...and then run away into the night screaming. This is the only rat rod that seems designed for the environmentally conscious - provided you are indifferent to particulate air quality issues.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/281502370579?&_trksid=p2041548.m738
No reserve!

 

First of all one would think that the owner of the 'Midwest's largest vintage car restoration shop' would know the difference between a '31 and a mid 40's cab. Sheesh.... Too bad about that good sheet metal gone to waste. I do love the cummins engines and I have a real thing about the '42- '47 fords, but can you imagine what a cool truck could have been built with the parts they had and the time and money involved? Just another ho-hum, looks just like all the other ground hugging rat rod clones I could see on the net any day of the week. The first rat rod I ever saw was a cobbled up model A with a hand grenade shifter, a navajo blanket on the seat, patched up floors and red painted steel wheels. I thought it was awesome. Looked like an old hot rod pulled from a barn and brought back to it's former life without being fixed up. Now I know it was in the first wave of a national fad. Not much into the latest fads. Skinny jeans are a fad.

 

I'd pay cash money to see that lower intercooler pipe kiss the pavement on a bump. I wouldn't expect those wheels to last with that amount of weight on them either. $10k???

 

As always, there is a monster difference between looking kinda cool sitting still and looking like anything under power.

 

Y'all boys and girls need to give this old boy some schoolin' on rat rods. IMO, that thing is an abortion. Who would spend that kind of money for a pile of parts like that? What am I missing? Does that thing have a purpose? Come on, convince me it does.-----------------Shock value

 

I just puked in my mouth a little bit.

 

Good luck trying to get it licenced and insured, up here MOT would yank it off the road at first glance.

 

Thing looks uglier, more dangerous and rougher riding the "normal" piece of crap rot rod. At least he didn't weld rusted saw blades on the outside of the cab.

Like I've said before, "to each is own" but the biggest thing I have against pieces of crap like this is this thing will be coming toward a family at 60 mph.

 

I'd be curious as to who the 20 bidders are.......

He must of had a '31 title, so it became a '31.

Those taillights and license plate on the back don't look very legal either.

The good news is is has air ride and gets 35 mpg!!!!!!

 

That's the ugliest collection of abandoned parts I've ever seen.

 

And Bob, what a handful at 110! I'm sure with NO wight and all that hp, it would get there. In the wrong hands nobody would be safe.

 

He has a correction at the bottom of his E-Bay page, stating that it is a '40 cab.

 

As they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I would say the builder is long overdue for an eye exam. Like most rat rods, a terrible waste of good components.
Mark

 

WTF ? Speed bumps , RR crossings , any thing over an inch high NOT

 

I don't understand, I really don't. As a novice, and first time builder, and as I continue to learn, I do my very best to improve the quality of things on my truck, some things I've already done but am compelled to redo just to make it better. How does anyone take pride in building something that, or pay top dollar for it? Where is the pride?