A rat rod is built from unique, often home designed parts, built to reflect the owners personality. I do not mean to imply anything negative, because anyone who builds, and is into cars, to me, is unique, telented, artistic, and a friend indeed, however, rat rods, to me are more like the "ugly Betty" type of approach some women take. They use "not popular" parts, little chrome, and usually non gloss type of paints. They are usually powered by older engine/trans. combo's, and are not usually inspired toward racing. The phrase hot rod, is a wide open term. It basically refers to a car that is home built, and geared toward high performance, or drag racing. The opposite would be a muscle car.
A rat rod is a style of hot rod or custom car. Most rat rods appear to be unfinished, regardless of their status, as only the vehicle's bare essentials are driven.
A rat rod is a type of car. They are available for purchase from websites such as Rat Rod Stuff, Hot Rods and More, and Rat Rod Universe. They can also be found locally through Craigslist.
American Hot Rod - 2004 Rat Rod Build-Off Part 3 2-6 was released on: USA: 2004
American Hot Rod - 2004 Rat Rod Build-Off Part 2 2-5 was released on: USA: 2004
American Hot Rod - 2004 Rat Rod Build-Off Part 4 2-7 was released on: USA: 2004
American Hot Rod - 2004 Rat Rod Build-Off Part 1 2-4 was released on: USA: 2004
A muscle car is factory built, and a hot rod, home built.
A rat rod vehicle is a type of hot rod or custom vehicle. They generally are unfinished in appearance as the main point of a rat rod is to only have the bare essentials needed in a vehicle.
What kind of hot rod?
There is a slight difference between aluminum foil and an aluminum rod or powder. This difference is simply the shape it takes.
Rat rod is a term for an automotive hot rod. As seen on many reality type television shows, rat rods are constructed in state of the art machine shops. They are built in components by people who specialize in metal fabricating, engine repair and automotive painting and design.
Rat Fink is most associated with the Hot Rod Kustom Kulture of the 1950's and 1960's. Rat Fink's creator created him to be the anti-hero model to Mickey Mouse.