the "RAT" look

[bonus_boy]

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[fraser9764]

90% of them arent even rat look, just wrecks!
i dont see the thing with having a nice car, like that mk5 golf, and sticking an unpainted bonnet on it for it to go rusty, fair enough have a car with a cheap simple crappy paintjob and a big engine but most of them are just pants

[Chip]

shit gay over done cliche now IMHO

[BM08]

some of them look cool but some made me proper piss myself

[TIFF]

like some of them

[SapphyMike]

lol - not all of that is Rat.

The Mk2 golf with chequers on the bonnet and 8 ball wheels isnt a rat look lol - a lad i know in hull owns it.

[rossco22]

A few look cool but i wouldnt do that to any of my motors

[pani_k]

90-95% of all that looks wank imo.

[Twellsie]

i really dont get half of them, i can understand sticking a good engine in something that looks crap, but taking a perfectly good car and then making it look old and knackered, well thats beyond me

[Stavros]

shitloads of them are nowhere near rat look and not even trying to be rat look.

i got no problem with rat look as long as its genuine, many look WAY better than most dickheads big money cars.

but spending LOADS of money to make your car look cool but tatty, as thats TOTALLY missing the point.

rat cars should be genuine knackers that are still cool, not some big money car thats mint but deliberatly made to look shat.

[Rab]

They all look SHIT

[Stoo]

I agree with Stav, 90 % of them aren't even RAT. RAT's more a lifestyle than just design.

RAT bikes are cool One of my mates is right into it.

[Ade]

Deliberately ratting a car just looks contrived... especially when the engine bay and wheels are sqeaky clean.

I love genuinely battle scarred well used cars (as all of mine conveniently are ), if you have to spend time in making your car look abused you're missing the point.....

For its first year on teh road my MK3 Escort is going to get a 300+ BHP build going in it and nothing done to the 24 year old bodywork...... which is currently covered in dents scrapes and moss

[orionmojo]

rat look... 8) ? or just knackered?



bit too "polished"

[Lee Ivatt]

was cool about 10 years ago, as was the whole V dub scene.

its kinda morphed into a more status quo kinda scene. it used to be the vw scene that came up with all the ideas. the euro and rat look at two which have been over done too the extreme. especially with the likes of twat mags like redline and the likes euro looking all kinds a cars.

spose you will like my old 1949 split screen beetle then.
this is how i bought it. spent 2 years restoring it


i sold it in january, and this is how it looks now (less the white walls)


and my old 72. which i bought at 14 for Ł450, restored and sold at 17 for Ł3000. Was my first ever respray! it still drives around sudbury now.

[Eggburt]

bonus_boy, why hav'nt you got a VW?

[Thrush]

The all look complete shite...... Except this one;



Which I think looks actually pretty cool!

[costina]

Are they rusty or painted like that

I can't understand it really


Paul

[grsford]

lee ivatt where you from then as i think ive seen the orange bettle going around?

[grsford]

Originally Posted by costina

Are they rusty or painted like that

I can't understand it really


Paul

it mainly surface rust but will only get worse with time my best m8 works for a company called t3d and ocationally gets piad to make cars with good paint work rusty by stupid owners

[Lee Ivatt]

Originally Posted by grsford

lee ivatt where you from then as i think ive seen the orange bettle going around?

im in coggeshall. sorta inbetween colchester, braintree and sudbury.

sold the car back in 2001 i think? always kept an eye in the dvla records, to check it was still taxed.

was doing a job in sudbury/ chilton about a month or so back, and for some weird reason i felt this instinct to look up and across to the road, and fuck me side ways, there was my old orange bug driving past, had to take a double look to check number plate!

my misses also has seen it around halsted, little mapelstead and castle hedingham. and it was parked out side "little india" in mapelstead a few weeks back, use to be "the cock" pup before it was a indian!

keep trying to track him down, id love to buy it back, i have big plans for my next project once the es cos is gone!!!!

[grsford]

thought i had seen it around i live in hedingham, and have a friend who lives in coggeshall owns(holeshot racing) and used to be in racer mx all the time. if it was a saph you had for sale i would have come and had a look

[Lee Ivatt]

Originally Posted by grsford

thought i had seen it around i live in hedingham, and have a friend who lives in coggeshall owns(holeshot racing) and used to be in racer mx all the time. if it was a saph you had for sale i would have come and had a look

oh right was in hedingham on sunday in the cossie doing a quote for a customer. love that road between halsted and gosfield, almost like a rally stage

holeshot. lees farm yeh? got 3 pit bulls and a rottie?

if you see the owner, get his mob or something, id love to get the car back. ive have a 500bhp v8 to put in something.

mk4 golfs also going once cossies gone, gt tdi 150 bhp. the misses wants a mk5 gti in black and no this will not be rat look. maby just the alloys with her driving

[tore_tj]

damn they've even ruined a fiesta.. damn fools. as long as it's another crap vw thing then I don't care. just don't ruin the fords..

[BRIGSPORT]

What a load of SHAT LOOK cars.

[Dan]

Originally Posted by Thrush

The all look complete shite...... Except this one;



Which I think looks actually pretty cool!

Agreed mate, also liked the Gulf inspired Mk1 too!

[DeanO Xr3 CoV]

"What is this is" is what i found myself asking err- myself, as i checked all the pics out; i cannot believe a 'look' like this exists, pretty stupid i reckon deliberately making a panel go rusty!!!!

[jonnyrsturbo]

Originally Posted by Thrush

The all look complete shite...... Except this one;



Which I think looks actually pretty cool!

why do that though

is this the new euro

[XRT_si]

I really like proper rat look, wouldnt say it was nessacarily 'created' by the Dub boys though? Early hot rodders were a MASSIVE influence the rat scene and doing it before the dub boys imo.

As stated, half those are not rat look though

[indycos]

these are pretty cool!





love the "mario" mushrooms grill looks shit in grey tho
and the 944 rims look great on the astra estate!!!

but fuck the 'RAT' look. what a load of spunk garglers

[Lee Ivatt]

Originally Posted by DeanO Xr3 CoV

"What is this is" is what i found myself asking err- myself, as i checked all the pics out; i cannot believe a 'look' like this exists, pretty stupid i reckon deliberately making a panel go rusty!!!!

i think that is mine and a few others point.

the "rat look" has been around since the 50's. started in america in small hotrod/vw circles.

young lads 16 years old, only cars they could afford were old heaps or their parents old cars.

being young like we all were that age we wanted to personalise our cars (tis no different today to the pricks with neons and subs ect in shite cars). All the lads could afford was a nice set of wheels and accesorise the car.

This is where vw rat look really took of in the late 50's ,as vw was, back in the day untill the late 1970's the biggest supplier and target of aftermarket accesories. from roof racks, fridges, drinks coolers, basic air con window units, aerials, exhausts, bucket seats.

this was a basic trend, which was bought out of necessity rather than fashion. as no one could afford a 2-3-4k paint job

sadly tho now with the somewhat main stream revival of the vw scene, its now become a fashion statment, and people are purposley "shiting up perfectly good vehicles".

and its crazy. at a show last year i saw 3 split panel buses (1950/60s) which easily sell at 15-20k. and people have baremetaled them, or even worse spent 2k on a paint job then wet n dried the high areas to give a worn look.





for example my 1949 beetle i sold this january, i had 90% restored the chassis (apart from finishing the cable brakes) the bare shell mounted on it in primer and a box of rare parts (2 indicators cost me Ł450) and a 1954 engine. sold it for Ł7000, was only advertiesd one day!!!!!!!!!

basicaly its twats with too much money, who listen to "indy rock" and think its cool to be hippy and wear those stupid thin jeans!

[alan12112]

It's a shame cos that mk6 fiesta used to be one of the nicest ones around till they did that to it

[WongRS]

i love the rat look when its done properly, however, alot of those are a bit pants and not ratty!

[M4tty]

so the ford scene spends there whole time getting rid of rust and everyone else tries to get it

[Orion_Gav]

Most of them are a load of shite imo

[xr4x4rs]

i carnt beleive someone has actually bought thise teddy bear wheels that came out years ago let alone see them on a car

i want to know whats in that astra estate considering it has 5 stud wheels or is that a simple conversion

[grsford]

Originally Posted by xr4x4rs

i carnt beleive someone has actually bought thise teddy bear wheels that came out years ago let alone see them on a car

i want to know whats in that astra estate considering it has 5 stud wheels or is that a simple conversion

more than likely just a spacer/adapter plate

[WRCjames]

I like some of the old campers with proper 'patina' as they call it in Custom Car mag but you can tell which ones have been made to look like that. Pointless imo

[smerth54]

lol i hate the whole v dub seen sum of the older cars look good but the newer cars with rusty bonnets look shite inmo but everyone to there own, makes me laugh tho were trying to get rid of rust and there trying to create it lmao, tbh its just them being lazy and buying cheap shitters

[xr_craig]

Originally Posted by SapphyMike

The Mk2 golf with chequers on the bonnet and 8 ball wheels isnt a rat look lol - a lad i know in hull owns it.

I know him too, it's a suprisingly tidy car and used to be sat on polished Porsche wheels until he decided to jump on the bandwagon.

A lot of them cars are just fuckin stupid, you can't class a new car with a rusty bonnet or whatever as 'rat'.