WTF...Rat Rodzzzzzzzz?

Oh yeah...Zonkola...I have to agree....that coupe is pretty *****in!

 

I love 'em all, especially the really raw ones that exude power rather than cosmetics. I don't care if it's shiny or rusty, they are all good. Safety is definitely first with my stuff but to each their own.

 

Were it me, I'd just tell them it was a hot rod and let them draw their own conclusions if they asked me to list the components involved.

 

Poor thing. Sounds like Germ didn't get a nappy today. Fight the power! Down with disinfectant and anti bacterial soap!

 

NO..........

OLD SKOOL RODZ........ IS THE GAYEST THING ever..

Is it that MAGS attemp to ****ing SAY """RAT ROD" every sentence??

and when does some GAY 50's "****BOX" become a "ROD"????

wow man SCENESTER LINGO sells MAGAZINES??
so does FAT ROCKERBILLY ****S with GAY hair??? and bad tats?

at least GET someone who can take some PICTURES...
the MAG has some GOOD reading.but in the end I can't remember because they said RAT ROD, 899900334 times a ****ing ISSUE

 

I wonder if we could have a HAMD AUCTION to donate to my DRUG REHAB?

 

germ dude, you sounded really effed up when I talked to you Saturday night. Your pal Cheater Mike's got a totally square shaped head.
The dude from Ol Skool Rodz was there to cover our show.
Are we gonna lose street cred if we're featured in the most despised mag since 'Beaten to Death Seal Monthly'?
Oh don't worry, we don't have any anyway!
I swear I never used the term Rat Rod when he interviewed me, if it slips in there then it was journalistic license that put it there.
I just bought an issue of Garage magazine, was I hiding in a cave? I'd never seen it before, it's pretty good, no it's REALLY good.

 

You know whenever this topic comes up, I don't say anything about it cuz it's so beat up. One thing is always in the back of my mind tho.. I remember, not too many years ago, the term "rat rod" was bantied around as much as "flatty" and "scallops" and "zephyr gears" and whatever you can imagine is used frequently in the hot rodders world.

It seems now that once it became a mainstream term that your average gold chainer threw around as much as "billet" and "cragars" and "LT1", the very people who once embraced the idea of their own car being a "rat rod" and were damn proud of it, now shun it and forego a thumbs for a middle finger.

Eventually it will go away (RAT ROD) but until it does, why not just choose to ignore or maybe even remember when YOU were once a proud rat rodder yourself.

 

Tiny, I don't ever recall a time when I ever used the term, I've used rat bike before.

 

I think it's a hillarious sign o'the times that Revell actually TRADEMARKED the term "Rat Rods" for exclusive use on THIER model kits and die cast toys!!!

Ha Ha Ha...what really kills me is that ten years ago, I got laughed out of a model car contest for building a Revell Model A pickup kit into a rough and rusty backwoods hot rod...and now the company has re-vamped that exact same kit and released it as a RAT ROD!

The term didn't exist in popular circles ten years ago...and today it carries a tm!!

 

Yeah I don't mean anyone specific on this board.. but in the circles I once knew.. it was thrown around quite a bit. 10 years ago I can honestly say I was not into rodz/customs (just old cars I guess) but 5 years ago.. for sure..

Anyway.. I put in my 5 pence about it.

 

Germ that magazine does have someone who can take pictures.

ME!

Does this car look familiar?

I remember when CKD came first came out. There was the same amount of weeping wailing and gnashing of teeth. Give it some time....and let them find their nitche.

 

Twenty years ago in Daytona during bike week I saw my first "Rat Bike" close up. I had seen the bike in the mags for awhile..I think it was a knucklehead. It was the first bike that I remember being referred to with that term. It had a dead rat on the front fender.(along with a whole bunch of other **** hangin off of it).. I was intrigued, but not to the point of building(?) one. The same with cars....intriguing, but I'm not ready to build one. If I found one in a barn from the early days, I would use it...but somehow, the "rat rods" of today are just "Universal Studio" cars...a recreation of sorts.


I much more prefer Sams "Roach Rod" type car....actually "built"...not just thrown together junk.

 

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My curiously perverted sense of morbidity is piqued..

Where in the Seattle area can I glom a copy of this subject of controversy?

Paul

 

I finally got my hands on issue number 2 and I happen to think its done pretty well and the fact that no punches have been pulled in the reading makes this rag my first and only choice to buy off the newstand from now on. You want to talk about gay reading look at "Rod and Custom", "Street Rodder","Southern Rodder","Northern Rodder","Hot Rod", and the list goes on and on, these rags focus on the same cars all the time. Anyway life is about choices and freedom of speach is a right so this is just my opinion feel free to piss on it if you must.

 

Mike - they do now, but you were not working for them in the 1st issue, and those pics were not that great. Your spread on Bo's car is shot very well, but that was just your shots, not the other guys who forget to shoot the side of a cool car. Hopefully they will have you do more as time p***es.. Its a good mag though, I like it but what do I know I am living in Utah..

 

All discussions aside... I think their ONLY problem is that they didn't call the magazine "Rat Rodder".

Sam.

 

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All discussions aside... I think their ONLY problem is that they didn't call the magazine "Rat Rodder".

Sam.

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Not after you, my friend.

As in "Street Rodder, Custom Rodder, American Rodder... Hot Rod..."

It's just the logical choice for a name if they are going to be preaching Rat Rods... Oooo, there's a name "Rat Rodz"

They can keep their corney play on words... AND preach the gospel of the RAT ROD!

Sounds like a win-win situation to me.

Sam.

 

california sux.umm sorry just an observation continue don't mind me just p***ing through

 

Hatch,
The term Rat Bike goes way back. I road ratz clear back in the '60s. It refered to the Bike that was owned by a guy that didn't spend a lot on chrome and googahs. Usually rattle can paint (or not), nuthin' more than it took to get down the road. Kind of a bare bones type of a thing.
By the 80s it had become pretty well *******ized, a lot like what you see with the fautina crowd, in hot rodding.
I knew a guy in the 80s that actually built a complete new bike new frame, disc brakes new 80" motor (nosecone) high dollar seat... He didn't paint it and left it out in the rain. He called it Rust In Piece, he was just a gold chain biker trying to fit in.

 

What about Rat KustomZ?!

 

I really don't see a problem with the term "rat rod". I have a rod, that would fit into this ,current, description. But really do not care what others term it. Do you really care if somebody calls your ride a rat rod, hot rod, old school rod, trad. or anything at all? I don't.
What I do have a problem with, and it is just my own selfishness, is that this kind of rod is starting to become main stream. I like that my rust bucket is not a riddler winner. But now there are many "goldchainers" who are building their cars to emulate ours. Kinda ****s...
But then again this is just my opinion.

 

Ya know guys, we've got the "Kustom Kulture" (with the obligatory "K"'s), "Kustomz" and "Rodz" (with the "z"'s), "Rat Rodz", and all of the other GAY *** terms that we come up with to CATEGORIZE ourselves as ANTI establishment (Yep, we're all so different we're the same.). Now all we need to do is come up with a way to spell them all with "X-" at the beginning (as in X-Treme and X-everthingelsegay) and we'll be really cool!

 

Looks like it's all been said and done!
Now go to the garage and get busy!

 

hmmm...what was **** Reynolds hollerin' about TWO years ago???

Well, lets see...



bttt,
one from the crypt. Found it on Yahoo searching for "Hillbilly Rat Rods".

hahaha...