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If a Donk and a Rat Rod Had a Baby...The DonkRod
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Re: If a Donk and a Rat Rod Had a Baby...The DonkRod
It looks like a roller-skate that someone left out in the rain.
Then again, I think most "rat rods look like roller-skates that someone.... I don't understand the trend.
Back in the day, when it was more important to get the car on the road than worry about that 5k worth of body and paint, sure it was acceptable to zip around town in your flat black, or as was more likely the case, your "primer brown and grey in spots" painted vehicle. Acceptable but not desirable. You hoped the cops would let you slide on the misaligned headlights and the crappy looking tires. In my day, ratrods or shall I say daily drivers were 4door Chevelle's, Mavericks, AMC Rebels etc. The t-bucket was in it's glory and we couldn't begin to touch one even if we pooled our money. We'd be embarrassed to admit we were in the car hobby and were satisfied with an unfinished car. Maybe we couldn't do anything about the situation, lack of money and all, but we tried.
Today, I don't think so. These cars are built to look "run down" on purpose. Some for big bucks. These aren't daily drivers for the most part, because daily drivers aren't "cool".
This is a great hobby. You can do what you like. But building a car on purpose to look like you don't have any money to build a car in the first place is as fake, fake, fake as that 24v-71 with it's fake fake fake blower setup.
Oh and the red wheels are the best part of this thing. Chip Foose specials painted flat red, with "worn out" whitewalls no less. :P
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Re: If a Donk and a Rat Rod Had a Baby...The DonkRod
I'm sure I'll be made a mockery of for saying but, I kinda like the heap. Just different looking enough I guess.
If the wheels were half the width with some skinny rubber, might make the whole package/look more appealing.Jeremy George in Windsor NY
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Re: If a Donk and a Rat Rod Had a Baby...The DonkRod
I was prepared to really hate this (after reading the comments on the forum). But then I looked at the photos.
It's really not "horrible" or "agricultural" or a "miscarriage" or some sort of donk-rod bastard child.
I'll agree that the wheels aren't the most attactive and the splotchy flat red doesn't help. The mixture of coil-overs and tiny disk brakes with "dubs" and some traditional elements is, at best, eclectic. The pavement-scraping stance and lack of rake seem both impractical and non-traditional. The velocity stacks and intake on the engine also seem to be a throwback to the '70s, not the early, "pure" days of rodding. And why didn't they touch up the whitewall paint?
But I'm not willing to go so far as to say that a rod can't run wide, large diameter wheels. It's a hard look to pull off . . . and this rod's not all that successful at it. But if those wheels were less "open," and there was some "rubber rake" and more attention to detail, I'm not sure that it wouldn't "work."
Sure, it's never going to be a period-correct reproduction, but most "rats" aren't. That's part of their rebellious nature.
Then again, designers often take inspiration from historic forms and modify them to better fit modern conditions. So if the "rules" are so tight to require only strictly historic details, innovation and diversity will be stifled.
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I don't know if I like it...but I certainly do not hate it.
All I know for sure is that if you are currently being adored by the masses you are without a doubt doing something that was "cool" about 3 years ago. The media and consequently many enthusiasts out there are painfully behind on "what's hot" so perhaps this thing will be a trend setter in a few years. I think back 3-4 years about the controversy over flat paint and how the general consensus was that it was a "cheap" way of going about custom paint....I just got back from Barret Jackson and there was hardly a single vendor there that wasn't sporting a flat black car in their booth. Rat rods were also despised for the most part a few years ago. Now every cruise night you attend has some variation of the trend. So I give this guy credit for doing something that is at least causing debate. That's always a good sign for any build.
"They might be talking bad about it, but at least they're talking about it".
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