it is the frist english bloke, I have have seen, that like US-made car. It is nice to see. And I'm from Denmark and here is American-car starting to get as in Sweden, many pepole are starting to buy and restore, simply becures, They are nice cars to own and drive.
youve just gotta love the 1932 for model B ours is a beast. 283 full race chevy block bore out to a 302 with powerflow side exit 3.5inch bore exhaust. sounds beautiful :)
Because... Vintage cars should be preserved for future generations. Take this,You Buying a Vintage car and puttin a V8 in it is the same as me Buyin the Mona Lisa and putting a mustache on it. Fifth gear is a knock of top gear,like Athoutz said. The creator of this clip is encouraging Hot rodding.
we also adore rods, tri-Chevies, gassers, leadsleds... we in the UK kicked off the whole rat rod thing in the mid 1980s - something many people don't seem to realise. Check out the British mags like Custom Car and Classic American, we're just as into the old American car scene as anyone else in the world.
I don't recall ZZ Top ever having a deuce. The orange 3 window is a 33 model 40. If you've never built your own rod,you're really missing out on the most fun thing in the automotive hobby/sport/obsession.
@Raceboy65 I can assure you the first car they show as soon as the music changes (32 Model B with red wheels) is as close as you're going to get to a modern rat rod. Was bought from a scrap dealer in the states, moved over here and everything on it was begged borrowed and stolen from various scrap places or old builds, and if he couldn't find the part, he made it himself. Built by a man named Paul Hobby. Since this shoot it's now running without the wings and with a heavy chop.
I do agree with you, i am british and alot of people here do slate american cars, i have been guilty of this as i dont like some but hot rod's and american muscle in my opinion are unbeatable! i love them! just wish i could afford one over here
@renewer yup they are narrow,,,unless you get one modified to be wider...mine i cut it in half with a sawsall then rewelded it back together 6 " wider than origional.
If you Look on the HAMB/Jolapy Journal you can see that there are many people who bought Fully original and unmolested Cars and parted the chassis out,etc.I don't mind the people who make hot/rat rods out of bodies hauled out of fields as long as it was something a restorer wouldn't look twice at.
@GIwillo I think what he means is that particular 33-34 coupe that ZZ top used it in their video was so cool that after the video it became famous...just like the Graffiti Coupe in American Graffiti is famous...
because hotrodding is the father of all sports cars. hot rodding is cool and its traditonal and its not like we are taking perfectly restore cars and cutting them up were taking the rusted out bodies that have been forgotten and turned them into something to make our hot rodding forefathers proud.
my hot rod will be a rat rod when it is finished...mostly because my budget says so...i have $20 bucks a week to put towards my car..I have spent $2300 so far and the rolling chassis is just about donewith engine tranny all in.body work will start soon...it is a 1931 5 window coupe studebaker with parts from anything i could find..and I love it dearly
I love hot rods! But I prefer an hotrod look with better aerodynamic and morden tecnology, like the Plymouth Prowler for example. Very nice episode of Fifth Gear!
the origanal rat rods were cars that were being driven while being still worked on whats more important the ability to drive it into town or having the body fixed up, so its a simple thing get your car operational and use it becuse cars are ment to be used... then while you have a working car you can spend so much money and time a week till you get it to were you want it... The term Rat Rod is a slap in the face to many Hot Roders, and the intention of making somthing to look old and shaby is...
I think what you're missing is that they aren't designed to be super efficient like German cars, but more as an artistic expression of the individual who built it. You can buy a badass RS4 or maybe an M5 and have it tear shit up straight from the factory, but you only get a rod through bloody knuckles, sweat and love. Art is subjective, homie.
mongo 5888, I thought that was a reply, nice to see you have my car on film as one of your favourites, my car is a real American 32 thanks, but hey fat boy distance and tragedy are a perfect recipe for humour.
i have a car similar to 0:50, but i dont have all the fenders but im pretty close to having it looking like that soon, im not gonna pretty it up just patch the metal work and then drive it, that is the only reason i bought my car was to fix it up little by little and drive it but no one understands these cars are not meant to be shiny, maybe if you put $20,000 into it you will have a untouchable car as in dont touch or go near my car, these cars are meant to be semi safe and have power.
i take on the opinion that if YOU built the car the way YOU want it and YOU as the owner/operator/maintainer like the vehicle then good! Getting hung up on class labels has been then death of the hot rodding spirit. i have a 1950 plymouth "rat rod". i enjoy it, if you dont, too bad. see you at the finish line.
what i find funny about this is that im an american and besides the 50's pick up i want to build id really verry much love to build a volvo PV544 or a TP21(sugga)
Same here. The shows i go to, every single one of the cars are driven there. Some of them aren't even street legal (more dragster than car). I was just saying, just because it has paint and chrome" doesn't mean it doesn't get driven every day, and is owned by some rich hot rodder wannabe. And doesn't mean it was professionally built. There are some rat rods there, but not many, and NO one there is rich. They're all just working men like me.
duce is becuse of being a '32 ford not a modle B... meny people say "look a rat rod" but odds are your asking for the owner to kick you in the nuts, most likly its a HOT ROD hot rods are made to be driven and lots of guys drive them around as the work on them
and now you can buy a 33 ford kit that handles like a porsche and at 2500 lbs will blow the doors off anything,complete with everything, you supply motor ,trans mission and paint,thats it,all for 20,000 US dollars.Factory Five is the company
''For a car like this, i ques your looking 40 up'' Yeah if you want to built it from fiberglas, original Henry Ford steel body Deuce, will cost 80-200.000$.
you aint kidding..I could use the ss checks for gas..(see my video) its slow..but so far i got a rollin chassis and the engine is running. the major work now is getting the body roadworthy..ps I'll be 60 in 4 months..yikes!!
Personally, I don't think that it matters, because you mostly don't use a hot rod as a daily. For only driving a few miles a year, the fuel cost won't be worse than the cost for any other hobby.
I wasn't talking about straight line speed, that's a very AMERICAN attitude towards performance, isn't it? I just don't understand why you have to hate on hotrods and use your appreciation of Euros as a reason. I'd respect your opinion if you just didn't like the hotrod style, but saying you don't like them because they aren't as refined or well-built as a German sports sedan makes about as much sense as something like "I hate watermelons because they don't float".
Wow1 First time I saw a British automobile program on American cars where someone didn't screw up the history or start belittling them. Take, for example, a 1959 Desoto....usually the Brits will call them "Yank Tanks" and then start saying how an Austin A40 is better. Just ribbing you guys! However, he did screw up...ZZ Top didn't promote a 1932 Ford....they had a 1934 Ford as Eliminator.
thats what they've become, but not what they started out as. it used to be an excuse to save a car from rotting in a field. take a rusty old body, slap a running engine in it and roll! the "rat rod: scean gets alot of crap from people these days, but it was started with good intentions.
"ZZ Top made famous?" Guess he never heard of the Beach Boys!!! Every other country is USA's critic... and at the same time they are clamering for any bit of Americana.
to be honest hotrodding is to modify any car for performance.... if you grab a 50's hotrodder that remained in coma for 50 years without getting older I'm sure he would end up as a tuner, since they were using the beste technology they had at hande those days, not steam engines.
i wouldn't call a purpose build "rat rod" a real rat rod, its just the rat look, you can make any car have a rat look but a real rat is made from the scraps people dig up from a tip
Rat rod and traditional rod DO NOT mean the same thing, and I certainly didn't see a rat rod in this video. Rat rods are rusty, cobbled together art cars. A little rust or patina, some unfinished welds, or a Mexican blanket does not make a rat rod. If someone ever called my traditional rod a rat rod I'd be tempted to break their nose.
I used to own the rusty car that is in this video, just for the record, it is you yanks that think you know it all, that car is a hot rod not a rat rod, a rat rod is a piece of crap that should not be on the road. Also the term rat rod was coigned over here, not over there, quite a time before you lot caught on to the idea.
Great video, Love street rods.
Best quality ever!
it is the frist english bloke, I have have seen, that like US-made car.
It is nice to see.
And I'm from Denmark and here is American-car starting to get as in Sweden, many pepole are starting to buy and restore, simply becures, They are nice cars to own and drive.
Love the video.
I LOOOOOOVE HOT RODS!
youve just gotta love the 1932 for model B ours is a beast. 283 full race chevy block bore out to a 302 with powerflow side exit 3.5inch bore exhaust. sounds beautiful :)
Because...
Vintage cars should be preserved for future generations.
Take this,You Buying a Vintage car and puttin a V8 in it is the same as me Buyin the Mona Lisa and putting a mustache on it.
Fifth gear is a knock of top gear,like Athoutz said.
The creator of this clip is encouraging Hot rodding.
nice car. love it.
we also adore rods, tri-Chevies, gassers, leadsleds... we in the UK kicked off the whole rat rod thing in the mid 1980s - something many people don't seem to realise.
Check out the British mags like Custom Car and Classic American, we're just as into the old American car scene as anyone else in the world.
I don't recall ZZ Top ever having a deuce. The orange 3 window is a 33 model 40. If you've never built your own rod,you're really missing out on the most fun thing in the automotive hobby/sport/obsession.
wow love...!!!!
nice ride when i grow up ill buy the coolest one,black coulor yellow flames
@Raceboy65 I can assure you the first car they show as soon as the music changes (32 Model B with red wheels) is as close as you're going to get to a modern rat rod. Was bought from a scrap dealer in the states, moved over here and everything on it was begged borrowed and stolen from various scrap places or old builds, and if he couldn't find the part, he made it himself. Built by a man named Paul Hobby. Since this shoot it's now running without the wings and with a heavy chop.
Best cars EVER!
real hot rod never die..
The so called Rat Rod or Traditional Rod has bee popular again since 92.
Were the hell have you been !
@johncartelli rolling chasses means body and frame without engine/trans. Good luck with the project!
The jalopy "rat rod" scene was started in England back in the 80s by a club called the Low Flyers so I've been led to believe.
I do agree with you, i am british and alot of people here do slate american cars, i have been guilty of this as i dont like some but hot rod's and american muscle in my opinion are unbeatable! i love them! just wish i could afford one over here
I like em. Individuality does it for me every time.
@renewer yup they are narrow,,,unless you get one modified to be wider...mine i cut it in half with a sawsall then rewelded it back together 6 " wider than origional.
If you Look on the HAMB/Jolapy Journal you can see that there are many people who bought Fully original and unmolested Cars and parted the chassis out,etc.I don't mind the people who make hot/rat rods out of bodies hauled out of fields as long as it was something a restorer wouldn't look twice at.
It's a great car !_!
@GIwillo I think what he means is that particular 33-34 coupe that ZZ top used it in their video was so cool that after the video it became famous...just like the Graffiti Coupe in American Graffiti is famous...
"what happens if it rains?"
"cry first"
lol
because hotrodding is the father of all sports cars. hot rodding is cool and its traditonal and its not like we are taking perfectly restore cars and cutting them up were taking the rusted out bodies that have been forgotten and turned them into something to make our hot rodding forefathers proud.
my hot rod will be a rat rod when it is finished...mostly because my budget says so...i have $20 bucks a week to put towards my car..I have spent $2300 so far and the rolling chassis is just about donewith engine tranny all in.body work will start soon...it is a 1931 5 window coupe studebaker with parts from anything i could find..and I love it dearly
I saw this guy on Top Gear once
The Vicky body style is the best.
Brother I was wondering the same thing... I am building a 43 Chevy truck but my last build was a 72 Ford bronco Windsor 351
I love hot rods! But I prefer an hotrod look with better aerodynamic and morden tecnology, like the Plymouth Prowler for example. Very nice episode of Fifth Gear!
ur goddamn right!
@ChrisJackass1995 Depends on what exactly you want. What kind of ride you thinking about?
the origanal rat rods were cars that were being driven while being still worked on whats more important the ability to drive it into town or having the body fixed up, so its a simple thing get your car operational and use it becuse cars are ment to be used... then while you have a working car you can spend so much money and time a week till you get it to were you want it... The term Rat Rod is a slap in the face to many Hot Roders, and the intention of making somthing to look old and shaby is...
I think what you're missing is that they aren't designed to be super efficient like German cars, but more as an artistic expression of the individual who built it.
You can buy a badass RS4 or maybe an M5 and have it tear shit up straight from the factory, but you only get a rod through bloody knuckles, sweat and love.
Art is subjective, homie.
no they hate the cars we made in the late 70's all the way up to like a year ago...
challengers and camero's are adored in Europe
I know the two are separate. I only meant the two styles of hot rods were
Brought back then.
@johncartelli And where did you get the chasse from?
I like the red car at the background in 3:00 :>
mongo 5888, I thought that was a reply, nice to see you have my car on film as one of your favourites, my car is a real American 32 thanks, but hey fat boy distance and tragedy are a perfect recipe for humour.
@Kneedeepingore Nekroguitar's saying the car was already famous and popular before zz top had them in their music videos
i have a car similar to 0:50, but i dont have all the fenders but im pretty close to having it looking like that soon, im not gonna pretty it up just patch the metal work and then drive it, that is the only reason i bought my car was to fix it up little by little and drive it but no one understands these cars are not meant to be shiny, maybe if you put $20,000 into it you will have a untouchable car as in dont touch or go near my car, these cars are meant to be semi safe and have power.
i take on the opinion that if YOU built the car the way YOU want it and YOU as the owner/operator/maintainer like the vehicle then good! Getting hung up on class labels has been then death of the hot rodding spirit. i have a 1950 plymouth "rat rod". i enjoy it, if you dont, too bad. see you at the finish line.
what i find funny about this is that im an american and besides the 50's pick up i want to build id really verry much love to build a volvo PV544 or a TP21(sugga)
american cars best ever!!
got a 29 Model A
the best car right now is probably that tata nano. fucking great engine there.
Same here. The shows i go to, every single one of the cars are driven there. Some of them aren't even street legal (more dragster than car). I was just saying, just because it has paint and chrome" doesn't mean it doesn't get driven every day, and is owned by some rich hot rodder wannabe. And doesn't mean it was professionally built. There are some rat rods there, but not many, and NO one there is rich. They're all just working men like me.
@renewer... its not finished ...but look at my video the walk around one...it shows the vehicle pretty good...
and people say american cars suck i would prefer a old hotrod/ratrod over a super car anyday infact i am building my own in my own garage
duce is becuse of being a '32 ford not a modle B... meny people say "look a rat rod" but odds are your asking for the owner to kick you in the nuts, most likly its a HOT ROD hot rods are made to be driven and lots of guys drive them around as the work on them
you can buy it here, right on your doorstep,
and what about germany? ;D
@ChrisJackass1995 I will pm you since it wont let me put a link in here.
and now you can buy a 33 ford kit that handles like a porsche and at 2500 lbs will blow the doors off anything,complete with everything, you supply motor ,trans mission and paint,thats it,all for 20,000 US dollars.Factory Five is the company
FORD es la LEY
trailer queen hot rods = yes
rat rods = :l
hot rods that are actually driven = hell yes
and whats better than buy one...building one
2:30 is so illegal in the uk now thts the problem he is rolling with out fenders
pans will go to laundry
Why does everyone insist on putting chevy junk in these beautiful old Ford's?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? I would Love to put a Ford 351 in a '69 Camode. :P
and @ 0:51
If you don't see art in a Bugatti T57 Atlantique or a tulip wood bodied Isotta Fraschini then you probably don't see art anywhere.
@31Roadsterford right now on ebay steel 32 5 window for $36k
Renault Grand Espace V6 and Audi S5
''For a car like this, i ques your looking 40 up'' Yeah if you want to built it from fiberglas, original Henry Ford steel body Deuce, will cost 80-200.000$.
a black book or.... x'D
you aint kidding..I could use the ss checks for gas..(see my video) its slow..but so far i got a rollin chassis and the engine is running. the major work now is getting the body roadworthy..ps I'll be 60 in 4 months..yikes!!
What car do you mean "buying someone else's hot rod isn't quite hot rodding"???
I'm guessing you've done that or you wouldn't have to ask.
@Nekroguitar they made it famous, it didn't make them famous...
Your funny
American Graffiti perhaps?
probably because they want it to run reliably.
the corvette is american and is a great car ...
Personally, I don't think that it matters, because you mostly don't use a hot rod as a daily. For only driving a few miles a year, the fuel cost won't be worse than the cost for any other hobby.
My rims @0:47
Goddam you're angry. Mommy never hug you as child?
I wasn't talking about straight line speed, that's a very AMERICAN attitude towards performance, isn't it?
I just don't understand why you have to hate on hotrods and use your appreciation of Euros as a reason. I'd respect your opinion if you just didn't like the hotrod style, but saying you don't like them because they aren't as refined or well-built as a German sports sedan makes about as much sense as something like "I hate watermelons because they don't float".
@CrimsonSkin given to me for free..
Wow1 First time I saw a British automobile program on American cars where someone didn't screw up the history or start belittling them.
Take, for example, a 1959 Desoto....usually the Brits will call them "Yank Tanks" and then start saying how an Austin A40 is better.
Just ribbing you guys!
However, he did screw up...ZZ Top didn't promote a 1932 Ford....they had a 1934 Ford as Eliminator.
they didnt build them as ratrods in the 40s they just didnt bother with paint and other accessories they just spent all there money on the engine.
you realize that rat rodding has been around since the 50s right?
'muhrica...
ive read the the purist hot rod groups don't like the term rat rod and claim those are the core style of hot rods, educate me
thats what they've become, but not what they started out as. it used to be an excuse to save a car from rotting in a field. take a rusty old body, slap a running engine in it and roll! the "rat rod: scean gets alot of crap from people these days, but it was started with good intentions.
I think hotrods are ugly because of all that shiny chrome and polishing. But ratrods are cool!
"ZZ Top made famous?" Guess he never heard of the Beach Boys!!!
Every other country is USA's critic... and at the same time they are clamering for any bit of Americana.
Those are street rods, not hot rods.
to be honest hotrodding is to modify any car for performance.... if you grab a 50's hotrodder that remained in coma for 50 years without getting older I'm sure he would end up as a tuner, since they were using the beste technology they had at hande those days, not steam engines.
i wouldn't call a purpose build "rat rod" a real rat rod, its just the rat look, you can make any car have a rat look but a real rat is made from the scraps people dig up from a tip
Rat rod and traditional rod DO NOT mean the same thing, and I certainly didn't see a rat rod in this video. Rat rods are rusty, cobbled together art cars. A little rust or patina, some unfinished welds, or a Mexican blanket does not make a rat rod. If someone ever called my traditional rod a rat rod I'd be tempted to break their nose.
Or buy some english tin and make your own Rod
well this car was made before american car turn sucks...lol now us of a make junks mainly
Fuckin adverts...
ok.............. why?
I hate a chevy motor in a ford a real hot rod is a ford and a flat head v8 ford now that is a real hot rod
I used to own the rusty car that is in this video, just for the record, it is you yanks that think you know it all, that car is a hot rod not a rat rod, a rat rod is a piece of crap that should not be on the road. Also the term rat rod was coigned over here, not over there, quite a time before you lot caught on to the idea.
Yup, you can buy one there alright...but it's still not a real American deuce.
spell much?
Usual mis-informed TV fodder...i dred to arsk ow much it cost
When talking about Hot or Rat rods; Don't say chic.