM
In my opinion Rat rods are as much of an attitude as it is a car. You can have a rusty old car and not have the proper attitude it's just a POS, but with the attitude It's a ratrod.
Title: Re: Any rodders around Sedalia Mo
Post by: IlikeImpala's on August 09, 2017, 07:20:03 PM
In my opinion Rat rods are as much of an attitude as it is a car. You can have a rusty old car and not have the proper attitude it's just a POS, but with the attitude It's a ratrod.
I agree completely. A hotrod is a hotrod simply because of attitude, not because of any particular attribute. (Hotrods = ratrods)

But enough politics, we get enough of that on the TV!   -lol
Title: Re: Any rodders around Sedalia Mo
Post by: Granpascrazzy on August 10, 2017, 11:00:12 AM
IDK.....MY pos is my rat.....painted the wheels red and declared it a "RAT"....... 35 yrs of TEXAS sun patana.....only garages it's seen was fur a quick repair......seems a fine line between ratty and rat rod, it is all in your head