The term "rat rod" never really had a specific definition – with many people thinking they can just add some patina or flat black to an old car and have a rat rod.
We'll never know exactly what a rat rod is, but the car youre about to see is the machine that all so-called rat rods should strive to be. Whether it's a "rat rod", "suicide rod", or something else, it's one of the wildest four-wheeled contraptions I've ever seen.
Does this car look familiar to you? It actually has quite a history, appearing in various forms over the years.
If what I read is correct, than this car is actually owned by Indy Car star Paul Tracy, who's a resident of Vegas. This would explain while the car was parked in the valet area outside of the Orleans Hotel during Viva Las Vegas.
Whatever the story is…the car is positively nuts.
On a lot of hot rods you can identify the different parts used, and what kind of car they came off. Here I'm not so sure…
Over the course of its life the car has had many types of wheels mounted to it, but the current ET mags with retro style Firestones seem to suit it best.
Here's a view of the interior. Gotta love the "dump" switch. The only problem is how the hell do you get in there?
I suppose you can contort yourself into the car through the doors, or possibly through this hatch built into the wood plank roof?
Whatever the case, if you can squeeze into an open-wheel car like Paul Tracy, it shouldn't be a problem.
In this picture you can see the slot for the rear-mounted radiator.
In the background of this photo you can see the reactions of a few Orleans Casino patrons. I can't even imagine the looks you'd get driving this thing on the street.
If you want to read more on this ridiculous machine, you can find a lengthy history here.
-Mike Garrett
OFFICIAL SPEEDHUNTERS SUPPLIERS
Looks like the intake and the exhaust pipes are one, as if the air comes in and goes out through the same pipe :))
Holy blindspots Batman!
ok thats just nuts
damn SICK!!! love it hell !!!
Saw that car last year at Viva for the first time. Was definitely my favorite car of the show, glad to see it get a feature!
WOAW.....this monster is sick
imagine myself driving this beast where i live......i would be breaking necks lol
Ugly as sin. Why waste so much prescious vintage metal to create a car that looks as if it's been through Judgment Day? You can call me a purist, but I'd take a traditional 50's style hot rod over this any day...
cool , nice car
Absolute monster.
Sick.
thats Dope. I will take 1 please
I'm amazed that this is street legal!
PINCHE CABRON hahaha this thing is sick....
wow, what a ridiculous car. I love it
Ya, the escape hatch must also be the entrance. Those wheels are A-Mazing! What a cool car.
lol. "PINCHE CABRON"
lol. "PINCHE CABRON"
OH MY
I don't like Paul Tracy but this is INSANE !!!
Need some ballz to build $hit like this and actually roll this $hit on the street. Give this creator/owner 2 thumbs up for going beyond the norm!
While I LOVE the way this monster looks, there's a mix of shoddy-rusty-ratty parts mixed in with shiny top-notch parts and fabrication. That kind of takes away from the charm.
Talk about visually arresting....maybe more like visually imprisoning, I can't stop looking at it. May be the most attitude I've ever seen on a car.
God that's really ugly.. I mean really that's thing is not cool. I'm sure most of the band wagon kids on here are going to say "sick, rad," car...
Ugly - eye of the beholder, Prescious - not the passenger side rocker. But I'm sure the lump is hemiroidal.
aWesome!!! pinche CAbron jaja, mexican slang, thats funny, cool machine
I absolutely love this car.. It has so much character its not even funny.. There is a vid some where showing how he gets in and then drives it around.. crazy
The grille and hood look to be from a 1937 ford passenger car.
Desktop of pic 1 would be sick!!!!!!! Awesome car, a true rat rod!
This is too much ... Can someone actually sit in there ???
"normal" rat rod are way radical, but this ...
xD
Low, noisy, stupid ;P
<3 that shit!!!
I remember stepping out of the Orleans all buzzed and seeing this rat out by the valet.
Desktop please.!
At first I thought "Psshh, I'd take 'Little Boy' over this any day.." But now, I'm kind of fallin gin love with this!
How do you see?
can't wait to have a p.o.s of my own on speedhunters! sorry just too many rat rods now a days, someone call pest control.
How in the blazes do you reach the kill switch with the steering wheel fitted? Love how crazy it is, but overall I'm not that taken by it. Love to have a closer look at the suspension, any pics of the seats and underside of the roof?
Trust an Indy driver to have another ride with an open wheeler seating position!
4th pic, the girl with the purple purse, more of her.
real 'rat rods' are just unfinished hot rods. this is extreme 'rat rod style'. totally wild nonetheless
This is a car the people would hate
That is why I want one or maybe 2
desktop!!!!!
to cool for school,,,,
One of the lowest cars I have seen to scrape the ground!
yes, more pics of that girl!
Jaw: firmly affixed to the floor of the unit below me. insane!
Jaw: firmly affixed to the floor of the unit below me. insane!
thats aewsome!!! it's hip height
Must be one short dude...
Wicked!
That is insanely sik! Dunno if I'd ever want to own/make one, but def. eye candy. Kinda looks like Vangouh rose from the dead just to design this piece of art.
That car is pure evil, and I love it.
i wish to see the oner in the car .......
how would you drive that thing when the exhaust dumps a foot away from your face!
besides dodging flames what about the noise?
you'd be deaf