Friday night hotrods. 56K stay well away!

Mohinder said:
It's from Roots Radicals by Rancid :)
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Ah yes, I knew I knew that. I just had to make sure what I knew was accurate. So I knew that asking you would validate my knowing.
 
JayMax said:
Man, looking at these, all I can think of is ZZ Top.
Someone give me some tasty stats please so I can appreciate what they're all about :)
(Apologies for a heretic barging into your thread)
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Well most of the owners have beards usually lol

All the cars have different types of running gear depending on the style of the car.

The high tech looking ones with the big billet aluminium wheels wil be running 18" wheels, 20's on some of the bigger ones. Usually 8 to 10" wide with 275 width rubber. Rears are always wider than the fronts! The engines are practically always V8's, you can buy complete running engines out in the States so generally they are 5 to 6 litre and come in various power outputs from 350hp up about 700hp or more for the more wild ones. Let me assure you they can all shred their tyres in a matter or minutes! Suspension kits come using geometry from Mustangs and Corvettes, basically cloned from newer well handling vehicles so you have a completely modern chassis with the classic body plonked on top.

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On the more classic looking ones the owners try to make the car as period looking as possible and use speed equipment from the era that the car was first built in. This will mean solid axles, leaf springs, steel wheels with wide crossplies and drum brakes. Engine technology has come a long way so they tend to use the same engines as above, but dress them up with more vintage looking parts.

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And then there's the ratrod scene. Go find a body out in the desert, chop channel and slice it. Don't paint it and go abuse the hell out of it. This was how hotrods were in the late 30's when their owners couldn't afford stuff like paint, but it's very popular at the moment. Ironically the owners sometimes spend a fortune sourcing the 'right' rusty parts. Ratrods are damn cool though, no denying.

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Haha I like the grenade gear knob.
Im seriously going to do something like this. I must own a 'rod. Even if i cant insure it, ill take it to track days just to drive or something
 
Don't worry about insurance, we have a few specialist insurance schemes and it is very reasonable. My Anglia is about £150 TPFT, I'm 27 and it's in London. The main problem is the SVA test which might make it very hard to modify an old car to this extent, but the NSRA (National Street Rod Association) and a handful of individuals are working with the DVLA for a 'period-style modified' tax class.
 
Problem is Im in Ireland. So it will differ. But i have seen some rods over here so I can eventually get insured somewhere down the line. Where theres a will theres a way.
 
Mohinder said:
*grumble*

It'snotahotrodit'sastreetrod

*grumble*

:p
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Whats the diff between the three? Rat,hot and street?
Would rats be the rougher kind or am I just dreaming?
 
Hot rods imho are more classic in style, a street rod is all much more modern and shiny, loads of horrible billet tat everywhere, and usually much much much more expensive to build.

Basically hot rods are period and street rods are more modernised.

Rat rods are just ****ed hot rods that don't look like they should run :D
In fact in Jonny's post a few posts up, the pics are of, from top to bottom, a street rod, a hot rod, and a rat rod.
 
Ah excellent. Now I know, I shall set about building the ratiest rod ever. Or just go down the hot rod route....yea, that would be better.
 
Jonny69 said:
And of course the legendary Al's Gasser from the 70's which is still about but looking a bit more modern and running 9's on the strip these days:

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^^ My Dad's old car that, 'The Mangler' then 'Motor Pyscho' before we sold it to Al, alas the one he runs now isn't the original after a horrific crash in that car totally destroyed it.


just drooled all over keyboard with so much hot-rodness :D, so glad I'm going to Xtreme Wheels, beenw ay too long without any drag racing/hot rods
 
Ah well, keep an eye out at Extreme Wheels, the one on the right...

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...my dad's coupe, is in the show! I'm there on press day which I think is Friday. Free drinks, food and boobies as far as I know so the camera is likely to take a beating. Watch this space...
 
What is the full name of the one on the right? It's bloody gorgeous.


How much would a half decent example set you back? Then to restore it to the standards of your father's? It's a typical gangster mob kinda car and it looks great. :)
 
Re the 56k warning, Is ANYONE actually still on 56k? I live in the absolute arse end of nowhere and even my 6km line can just about manage 512k dsl :p
 
I dunno, some of my customers still use 56K and that little lot would take at least 5 minutes to download :D

Scarfacé it would take a big wedge of cash to build one to that standard from scratch (dad still winces when you mention £££ lol) but the resale value is low so you can pick up cars that have been built for 10 years for £10K, put some personal touches and improvements on and have a top rod. Edit: it's a 1934 Ford 3 window coupe (and you say coupe like coop)

Nitro it's been around for 5 years now and we drive it all over the place between us, you probably have seen it somewhere. For a lot of people it's the only hotrod they ever see driving about regularly which is a shame :( What's the point in piling all that money into it and then never driving it?!!
 
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