it is the frist english bloke, I have have seen, that like US-made car. It is nice to see. And I'm from Denmark and here is American-car starting to get as in Sweden, many pepole are starting to buy and restore, simply becures, They are nice cars to own and drive.
youve just gotta love the 1932 for model B ours is a beast. 283 full race chevy block bore out to a 302 with powerflow side exit 3.5inch bore exhaust. sounds beautiful :)
Because... Vintage cars should be preserved for future generations. Take this,You Buying a Vintage car and puttin a V8 in it is the same as me Buyin the Mona Lisa and putting a mustache on it. Fifth gear is a knock of top gear,like Athoutz said. The creator of this clip is encouraging Hot rodding.
we also adore rods, tri-Chevies, gassers, leadsleds... we in the UK kicked off the whole rat rod thing in the mid 1980s - something many people don't seem to realise. Check out the British mags like Custom Car and Classic American, we're just as into the old American car scene as anyone else in the world.
@Raceboy65 I can assure you the first car they show as soon as the music changes (32 Model B with red wheels) is as close as you're going to get to a modern rat rod. Was bought from a scrap dealer in the states, moved over here and everything on it was begged borrowed and stolen from various scrap places or old builds, and if he couldn't find the part, he made it himself. Built by a man named Paul Hobby. Since this shoot it's now running without the wings and with a heavy chop.
I don't recall ZZ Top ever having a deuce. The orange 3 window is a 33 model 40. If you've never built your own rod,you're really missing out on the most fun thing in the automotive hobby/sport/obsession.
I do agree with you, i am british and alot of people here do slate american cars, i have been guilty of this as i dont like some but hot rod's and american muscle in my opinion are unbeatable! i love them! just wish i could afford one over here
because hotrodding is the father of all sports cars. hot rodding is cool and its traditonal and its not like we are taking perfectly restore cars and cutting them up were taking the rusted out bodies that have been forgotten and turned them into something to make our hot rodding forefathers proud.
If you Look on the HAMB/Jolapy Journal you can see that there are many people who bought Fully original and unmolested Cars and parted the chassis out,etc.I don't mind the people who make hot/rat rods out of bodies hauled out of fields as long as it was something a restorer wouldn't look twice at.
my hot rod will be a rat rod when it is finished...mostly because my budget says so...i have $20 bucks a week to put towards my car..I have spent $2300 so far and the rolling chassis is just about donewith engine tranny all in.body work will start soon...it is a 1931 5 window coupe studebaker with parts from anything i could find..and I love it dearly
@GIwillo I think what he means is that particular 33-34 coupe that ZZ top used it in their video was so cool that after the video it became famous...just like the Graffiti Coupe in American Graffiti is famous...
@renewer yup they are narrow,,,unless you get one modified to be wider...mine i cut it in half with a sawsall then rewelded it back together 6 " wider than origional.
the origanal rat rods were cars that were being driven while being still worked on whats more important the ability to drive it into town or having the body fixed up, so its a simple thing get your car operational and use it becuse cars are ment to be used... then while you have a working car you can spend so much money and time a week till you get it to were you want it... The term Rat Rod is a slap in the face to many Hot Roders, and the intention of making somthing to look old and shaby is...
I love hot rods! But I prefer an hotrod look with better aerodynamic and morden tecnology, like the Plymouth Prowler for example. Very nice episode of Fifth Gear!
Same here. The shows i go to, every single one of the cars are driven there. Some of them aren't even street legal (more dragster than car). I was just saying, just because it has paint and chrome" doesn't mean it doesn't get driven every day, and is owned by some rich hot rodder wannabe. And doesn't mean it was professionally built. There are some rat rods there, but not many, and NO one there is rich. They're all just working men like me.
mongo 5888, I thought that was a reply, nice to see you have my car on film as one of your favourites, my car is a real American 32 thanks, but hey fat boy distance and tragedy are a perfect recipe for humour.
I think what you're missing is that they aren't designed to be super efficient like German cars, but more as an artistic expression of the individual who built it. You can buy a badass RS4 or maybe an M5 and have it tear shit up straight from the factory, but you only get a rod through bloody knuckles, sweat and love. Art is subjective, homie.
i take on the opinion that if YOU built the car the way YOU want it and YOU as the owner/operator/maintainer like the vehicle then good! Getting hung up on class labels has been then death of the hot rodding spirit. i have a 1950 plymouth "rat rod". i enjoy it, if you dont, too bad. see you at the finish line.
what i find funny about this is that im an american and besides the 50's pick up i want to build id really verry much love to build a volvo PV544 or a TP21(sugga)
i have a car similar to 0:50, but i dont have all the fenders but im pretty close to having it looking like that soon, im not gonna pretty it up just patch the metal work and then drive it, that is the only reason i bought my car was to fix it up little by little and drive it but no one understands these cars are not meant to be shiny, maybe if you put $20,000 into it you will have a untouchable car as in dont touch or go near my car, these cars are meant to be semi safe and have power.
and now you can buy a 33 ford kit that handles like a porsche and at 2500 lbs will blow the doors off anything,complete with everything, you supply motor ,trans mission and paint,thats it,all for 20,000 US dollars.Factory Five is the company
duce is becuse of being a '32 ford not a modle B... meny people say "look a rat rod" but odds are your asking for the owner to kick you in the nuts, most likly its a HOT ROD hot rods are made to be driven and lots of guys drive them around as the work on them
Personally, I don't think that it matters, because you mostly don't use a hot rod as a daily. For only driving a few miles a year, the fuel cost won't be worse than the cost for any other hobby.
''For a car like this, i ques your looking 40 up'' Yeah if you want to built it from fiberglas, original Henry Ford steel body Deuce, will cost 80-200.000$.
I wasn't talking about straight line speed, that's a very AMERICAN attitude towards performance, isn't it? I just don't understand why you have to hate on hotrods and use your appreciation of Euros as a reason. I'd respect your opinion if you just didn't like the hotrod style, but saying you don't like them because they aren't as refined or well-built as a German sports sedan makes about as much sense as something like "I hate watermelons because they don't float".
you aint kidding..I could use the ss checks for gas..(see my video) its slow..but so far i got a rollin chassis and the engine is running. the major work now is getting the body roadworthy..ps I'll be 60 in 4 months..yikes!!
Wow1 First time I saw a British automobile program on American cars where someone didn't screw up the history or start belittling them. Take, for example, a 1959 Desoto....usually the Brits will call them "Yank Tanks" and then start saying how an Austin A40 is better. Just ribbing you guys! However, he did screw up...ZZ Top didn't promote a 1932 Ford....they had a 1934 Ford as Eliminator.
Rat rod and traditional rod DO NOT mean the same thing, and I certainly didn't see a rat rod in this video. Rat rods are rusty, cobbled together art cars. A little rust or patina, some unfinished welds, or a Mexican blanket does not make a rat rod. If someone ever called my traditional rod a rat rod I'd be tempted to break their nose.
i wouldn't call a purpose build "rat rod" a real rat rod, its just the rat look, you can make any car have a rat look but a real rat is made from the scraps people dig up from a tip
thats what they've become, but not what they started out as. it used to be an excuse to save a car from rotting in a field. take a rusty old body, slap a running engine in it and roll! the "rat rod: scean gets alot of crap from people these days, but it was started with good intentions.
to be honest hotrodding is to modify any car for performance.... if you grab a 50's hotrodder that remained in coma for 50 years without getting older I'm sure he would end up as a tuner, since they were using the beste technology they had at hande those days, not steam engines.
"ZZ Top made famous?" Guess he never heard of the Beach Boys!!! Every other country is USA's critic... and at the same time they are clamering for any bit of Americana.
I used to own the rusty car that is in this video, just for the record, it is you yanks that think you know it all, that car is a hot rod not a rat rod, a rat rod is a piece of crap that should not be on the road. Also the term rat rod was coigned over here, not over there, quite a time before you lot caught on to the idea.
Actually there was no such thing as a 'rat rod' in the 1950s, rat rods are being built today by people who think that's the way cars were intended to look - they weren't , they were simply unfinished cars. And if anything it's a 1930's 40's look. So check your hot rod history before you start calling anyone a donkey matey. A UK club called the Low Flyers kicked off the whole nostalgia build as a statement against the high $ bright red billet look of the 1980s that was rapidly getting boring.
