“Ratty Muscle Cars” on Facebook is normally a safe haven for gearheads. With all of the pretty showcars and high-dollar builds we are normally inundated with, it’s a nice change. But when we found this early second-gen Camaro…well, we didn’t quite know what exactly to think of it. We don’t know any of the background on it, but you can see exactly why it might be just a little bit polarizing, can’t you? We don’t know if this was aiming for the rat rod movement (we hope not) or if the guy just wanted something different from the normal, which he achieved handily. We’ve seen similar things done to S-10s, but this might be the first Camaro we’ve seen with the open front clip layout normally seen on T-buckets and early rods. The benefits of a 1970s coupe over a early hot rod are left intact, and if the front subframe of the Camaro is retained, the options are endless for whatever engine your twisted heart desires. On the other hand…well, it’s visually unique. Is it too far? Does it hold any appeal to you, and if it does, how?
Well – as usual a Chevy takes the barf-wagon of the month award!
I think the number plate would read “Please Kill Me!”
Case closed!
Hell … this one may damn well qualify as THE Barf Wagon of 2015 ! And yeah … it doesn’t help that its based on amongst the worst Chevy has ever offered
Are you two the same people or are we just really lucky to have two different blowhards on the same blog? Goody for us!
I believe they are very different people.
Geordie is a British “redneck” who can’t stand anything Chevy and doesn’t know how to communicate anything other than his disdain for them……over, and over and over and over, and over, and over………….. much like a special needs 8 year old, I’d imagine. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a positive comment from him ever. Just lots of “chevy” and “shit” in the same statement. Over and over and over……….
CK is a want-to-be, know it all, pot smoking ex hippie, supposedly from the show biz or communications world (so I gather), who now lives in Colorado.
Both are equally annoying to a certain extent. I do tip my hat to CK however. At least he knows how to write well crafted sentences and get his point across, (as skewed or self absorbed as it may be some times). Geordie is just monotonous.
So many comments, so little time
That second-gen has a bad case of steel termites. It’s probably better this way, at least somebody can have fun building this thing out and driving a bonkers rat rod than wasting money and time patching up rust holes for years on end.
Tens of thousands of these cars were made, I’m sure there are better conditioned ones out there to invest time, money, and care into.
kill it with fire!
It could probably be put back to normal.
looks like he took some pretty worth-free junk, spent some time, and wound up with a larger pile of worth free junk. It’s easier to get on the scrap trailer the way it is now.
Not a fan, but it was (is) his pile of junk and time so it’s all good for him I guess. I could have made it another 50 years without having to see it.
I like it. Something different from the norm
I kinda like it…in terms of overall proportions its visually pretty good. Its not jarringly ugly like so many of the weirder creations out there and if it was a ratty shitbox to start with then why not? There was a Torana a few years ago in Australia with a similar vibe – but it went all out though and narrowed the whole body just so he could have the rear tyres hanging out like a proper hot rod look…
#1 Its a 70’s pos Camaro
#2 Worse yet … its another badly done , ill conceived Retro Metro attempt at a rat rod
1 + 2 equaling one butt effing ugly south end of a north bound mule with a digestive problem …
FAIL !
Trust me . I’m all for originality . But not at the expense of good taste .
God ____ you McTaggert ! Now this Eye Worm thing will be haunting me for the rest of the freaking day !
Hmmn … may a pack of metal eating , vinyl chomping weird holy men invade your daily driver McTaggert ……. 😉
With all credit to In Living Color: “Hated it!, two snaps in a circle”
As a 70s F-Body owner, this is just wrong in so many ways. The proportions just don’t work for that look. IMO you would have to narrow the body tub by about 10″ in the center to even come close. It would also need the length to be shortened by another foot of so. This look is extremely hard to pull off. Newer cars just don’t have the simple body lines the 30s cars have. Put the plasma cutter down! Pick a old military vehicle (mutt, M35 etc) or old British roadster and you’ll be much closer to start with.
No, I don’t want to see more of this kind of thing. My eyes are still burning from looking at this one.
I DIG IT! poke a hole though the roof for the shifter and you’re talkin Krass & Bernie in real life! (you know… from the CarToons magazine?…. Trosley?… anybody?)
http://www.ryannore.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Krass-and-Bernie.jpg
Just one big ass pile of rat turd that needs to be flush down a really big toilet!
I can’t seem to hate it quite as much as I had expected to. No, the combination doesn’t quite work, visually (although oddly it seems to work better than an S10). But it also looks more like he was just horsing around with a pile of junk parts and having fun. At worst, he’s made some fairly reversible changes to my least favorite generation of F-body.
For some reason, seeing just the back end of the F-body makes me wonder how it would look if you had some front sheet metal on it that looked more Italian with quad headlights and a grille about the same height as the headlights. Something like a Lancia Zagato nose.
Huh…. It kind of works in a weird way. At least from this angle. Usually, I’m not a fan of these kinds of builds, especially the S-10 rat trucks. But this one has a sort of short track modified look that I like.
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a240/thebullfather/may2010/gkb4Erp11XfB28.jpg
I guess hanging that body on a proper tube chassis and maybe make a pro street build or race car was too much effort?
Stupidity and a welder, I feel for the car. The builder should go back to crayons and paper.
Do you even have a welder?
No thank you.
Some trends need to stick to their originally intended era of car – the rat one one is one of them.
What a bunch whiny ass pissers. Go buy your self some big girl panties.
Someone has the balls to throw away your cookie cutter and you poo poo yourself.
I dig it. It probably draws a crowd. He can always put the front back on when he gets tired of it.
Not my thing. I never liked the way the S10’s looked with the bobbed schnoz. The body is just too wide and abrupt, it just looks weird. More power to whoever did this if they are still driving and playing with it, I love seeing that. Just not my thing, and I’d be willing to bet a front view would give me the same reaction as the S10’s.
I just put a Google APP on my computer to keep me from having to see anything Kim K. related. If I ever find an APP that filters out rat rod articles and pictures I’m gonna add that one too.
That’s just wrong. Dead wrong.
KILL IT WITH FIRE!
The owner will definitely have the only one in the parking lot. That being said, I’d drive it for a week.
Gotta chop the top off and have a I hoop roll bar over the drivers head
You know how you’d feel if someone drew a mustache on the Mona Lisa?
I’d gladly run through this/over this with an EX200 if someone provides airfare and the excavator.
Sorry, this is just plain sh&$.
No as thousand time no no no. OH the humanity.. This piece of crap should suffer the same fate as the Hindenburg…. burnt down to little tiny cinders.
Wow! Some seriously funny comments on this subject lol.
I was raised by a Street Rodder and I think that hobby was
going down hill until the Rat Rod came on the scene. I think
the average working man can afford to build a simple tube
chassis , scrape up the running gear and rebuild a small block
anything. Even mount a rusty or fiberglass body. But when it
came time to pay for a custom interior and what Dad called a
“Street Rod nice” paint job, well that simply couldn’t be done.
But someone stood back at that same time and said “I like it,
It’s a Rat Rod ! Then his buddy said “I like it too, and I can say
It’s finished now!” Looks like Street Rodding is back in business.
Hey I’m a Drag Racer, See Ya at the track, Flash
If this car was not a rat rod, it would still be rusting in its own filth. Bravo!!!