This is getting boring now...

You started this!!!!

Like a good'n you did tobes

ARRGGHHHH!!!! I DONT GET IT!!!!

99% of this thread isnt about taste, and I'm pretty sure no one is saying that people shouldnt style their cars how they want. So if I'm right, which I'm pretty sure i am, mr frauds, youre fucking the wrong daughter

I really think mclovin will E-explode if his questions arent answered, will someone off that site please answer him, for the good of this thread :-D

Think jon has actually gone on strike

He was only interested if he got to ban someone

Is this rat- its fucked, it goes like the clappers (sideways anyway)?

( i do have an unhealthy obsession with this car yes..)

THERES NO ROOFRACK FFS!!! USE YOUR COMMON SENSE BOY

I wouldn't go as far as calling that rat. Its nice though

Pacmon, what happened you you and your plans of a volvo?

iv figured it out, they are complaining because some people are calling their cars something they not. Oh no lol

were as bad as corsa or saxos having 16v badges when they 8v! lol

just read all this i feel like I'm in primary school and a kid is moaning that the person next to him has got a bigger piece of paper or something

seriously who actually cares

Irony, happens to us all, especially us that try not

Yeay, another CP thread down the shitter.

Play this thread off, keyboard cat

surely that E30 is "rat" as it is designed to work(drift) and the bodywork isnt important?

ZOMG rat look

no. thats "rat" looks distant cousin "shat" look also known as "fucked"

Edited 19 May, 200917 yr by xcore

Edited 19 May, 200917 yr by Alex

Irony, happens to us all, especially us that try not

get me

I really think mclovin will E-explode if his questions arent answered, will someone off that site please answer him, for the good of this thread :-D

i think its not that they won't answer it, more that they can't, they would rather read my posts and pretend they say some thing totally different that's easier for them to answer with some long winded winge about how people don't get it and how they are holier than thou because they are doing some thing "different"

iv figured it out, they are complaining because some people are calling their cars something they not. Oh no lol

were as bad as corsa or saxos having 16v badges when they 8v! lol

Finally!

ARRGGHHHH!!!! I DONT GET IT!!!!

Aww, there, there *pity tap on head*

*Gently shrugs head to the left with cheek rubbing shoulder and eyes looking up at you, puppy done wrong esque*

Thanks dirrt :-D

i think its not that they won't answer it, more that they can't, they would rather read my posts and pretend they say some thing totally different that's easier for them to answer with some long winded winge about how people don't get it and how they are holier than thou because they are doing some thing "different"

Tres

Edited 19 May, 200917 yr by walshc

Just had a propper look through this and it made me crease ...

How on earth do some of these people drive with cars like they are ??

I'm sure stuff must fly off there car's when they get above 60Mph ???

I'm sure the admin of this forum will appreciate how much effort goes into creating and maintaining a forum dedicated to something, as a home for other enthusiasts to roam to whenever they like, and will also appreciate how disheartening it can be to see any number of individuals coming down on it with a hammerblow such as "I can't stop 'lol'ing" and "The world's stupidest forum".

I'm saying this partly because I'm an enthusiast and a member of Rat-Look.com,

But mostly to highlight that you have publicly demonstrated how little decency you have or respect for other people's enjoyment.

i think what you guys are missing is the LOOOOOOK part - their taking parts of rat parts of this and that and creating what they want - cheers big ears

now go polish your ats classics pleeeease or you are modernlines or ripspeeds

thats the point tho, rat look cars didn't have all this crap bolted on them, when did you ever see a rat rod with a roof rack and yellow tinted head lights?

rat look is not roof racks and check paint, these are just touches added to them to give it a personal touch so when your coping this aspect of it your not actually copying the rat look. then just to ad to the stupidity of it all it gets done to a car that got good body work, therefore meaning it has nothing in common with rat look apart from a couple of trinkets hanging off it that some one once saw on a rat look car. which is fair enough (its your car you can do what you like with it and if it makes you happy then all the batter) but when you start trying to call it rat look its gonna rub people up the wrong way. you point out the LOOOOOK part of it, but that's the only part of "rat look" that can be applied to most of the cars people try so hard to pigeon hole in to the rat look genre these days.

the ratty drift cars posted up are a perfect example of this, not one of them had any of the tat stuck on them, but there still rat, why? because they have shafted body work. if your car hasn't got shafted body work then how on earth can it be rat look? no matter how many times i've asked this question in this thread no one has been able to answer it.

now while we have some of the users from that site posting in here how about you take a second to answer a question i posted earlier...

how are any of them even slightly rat look?

well?

all these pics were posted in a thread on that site asking users to post pics of rat look cars, don't get me wrong there were some pics of some sweet rats, but when you have users posting cars like this showing full blown ignorance to what the site stands for (the rat look), which unfortunately for the site makes it look like a complete joke to any body looking from the outside in.

I can see where you are coming from with some of the pics as all of the cars you posted are mint body work wise ( bar the odd rusty bonnet ) and the two with the grafitied/plaid bonnet ain't ratty at all but some of the touches used on those cars have clearly been inspired by the air cooled rat 'scene' ( hate that frickin word ! )

The thing is , most styles change and evolve over the years and this will never change ...

Hot rods started off when young pilots came back from WW2 and pulled as much off they're 32 roadsters as they could to lose weight and go faster , after a while they decided to make them try and look better too with fancy paint jobs , bigger engines , crazier mods and then they went totally nuts when the show rods of Ed Roth and the like started to appear and so on .

The same thing happened with the California look bugs which evolved from dechromed single colour cars into the wild graphic/targa top thump thump style cars which are now under the 'B289' banner . At the time they were called cal lookers even though they were something clearly different .

Things shouldn't have to conform to a rule book for style , they should be open to some interpretation and if people like different parts from different styles then what is so wrong with mixing it up a little .

Here's a few more pics which could be classed as rat look by some including touches like matt black paint , roof racks , tat , yellow fog lights , rust ( real patina and forced ) ....

The '37 ford coupe in the last pic is a fibreglass replica that's been painted to look rat including air brushed rust ( similar to the hungarian RS tuning s class merc and passat wagon ) so is it a rat look car or is it a car inspired by rat look cars ??? Who cares anyway , lifes too short to conform to rules

We appear to be missing the difference between 'rat' and 'rat-look' in this thread.