David S. Wallens wrote:kreb wrote: One of the things that holds me back IRT rods like this are what I assume to be really heavy rotating mass and the effect it must have on handling and breaking. Any guess what those wheel/tire combos weigh?Total guess, but I'm figuring that styles comes a little before performance. So, who's going to be the first one to do a Challenge car like this?
Really?!?
True. But I'm thinking a little newer body.
In reply to David S. Wallens:
They made them until what, 2008?!? 
I still can't believe that used to be a VW.
i haven't seen a single flathead in this thread.. .also, no one dressed like an extra from the rumble scene in "The West Side Story"...
moparman76_69 wrote: I have a rusty omni and a dakota. Someone talk me down, I don't want a divorce.
photoshop it, so we can tell you what a good idea it is
I see some of you guys are debating whether you can get these things registered....doesn't matter, even if you could you're still going to get pulled over every 10 minutes by the police....
plance1 wrote: I see some of you guys are debating whether you can get these things registered....doesn't matter, even if you could you're still going to get pulled over every 10 minutes by the police....
I have to ask - where do you live? Where I am if the thing has lights and up to date tags, you're golden. I know someone who's been commuting for years in a radical rat rod.
these cars kinda remind me of tour modifieds.
Yup, FL passed the SEMA SAN drafted bill (without modifying and creating a nightmare as was done in MA.) A quick summary:
Importantly, kit cars and replica vehicles will be assigned a certificate of title bearing the same model-year designation as the production vehicle they most closely resemble. Florida joins Arkansas, Virginia, Nevada, Washington, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Missouri, Montana and Rhode Island as states that have enacted similar bills into law. The new law allows for the use of non-original materials, provides for special license plates and permits the use of blue-dot taillights. In addition, the measure exempts street rods and customs from a range of standard equipment requirements and emissions controls (only that equipment required in the model year that the vehicle resembles).
Translation: in this state you can throw a bunch of washing machines onto a chassis, call it a 1930s car, and register it. You would not even need seat belts or emissions equipment, since that stuff was not around in the 1930s.
I like most of the cars in this thread. Yes. I have problems.
Swank Force One wrote: Similar treatment.
That looks like it might actually function. 
ransom wrote: In reply to Swank Force One: Oh, I see how it is. This is just going to be a list of my favorite old German cars cut up and turned into rat rods...
bravenrace wrote:Javelin wrote:I am shocked an dismayed at how much I like that.
Now thats a nice dog!
How far? - over the hill, and down in the valley.
Okay, I've seen several of these car body on truck chassis vehicles, and it seems to me that they should have a name other than rat rod. Do they? If not, does anyone else thing they should? And if you were going to build something like this from a '78 Chevy CC dually chassis, what body would you put on it? Because while I'm seriously thinking about building something like this, I am fully aware that it could turn out to be awesome or hideous. So I'm now accepting suggestions.
Javelin wrote:
Some of these I like ("BMW"), but this one is so bad even the dog refuses to look at it...
These remind me of the old throw-a-litte-car-body-on-a-4X4-chassis kind of thing. Some work, some don't (for me).
Prbly, not the answer you are looking for, but I'd do a truck, on your truck frame.....
In reply to Gasoline:
That was actually my first idea, but around here usable classic truck bodies are priced like gold. I need to do this on a budget. I'd be willing to spend a total of $2k to do it...but I'd like to spend a lot less than that. Plus it's a crew cab, which means it's about 22 feet long...
How do you drive the 911 thing? Look at the frame rail, unless you've got a butt crack deeper than the grand canyon I don't see how you can actually sit in that car. I've extended the upper edge of the frame rail in this pic. What gives?
In reply to Adrian_Thompson:
Never mind that, look at the ground clearance.
bravenrace wrote: Because while I'm seriously thinking about building something like this, I am fully aware that it could turn out to be awesome or hideous. So I'm now accepting suggestions.
I can see me driving that to work, cavity search time.
Gasoline wrote: How far? - over the hill, and down in the valley.
In reply to JoeyM:
What would I do with the other 20 feet of chassis?
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