Give me yer honest answer.

[29desoto]

Oh, Lordy, I loved Mguires!

My British cars and bikes were always polished right to the max! I did drive/ride to the shows, but only because I couldn't afford a trailer (and did not have a place to park it in suburbia).

Wash, wax, polish chrome, clean air vents with cotton swabs, leather treatment for the seats, tire black on the spare, wire wheel brushes by the dozen.

Then go to a show, and guard your car like your life depended on it!

Sold them all, moved up here in the woods, and really did not want to build a rat rod. Not even now. I am just building a car I can drive and have fun with. ASSUMING I ever get it done. And I won't paint it. Not because I want a "rat rod" look, just because the body will never justify the work.

But I will like it.

Sometimes the pleasure in a trip is the journey itself.

 

[timbo]

I have always drove primered cars/trucks. I did have one car I painted. It looked great but It was getting old keeping it looking like new. I would rather drive what I have now and enjoy it more.
Tim

 

[Willowbilly3]

I don't fret over the label too much, mine is just a hotrod to me. But when I have to describe it to someone I say it is kind of a ratrod. I do plan to paint it at some point, already have a gallon of John Deere blitz black.

 

[ratrodney]

Nice stories everyone. Kinda neat how everyone got into em. RR