34 ford fenders
Rat Rod GMC
Alright. Here's one of these rants I warned you all about. As I mentioned, cars are a mammoth part of my life. They have been since my grandpa taught me how to triple wax his 42 foot want late '70s Cadillac Eldorado when I was 7 or 8. When I was about 13 or so, I started getting into those odd creatures known as hot rods, due to an older gentleman who lives a stone's throw from me who drives a primered '27 Ford Scale model T sedan with no fenders, straight pipes, and a big chunk Mercury V8.
Yesterday, I was at a stoplight being mocked by the dull red lights that always seem to plague me on my way home from employment. Up next to me pulls up a brand new GMC Yukon that was at once black, lowered, and had 22 inch 5-spoke chrome wheels with the centers painted lipstick red, and pinstriping to boot. As I goggle at it in disgust, the light finally changes and he pulls away, revealing a authorize plate frame saying 'Rat Rodz Direction' with skulls and crossbones on each corner. Okay. I can see his intentions here. He all things considered was watching Monster Garage on something on The Ascertaining Channel and thought he would start a new lean. The problem here is he is in no way original, and he is totally mixing trends that (in my viewpoint) aren't meant to be mixed. At all.
Now, to sidestep confusion here, a 'rat rod' is a form of hot rodding that has been around since the start or modifying your take in in the '30s. It basically is just an unfinished hot rod, with prototypical paint/rust (or even bare metal or primer) left-hand on, with little attention to how shiny it is. Back then, they were called 'jalopies', which is a bit more captivating then being called a rat, which was made popular in SoCal, and captivated to the mainstream by a writer named Smoky Baskerville who did an article for Hot Rod magazine coining the course to the history books. Teenagers in the '40s would find an old Mock-up A or '32 Ford in a used car lot or wrecking yard, incline in a hot flathead V8, take the fenders and hood off, lower it in the front or all the way around to give it a worthy rake, and go looking for trouble. A shimmering paint job, chrome wheels, and even a consummate interior were the least of their worries. The name of the game was effective as fast as possible as quickly as conceivable, leaving the stock car in the dust.
Most people confound hot rods with every other genre of car customizing. Customs are not meant to go as quick like a bunny normally, quite the contrary. Most times the motor was left stock, and the exterior is modified. Tops were chopped, headlights were frenched, hoods and trunks were nosed and decked, hem was smoothed, sunken antennas were molded in. Fabulous customizers such as Gene Winfield, Harry Westergard, Bo Huff, and Bill Hines helped to start and pursue this genre.
The culture right above hot rods on the fat scale are called street rods. Basically people with too much greenbacks putting trucks of money into a car value 1/100th of what they put into it. You all have seen the vintage cars with big fulgurous paint jobs, independent suspensions, 20'' wheels, air conditioning, and thousands of dollars in stereo appurtenances. These are NOT hot rods! Nothing pisses me off more then seeing a $200,000 Fiberglass '34 Ford roadster with those slow-witted little displays that say it's an 'original hot rod'. No. It's not. If your car has any of those things and they didn't move from the factory with those items (cars from the till '40s and '50s often had IFS) then a pack of furious monkeys should be set loose on you if you say it's anything but a street rod.
What that shoddy Yukon was...well....kind of an dishonour to almost 75 years of customization. Now before you all call me out on my Mustang from lofty school, know that I have learned my ways lol. Mercedes is now edifice cars that are painted satin louring from the factory. Now I don't care if you do this to your ride, but please don't affect that you are a 'revolutionary' or 'unique'. Everything has been done before in the car modification clique.
*sigh*
MUSCLE CARS & HOT RODS episode 28
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