WHAT DOES A RAT MEAN TO YOU????

[Rat Rod]

I don't think it's because it's a touchy subject as much as it is that it's been discussed a few times in the past year.

It's all good though, nothing wrong with a bit of discussion.

Now back to the bikes!

 

[PRAISE THE LOWERED]

nothing wrong with a bit of discussion.

Now back to the bikes!

HERE HERE

 

[SuperStuff]

Caps Lock should be in the middle of keyboard to the far left. If you put your pinky finger on the A it is the next key to the left normally. :shock:

A Rat? I don't give a rat's rear end what people think of my bike. How's that? LOL... :lol: Actually I do, but to keep the coolness factor I have to deny it in public. Shhhhhh... Don't tell anyone.

 

[PRAISE THE LOWERED]

Caps Lock should be in the middle of keyboard to the far left. If you put your pinky finger on the A it is the next key to the left normally. :shock:

A Rat? I don't give a rat's rear end what people think of my bike. How's that? LOL... :lol: Actually I do, but to keep the coolness factor I have to deny it in public. Shhhhhh... Don't tell anyone.

I WAS JOKING ABOUT THE CAPS LOCK BUTTON.
SEE THATS WHAT IM LOOKING FOR (SORT OF) YOU DONT CARE WHAT PEOPLE THINK OF YOUR BIKE. IT ONLY MATTERS WHAT YOU THINK. WHICH IS HOW IT SHOULD BE. THERES NO TEXT BOOK ANSWER. I THINK EVEN IF THERE WAS THE TERM "RAT ROD" IN THE DICTINARY, THAT DEFINITION WOULD MEAN SQUAT BECAUSE IT IS WHAT YOU MAKE OF IT AND YES WE ALL SECRETLY PINE FOR SOME SORT OF ACCEPTANCE OF OUR BIKES HA HA. :wink:

 

[maddogrider]

cranky old leaky loud and way cool to ride or drive as long as you thinks its cool and maybe the hot chick your with call it what you want. ride on

 

[Buck Masterson]

For me Rat = making cheap cool. Coolness on a budget, but all the money in the world couldnt make it any cooler.

 

[PRAISE THE LOWERED]

THANKS GUYS! NOW WERE DISCUSSING!
SEE THERE SEEMS TO BE A COMMON GROUND ON THE IDEA OF RAT ROD (HERE AT LEAST) BUT I CANT STRESS ENOUGH THAT RAT ROD IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT! :mrgreen:
THIS IS A TOPIC THAT CAN AND HAS AND WILL GO ON FOR AGES.
IF SOMEONE WROTE THAT THEY HAVE A 92 FORD PROBE THATS FLAT BLACK AND THAT IS THEIR RAT ROD. THEN SO BE IT!
(ID PERSONALLY THINK ITS MORE JUST RAT ROD STYLE THAN ACTUAL RAT ROD, BUT WHAT I OR ANYONE ELSE THINKS SHOULDNT MATTER)

 

[Buck Masterson]

THANKS GUYS! NOW WERE DISCUSSING!
SEE THERE SEEMS TO BE A COMMON GROUND ON THE IDEA OF RAT ROD (HERE AT LEAST) BUT I CANT STRESS ENOUGH THAT RAT ROD IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT! :mrgreen:
THIS IS A TOPIC THAT CAN AND HAS AND WILL GO ON FOR AGES.
IF SOMEONE WROTE THAT THEY HAVE A 92 FORD PROBE THATS FLAT BLACK AND THAT IS THEIR RAT ROD. THEN SO BE IT!
(ID PERSONALLY THINK ITS MORE JUST RAT ROD STYLE THAN ACTUAL RAT ROD, BUT WHAT I OR ANYONE ELSE THINKS SHOULDNT MATTER)

Nothing is more rat then the 86 Ford Escort I used to own. It was the ugliest baby blue and Navy two tone, and I had so many parts from other vehicles on it, it wasnt funny. I think the rims were off of a Dodge, The windshield wiper fluid container was off a Pacer, and I had a hood scoop off of a Mustang on it (scoop was bright red). It was so ugly it was cool. However that is how I feel rat is, making due, but making it cool to me, not anyone else. If they like it too :mrgreen: , then it just proves there are at least two nuts on this planet! lol

 

[moparmayhem93]

"i think we'll go with a little bohemian rhapsody boys!?!?!"

MAN i wish i could find me one of them bad boys!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[sensor]

my boss used to use one of those for his drag car :mrgreen:
right now its rusting in back of the shop(but the 454 is pulled out along with everything else)

 

[karfer67]

wow this one again? well he is ok i ment him in person its all good. but yea this topic has brought up some bad blood in the past. oh yea and turn those caps off before hooch finds out and he sicks ricky on ya! a rat is what you make of it heck in our club we dont like it when some call our cars rat rods they are just hot rods or kustoms. but it is what you make of it and thats it.

 

[Buck Masterson]

but it is what you make of it and thats it.

Amen Brother karfer67 Amen!! Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder!

 

[fast eddie]

i like bicycles...period! i dont stress too much over the different kinds or names of...but here's what will get a bike i built called a "rat."

if i make something of nothing. example, take a bike that's been thrown away, or that i got for five or 10 bucks, and use my own time, effort, and creativity to make it something cool. you wont see me on anything rusty or "patina'd" but they often start that way!

im not sure what it is about taking something that was discarded or decided to be useless, and bringing it "back to life." when i see old stuff i first wonder what kind of stories that peice could tell me if it could talk, and i see it's potential to be "new" again.

in my opinion the coolest thing about rat rodders -at least my experience has been- that even if he/she doesnt think your bike/car is a rat, they dig cool bikes and cars.

fast eddie outty