#Rat fink hot rods full
When he arrived at Goodguys in his unpainted Ford tub, everyone at the show was starring in amazement with their jaws to the floor! They couldn’t believe that this unfinished hot rod had just driven up and entered a show full of chrome and high-dollar pro street cars. For the interior he just threw in an old bench for a front seat (no back seat) and drove the tub unpainted to the 1987 Goodguys West Coast Nationals.Īll of the high-dollar cars that dominated the car shows inspired Jake Jacobs from Pete & Jakes Hot Rods (the guys who built the California Kid Ford) to take a bunch of old parts such as a '32 Ford Frame, a '28 Ford two door sedan body and a few others to build a hot rod tub out of them. The tub was powered by a hopped up small-block Chevy that was hooked up to a 1939 Ford 3-speed transmission. He then put a chopped windshield above the dashboard and a ’32 Ford grille on the front of the car. Jake combined he Deuce frame and put the Model A Sedan body and he removed the roof. Many owners were now spending 5- and 6-figures to turn their old ’68 Chevelles and Camaros into chromed out, trailer queen show cars with zero functionality.Īll of these trailer queen, chromed, high-dollar cars that dominated the car shows inspired Jim “Jake” Jacobs from Pete & Jakes Hot Rods (the guys who built the California Kid Ford) to take a bunch of old parts such as a ’32 Ford Frame, a ’28 Ford two door sedan body and a few others to build a hot rod tub out of them. The worst part of it was, besides for not being driven, none of these Pro Street cars were affordable to the average gearhead.
The whole idea of having a Pro Stock car for the road turned into having an exaggerated looking wannabe drag car. However, par for the course, some took it too far and what started out as something cool, fun and unique ended up becoming a parody of itself by the late 1980s.īy 1987 most of the Pro Street cars were now trailered to shows, never driven on the street, had insanely unnecessary oversized rear tires, and lots of chrome and blowers on stock internal motors. However by the early ’80s it evolved into Pro Street which is when gearheads started building cars that were meant to look like a Pro Stock car for the road. Pro Street started out in the late ’70s, known as Street Machines, which were modified street and strip cars. Yeah, there was a lot going on, and back in 1987 the hot rod world was dominated by a trend that was known as Pro Street. The late ’80s was a crazy time when Guns ‘N Roses, Hair Metal, U2, and Michael Jackson were playing on the radio, a time when Vin Scully was calling baseball games on Saturday nights, a time when John Elway, Dan Marino, and Joe Montana were dominating the NFL as the best quarterbacks in history while former quarterback Dan Pastorini was racing Top Fuel against Don Garlits. The history of “modern day” rat rodding really began back in the late 1980s. Rat Rods have actually evolved over the years and have gone through several different changes and phases, and many of todays examples are both some of the best and some of the worst we’ve seen. When the rat rod movement began it started out being closer to the traditional hot rod movement that exists today.īut the question remains “If Rat Rods weren’t always how they were today, how did they become that way?” In order to find out why rat rods have become the exaggerated and thrown together cars they are today, we have to look back at the history and the beginning of rat rods. However, rat rods weren’t always these poorly built junkyards on wheels. Ask the average gearhead what a “rat rod” is and they will tell you it is a pile of junk on wheels. By highly exaggerated jalopies, we mean cars that are built to look poorly done on purpose, usually thrown together from old junk parts, and are usually poorly constructed as well as being built with little regard for safety. In the last decade the largest craze in the hot rod world has been a very interesting trend known to many as “ Rat Rods.” The hot rods that are built in this particular fashion are commonly known for being highly exaggerated versions of 1950’s style Jaloply hot rods.
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