My son's "rat rod".

SO, maybe I can't drive it. So what? At least my son had tons of fun "playing" with it! I love nights home with the kids, messing around with junk and fueling my 3 year old son's love for all things automotive!






And the final resting place, the "junkyard".




Hope you have as much fun laughing at these pics as I did building the playdough rat!

 

That scrubline needs some attention.

Way to start 'em out young!

 

nice

 

Not bad ...

 

Cool car. Pla-doh is delicious.

 

Start um early. Thats what we're doing with my 3 year old grandson. Has a huge collection of hot wheels and monster trucks. Drives an 18 volt souped up lightening Mcqueen car. LOL

 

he's only three and already building stuff that nice??

 

Thats perfect..and "finished"..its even got color!..that aint no Rat Rod..give the kid a break

 

Cool,
Maybe the next foose, who knows

 

i like it keep it up they grow to fast

 

some people are just entirely too F-ing creative. That's really cool!

 

mmmmm.. Salty!!! Very cool, drop axle and everything

 

thats awesome

 

Great!
That's a keeper

 

So, it went to the junkyard? Would you be interested in parting it out? Some parts look as if they are salvageable. How much for the radiator/grill shell?

 

I think the previous owner of my F100 used that same stuff to repair some of the body panels.

 

Haha, thanks for all the replies! Just to clear up a minor detail though.. I actually "built" it, for my son to have fun with.

He loves cars and will probably be doing better renditions than that one someday. He has a whole bunch of matchbox and hotwheels cars already, and he knows most of them by make and model. He's been able to identify them like that since early age 2. We just found out last April after his 3rd birthday, that he is Autistic. His social skills are lacking, but he has some very cool savant skills (remembering the car names of 30+ cars at age 2 being one of them). He's doing much better with social stuff lately though, so I'm very optimistic about him being able to live a "normal" life as an adult. And hopefully he'll stay as much of a car nut as he is now!

 

Maybe you could work for Foose.

 

I'd up and move in a hot minute for a job with Foose!

 

Should of went out to the shop and gather up some metal dust from the grinder and mixed it in the dough, then just wait for the rust to grow, everybody knows it ain't a rat rod if it ain't got "Patina".
Looks great though, better built than a lot of the real ones I've seen.

 

its nice but where do you buy parts for that? when are you going to paint it? what year is it? is it finished? my father had one like that? thats a nice studebaker?.......just prepare your little man for the questions when he gets a rie of his own...nice

 

Kids are fun.

Mine is out taking her next-to-last lesson at the driving school tonite. She was asking me about drag racing and autocross last week. I had to tell her grandpa that I think she inherited the Nielsen throttle-actuation gene...

Great way to keep generations together.

-bill

 

That looks way more "traditional" than some slapped together rat rod, I like the unchopped look also.

 

not to try to steel your post but what size are those tires ?

 

good job,get started early,im try to save by buddies kid from being a "camaro" guy like his old man-teahing him what true hot rods are

 

Camaros aren't bad, what you gotta watch for is the "Import Tuner" shit, wrong as two boys in one sleeping bag.

 

Seafoam....the new flat black.

 

thats the way to get them started in this hobby. i get my son who's 8 out there helping me just like my dad did with me when i was a kid.

 

I think he called it a Rat Rod cause they had the same build time.