VenomTruck
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Ive seen quite a few rat rods, this is not one of them.
You ruined a 10. Shame on you.
Hmmmm, not feeling that at all, but to each his own. My opinion is you should be able to walk up to a vehicle and regardless of theme, know what it is by visual appearence. If someone said that truck had a theme, Ratrod would be one of my last choices. Not being mean here, just my 2c. I would have said it looks like a truck for a movie where the world ends and they found that and limped home to safety.
Off the top of my head, if I were to build a "RATRAM" I would have done the basics: flat black, mixed a few body panels, slammed, white wall tyres, no tonnaeu cover, chopped a few items, removed stuff like mirrors, fog lights, no hood, bright red engine bay, huge header pipes out the front guards and made it more tasteful. That'd be a good start. I kinda wish you started with less of a mint truck.
Below is what I would do (crap photoshop) but it's where I'd start. I had to use The Batram as a base platform. It was hard to "dull" the paint job and do exactly what I wanted but if I were to build a Ratrod theme, it's what I'd do. It's not perfect but this was all done in 30 minutes and given the time I feel I could do it a little more justice than the photo below, but, you get where my theme would head.
Once again, no hard feelings, this is just one guys opinion and where all entitled to one. Main thing is YOU enjoy it. :burnout:
I was holding my comments, but you asked, so here it is. I really don't like it. Okay, my rant is over, and many will not agree with me.
I was holding my comments, but you asked, so here it is.
You just flushed $20 plus thousand dollars down the toilet. I hope there is no loan on this vehicle because it is now totaled. Many modifications can be returned to stock, this obviously can not. This is an irresponsible waste of resources. I know it is your truck, and you are free to do with it anything you want, but this is irresponsible. If you had Powerball money and set fire to it for your own entertainment, that would be as tasteless as this.
Understand, there were options if this was your desired result, you could have purchased a vehicle with the "patina" you were looking for and did a drive-train swap easier, and not trashed a nice truck. AND would have had a REAL Rat rod, not a piece of junk truck.
Okay, my rant is over, and many will not agree with me.
I was holding my comments, but you asked, so here it is.
You just flushed $20 plus thousand dollars down the toilet. I hope there is no loan on this vehicle because it is now totaled. Many modifications can be returned to stock, this obviously can not. This is an irresponsible waste of resources. I know it is your truck, and you are free to do with it anything you want, but this is irresponsible. If you had Powerball money and set fire to it for your own entertainment, that would be as tasteless as this.
Understand, there were options if this was your desired result, you could have purchased a vehicle with the "patina" you were looking for and did a drive-train swap easier, and not trashed a nice truck. AND would have had a REAL Rat rod, not a piece of junk truck.
Okay, my rant is over, and many will not agree with me.