OLD rat rod pictures

[Bonehead]

We have all seen the pictures from the 60's of cars that would be considered Rat Rods by todays standards. Lets put some pictures here.

 

[Bonehead]

Traditional 1966 hot rod

 

[Bonehead]

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[donsrods]

I had totally forgotten about those Dune Buggies people built out of old cars. Popular Mechanics and lots of other magazines had articles on them and how to build them. I always thought they would be cool to own, but we didn't have a lot of sand dunes in Pennsylvania.


Don

 

[Blue]

lol.. check out these old roll bars.

 

[garvinzoom]

That top car in your post looks like it has a dually rear end Blue. Did they have full floating rear ends back in the day?

 

[Blue]

 

[LOST ANGEL]

Everything old is new again.-MIKE

Pics stolen from somewhere!!

 

[lowbuckrats]

Yea

That top car in your post looks like it has a dually rear end Blue. Did they have full floating rear ends back in the day?

Sorry to butt in , but yes they did. My 57 truck has a full floating rear-end. The rear in my truck is actually a 1 ton axle, 8 lug ,4:56 gears and all.Not sure how far back they started using 'em though.

 

[workin class]

The old dune buggies used to called doodle bugs back in the day Hot Rod showed quite a few as well.

 

[onemintcaddy]

"Little" 6

The old man got his number by the number of pistons he had. He set the track record with a slant six. He would just blow away the 331 caddy motors.

 

[Bonehead]

After looking around a bit I find much of the RatRod look in old drag racing pictures too.

 

[workin class]

If you want a few pics from old mags you need to look in the reader rides sections alot of the regular joe cars were very close to todays rat rods. I dont include over blown monster types cartoon builds in my discription in rat rods they are a subject to themselves.

 

[24dodge]

heres a couple....

 

[Bonehead]

..........nice!

 

[Dirty White Boy]

Very cool pictures! Thanks for sharing them.

 

[humfleet]

more please more. Rat rodding gave a name to what most us were already doing, whether it be 29 model a or 74 camaro. They had and we have little to hardly any money but still loved that feeling driving something your hands made, man. Working with what you got. An old idea with a new name.

more pics please. I can't get enough...

 

[Gastrick]

This is actually a pretty famous car with a famous fella behind the wheel. Wonder how it would be received today?

 

[hotrodron]

 

[joehalford01]

these are some cool pics, with all the traditional hoopla going on it's nice to see that alot of "rat-rods" are closer to their roots then some would have us believe. Thats cool.