It might be a Rat Rod if..

[kzoldman]

OK guys, I took all the post by yall from Bonehead's thread and put them in one long list so you can copy and paste them to the frig or your better halfs Valentine Card Got to do it in four post. ( raining here all weekend so I got board )

It Might Be A Rat Rod If…..

If your prep work for painting your car..... consists of shaking the can....
If people keep asking you what color are you going to paint it........
If you consider "RUST" to be a primary color...........
If your car gets lighter, when you tap it with a hammer........
If your roof is so low, you can't see the stoplight.
If "normal" people grimace as you drive by.
When asked "Why?" and your reply is "cause it's bad ass".
If you have to wear safety goggles, ear plugs, and a respirator to drive your car.
If you rebuilt your engine, and the only parts needed were a can of Barrs Stop Leak and Smoke Be Gone.
If your wife notices she is missing one of her favorite kitchen pots, just about the same time you are bragging about your new air cleaner.
If u're neighbors r hot rodders & they still hate u....
If homeless people come to your door, and give YOU some money.
If you can ONLY take trips in the day time...
If reupholstering your interior involves a screwdriver and the stop sign at the end of your street.
If you buy most of your hot rod parts at a good hardware store, or army surplus store.
If you park in a parking lot, and no matter how close you are to the door,
no one parks close to you.....
If you get a Christmas card from more than one salvage yard....
If you are staring at the inside of your roof when the light changes, and no one honks at you.
If you have ever been hypnotized by the spinning of your own drive shaft.
If even hitch hikers refuse a ride from you.
If you have ever been trapped in a parking lot by speed bumps........
If the local salvage yard calls YOU looking for parts....................
If a gang of juvenile delinquents vandalizes your car, and you LIKE the MODIFICATIONS they have made to it.................
If the only spare tire you have, keeps getting in the way of the lower portion of your steering wheel....................
If you scrape supper off the road on your way home...........no wait......you might just be from Tenn........
If your insurance deductible is more than the value of your car.......
If your insurance is with Geico and they think you are the caveman from the commercials.....or you may just be Maximo....
If your tail light bezels have a Starkist label around them...
If you used last years license plates for interior sun visors...
If your gas cap is a shop rag...
If you've eaten at Taco Bell and pass gas and nobody notices...
If your cars gas tank is only 5 gals and has a carry handle...
If your car starts with an explosion...
If you get slapped in the face by the cat you just hit...
If the neighbors dog makes a wide circle around your car to whizz on someone else’s...
When you slam the door and paint chips and rust dust fall on the ground!
If people ask when you’re going too finish it.
When you slam the door and it falls off.....
If people keep asking you " how bad was the OTHER car in the accident?"..
If the cop who stops you is laughing so hard he can't write the ticket..........
If the owner of your local junk yard files a missing person report cuz you went to another yard 3 states away and was gone all weekend and you didn’t tell him cuz you did not want to hurt his feelings.
If your doctor recommends more than one tetanus shot a year for you .....
When people pass by, they remove their hats to show respect for the dead....
If you use cry baby dolls for target practice...........
If a wheel flies off and you didn't notice....
If your mother-in-law gives you a case of rust remover for Christmas.........
If people on the HAMB hate your car.
If the reflectors on the road take flight as you change lanes...
If your neighbors come over and ask you not to start your car because they are having friends over.
If a neighbor is trying to sell their house and they ask you to park your car in the garage to increase their property value.
If the neighbors dog is afraid to pee on your tires..............
If the guy standing in traffic with a "will work for food" sign, comes over and hands you 5 bucks....................
If you have to take tools OFF of your car to repair the screen door on the house...
If something fell off u're car & u didn't notice or miss it...
If your neighbors are constantly calling the yard guard cause your car is always dropping stuff on the street.
If Al Gore uses your car as an example against Global warming...........
If your car was under qualified to appear in the "Road Warrior" movie.....
If you scrap your knuckles more while driving it than you do when you’re working on it!
If the last can of beer you had became the overflow for the rad!
If your "finish work" is done with a 4" grinder.
If your neighbors put up a fence so they don't have to look at your car in the driveway...
If the city fines you for storing parts cars in your driveway when you take the plates off for the winter...
If you thought your chrome bumpers belonged on the wall of your garage rather than on your car...
If the hardware store had to order you a case of primer because you were painting your car that weekend...
If your seat has a blanket covering it, but your bed doesn't...
If the best gift you got for your birthday was a bar tap for your shifter...
If you stop on the side of the road on trash day to get parts for your car...
If the guy at the inspection station can't open your door because you don't have handles... or poppers...
If you have to paint spider webs on your car because real spiders are afraid to make a nest on it...
If your dash light requires batteries and fits in your pocket...
If you wear a chain wallet because you're tired of it falling through your floorboards...
If all four tires cost less than $60, including rims...
If you have a bottle opener on your dash...
If steering upgrades can be done with a grease gun and a tire pressure gauge...
If your steering wheel came from a boat...
If you have to stick your arm out the window to shift gears...
When your dog has to scrunch down to look IN your window.
The wife won't let you go for a spin because you're wearing your good pants.
When the dogs ball WON'T roll under the car.
You start your car and five minutes later Homeland Security shows up.
Your wife wears a scarf and sunglasses disguise to get the mail.
Your kids would rather take the 'little bus' to and from school.
When your neighbor comes over and points to your car, asking if he can borrow your lawnmower.
If you tie a rope to what's left of your rear bumper, it actually looks like a rat.
A passing stranger is convinced that your rod is actually an elephant turd that's shaped like a car.
When all four tires are different sizes, yet it rides level.
When you drive it to work and get fired because the boss thinks you put a pile of auto parts in your parking spot.

 

[kzoldman]

When you're trying to scrape off dog poop that you just hit and you can't find it because it blended in, and you have to use the 'Scratch-n-Sniff' method.
If you use a large ammo can for your center consol and it doubles as your beer cooler and tool chest combo.
When you have plastic crates for seats and after driving around for a while your butt cheeks look like waffles...
If animals make a nest in your car and you could care less...
If your ride leaks more fluid on the ground than the neighbors dog whizzing on your tire.
If you can reach the gas tank from the driver’s seat.....
If you painted your car the same color as your last project just because you had some paint left over.....
If the grill on your car has more teeth in it than you do.....
If your girl friend has more paint on her that your car does.....
If your wife threatens to divorce, take the dog, the kids and everything else in the house including the house, but leaves you your pride and joy........
If you get sore or hurt more driving it than working on it....
If when driving down the roads or highways motorists don’t tailgate you in fear of falling parts or debris.....
If you bring your "new truck" home and your little girl runs out to see it, and then runs back in the house crying in disappointment....
If you pass a demolition job on your way home from work and stop and ask, "Hey - can I have that?"
If you have to explain to everyone why tractor grills are cool...
If somebody asks you "what make is it?" and you have to pull out a list from your wallet....
If filling the gas tank costs almost as much as the entire build.
If you wash it at least twice a week... IN SALT WATER.
If you paint your BBQ grille and your car with the same spray can.
If you post a pic of it on another Hot Rod site and get ripped, shredded and insulted.
When your build only takes 2 weeks.
If when nature calls you don't have to stop driving to relive yourself because the floor has a rust hole right where you need it.
If your maximum travel distance is less than 2 miles from your house because you don't want to walk too far when it breaks.
If you have a bumper sticker or wrote somewhere on your car... "It IS Finished Stupid" (or something similar)
If your wife thinks twice about letting you have a rat rod after reading this.
If your Rod has a salvage title, with all original parts and paint, and you had a trade-in when you bought it.
If you have a bumper sticker front and rear that says NOT JUNK.
If you ever cleaned your pick-up box with a weed whacker.
If the Butts in your ashtray are older than you. (and your Dad)
If your add on white walls were on a previous Rat.
If your overhaul kit came from Warshauskees.
If you can remove your steering wheel without removing any nuts or bolts.
If there's a Farmall tractor in the neighborhood missing its radiator shell.
If your window winder is a pair of Vise Grips.
If your seat covers are old blankets that passengers are scared to sit on because they have oil stains from being under the car so many times while you've worked on the engine.
If you straightened your rear bumper with a bench vice.
If you're using clear caulking to seal your windshield.
If you want to use primer for a paint job because it'll only cost $25 but you're willing to spend $2K on a new, bigger engine.
If new window seals and a weld repair cost $1600 and you only paid $1900 for the bus to begin with.
If you have the opportunity to buy a different bus in better shape for only a little more than you could get for yours AND YOU PASS IT UP BECAUSE THE PAINT'S TOO NICE...
If your friends don't smoke in your rod 'cause it might blow up...
If you can drive under an 18-wheeler, go "Damn, that's dirty!" and drive back out...
If your vehicle's title takes up a whole file cabinet at the DMV...
-Your wife dreads when you take Sunday drives in the country, cuz she fears what you'll find.
-a guy at a car show says "your cars a piece of crap!" and you reply” Thank you, so is yours."
-You can fix every appliance in your house with a crescent wrench and channel locks.
-your idea of spending time with the kids is picking up pieces that fell off a mile back.
-after a night on the town, you wake up with "Killer" the junkyard dog next to you in bed.
-you think the best cure for the common cold is a bottle of Dayquil and a sixer of Pabst Blue Ribbon.
-your wife thinks she’s punishing you by kicking you out, and you end up in the garage.
-you pretend the car is broke so you can go out to the garage to get away from the in-laws.
-You hate doing body work
-the best date you ever had was at a swap meet.
-it has a stop sign as a transmission cover.
-the floor bracing is made out of a galvanized stop sign post.
-the most expensive piece on your interior is the key chain.
-your shifter knob once belonged on your bathroom door.
-you consider tail lamps off a Ford Shoebox to be universal fit.
-a good percentage of parts on it were free
-the only stainless steel on it came from the kitchen
-it started life as a Ford, but you no longer know what to call it.
-your afraid there wont be anything left when your kids are old enough to drive it
-it could be on the road if you skip a house payment.
-you cant take it out in public without someone recommending putting a diaper on it.
-the tires are the most expensive thing on the whole car
-you finally found a use for that old beer keg.
-you pull into a crowded parking lot, and people part like it was the red sea.
If the entire body is made from 3/4 plywood.
When the mice won't live in it anymore.
Your favorite place for auto parts and accessories is the Army/Navy surplus store.
A family outing is to the Pick and Pull.
You check the 5 future projects in your yard for parts you can modify to work before you head to the hardware or parts store.
If your wife refers to it as "the other woman."
If when you drive by chicks they turn to each other and laugh, and you're not offended...
If you use a battery disconnect switch as an anti theft device...
If you don't know what an anti theft device is...
If your family looks at your rod, shake their heads and say "what a shame"...
If you believe "trading-up" is swapping a drivable vehicle for something 30 years older that is in pieces...
*You fear growing older because you know you won't be able to get in and out of your rod...
*You prefer "Mater" over "Ramone" from Disney's "Cars".
*You helped your kids name their hamsters "Bonehead" and "Tripper"!
It don't need an anti theft device... it is one.
Every time you go out for a cruise, wreckers follow you around like vultures..
Your car causes accidents, from gawkers..
Mothers pull their kids in the house when you go down the street..
When asked what kind of paint that is, you reply "Imrust"..
Other motorists ask, "what IS that ?"..
You can actually see the road thru the floorboard..
If your welder cost more than the initial purchase price of your car.
If you grind the welds on your chop after you rattle can it.
If you can reach out the window and rest your hand on the rear tire.
If the frame is lower than the front axle.
If you leave the bullet hole in the body just to add a little more ventilation.

 

[kzoldman]

If the post man delivers mail through the rear window mistaking it for the mail slot.
If you have ever modified a U-Haul trailer when moving from Texas to Louisiana because your car was too long and too low to fit.
If you hope the EPA doesn't perform a soil test on the grass at the edge of your driveway where you cleaned out the 71 years of accumulation for the first time.
If you have ever stolen a metal sign and hung it on the wall of your garage that says "Caution Manhole Below" and then went back for the manhole cover.
If you have ever searched Ebay for a usable title.
If you have an interior that consists of stickers and blankets.
If you have a tattoo of your ride instead of your wife's name cause even if you sell the ride, it is still cool.
If you have to back off the gas because a running board is flapping in the wind, and pieces are coming off and hitting your Vette.
You go to the school to pick up the kids.....and the other children are 20 feet away and pointing....
When you pull up to the school, the windows rattling alert the principle that you’re near the building and the paint peals from the walls from the seismic tremors.
Your security system is taking off your coil wire when you park your rod downtown.
The engine you are running is old enough to not come equipped with an oil filter.
If you get high centered pulling into a parking lot!
If your gas gauge consist of a long branch you got from the back yard!
If you use other rodders "leftovers" to build your rod from?-and PROUD of 'em.
If you use barn lumber for a floor in your truck.....
If a four barrel carb and loud pipes are mandatory...but brakes are not..
If when you are welding in braces to keep the body from flexing you don't mind a few holes when the Mig blows thru the rust...
You measure your 0-60 time in gallons...
Your fuel tank was once the life of a party...
There’s more welding rod in your car than sheet metal
Your gas tank doubles as your seat.
your exhaust used to support a chain link fence.
You were able to weld the doors shut because it was easier to climb in through the roof than get in through the door.
If you sleep outside the "U-Pullit" yard just to get the best deals.
if you think a family reunion parking lot is a smorgasbord.
If the back-half of your chassis is undercoated with motor & trans oil.
If no one from the HAMB will speak to you...you probably drive a Rat Rod!!
If you have less money invested in it than some people have invested in there TVs......
"Everybody gives you a thumbs up."
If you go to the dump just to get tires to burn off.
If when you get out of your truck at the junkyard and the forklift operator comes over and gets it for the crusher.
If your touch up paint kit is rustoleum flat black spray bomb.
If when hammering on the car u leave piles of rust on the ground and think "is my car faster now??
If the cloud from exhaust from starting the engine slowly drift into the road and blocks traffic.
Your friends get nauseous when riding with you, or several cars behind you, from the exhaust.
When your friends tell you to stop yelling and you realize you’ve been out off your car for at least 5 min and still can’t hear.
If you would rather try and build the part you need rather than purchase it.
If your Granddaughter thinks you are working on your ratrod as punishment..
If you use the fenders you took of the car for filler pieces on the top when you chop it.
If everyone who sees the car says what is it?
If you call it a VolksChevFord.
If your oil pan is rotted to the point where you need to put a diaper under it every where you go.
If your rear axle leaks so much gear oil that you've just come to accept it as rust prevention.
If you use a vinegar and water solution as touch up paint it might be a rat rod.
If your gravel driveway is slowly becoming blacktop.
If the girl you took on a date was hospitalized with carbon monoxide poisoning.
If it speeds up by itself when you drive by a crusher.
If you have to wait a minute after starting it to let the smoke settle.....

If someone asks what year it is, and your answer sounds like a Johnny Cash song......
If there is more welding wire, than body on your ride.
If you are even reading this, yours is probably a ratty rod!
If you need a tetanus shot just to sit in it it might be a ratrod.
If the cop who pulls you over says l don't have 'nough pages in my ticket book for this thing.
You wash your car with a scotch bright pad.
You took it apart with a cutting torch and put it together with a welder.
If little kids love it and you let them sit in it...
If you have to start dating a nurse cause it cheaper than doctor office visits!
If you've ever though about using bleach white on your chuck tailors.
If your rod looks like it's bleeding red after it rains.
If even dogs laugh at you’re car when you drive by.
If you don’t care what anyone else says cause you built every part of it.
If you use duct tape as Band-Aids.
If you find all the tires you need alongside of the road.
If you have lost change, tools and large objects thru the rust holes in the floorboards.
If flow thru ventilation is holes in the firewall.
Your heater is the holes in the firewall.
Your gauges cost more than the whole car is worth.
You have all the parts stores places phone numbers memorized but not the wife’s cell phone.
You keep getting "Code Violation" warnings from the city telling you - "You have 30 days to remove the abandoned vehicle from your property or you will be summoned to appear in court."
If your heater can't keep up with the natural air-conditioning.
You drive a car with working windshield wipers but no windshield.
You bring your project home and the old lady ups the life insurance..
While cruising the new car lot they wanted to charge you to take it..
The manager of Wal-Mart asks that you remove it from the lot so as not to disturb the other shoppers.
The Highway Dept. mill machine breaks and they ask if you could make a couple passes to finish up the lane.
Krylon sends you Christmas cards and rustoleum sends birthday wishes every year.
If you have ever had to ask the passenger to pass the window crank..
You use vice grips as a shifter.
You use vice grips as window cranks and door handles.
You have a 4 speed tranny and you shift 1st- 2nd gear with column shifter and 3rd-4th gear and reverse with floor shifter.
If you get kicked off another site for posting pictures of your car/truck.
You use small block Chevy’s as night stands.
A healthy lunch is a peanut butter and grease sandwich.
If the gets coffee gets cold, you warm it up with the torch.
Use a scrap piece flat steel and a torch to cook a grilled cheese sandwich.
You have $20,000 in tools to keep a $2,500 car running.
You can tell the weight and brand of oil by taste.
You can run a plasma cutter, welder, and a cutting torch but not the kitchen stove.
You do the Christmas shopping at a swap meet.
You use the same pan you drain your oil in to cook you hotdogs.
You use auto parts as Christmas ornaments on your tree.
If small children cry when you start your car....
If old people walk a little faster to pass your car in a parking lot.
You have more hot wheels and die cast cars than every kid on the block.
The smell of nitro has the same effect as Viagra.

 

[kzoldman]

You have ruined more than one washing machine by not removing tools or nuts and bolts out of you're pants.
You only visit you're friends in Reno so you have a place to stay during hot august nights.
"You have ruined more than one washing machine by not removing tools or nuts and bolts out of you're pants."
If you start it up and set off all the car alarms in the lot.
If you hit a bump and it channels the body another 1/2 inch.
Lots of pictures of your cars but none of the family in your wallet.
You spent the kids college funds on your last project.
All the kids and pets are named after cars.
Your car is worth more than the house.
The dining room table is also the carb rebuilding bench.
You have lots of rat rods but no daily driver.
You talk to the rat rod more than you talk to the family.
You think grease is a food group.
You have to wear safety goggles when you drive to keep the RUST particles out of you're eyes.
You’re afraid to sell any of your parts because you might need them some day.
Think nothing' of dropping two hundred bucks on a carb, but won't spend 50.00 for food.
Laying on the cold cement floor makes you're arthritis scream, and you still finish rolling around on the ground to " get in that one last bolt" before you stop.
You start storing parts in the den because there is no more room in the garage.
You can't remember birthdays or anniversary but can remember every car you owned.
On mother’s day you buy tires for your rat rod so it's safe for her to ride in.
Takes ten minutes to explain how to start the car and put it in gear the right way.
You have parts in and around the garage that you don't even own cars for.
Your garage is clean and in order but your house hasn't been cleaned for months.
You have 2 garages 3 sheds and you still need garage and storage space.
If you can't leave anything alone that has a motor on it, you want to hotrod lawn equipment, toys, motor home, etc........
If you've ever "fixed" something with a part that wasn't made to do what you want it to do.
Top of kid's swing set is bent and bowed because you hung a chain hoist on it to pull an engine and tranny.
When the guy at the auto parts store phones you to ask what will fit this....
You have more engines and trannys than cars.
You've rolled you're hair up in the creeper.
You keep your life events in chronological order by which car you where driving at the time.
Doesn’t matter how many projects you have, you’re always looking for more.
You have several old car /road signs and newer " found' street signs hanging in your garage.
You’re afraid to sell any of your old parts to cars you don't own because a friend might need them for something day.
Your 15 minutes of fame are when the cop says "best smoke show l ever saw!, sign here, sir.
You were mad at the end of " Dirty Larry and Crazy Mary" on how the charger got hit by a train.
You cry at old movies over all the good tin they destroy.
If you ever welded on your ride while wearing shorts.
You get all the room you need on the road!!
If you have already talked to the mail lady about hotrodding her mail truck.
If you made the same agreement with the UPS guy about his truck..
If you start hot rodding your lawn mower...
If you still think you’re in your rat rod, when in your Yukon...
If you cut your yard, to look like flames..
If you paint flame's on your family car.
If you have flame's on your boat..
If all your Christmas ornaments are car stuff..
If you mail Christmas cards with rat rods on them..
If you have a blown bbc, for a mail box..
If you start getting picture rat rod T shirts from every body.
If you put a shift knob on your toilet...
You use toilet tank or sink knobs for door or window handles.
If you start hopping up your kids bikes..
If you name your car..
And if you call your wife, by your car's name..
If you're son cries at Christmas because you got more hot wheel cars than he did.
If you have more pictures in photo albums of cars you've owned than family and friends.
You take the circle track car around the block doing' all left hand corners to "test the new set up' you put in for Saturday night.
Do mass burn offs in the street in front of you're house to see if the welded rearend holds up.
You drive the same year and model race car that the daily driver is so if the race car breaks at the track you can take off parts to finish the race.
Rod runs AWSOME, daily driver runs like crap.
Proudly display trophy's you won all over the house, family pictures are some where in storage.
Have more pictures in photo albums of cars you've owned than family and friends.
Miss every family reunion because there on race days.
If you get a notice saying to move the non-compliant car from you're drive way.
If the "garage" you keep it in is blue and folds up when it aint raining.
If last month it was sitting as some ol' lady's backyard garden planter and next month you plan on taking it to the next show.
If your pulling cars to your house like this that you found in the woods...
if the last can of beer you had became FLUID for the rad because the 5 jugs of water in the back already leaked out.
If the gas tank is an old 20 something gallon Mobil oil drum....
When people crack Flintstone jokes.
If routine maintenance is not just a job it’s an adventure...
If you would rather spend twenty hours building rather than buying a two dollar part cuz it’s Cool.
If you just spent the last hour reading this @#it , letting the coffee get cold, and really enjoying it.
If you think four doors and a six cylinders are still cool.
If your neighbor drops by and asks what year your Volkswagen is, and he's talking about your 49 fastback Chevy.
You have to wear a raincoat to drive in the rain, and you’re NOT in a roadster...
You painted your car so it looks rusty, ON PURPOSE!
If you tell your family "I’m buying that car!!!!!!" and the answer is, "are you serious?"
You have z'd the kitchen table, and thought of dropping the chairs a couple of inches...
Friends and family look at your car as self inflicted punishment.....
Had to use a chain saw to move the last car or truck you bought.

 

[CR55]

You seem to have way too much time on your hands!!.....I take it you're not married because you definately wouldn't have time!!....CR

 

[kzoldman]

You seem to have way too much time on your hands!!.....I take it you're not married because you definately wouldn't have time!!....CR

She R-U-N-N-O-F-T with everything but the Rat Rod [cl

 

[Bonehead]

She R-U-N-N-O-F-T with everything but the Rat Rod [cl

 

[earthman]

Thanks KZ! Easy to get to the laughs now (guilty on several counts)

 

[mako4r]

it might be a rat rod....

thanks kzoldman I'm gonna print them off and paste to my fridge...in the house.

 

[cantwell.colton]

bump bump
for the new members

 

[moparcowboy]

Yep I'm a Ratrodder[cl[cl[cl[cl

 

[mopar4life]

.....you finished reading all of this and can't find one that doesn't apply

you have got some mad typing skills, nice work!

 

[Sam_Fear]

Thanks for bumping this, CC. I was trying to find this thread one day. Couldn't.

 

[cantwell.colton]

Thanks for bumping this, CC. I was trying to find this thread one day. Couldn't.

it took me a while to find it !

 

[cantwell.colton]

 

[skull]

more!!!

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If your nickname is choptop and you walk around car shows with a level, tape measure and a cut off tool Staring at all the unchopped vehicles. JUST FOR FUN.

if you have to wash the soap after you wash your hands

you plan family vacations by the car show schedules

you drive around farmlands and deserts with a trailer behind you, and at least 500 bucks on hand.

you think gasoline is a great aftershave

If you drive your Hotrod year round just like it was done for years.

You do not worry about matching numbers.

You would rather ratrod it, not restore it.

You know a hot/rat rod is made to drive, not park in a garage

You know not all gassers had a tube axle.

You use a turkey baster as a shop tool

You still buy hot wheels

you living room has a hot rod theme

.....if you own a black leather jacket, and you don't even ride a motorcycle

You know more about a friends car than you know about your friends life

you've used your dishwasher as a parts washer.

you keep car parts in your bedroom for safe keeping

you think about your car more than your Wife,or girlfreind

You manage to **** off the whole family because xmas morning your working on the rat rod

if you wake up at 4 am and drive several hours to a swap meet on your only day off in a week, but complain when you have to be to work at 8 am the next day and that's only a 15 minute drive

You take great care to lock up your shop but do not bother locking the house.

All your buddies are hot/rat rodders .

You don't know somebodys name but you know what car/cars they own and drive.

If you've got six vehicles, and none of them run at the moment......

you store, maintain, pay insurance on, and buy antique tags for cars, that actually only get driven once a year or don't even run

you have more project cars, than your entire family daily commuter fleet

you have multiple spare engines for each car, transmissions and rear axles for every rat ya own

if you see a nice fender, hood, deck lid, or door for your car, you buy it, "just in case" you might need it someday

you want to collect all the displacement size engines for your particular make, like collecting baseball cards or coins

you can build your favorite V-8 blindfolded

when your wife and kids are out, and you find yourself at home alone on Saturday night, you crack a couple beers, and read some old 1950's and 60's Chilton repair manuals, and find stuff in there that's actually interesting...

when finding an old engine you wanted and buying it, is like a heroin addict getting his rush...


If...everytime you see an old neglected pre-40's vehicle parked somewhere, you think of all the things you would like to customize, change and rat out on it.




Later

 

[hankthebigdog]

I am guilty of most of these. Is this good or real good?

 

[Sam_Fear]

Great post to dig back up! Way to go Hank. [cl

If you pass on buying chrome parts because the chrome isn't pitted enough!

 

[skull]

you may if

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=411034&highlight=you+might+be+hot+rodder+if



http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/you-might-hot-rodder-if-168893.html#post1197717

some new, some not[dr


Later

 

[patina]

you might have a rat rod if you use parts people throw away or from the woods