A "Rat Rod" is not a Hot Rod or a Street Rod and it's for sure not a "Traditional Rod" there's a huge difference between them all! Traditionals are purpose built machines with a very unique look and style a Rat Rod is completely different. A traditional rod is it's own animal with it's own roots and followings. Hot Rods can really mean anything that been juiced up. A Honda could be your "Hot Rod" A Street Rod is usually a high dollar rod.
The term Rat Rod was started during the great dust bowls. When these folks showed up in cars and trucks of all manor held together in any number of ways using any number of parts..... When these folks arrived in the big eastern and western cities folks called them "Rats" as if they had jumped ship and poured onto land. People grabbed anything they could and strapped everything they owned to it and moved across country looking for work, food or just escape from the dust.
Unless you had some money, which most didnt, you were gonna have to come up with clever ways of getting your ride fixed and your family back on the road again. A " True Rat Rod" is built from anything that can be used! Folks shared parts, welded parts, taped and glued parts and even hand made things as they traveled.
By the time people showed up they were driving all sorts of makes and models held together as best they could with everything they owned strapped to it. You may have left in a Ford but showed up in a ChevOrdAllac.
Some folks started out with cars and cut them up int
Unless you had some money, which most didnt, you were gonna have to come up with clever ways of getting your ride fixed and your family back on the road again. A " True Rat Rod" is built from anything that can be used! Folks shared parts, welded parts, taped and glued parts and even hand made things as they traveled.
By the time people showed up they were driving all sorts of makes and models held together as best they could with everything they owned strapped to it. You may have left in a Ford but showed up in a ChevOrdAllac.
Some folks started out with cars and cut them up int
Unless you had some money, which most didnt, you were gonna have to come up with clever ways of getting your ride fixed and your family back on the road again. A " True Rat Rod" is built from anything that can be used! Folks shared parts, welded parts, taped and glued parts and even hand made things as they traveled.
By the time people showed up they were driving all sorts of makes and models held together as best they could with everything they owned strapped to it. You may have left in a Ford but showed up in a ChevOrdAllac.
Some folks started out with cars and cut them up into trucks to haul more family and things across the country. You may have left with real seats that became tires. Now you know the real story and why a Rat Rod is a Rat Rod.
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By the time people showed up they were driving all sorts of makes and models held together as best they could with everything they owned strapped to it. You may have left in a Ford but showed up in a ChevOrdAllac.
Some folks started out with cars and cut them up into trucks to haul more family and things across the country. You may have left with real seats that became tires. Now you know the real story and why a Rat Rod is a Rat Rod.
About the Author:
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