smoke Posted June 3, 2014 Report Share Posted June 3, 2014 Everyone calls that rats nest of a pickup a 'sleeper' but I don't think it really qualifies. Shitty paint and a busted up body are really not going to take my attention away from the fact that it has slicks and an idle that shakes the ground. Something like this is more along the lines of what I consider a sleeper. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD-nre2Y54Y 3 Quote Link to comment
Abe Froman Posted June 3, 2014 Report Share Posted June 3, 2014 The KCW dually, 2 Quote Link to comment
DaBlist Posted June 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 [/url] More of this one? Please. Found one more 1 Quote Link to comment
Mattndew76 Posted June 9, 2014 Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 Those 56 F100's are huge! Quote Link to comment
]2eDeYe Posted June 9, 2014 Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 My second favorite truck body behind the 620 :cool: 1 Quote Link to comment
DaBlist Posted June 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2014 Someone else's photoshops 2 Quote Link to comment
VFR800 Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 Someone else's photoshops Quote Link to comment
mrbigtanker Posted June 14, 2014 Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 Love the rubber duck on the hood, movie convoy. That looks like a 48 or 49.nice.. 1 Quote Link to comment
JoeCool Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 "I fixed up muh truck! How ya like it?" I'm sorry but that is how those half assed "rat rod" vehicles look to me. Especially seeing them at shows. With so many rides that people have spent lots of time and money on perfecting, they just throw on wheels and airbags and get in? NO! You can't just throw something together in five minutes and call it good. Now this truck is more like it! Both are pretty much the same truck. This one I know is a 1953 Chevrolet. A friend who owns a body shop built it. Spent the better part of a year fixing it up properly. It started out looking like that. He also did all the work on that green 720 I posted earlier. He will be doing the body work on my Datsun next spring, hopefully, if my broke ass can scrape up the money by then! His website: http://slr417.wix.com/atkinsauto1#!about-us Quote Link to comment
q-tip Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 Those wheels are terrible.... Quote Link to comment
smoke Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 Those wheels are terrible.... I see this sort of thing all the time. I always think that the truck was totally done by someone else and the only contribution the current owner made was wheels and tires. In other words...he had ONE job and fucked it up. 2 Quote Link to comment
q-tip Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 I blame every old guy in the early 2000's mainly boyd coddington 3 Quote Link to comment
Rhapakatui Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 "I fixed up muh truck! How ya like it?" I'm sorry but that is how those half assed "rat rod" vehicles look to me. Especially seeing them at shows. With so many rides that people have spent lots of time and money on perfecting, they just throw on wheels and airbags and get in? NO! You can't just throw something together in five minutes and call it good. Now this truck is more like it! Both are pretty much the same truck. This one I know is a 1953 Chevrolet. Look again. The devil's in the details. The "half assed" truck has some seriously neatly done mods hiding in every pic. I'd wager even the paint has more time in it than the truck you posted. I agree a lot of the time. Some of the Rat Rods that I've seen are very much half assed. This just ain't one. 2 Quote Link to comment
smoke Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 I blame every old guy in the early 2000's mainly boyd coddington That fucker needed beat. 1 Quote Link to comment
JoeCool Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 Look again. The devil's in the details. The "half assed" truck has some seriously neatly done mods hiding in every pic. I'd wager even the paint has more time in it than the truck you posted. I agree a lot of the time. Some of the Rat Rods that I've seen are very much half assed. This just ain't one. I highly doubt that. Maybe the paint has more time aging! And I see no "details" except for new wheels and tires. To each his own I guess... :confused: Quote Link to comment
smoke Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 Here is the thing, some guys actually fake that old beat rusted paint (not kidding) and for it to look real, they spend A LOT of time doing it. I prefer to make my stuff shitty the old fashion way of having no money to fix it. 4 Quote Link to comment
Rhapakatui Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 And if you modify it at all with that Old beat look, either it stands out like a sore thumb, or you have to camouflage it. I'm pretty sure MOST of that truck got it's look naturally, but I think there are some touches that were added by the builder and then blended in with the rest. Quote Link to comment
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