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Choosing The Right Vehicle For Your Rat
What better way to start than picking the right vehicle. In building your Rat Rod, you need to take some things into consideration. Will you drive this vehicle daily? Is it for sunny days only? Do you have a family that does the show circuit with you? The answers to these questions will determine if you will love or hate your vehicle.
Typical Old School Rat Rods Beginning from the start, say about 1915 up to the mid thirties, these are your textbook Rat Rods. Most of them have extreme chops and channeling. The majority of them have very little to no glass and possibly no roofs also. Be it a Ford, Chevy or Chrysler product, they all make good candidates. Chryslers are a bit more rare, and although I"ve never seen a Rolls-Royce rat, i wouldn't be against it. Dont be afraid to out of your boundaries. There is nothing wrong with a pickup cab on a chassis with no bed or nose sheetmetal. BE CREATIVE!
More Car as the years Continue As the thirties came to an end, bigger, fatter fender and bodies came into play. Well into the forties as well, these cars are great chop canditates as well. A bit tougher to execute, the final product is worth it. Again, any of the big three car manufacturers are perfect. Gasser style Rat Rods began to come into play with raised straight axle front ends, big white walls, and motors set back closer to the firewalls than normal. Removing the fenders and sometimes the hood was a popular customization technique.
Fifties: The Lead Sleds Arrive So now the cars keep getting bigger, and heavier. What better way to coin the phrase " Lead Sled ". Be it a 1950 Dodge business coupe, or the icon 50 Merc (Mercury), these vehicles began a complete different way of customization. Continental kits are very popular, as well as long side pipes, big tooth grills, and flames shooting out the exhaust. Very cool! Again, big cars, more work, but a very cool end result. Very popular customization techniques involved removing all chrome and trim, flat black paint, and a choice of flames or scallops painted near the front of the vehicle.
What Happened to the Big Body cars? After the last of the 57 vehicle craze, the style of big and round was lost to square and long. Also big cubic inch motors were in the developmental stages and Muscle Cars were beginning to come around. Most of these vehicles were strictly racing and wanted them shiny. From about 1964 to 1972, just before the oil embargo and insurance craze, most any brand was striving to be number one with style or horsepower. Many famous Muscle Cars came from this era like the 69 Camaro or the infamous 64 1/2 Mustang. There is no such thing as a cool Rat Rod-Muscle Car. It just doesn't work, sorry. Try to keep your Rat Rod pre-1960 to really get noticed. So come visit us at http://www.ratrodauthority.com.
About the Author
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