I love a Rat

And this is quite the rat, if not strictly period

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1966-Volkswagen-Bettle-Bug-Rat-Rod-Punch-Buggy-/220722304511?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item33641315ff

I like that.. not over done.. very simple.

Ignorant should've wrote: I don't like that.. way over done.. very derivative.

I am tired of flat black and red wheels. Paint a turd that way and people will get all excited and call it a rat rod. Where is the imagination?

Could just be my untrained eye, but that car doesn't look like it's dropped 2.5"...Maybe just a bad angle?

Where's the spider web pinstripe and number 13 on the door?

Needs more skulls too.

Shawn

T.J. wrote:

Ignorant should've wrote: I don't like that.. way over done.. very derivative.

I am tired of flat black and red wheels. Paint a turd that way and people will get all excited and call it a rat rod. Where is the imagination?

I'lll defend this..

I've always liked flat black. Painted a jeep flat black with a brush back in 1998. Loved it. I like the "rat" look and always will. What I don't like is the overdone rat look or "fake patina" or any of that foolishness. I still say, like our fathers did... "If It don't go, chrome it."

In fact I used, "If it don't go, Chrome it." at an operations review for a company worked with in response to some other divisions plans that were pretty but not substantive.

The flat black with red wheels combination may be a cliche, but it works for me. Flat black with yellow or green wheels wouldn't look as good - although gloss white with green or blue wheels doesn't sound too bad.

I like it, and I plan on painting my CMC Camaro flat black with red wheels just to be different/overdone

If you want to be different go with gloss red with flat tires. oh wait.

I don't like the red rims, either.

MadScientistMatt wrote: Flat black with yellow or green wheels wouldn't look as good

Green wheels look fine on a rat/traditional.

yellow looks good, too

I rather like the rat look especially for people like me who love cars but cannot keep a paint job nice no matter how hard I have tried in the past. I have plans to rat out quite a few of my vehicles, gives a "look" and not have to worry about getting the occasional paint scratch. Doesn't hurt that most of my cars are rats anyway.

Those do look good - I hadn't imagined that particular shade of green, and the yellow one manages to work by tying into the gold-trimmed numbers. If it weren't for the numbers and other detail work, I'd have said the yellow wheeled one would have looked better with red wheels though. I didn't really think other color wheels would actually look bad, just that on a solid black car that I'd expect red wheels to normally look better than most other colors. It is nice to see somebody going with other colors.

(And the rusty one would have looked totally wrong with red wheels. It needs a color like green to contrast more with the dull red rust.)

looks too safe and structurally sound to be a real rat rod.. also, it's about 40 years too new and lacks the proper flathead under the hood and the proper 4 foot long shifter with either an iron cross or rat fink shifter knob... this is just a nice beetle with crappy paint.

Personally, I wouldn't call that a rat rod just because it's flat black w/red wheels. Looks more like a resto in progress to me.

Looks like $20 of Rustoleum primer and $5 of Rustoleum red to me.

^^Exactly!!^^

I like that car, but to quote a friend from high school " I want to be different, just like everyone else"

Not even remotely a rat. Red wheels and flat black paint is about 10% of the project.

Who knew we'd reach a day when there would be rat rod purists to upset!

For the record, I like pretty much anything flat/satin black with red wheels.

Didn't mean to imply that I didn't like flat/satin black w/red wheels. Just don't think a otherwise stock car that is flat/satin black w/red wheels is a rat rod. And that Bug does look cool, just not rat.