Pictures of decently Modified cars [Vol. 2]
Discussion
Crafty_ said:
quite, but it was always a stupid idea and some of the cars are downright dangerous.
Imagine how neat that car would be if all the mechanicals are gone through, new glass and a dead straight black paint job.
Rat look cars have been around for a lot longer than the ten years mentioned earlier. Lots of people like it and there's no reason that a car should be mechanically unsound just because the paint is shabby.Imagine how neat that car would be if all the mechanicals are gone through, new glass and a dead straight black paint job.
Lots of car people will happily talk the hind leg off a donkey on the subject of patina, while others will rebuild a car to better-than-new with no regard whatever to its previous history. The rat look is just another way of doing things, a cheap way at that, and of course the car can always be done up in the future if the owner likes.
I can appreciate a well thought out and executed car or motorcycle from pretty much any school of modification and derive pleasure from doing so. Perhaps you can too.
rohrl said:
I can appreciate a well thought out and executed car or motorcycle from pretty much any school of modification and derive pleasure from doing so. Perhaps you can too.
Yep I can, but there are a large proportion that aren't well executed, poor welds, bad geometry, binding suspension, dangerous bodywork...Doesn't look modified at all to me. It doesn't look cared for at all. I know that's kind of the point of rat look. But then, I don't "get" rat look. I wouldn't drive around in a car that looks like it came out of a barn this morning, and I simply cannot understand why someone would expend effort and energy to actually MAKE it look that way.
Whilst I don't like the "stance" scene, I can kind of see why people do it. This ... just leaves me scratching my head and hoping someone with sense rescues the cars and restores them.
Whilst I don't like the "stance" scene, I can kind of see why people do it. This ... just leaves me scratching my head and hoping someone with sense rescues the cars and restores them.
Marf said:
So much want 
Anyone feeling incredibly generous with £14,000 laying around that they don't want that can be donated to me?
You'll never get if you don't ask
.That Celica is outstanding!! There are times like this that I wish I really had the balls to go out and buy such a special car!!
As for the RAT..............................I think it looks s
t but I guess thats how it is supposed to look, but can someone explain how it has been decently modified??
What's been done to it then? Genuine question by the way......................
As for the RAT..............................I think it looks s
t but I guess thats how it is supposed to look, but can someone explain how it has been decently modified??What's been done to it then? Genuine question by the way......................
Marf said:
76 Celica GT Liftback with a cheeky 1UZFE
Another Toyota...
Useable without the usual silly rear camber, I can appreciate the little details like the window deflectors, bonnet pin wires and the wipers somehow. Surely even the non-functional/form things can be what this thread is about, each thing looks considered to add to the function and "make" the car as a whole? I suppose it's still going to offend some though...
Edited by mizx on Wednesday 1st August 16:39
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