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I'll rock the shit out of them. If I could do one, I'll do one dramatically different from what you see, 70s cars and trucks. I think the 1970s Ford trucks would lend itself very well to rat-rodding. The 70s cars would be challenging but I'm up for a challenge.
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Types I like-

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c161/spedponcho/i514110_1970Cadillac2doorCoupeDeVil.jpg

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c161/spedponcho/62-impala-rat-rod.jpg

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c161/spedponcho/5034930001_large.jpg

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c161/spedponcho/rusty-210.jpg

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Love "rat rods." Old, rusted, put together with chicken wire and bubblegum, and scrapes on the painted lines when you change lanes. Just be careful who you say "rat rod" to. Some don't like the term.

 

The more ingenuity and downright MacGuyverism you use, the more cred you'll have. Aim for a budget of about $1500-$2000 and DON'T let yourself go over. Wheel, deal, beg, borrow, and steal to make it fit the budget. Even if you have to take every drawer-pull from your kitchen to make your radiator grill. :fuckyeah:

 

No serious "rat-rodder" will be impressed with a big wallet. But every one of them will go nuts for some barn-find tractor motor from an obscure manufacturer that doesn't exist any more which cost you a case of beer.

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I have a 27 roadster, well part of it, here in the garage. If I ever find the time and money I hope to be done by summer. Heres how it sat when I got it, I am going way lower. Pic makes the frame look really long, but its not.

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d87/wnaplay/DSCF6166.jpg

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Why'd that make you laugh? It looks bad ass to me!

 

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It's probably the last thing I thought would come up looking at rat rods, I give the guy credit for being different though.

 

I found a video of a pretty neat diesel rat rod, It's got a cummins 12v.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpjPIj1YF0M&feature=player_embedded

 

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This one made me laugh.

 

http://ekhatch.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/rat-rod-vw-06.jpg

 

Heh, looks like a nightmare, but then look past the rust. The front was narrowed by a foot at least. He even took the time to narrow the grill. And it's not like he just took a foot out of the middle, look closely and you'll see that he took it from different spots throughout the nose.

 

The strut suspension wouldn't have worked, so he engineered a torsion bar front end. I bet there's a lot of interesting work done that's not immediately obvious.

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