Lee Ivatt

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Post your favorite hot rod/rat rod pics please.

Im not talking the new wave rat rod stuff like the VW trend stuff, but the good old american metal from the 20's 30's and 40's.

After climbing the Ford "Rs tree", and doing the rounds on the VW's, i've decided to have a short break from cars as a hobby.

Im spending the next 6 months/year planning thinking about what i really want to do next,, if anything.

Only thing which remotley does anything for me nowdays are some of the darker/evil hot rods and that sort of stuff.

Not what i really like, but stumbled across this Volvo and thought it was just too nice not to share. its parked next to another original example!


I really love this a 1937 ford - believe it or not but that is a brand new fiberglass body with "fake" painta


Also love the late 20's 30's sedans and trucks



This the the closest ive come to a rat rod. My 1949 beetle. why did i ever sell it, worth a fortune now!

89xr2

Not really a massive fan of the older stuff you mention. If I was to have anything it would be a 55 chevy done as a two lane blacktop replica.

Daveysaff

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Get yourself on there mate, plenty of trad and rat rods on there, usually a few for sale too

SteveH

Love these too Lee, I tried persudaing my ex's dad to do the rat look on his, or at least just red oxide primer, its a 38 chevy half ton pickup, genuine tin one. will get some pics up when I can figure out how to transfer them off my mac.

DanW@FastFord

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Isn't that a couple of model cars??

Lee Ivatt

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Cool will check that out, finding it hard to gather info, to decide what i want to do and prices etc!

No just bloody good photography

car was commissioned buy volvo for there new museum display

The original car right is the very first volvo model called an ÖV4 released in 1925, volvo commisioned hot rodder Leif Tufvesson's to take a 2nd ÖV4 and customise it to make it look as if it could have rolled of the production line yesterday.

Hot Rod Jakob - technical specifications

• Chassis: Carbon-fibre chassis. Steel subframe to carry the engine.
• Front suspension: Live front axle with built-in steering gear. Concealed control arms, spring struts featuring coil-over gas dampers.
• Rear springs: Wishbone. Internally fitted, concealed control arms and spring struts with coil-over gas dampers.
• Body: Hand-beaten aluminium body.
• Colour: Similar to Volvo Jakob Blue. The exact name and colour code of the original have been lost over the years.
• Interior: Hand-sewn light brown smooth and perforated hide. Foam padding. Classic vertical piping in the backrest.
• Engine: Volvo T5, five-cylinder petrol engine with light-pressure turbocharger, installed longitudinally. Flexifuel conversion so it can run on both petrol and ethanol. Power output: 265 horsepower. Torque: 370 Nm. Max output: 185 kW.
• Gearbox: 5-speed manual M90 gearbox (Volvo 960).
• Brakes: Specially manufactured brake discs fitted to the wheel rims. Diameter: 450 mm front, 515 mm rear. Twin four-pot callipers per disc.
• Front wheels: 10x22" AEZ Forge rims.
• Rear wheels: 8x19" AEZ Forge rims.
• Front tyres: Pirelli Scorpion special 225/55/19.
• Rear tyres: Pirelli Scorpion special 295/40/22.
• Exhaust system: Concealed installation of 3" stainless full-flow exhaust system with racing catalytic converter.

Man i have too much time on my hands

89xr2

Nearly all parts on that volvo were custom made by the guy who built it. The guy who made it won hot rodder of the year for it iirc. Very cool car.

DanW@FastFord

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Aah right! I'd say it was bad photography if it doesn't look real

Still, bloody cool car!!!

89xr2

I agree on the bad photography bit. Looks like it spent too much time in photoshop imo..

GARETH T

i want this
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Ford-...fCarsQ5fTrucks

Lee Ivatt

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there aint nothing hot rod about that tho

Glenn_

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I love hot rods and custom cars i just like the fact that people spend so much time building them.I have loads and loads of street machine and custom car mags in the attic.

GARETH T

ya i know,,, but i would want to turn it into one,,,

BAM_S2

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WTF, thought there would of been a well better response to the volvo, that is art work. fab work in that is mental - one of the best hot rods i have ever seen.

xr-stu

i really want to do a 23 T bucket kit as my next project. im hoping to move to america in 6 months or so, so if all goes well, ill be able to build one out there.

a mate of mine in holland has a 20s model a sedan hes planning on chopping about, has a flat head V12 on its way to him from the usa as we speak!

xr-stu

i really want to do a 23 T bucket kit as my next project. im hoping to move to america in 6 months or so, so if all goes well, ill be able to build one out there.

a mate of mine in holland has a 20s model a sedan hes planning on chopping about, has a flat head V12 on its way to him from the usa as we speak!

philram

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deaths doorstop..

iansoutham

Doesn't that belong to Jimmy Shines' apprentice?

aduz

very cool cars but i wouldnt want to have a crash in one

Lee Ivatt

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Thats nice, id change the front wheels and put some sort of rad grill on it. front looks a bit unballanced for me.

Thats a point wheres the radiator hidden on this beast??

philram

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yer.. known as littleman

i love that look with no grill/rad.. rads in the boot