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1stseries55 · 09-24-2009, 08:51 PM

hmmmm...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/rat-r...=p4506.c0.m245

markeb01 · 09-24-2009, 08:59 PM

Amazing, all that and only $5500, of course that doesn't meet the reserve. Curious there aren't any bids!

protrash64 · 09-24-2009, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by MailManX2

Ya just gotta wonder what in the heck goes on in peoples heads...

I think its called 'trying too hard'........

frmula505 · 09-24-2009, 09:55 PM

I kind of like it. It's different.

monolith · 09-24-2009, 10:21 PM

Aside from the weird effect of the nose- I kind of like it.

**Corts60** · 09-24-2009, 10:48 PM

I think it's pretty bad ass. I would never build something like that, but I like it. All except the crappy rear wheel well cuts.....he coulda done something a little better there.

62 Bowtie · 09-24-2009, 11:04 PM

Fugly

Demmit_Hemmit's 65 · 09-24-2009, 11:35 PM

OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope my burb didn't see me looking at that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.................................Hemmit

**Captainfab** · 09-25-2009, 12:00 AM

What a shame to cut up a Burb......

joe231 · 09-25-2009, 12:28 AM

I think it is kinda cool...I would drive it

I hope it was a rust bucket before the transformation

jonzcustomshop · 09-25-2009, 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Captainfab

What a shame to cut up a Burb......

he probably knocked all the rust off , and thats all that was left.
IMO if you do a build like this, start with some sort of insane powerplant.
this looks ok, but the motor, and the whole front engine area, for that matter looks like crap. an exposed firewall that big should be sitting behind TWO engines, or a very large hemi with a nasty set of headers to fill up all that dead space.

BR3W CITY · 09-25-2009, 08:26 AM

if the rear wheels fit IN the body instead of the ghetto-fab cutouts it would be better....
that and the nose doesn't work at all!

OLDIRON69 · 09-25-2009, 09:09 AM

The thing is that IF the motor is actually a 302, Camaro nuts will pay crazy cash for it by itself!

rendus · 09-25-2009, 09:29 AM

Bottomline: It's the wrong type of vehicle for the fenderless/hoodless look.

This is what he was going for but hit wide of the mark:
http://www.hotrodhappenings.com/Show...RatRod-001.JPG

**N2TRUX** · 09-25-2009, 09:34 AM

*lakeroadster* · 09-25-2009, 09:54 AM

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Originally Posted by jonzcustomshop

he probably knocked all the rust off , and thats all that was left.
IMO if you do a build like this, start with some sort of insane powerplant.
this looks ok, but the motor, and the whole front engine area, for that matter looks like crap. an exposed firewall that big should be sitting behind TWO engines, or a very large hemi with a nasty set of headers to fill up all that dead space.

Exactly! It needs a big block or a hemi, with a blower or a tunnel ram. Or maybe one of those dual blower set-ups. Something over the top, not a small block. Think of an "American Iron" version of a Fiat Topolino............

Front tires / wheels are too big also IMHO.

The older I get the more cutting up vintage steel bothers me though. Not that I have any right to throw stones. To each their own.

John

MacAttack · 09-25-2009, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by joe231

I think it is kinda cool...I would drive it

Gee - who didn't see that coming?

joe231 · 09-25-2009, 10:28 AM

Mac, are you saying I have low standards or something?

MacAttack · 09-25-2009, 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by joe231

Mac, are you saying I have low standards or something?

"Low"? No - not at all. No standards? Well, um.......yeah.

62 short step · 09-25-2009, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by jonzcustomshop

he probably knocked all the rust off , and thats all that was left.

I agree!

61TWUK · 09-25-2009, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by 1stseries55

hmmmm...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/rat-r...=p4506.c0.m245

Well I'm at work and the military blocks Ebay for some stupid reason.... WHAT IS IT?

jonzcustomshop · 09-25-2009, 02:22 PM

heres the pics

61TWUK · 09-25-2009, 04:44 PM

Hey its different... kinda cool but different...

63deluxfleet · 09-25-2009, 05:49 PM

if a baja bug and a carry all had an aborted baby with down syndrome this is what it would look like

SSWfleetside · 09-25-2009, 09:51 PM

on the plus side, it looks a little like an old coach bodied modified.
except for the nose, which is a little creepy lookin.

09-24-2009, 08:51 PM	#1
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09-24-2009, 08:59 PM	#2
markeb01 Senior Enthusiast Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Spokane Valley, WA Posts: 8,356	Re: not sure what to think about this one... Amazing, all that and only $5500, of course that doesn't meet the reserve. Curious there aren't any bids!

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09-24-2009, 11:04 PM	#7
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09-24-2009, 11:35 PM	#8
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09-25-2009, 12:28 AM	#10
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