Check this...

[Tripper]

Ck this...

RRR in the press!

BoB

 

[joehalford01]

TRIPPER THATS GREAT! If it keeps hitting stuff like that this place will blow up with new members.

 

[Bonehead]

Very well written, Trip. Explains it all pretty well.

 

[24dodge]

Congrats man !! , your on your way to being famous !

 

[Gastrick]

Pretty cool release there. I rated it pretty high on the survey they offered.

 

[donsrods]

I clicked on it, but nothing came up. What did it say???


Don

 

[Gastrick]

Here's the text from the link Don.............

Rat Rods Rule... unique cars and people changing show car scene!
Rat Rods Rule... & then some!
Distribution Source : ArriveNet

Date : Friday, June 15, 2007


Houston, Texas -- (ArriveNet - Jun 15, 2007) -- The car scene has gone crazy with prices escalating to uncharted heights but a new trend sweeping the nation has turned the high dollar show car scene on it’s ear! Rat Rods are cars built by innovative people on a very tight budget with many striving to build cars for under $3,000. A new web site, Rat Rods Rule, showcases step-by-step accounts of how these cars are built and offers advice on building them as well. Innovation rules with these cars that use found, traded or donated parts to make works of art that are as unusual and unique as the people who build them. Visit http://www.RatRodsRule.com to check this budding new genre out!

 

[roosters_rat_rods]

congrats triper...hats off to ya.....very cool next thing you know there will be 20 thousand + members...........rooster

 

[Tripper]

Congrats man !! , your on your way to being famous !

Not me... u guys!

I clicked on it, but nothing came up. What did it say???

Everyone here has built multiple show winning cars in a matter of weeks for well under $1500... & er... there was some Star Wars reference!

BoB

 

[Onequick26]

Way to go Tripper.

 

[donsrods]

Wow........yesterday we couldn't even spell Celebrity, and today we is one !


That is a great article Bob. Now we all better get our thinking caps on and figure out how to REALLY build a car for that kind of money.


Don

 

[FlatBroke]

Tripper,
Did that happen by accident or on purpose...

 

[BruceR&C]

It's way cool that we get some recognition in a positive light.

 

[Lakota]

Congrads Tripper, now you really stand head and shoulders above the rest. Now KB and HAMB will be on their knees reciting the mantra...We are not worthy...We are not worthy...

...cars that use found, traded or donated parts to make works of art that are as unusual and unique as the people who build them.

...showcases step-by-step accounts of how these cars are built and offers advice on building them as well.

HMMMMM....Those words sound familiar, I wonder if he visited my website...NAHHHH, I couldn't be that lucky. Since last year over 2000 people have visited my website. I doubt if he was one of them. Just wishfull thinking on my part.

 

[SouthernRatter]

Congrats tripper and everyone else here who make this site what it is. That is awecome publicity.

 

[R Pope]

As usual, the media got it wrong. It's not new, it's a return to the roots of hot rodding. In the '40's and early '50's, they were all rat rods, just not called that. It was the only way to go fast and be cool without mortgaging everything you owned to buy something new.
Whatever, it's great to see the site being recognised by someone other than the converted! (Us!)

 

[donsrods]

That has been my position all along, that rat rods are a return trip to what rods used to be like. Some people who hate the term seem to think all cars back then were painted and chromed, and that rat rodders are making an assumption that is incorrect. Not where I lived ! Most of the cars looked like the rat rods of today, because we didn't have a lot of money (like maybe the rodders in California had) so we spent it on performance enhancements and got to the body someday (maybe).

Coat hangers made great throttle rods, and we scrounged whatever neat parts we could from the local junkyard (and they were actually called junkyards, with pride, back then............not fancy "auto recyclers" like they are now called )

I know there were places where cars were built by custom shops and had 20 coats of hand rubbed laquer, but for most of us that was something we only saw in the 25 cent magazines we hid within the pages of our history books. When you are making 75 cents an hour, and trying to take Betty Sue out on Friday night, there wasn't a whole lot of money left over for fancy stuff.


Don

 

[BUSTEDKNUCKLE]

Paper

Nice job TRIPPER, I am sure we are going to see alot more people here! Keep up the good work my friend.Curt

 

[RUSTY50F1]

TRIPPER; I hold up a FROSTY beverage to ya. Good job. .............RUSTY

 

[cycledog]

As Buck Owens used to say on Hee Haw....Saaallllllute.