Whats the scariest thing youve seen on a rod?

Agreed. I saw this car at the GNRS and it was actually fairly well done. I certainly appreciated the guy's use of fresh ideas. There's a panhard bar locating everything and the welds were decent. Should work just fine.

 

That's why it is so important to wear a helmet....so when the roll bar busts apart and hits you in the head, it doesn't crack your skull!

Amazing how some people just don't get the concept of keeping the driver secured inside the car in event of a violent crash.

 

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Whats the scariest thing youve seen on a rod?

well I woke up drunk one time and looked down to see some spots on my "rod"....but luckily they washed off!!! It was a sobering moment!!!

 

I wasn't going to chime in on this thread, because it's gone down a path like a lot of threads these days on the HAMB, but.....

Some comments on the rat rod yall been trashing on this thread. It has acomplished it's goal. It shocks you to think someone could drive this. For God's sake it's old, rusty, original motor, and has a suicide front end. Suggest that next time you trailer your car to an upcoming show outside of your home town, you stop by and ask about the engineering behind the suicide front end...which by the way a suicide front end has been found on more than one rod, but only this one made it on here somehow. This car has more miles on it than a lot of hot rodders can vouch for on their car and has had no more problems than the next guy.

Aside from a suicide front end...not sure what else is so scary. Oh and tractor seats...forgot.

Coiled brake lines....wow...scary. FOAD

 

although I'm a FNG, rather than bashing someone's rod for being unsafe and stating he should be turned into the authorities, offer to help out. Come on guys, when I built my vette I gave used parts away, helped others assemble engines, suspensions, ect. I would suspect that it takes a village to build a rod, otherwise we wouldnt have or need this fourm.

 

Trouble is, when the "Village Idiot" builds a rod..........They are the guys that know it all, and won't take any suggestions from anyone anyways..........They are the people that give this hobby a bad name.

 

Well I'm getting ready to build my first rod. Every car to this point has been a restoration, now I going to build one the way I think it should have been built. So if anyone has thoughts on a 46 plymouth 2door sedan I will be glad to listen. I think you have to have an internal crap filter when talking to some people and know when to shut up and listen to the guy that has built several rods that drive.

 

What's up with all the douche bags defending this POS?
Must be the asshole's buddies.
I can just picture it now, a bunch of real cool cats with 6" cuffs, drinkin' PBR,
and building their keen "ratrods".

So, if I have a POS deathrod, can I join the thunderjotos?



Oh and BTW:
"It takes a village"

WTF?

 

Dood, if you have restoration experience already, you should be on the right track. Good luck and ask if you aren't sure.-MIKE

 

I've seen a box wrench used for a streering arm and pictures of one being used for a pitman arm. I think they are just there for the WTF comments.

 

How about the 69 NHRA world champion AA/A with a muffler moly chassis to save weight and a blown small block Chevy engine{thats high tech talk for exhaust pipe}. National record holder and Indy Nationals winner & World Finals winner., Jerry Gwynns "Baby Huey". NHRA never caught it either. My high school buddies 32 pickup w/chevy 327 with vise grips to steer it for 6 months. My own stripout Vette bought from insurance co. I drove for 6 months with no floor in S Fla 327/340 4 speed. Very toasty inside, floor removed with an axe bought for $500. Not dangerous just stupid

 

Years ago, I paid a visit to a guy working on his brother's deuce 5w. He had just welded together two separate components to make a steering linkage. To cover his ugly weld he slipped some aluminum lawn chair tubing over the linkage and bolted the steering knuckle on. He was quite proud of his ingenuity.

 

A local guy built his first streetrod, a Model A sedan,fenderless, radical SBF, and those huge T bucket tires on the back. He drove it around slowly for a couple weeks and finally one day he decided to test his work and hammered it hard in front of his house. When he did the rear end nearly ripped out from under the car. The car dropped down so the frame was on top of the rear axle and the only thing that stopped the rear from comimg all the way out was one coilover that stayed attached to both the rear axle and the frame. When the car dropped it punctured the gas tank and there was aviation fuel pouring all over the dtreet.Why it didn't ignite is a mystery and very lucky. He was strapped into the car with a five point harness...and so was his grand daughter!!!! He called my brother to fix the car and i went with him to help. This is the scarey part. We found that he had put a Ford 8" rear in the car, but he used fourbar brackets for a 9", which has a larger axle tube. He had welded the brackets to the axle only where they contacted the the tube, and only on one side of each. The welds were true birdshit welds, done with an arc welder. My brother looked at his welder as he was about to start fixing things and saw that it was cranked all the way up!!!!! The guy said he wanted to make sure he got good welds. My brother was a fabricator at a structural steel shop that made, among other things, hiway bridges, so once he had the car put back together it wasn't gonna ever break again. To this day I have never seen the guy drive the car over 25 m.p.h. and he never jumps on it!!! He did the work on the rest of it so maybe he has doubts about some other things on it, I know I do!

 

I totally forgot my stupidist stunt. I had built an H/G 51 Anglia powered by a 310 inch Ford 6 back in 1971. We had gotten the motor running but had no interior or seats. It seemed like a good idea to try it out using 2 -5 gallon cans on a pieve of plywood to sit on, my buddy would work the cat leash throttle while I shifted the 4 speed and steered. We rolled it out and I yelled now and he floored it and immediately fell over off the paint can into the back never letting go of the cat leash. Im yelling "let it go, let it go" but it wasnt registering. Finally I shut the key off and we slid thru a major intersection with no one there. Couple of real brain surgeons at work there! We still laugh at it today

 

Belchfire, Thats pretty funny...makes you think that were/me/you are all over analyzing the saftey and construction of stuff that we build.

 

Pretty soon all you skirts are going to want all the cars in the car show to get 1st place trophies.


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Thunderjotos? asshole's buddies? douche bags? I'm sure you'll share these gems with them in person, right tuff guy?

Which '56 Belair should they be looking for to come tell you "Hi"? You are driving it to the Roundup, right?

I'm not defending this, or any other car. I really don't care for it either. But callin' people that you have never met a bunch of foul names based on a car might not be the best idea. It certainly isn't good Texas manners.

 

I never saw it but my grandpa built a rod that took two people to drive, one to steer and one to operate the throttle and brakes, but he had a hemi powered model a to make up for it

 

I saw a T once at a large event that had a piece of tubing welded to the center of a 9 inch axle, and a trailer ball bolted to the tubing.

 

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Still in touch w/ the original members. One of em still runs w/ us.
Some of us are real young, a lot of us are real old.
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As for the name calling.....douchbags, assholes, fags............
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I love the way the brake line runs through the header. That's nice.

 

I like the hardly noticeable blue pinstripes on the axle!!! SweeT!

 

Those aren't pinstripes they're marks to show where the axle is screwed up.

 

Not much of a sense of adventure anymore. I recall as a kid building go carts with no brakes. We built a mini bike you had to lay down on and sort of steer like a skateboard (you leaned). That one had a throttle cable which was simply a string you pulled on.

I remember soaking tennis balls in lighter fluid, lighting them and throwing them at each other. I recall seeing the road pass by under my feet in the backseat of my dads 59 Plymouth.

Uside down extended bikes that were as rickety as all get out. Building choppers by cutting the forks off another bike and hammering them onto the end of your forks.

No, I wouldn't drive many things shown here down the interstate, but around town? Yeah. Do they show an expertise in building a rod? No.

Sometimes though, it's fun to do something really stupid. Am I being as safe as I can by still riding around on 4 manual drum brakes?

My boys are bummed that cars no longer have bumpers you can grab onto on ice covered streets and get pulled down the road.

Maybe I'm taking this all too seriously also.

 

On the Ratrod build video that comes with the Wal Mart video Hot Rods and Rat Rods,The builders take a front ford wishbone grind inside where the bones would fit around the front axle then force this over the rear axle tube and weld them top and bottom where they touch the tube for rear radious rods

 

Most of my problem is when people build stuff unsafe just for the "look", or to say they did so. I've seen horrible welds, vicegrips holding huge chunks of metal on, etc. But none of it was done "intentionally".

 

a old picture of my ex girlfriend laying NAKED on the hood of my old 65' impala! damm i just puked a little in my mouth!

 

i used to work at an automotive machine shop with a guy that was building a very hairy small block powered chevy 2 on test fire day there was no interior so it was decided that a folding lawn chair would do for the test drive... 6grand rpm ...side step the clutch ...lawn chair folds up ...he falls backward ...car crashes ...he looses a leg a race car and almost lost his life.

 

back in high school,guy had a48 ford coupe. did his own parallel leaf spring rear conversion.the rear spring mounts for the shackles were welded to the rear bumper brackets and stuck out from under the back of the car. had a390four speed in it with the stock front brakes. he also made a motor mount plate that used the stock flathead frame mounts[made out of steel diamond plate,cut with a torch]