Originally Posted by
Caddyshack
I hate this sort of thing....I am all for be individual and "each to their own" but when the engineering and safety are clearly wrong it boils my piss. I hate the rat look too...I can understand the original hot rods, just don't like them...but painting a perfectly good car Matt black and putting old stuff on a roof rack really is attention whore stuff to me.
I need a lie down now.
People really don't get the rat look, it came from the hot rod scene, where the owners of the cars were more interested in the performance of the vehicle rather than cosmetic appearance, so a true rat look car should have very good mechanicals under then bonnet and a good load of power to be a true rat look car, and it doesn't have to be a hot rod either, but that's where it started. There was a very cool Anglia in the classic ford scene owned by the guy who had wacky racers performance (or something like that), had a naturally aspirated cossie under the bonnet which was well tuned, but the body had a bit of primmer on show, the odd rust bubble and the paint had seen better days, but mechanically it was good. That's a rat look car to me.