A duragatory term used by goldchainers, or chainers who dislike the unfinished look. Often confused with traditional hot rod, or real
hot rods. Real
hot rods are function over form, rat rods are form over function.
The rat rod trend has birthed a new type of rat rod in which you can take any
car, be it a
Civic, chevy
S-10, 55 Belair, hell it could be the moon rover, but if its painted in flat black and has red wheels its a rat rod.
Peple whp paint thier cars in rat rod form are foten trendists who
will move on to the next popular thing when it comes, leaving lots of nice iron for the real hotrodders like me.
Rat rodder has a flat black '89 s-10, while a real hot rodder like me would have, say a '50 Pontiac with
chrome steelies
wrapped in whitewals, and. and a goldenrod fade
paint job.