If those bids are real I need to build some of those! With bids at $10K there has to be $7K profit for a car that may take a few months to build. I dont see the bids being real, but like they say, there is an *** for every seat.

 

Butt ugly

 

That would be $1 for each picture........


I dont get it

 

Butt it is "100% street legal" (see the last answer) . . . not even in Tennessee with a fuel pump for a rear bumper and no horn. Good for practicing parallel parking in drivers ed. I'd like to see someone take this into the Virginia State police for title inspection . . . think they would throw you in jail and lose the key? On the other hand it would make a nice golf cart for Obama and Al Gore.

 

I think I read that he's "one dem perfeshunal car builders" and yet he couldn't fab a one piece brake pedal??

 

Sold for $14,200!!! Damn! I'm in the wrong business. I have a welder, grinder and lots of wire. I am sure I can still find enough rusted pieces of crap trucks out of the weeds if I spent some time looking. I could go to all the farm auctions and buy up all the rusty scrap metal. I wouldn't have to worry about primer or paint and after I'm done booger welding everything together I can leave it outside in the elements so it will get a better "patina" finish. I bet I could cobble at least one a month, in my free time after work and on the weekends.

Maybe I could go in with my doctor and make a deal, "Buy a rat rod and get a free tetanus shot!" . Of course it would have to be a business with no paperwork trail so when either someone gets killed in it or kills some one else on the open highway I won't have any traceable liability with it.

 

I just checked the bidding history, it seems like there were at least four "more money than brains" bidders. That is of course, if you believe they weren't shill bidders. The old way overPay used to list the bidder with their actual bidder names it was easy to see who was bidding and you could check each bidder's record and could fairly easily tell who were the shills. Now it's impossible. I just personally can't believe there are four people with this kind of money to throw around would blow it on a piece of crap like this.

 

OK, I'll sweeten the deal, for an additional $75 I'll throw in a flat or gloss paint job, color of your choosing as long as it's on the Rustoleum color chart. Runs and orange peel texture in paint would be free. I think I still would make a profit.

 

Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob - you need to refocus. Go out to the shed and winterize your trucks. Stuff like ole Dirty Frank needs a special kind of buyer - people you aren't likely to take a shine to. Folks with low expectations for workmanship and safety. Let it go.

The other reason to get past this is should you build one, you know one of your kids will claim it. Then both of you would need different haircuts.

 

Thanks Duane for straightening me out. You are right, if I got into the rat rod culture I'd had to start shaving my head, get tattoos all over my body (that in itself could be quite costly) and start wearing oversized baseball caps and my jeans below my ***. I'd also have to start trimming my beard and mustache in a whole different way. I guess it would be a lot more sacrifices than I'm willing to do.

As for kids, I only have to worry about Andy, he tends to take over if I don't corral him in. The oldest one, he only "barrows" my stuff. I just have to go out to the barn and get it back and wash all the cow crap off of it, hopefully it's still useable after he's done "barrowing" it. I suppose that could work for building rat rods though. I could build a rat rod and then let him "age" it, make it even crapier. He might actually be able to help bring up the value on a rat rod.

 

Duane, I just realized another thing. If I got into rat rods I'd have to start giving and receiving man hugs, no way!! Never did, never will!!

 

$14K?
That seals it, I will have to build one to sell. Already have a spare 1948 F1 cab here and a bed to shorten, just have to whip up a chassis, everything else I should have in stock. Except a tractor grille.

 

Talk to Bob first.

 

Right, he may have a tractor grille.

 

Dave,

I've seen your work via boards on the net, especially the '37 Buick. Honestly, you'd really have to dump down your talent to make a piece of crap like this. What you do I personally don't consider rat rods, unless you've changed your approach to building your vehicles since the Buick. This latest eBay monstrosity is what I call a rat rod.

I have two determinations for calling a "vehicle" a rat rod: is it cobbled together only to achieve a shock value? And, would I be afraid to have it heading toward me on the open highway at 60 mph? If the answer to both questions is "yes", then to me it's a rat rod piece of crap. Very simple standards.