Ratrod style trucks and flat black paint

[shortymac83]

Originally Posted by crazy longhorn

You want gray? Here you go....
http://community.webshots.com/user/hotrodhorn ...I do agree with Andy on the gray primer......it is good to show all the body imperfections (shows it all!) If you plan a sweet paint job, that has a d@mn straight body under it, that light gray primer will show you where you need to work....for a rat rod, flat black is the ticket. Im thinkin "ratrod" myself.....but really have to ask the ?.......if the bottom side has better paint than the top, & the stinkin thing will run 140mph.....is it really a "ratrod"? crazyL

that depends. If it's held together with spit and bailing wire, and runs 140 mph, then yeah it's a ratrod. These ratrods that have chrome everything with flat black paint, or the ones that look completely spotless aren't real ratrods. A real ratrod is something that was pieced together with junkyard parts to go as fast as possible for as cheap as possible. what does that mean? straight pipes with no mufflers scrounged from under a caddy, a flatty ford or early chevy mill with every speed part known to man, a rearend from a junked oldsmobile, a rusted out Model T body running on a pair of model A framerails, and the front end from under a truck. Seat? what seat? if you really want one, grab the cheapest seat you can find. steel wheels, no hubcaps, and the brakes that came on the axles you found in the yarde. paint is the cheapest thing you can find, no matter if it's bright purple that's as shiny as chrome or turd brown primer.

Actually, if you wanted to be completely authentic, get an olds 303 or 324, or an early caddy. before the 283 came out, those ruled the streets, and were what everyone was running.




THAT is a rat rod.