them rat golfs?

[shellysowner]

To be honest if you baremetal a Mk1 golf and drive around in it I think people are much more likely to cry!

[SeventyNine]

and of course, how can we have a thread about rat look without mentioning:







when did this forum get all sensible? a few weeks ago we were wetting ourselfs over rat look stretched trye'd eurod bangers, now we've become all prim and proper. next we will be saying no to modications of any sort and sticking to concourse cars! ;D ;D

[SeventyNine]

tonycocacola said:

i don't give a f*ck.
if they laff they laff.
i do what i do for me and no one else.
my type 4 gets pointed and laffed at regularly.so what.
I'm having fun, so they can take a running jump.

yep, my point exactly, my mk2 escort gets looks, and gets called a banger day in day out, do i care about it? well I'm still driving it everyday arent i?

[BenzBoy]

tonycocacola said:

i don't give a f*ck.
if they laff they laff.
i do what i do for me and no one else.
my type 4 gets pointed and laffed at regularly.so what.
I'm having fun, so they can take a running jump.

Well said! My sentiments exactly!

As for keeping the rust at the level you want it, surely just some coats of lacquer with matting agent in will seal it? Plenty of underseal on the hidden bits - perfect!
Personally I want as much attention (good and bad) as I can get with the cars I drive. In fact, I like the bad reactions best, cos they're usually a bit scared! ;D

[shellysowner]

Not one of those buses you show has been baremetalled though so that's why they're lasting a lot longer (I bet the owners have a fair bit of welding to do every once in a while for the MOT/TUV too).

[goaferboy]

i think my dislike of being stared at while driving is the fact that i havent been drving long and would feel really self conscious about making mistakes.

although i still think rat cars are awesome and would rather have one than my current ride

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I reckon it would take much the same effort to 'preserve' something very ratty, as something concourse. The linde bus is such a perfect example - pulled out of a field, found to be structurally OK, and its 'derelict' look (very!) carefully preserved. The problem for me is when folk start 'ratting' decent stuff. Its one thing preserving a look, its another to deliberatly create it on a good base.

[Nick]

shellysowner said:

To be honest if you baremetal a Mk1 golf and drive around in it I think people are much more likely to cry!

is it me.. or do you sort of not get the point of this forum?

[Davenger]

I'm not bothered if people stare and point at my car, even if they laugh.
I love the Rat look cars with dull paint and the odd dent, it's just the all rust ones that I worry about

[goaferboy]

the reason ratty cars appeal to me is because they look like theyve seen some good times (like the artsy pictures of ratty vws on a beach). if a ratty car has just been bought and turned into a rat ride then i don't think it has as much appeal

[Mr_Bo11ox]

goaferboy said:

i think my dislike of being stared at while driving is the fact that i havent been drving long and would feel really self conscious about making mistakes.

although i still think rat cars are awesome and would rather have one than my current ride

If you've got a Westfield, folk are defo going to look. But I don't think anyone will be laughing at you, especially when you waste them away from the lights. I suspect most of the looks you get will be VERY envious, specially from unimaginative barrys in their shopping hatches with christmas tree lights on. Go for it I say!

[goaferboy]

yeah its not the staring and laughing I'm worried about its just the staring in general. most days id be fine with it but if iv had a bad day or something i may not appreciate people staring at me all the time. if you get what i mean.

that said I'm still getting one ;D pretty much the only thing that would stop me would be a loss of a limb and id still try to find a way around it

[tonycocacola]

here here

[shellysowner]

Hmmm, well as per normal I just don't get it. Rat rods - well at least they're like that to start with. Rusty old cars.... if they're old barn finds etc. and just in need of a minor bodywork then I guess that's cool but as long as it gets done eventually. I think that probably what I find cool about this is that it's like seeing a blank canvas in a gallery and the rarer the car the cooler it is. There's only one old car with surface rust that I've ever thought - wow, that's cool, there's nothing I would change about that and that's the '59 bel air in the video of 'POD - Youth of the Nation' which is partly because I think those '59s are a bit much with all their chrome bulled up and partly 'cos it conjours up images of old country types parking their car next to their rusty old shack and barn finds etc. (can't find a pic, sorry).

[tonycocacola]

p.o.d
are you a secret god botherer? ;D

[shellysowner]

rearwheelnick said:

shellysowner said:

To be honest if you baremetal a Mk1 golf and drive around in it I think people are much more likely to cry!

is it me.. or do you sort of not get the point of this forum?

I thought it was a forum about modified classic cars. I like them - that's good. I just don't get all your silly wheels and 'this look' and 'that look' and bolting tat onto your cars. It seems to be the main topic of conversation but looking at 'readers rides' seems to only represent a small proportion of the vehicles owned by forum users, most of which seem to be ok and some are truly excellent. Cosworth dolly - magic. Karmann Ghia - brilliant. Crazy japmobiles - very interesting and of course the inimitable chevettes - you know how much I like those.

I suggest everyone reading this post runs out into the garage, opens their bonnet and has a good long stare at the engine. Forget the tat and modify that!

[shellysowner]

tonycocacola said:

p.o.d
are you a secret god botherer? ;D

Nah, just used to watch MTV2 a lot in about 1999 when Slipknot were cool (I never thought they were cool... or in fact making a noise even vaguely similar to music) and I was still in school.

Btw - I wouldn't go calling any god botherers god botherers or it might... bother them

[Revolution 9]

My Imp gets loads of attention every time I take it out, plenty of it from neds and yuppies thinking they've got something better in their bodykitted Saxo/ two year old company car diesel BMW, but to be honest I know I've got the car I want, not what's acceptable, and that if I wanted to and the road I was on was quiet and twisty enough I could flatten them in a second, and I know I didn't have to sell my soul to Yes Car Credit to get the car I wanted, the slave to normality in his Ford Focus who smirks at me as I drive past did, plus I actually do have the car I want, whearas when his Focus goes out of fashion he'll hate it and have to get himself even deeper in debt for the new model, so I can't see why I should be hurt by what those sorts of people think about my motor.

Besides, as long as you're enjoying yourself in your retro motor what does it matter that the guy next to you thinks something's funny?

[BenzBoy]

I think most retro car drivers have to be a bit thick-skinned / exhibitionist - I mean, if I wanted to blend into the background I'd buy a metallic blue Mondeo.

As for purposefully distressing cars to look rat - whatever. It's their car. Never achieves the same depth of patina as 20 years of barn storage would, but how many of us can go to a barn and dig out a motor to start with?

[SeventyNine]

shellysowner said:

rearwheelnick said:

is it me.. or do you sort of not get the point of this forum?

I thought it was a forum about modified classic cars. I like them - that's good. I just don't get all your silly wheels and 'this look' and 'that look' and bolting tat onto your cars. It seems to be the main topic of conversation but looking at 'readers rides' seems to only represent a small proportion of the vehicles owned by forum users, most of which seem to be ok and some are truly excellent. Cosworth dolly - magic. Karmann Ghia - brilliant. Crazy japmobiles - very interesting and of course the inimitable chevettes - you know how much I like those.

I suggest everyone reading this post runs out into the garage, opens their bonnet and has a good long stare at the engine. Forget the tat and modify that!

this isnt really tech based forum, which is why i for one don't talk about what is happening to running gear, theres no point, its most often boring, tehres only so many turbo's and high lift cams you can talk about before it gets dull. whereas the styling behind retro cars (good or bad) is far more appealing.

(thats not to say my car is all go and no show, far from it, i started this thread as I'm buying a golf on the idea that the escort is going off to be 4 linked, turreted, coilovered and 2 litre'd ;D )