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...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???
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
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.
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
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?