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.