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Slammed70 · 01-12-2008, 03:31 PM

Dude at work is buidling a rat rod....out of a little 20-something Ford pick up. He has just the body, bed, and frame so far.

To enhance the old "rustic" appearance he let me shoot his truck. I pumped about 40 rounds into it almost everywhere.

It was great.

DavesRide · 01-12-2008, 03:40 PM

Speaking of bullets and ratrods check this out. http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9G_bI9DyI...ott/271411775/

corn · 01-12-2008, 03:43 PM

I have a hard time ruining any old vehicle. We had a GEO metro that I gave to a friend, my son said it would be fun to take it out to the farm & "Jump it & roll it & stuff". I said I cant just wreck stuff for the fun of ruining it. What can I say, Im a car guy...

REDisFASTER · 01-12-2008, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by corn

I have a hard time ruining any old vehicle. We had a GEO metro that I gave to a friend, my son said it would be fun to take it out to the farm & "Jump it & roll it & stuff". I said I cant just wreck stuff for the fun of ruining it. What can I say, Im a car guy...

I completely agree. No matter what car, even if its something I really hate, something that I have a passion for hating (ie. just about everything Suzuki except for their Samurai), I just can't be bothered to wreck it or damage it just for 'the fun of it'. Even if its useless, doesn't have an engine, just a barely rolling chassis and body standing on cement blocks, I can't bring myself to take a sledgehammer or rifle to it... Just can't... For that, you get rep!

Anyway, do you have any pics of this 'rustic' beast? If it was me, I'd just pour some corrosive chemicals on the body to make it look rusted and corroded, leaving a few drops on some areas longer before washing the chemicals off.

70' GMC · 01-13-2008, 01:57 AM

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Originally Posted by corn

I have a hard time ruining any old vehicle. We had a GEO metro that I gave to a friend, my son said it would be fun to take it out to the farm & "Jump it & roll it & stuff". I said I cant just wreck stuff for the fun of ruining it. What can I say, Im a car guy...

I'd do it if it was an Asian mobile

. I would not do it if it was an American vehicle.

CharlieBrown · 01-13-2008, 03:04 AM

a few years back..in the Great American Race there was a cool car riddled with bullet holes

happened to be the exact car Bonnie and Clyde were killed in..bullet holes and all

now THAT's a peice of history

ratrod67 · 01-12-2008, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Slammed70

Dude at work is buidling a rat rod....out of a little 20-something Ford pick up. He has just the body, bed, and frame so far.

To enhance the old "rustic" appearance he let me shoot his truck. I pumped about 40 rounds into it almost everywhere.

It was great.

Fraser Beatty · 01-12-2008, 03:53 PM

Just wondering, how is a bullet-hole filled vehicle "rustic" looking?

Arad68 · 01-12-2008, 04:21 PM

What a waste!

Slammed70 · 01-12-2008, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Fraser Beatty

Just wondering, how is a bullet-hole filled vehicle "rustic" looking?

Doesnt rustic mean old and ran down?

shifty · 01-12-2008, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Slammed70

Doesnt rustic mean old and ran down?

No, actually, it doesn't.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rustic

"Lacking refinement or elegance; coarse."
"Charmingly simple or unsophisticated."

These are about the only two definitions that fit with a car.

I know you expected everyone to be excited, but that '20 ford is a treasure. It just seems a little crazy to be excited about pumping part of our national history full of holes, I guess.

Sweet72 · 01-12-2008, 04:43 PM

I remember when I was a kid back in the 60's seeing many old cars riddled with bullet holes. There was a pair of Hudson Terraplanes 1936? all shot to hell for someone's amusement. I don't agree with this type of "patina" on a vehicle, but that's only my opinion. Opinions are like a-holes, everyone has one.

huero · 01-12-2008, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Slammed70

Dude at work is buidling a rat rod....out of a little 20-something Ford pick up. He has just the body, bed, and frame so far.

To enhance the old "rustic" appearance he let me shoot his truck. I pumped about 40 rounds into it almost everywhere.

It was great.

Where are the pictures

?

Bishops Trucks · 01-12-2008, 07:35 PM

The body will never be the same. Kinda like mine.

**special-K** · 01-13-2008, 12:31 AM

It`s a good day to find an old car body that some low-brow hasn`t shot up.A rat rod is really just an unfinished hot rod.Once the fad ends these rat rods can be finished,unless the "effects" inflicted on them are irreversible.

steveo10 · 01-13-2008, 10:50 AM

i hope it ends soon or all of the old stuff is going to be gone because people are building nasty cars.

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Originally Posted by special-K

It`s a good day to find an old car body that some low-brow hasn`t shot up.I rat rod is really just an unfinished hot rod.Once the fad ends these rat rods can be finished,unless the "effects" inflicted on them are irreversible.

Sweet72 · 01-13-2008, 02:25 PM

Did we run him off or something? Slammed70?

72 cheyenne pdx · 01-13-2008, 02:38 PM

Even if rustic meant old and run-down (which it doesn't), that equation doesn't include bullet holes. My wife calls me old and run-down sometimes, I'm sure glad we don't have a gun in our house.

At any point, if it is what the owner wanted for his "Driver Returns On Foot", then it is his perogative.

Slammed70 · 01-13-2008, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Sweet72

Did we run him off or something? Slammed70?

Rat rods are cool, what the hells wrong with y'all?

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Originally Posted by special-K

A rat rod is really just an unfinished hot rod..

Rat rods are cool, what the hells wrong with y'all?

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Originally Posted by Arad68

What a waste!

Rat rods are cool, what the hells wrong with y'all?

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Originally Posted by steveo10

i hope it ends soon or all of the old stuff is going to be gone because people are building nasty cars.

Rat rods are cool, what the hells wrong with y'all?

Arad68 · 01-13-2008, 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Slammed70

Rat rods are cool, what the hells wrong with y'all?

Rat rods are cool, what the hells wrong with y'all?

Rat rods are cool, what the hells wrong with y'all?

Rat rods are cool, what the hells wrong with y'all?

Rat rods are cool. A car or truck full of bullet holes isn't. There is nothing wrong with me. It just doesnt seem like a befitting end or treatment for an old timer like the one you filled full of holes. Think of it this way, that steel was shaped into a truck almost 90 years ago. Who knows what history it has seen or the drivers it has had. How many first time drivers has it had? For that matter, how many 1920 something Ford or Chevy trucks are still around today?

The main fact is it has survied in one piece for all of these years. It is a waste to not keep it that way.

My Dad took me to see the Grey 1934 Ford sedan that Bonnie and Clyde died in. I remember feeling sorry for the car even though it was a Ford.

You need to watch this slide show for the real definition of a Rat Rod

http://thefiftiesandsixties.com/CarsWeDrove.htm

DavesRide · 01-13-2008, 06:20 PM

I think this is a GOTCHA post. A little creativity and typing and got everybody up in arms. No pics to be proud of, of course not. I'll punch him in his "grill." My idiot light doesn't mean someone else did something wrong.

67_C-30 · 01-13-2008, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by DavesRide

I think this is a GOTCHA post. A little creativity and typing and got everybody up in arms. No pics to be proud of, of course not. I'll punch him in his "grill." My idiot light doesn't mean someone else did something wrong.

You could be right. I quick of check of some of this guy's posts over the last month or so tells you something is up...

**special-K** · 01-14-2008, 02:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Slammed70

Rat rods are cool, what the hells wrong with y'all?

Define "rat rod"...Who said rat rods aren`t cool in any of those quotes?

Not everyone gets off on shooting things that shouldn`t be shot.

allthrottle,nobottle · 01-14-2008, 06:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Slammed70

Rat rods are cool, what the hells wrong with y'all?

Rat rods are cool, what the hells wrong with y'all?

Rat rods are cool, what the hells wrong with y'all?

Rat rods are cool, what the hells wrong with y'all?

i agree rat rods are cool
and i agree that if you find a car out in a field that was used as a get away car in a bank robbery and the cops shot at it or something.
that is cool because it has a story behind it.
but if you take a good car out into a field and shoot it 40+ time you are a real jacka$$ and need to pull your head out of your a$$

sick69 · 01-13-2008, 02:37 PM

interesting

01-12-2008, 03:40 PM	#2
DavesRide Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Garageless, Missouri Posts: 408	Re: Best day of my life.... Speaking of bullets and ratrods check this out. http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9G_bI9DyI...ott/271411775/ __________________ R.I.P ESLL Even as the body dies the spirit lives on in the people you touched

01-12-2008, 03:43 PM	#3
corn Registered User Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: here Posts: 5,789	Re: Best day of my life.... I have a hard time ruining any old vehicle. We had a GEO metro that I gave to a friend, my son said it would be fun to take it out to the farm & "Jump it & roll it & stuff". I said I cant just wreck stuff for the fun of ruining it. What can I say, Im a car guy...

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CharlieBrown Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Van Buren Arkansas Posts: 137	Re: Best day of my life.... a few years back..in the Great American Race there was a cool car riddled with bullet holes happened to be the exact car Bonnie and Clyde were killed in..bullet holes and all now THAT's a peice of history __________________ 1972 Cheyenne Super..owned since 1978 1972 Surburban 4x4 1972 Cheyenne 4x4 3/4 ton.....sold 1972 Cheyenne 2wd...named Death Row

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Sweet72 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Alexandria, VA Posts: 1,534	Re: Best day of my life.... I remember when I was a kid back in the 60's seeing many old cars riddled with bullet holes. There was a pair of Hudson Terraplanes 1936? all shot to hell for someone's amusement. I don't agree with this type of "patina" on a vehicle, but that's only my opinion. Opinions are like a-holes, everyone has one. __________________ '72 GMC SWB C1500 Custom, frame-off in progress. 383 SBC, 9:1CR, Comp Cams XE262H, Scat internal balanced crank, Eagle SIR 6" rods, Keith Black dish pistons, Dart Iron Eagle 72/180 heads, Weiand Stealth intake, Stewart stage I water pump, Holley 4bbl vac sec, TH350 with B&M Shift Improver Kit. 12 bolt positraction.

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DavesRide Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Garageless, Missouri Posts: 408	Re: Best day of my life.... I think this is a GOTCHA post. A little creativity and typing and got everybody up in arms. No pics to be proud of, of course not. I'll punch him in his "grill." My idiot light doesn't mean someone else did something wrong. __________________ R.I.P ESLL Even as the body dies the spirit lives on in the people you touched

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