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.