"IDDaVo - Now has a Toy Yoda" (iddavo) 11/11/2013 at 18:15 • Filed to: None

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Yes Sir.

Sidenote: Don't really care for ratrods

jlmounce > IDDaVo - Now has a Toy Yoda 11/11/2013 at 18:23

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Indeed!

On your sidenote, those aren't really rat rods. Those are hot rods. A rat rod is characteristic of a time when people had zero dollars to spend on customization. So they usually ended up with a rusted out heap with a crap ton of garage engineering. They looked a bit like this.

Rat rods these days are highly engineered pieces of machinery that just look like they're falling apart. As opposed to actually falling apart.

lone_liberal > jlmounce 11/11/2013 at 18:32

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You've just described why I went from thinking rat rods were cool to thinking they should be killed with fire. When they were low buck projects guys put together in the spirit of original hot rods they were cool. When people started spending big dollars to build things that looked cheap they lost whatever cool they had.

CAR_IS_MI > lone_liberal 11/11/2013 at 18:34

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So you dont want a twin turbo v8 'rat' thats not going to fall apart and give you road rash every time you gas it?

anonsagainstanonymous > IDDaVo - Now has a Toy Yoda 11/11/2013 at 18:34

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Who's this russian rod builder, Evom Revo?

lone_liberal > CAR_IS_MI 11/11/2013 at 18:37

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Nope. I don't want to purposely build something that looks like crap. If you're going to spend all that money why not get something that looks good? Why fake cheapness?

Frank Grimes > jlmounce 11/11/2013 at 18:42

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I have never seen a well engineered rat rod also people who build rat rods suck at welding.

CAR_IS_MI > lone_liberal 11/11/2013 at 18:44

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I'm all for not spending a ton, and I am not saying I would be willing to drop $100,000 on a rat, but at the same point in time, I would gladly spend the money on the engine and transmission (because I want smoky burnouts, not smoky exhaust pipes) and anything critical to me staying in the vehicle.

jlmounce > lone_liberal 11/11/2013 at 18:47

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I agree 100%. Though I've never really been in to rat rods, I appreciate what they were and why they are (were) important. Now though, people are spending 100k+ to have professional shops build rat rods. That misses the point of the culture entirely.

lone_liberal > jlmounce 11/11/2013 at 19:02

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Exactly. They were the response to the "billet everything" trend. They were supposed to be a movement back to the roots of hot rodding, but now they're just phony. If I was going to build a rod, and I wouldn't because they aren't my thing, I'd rather build something myself that looks like Milner's Deuce from American Graffiti than hand a builder a stack of money and tell him to build me something that looked rusty and cheap but really isn't.