Why so high?

[rat rod]

roscobbc said:

I had 'patina' cars when they were described back in the day as pieces of rusting, over compounded and polished junk.

Inadvertently you probably invented the rat look rosco.

Crazy world ,hot rodders painted there cars satin black because they couldn't afford a repaint ,

Move on 50/60 years Lamborghini and their like are charging £25K extra to do the same to their customers cars.

and think they just invented it.

[roscobbc]

rat rod said:

aeropilot said:

rat rod said:

When i had my orange 64 Galaxie it had number 44 in black on the side and a single racing stripe running from the bonnet

to the boot on the left hand side, I would constantly get ye ha yelled at me and calling it the General Lee.

I know someone, that 40 odd years later, still says Dukes of Hazard is one of his favourite TV shows from his youth, but he isn't much of a car fan, and knows the square root of FA about yank cars and still to this day, doesn't know what make/model of car the General Lee is (or really cares about that anal level of detail)

He's sounds like the one's who yell ye ha to me ,they obviously like the program but totally disinterested in the car,

I've seen everything from Robin Reliant to Granada's painted in General Lee colours and i'm sure they would think

they were the real thing.if your not interested your not interested.

Sounds like the kind of person who also watches the continual re-runs of the Gone In 6o Seconds film and its follow-on's and sadly actually believes the pathetic car 'action'.

[roscobbc]

rat rod said:

roscobbc said:

I had 'patina' cars when they were described back in the day as pieces of rusting, over compounded and polished junk.

Inadvertently you probably invented the rat look rosco.

Crazy world ,hot rodders painted there cars satin black because they couldn't afford a repaint ,

Move on 50/60 years Lamborghini and their like are charging £25K extra to do the same to their customers cars.

and think they just invented it.

Ha! - I have shown this before but oxide primer patches all over - drivers side fender off a scrapper, hood in grey primer and 'banded' black painted wheels - all this 45 years ago in the mid 70's..........

Thinking about this car and specifically the effect from behind of the huge rear lights. One autumn Sunday evening I was driving westbound on the A12 Eastern Avenue in Romford, and just about to turn off left to go home after the weekly Sunday car cruise out from Seven Kings out to one of a number of pubs in Navestock or Ongar. This at times was quite an event with up to 40 or 50 cars and frequently quite manic. Anyway, with only about half a mile or so between the North Street and Mawney Road traffic lights after twisty country roads at about 11pm it was the final chance to giving the 7 Litre its head on a virtually clear bit of dual carriageway before going home. I blasted away from the lights leaving some guy on a Honda CB250 a fair way behind. Bearing in mind this was a cold, wet night and the twin large bore exhausts would be putting out a quite a large amount of condensation (after being held back throught the sticks)........anyway I'm now stationary waiting to turn left at the next set of nights, get home and park-up for the night. The biker dick pulls-up alongside my open driver window and says "nice car mate, sounds great, its really quick but there's something wrong with the engine - its putting out loads of red exhaust smoke"!. The rear brake lights on the Galaxie were so bright and intense the that the dick riding the Honda could only see the white exhaust smoke as red in colour though the reflection off the road surface behind.........

Edited by roscobbc on Monday 7th June 01:42

Edited by roscobbc on Monday 7th June 01:49

[rat rod]

roscobbc said:

rat rod said:

roscobbc said:

I had 'patina' cars when they were described back in the day as pieces of rusting, over compounded and polished junk.

Inadvertently you probably invented the rat look rosco.

Crazy world ,hot rodders painted there cars satin black because they couldn't afford a repaint ,

Move on 50/60 years Lamborghini and their like are charging £25K extra to do the same to their customers cars.

and think they just invented it.

Ha! - I have shown this before but oxide primer patches all over - drivers side fender off a scrapper, hood in grey primer and 'banded' black painted wheels - all this 45 years ago in the mid 70's..........

Thinking about this car and specifically the effect from behind of the huge rear lights. One autumn Sunday evening I was driving westbound on the A12 Eastern Avenue in Romford, and just about to turn off left to go home after the weekly Sunday car cruise out from Seven Kings out to one of a number of pubs in Navestock or Ongar. This at times was quite an event with up to 40 or 50 cars and frequently quite manic. Anyway, with only about half a mile or so between the North Street and Mawney Road traffic lights after twisty country roads at about 11pm it was the final chance to giving the 7 Litre its head on a virtually clear bit of dual carriageway before going home. I blasted away from the lights leaving some guy on a Honda CB250 a fair way behind. Bearing in mind this was a cold, wet night and the twin large bore exhausts would be putting out a quite a large amount of condensation (after being held back throught the sticks)........anyway I'm now stationary waiting to turn left at the next set of nights, get home and park-up for the night. The biker dick pulls-up alongside my open driver window and says "nice car mate, sounds great, its really quick but there's something wrong with the engine - its putting out loads of red exhaust smoke"!. The rear brake lights on the Galaxie were so bright and intense the that the dick riding the Honda could only see the white exhaust smoke as red in colour though the reflection off the road surface behind.........

Edited by roscobbc on Monday 7th June 01:42

Edited by roscobbc on Monday 7th June 01:49

And there's the proof We got you to thank for pioneering this shabby chic look all those years ago.

I assume the Galaxie was awaiting paint, Nowadays you would be doing the opposite and stripping the shinny paint off.

[aeropilot]

roscobbc said:

rat rod said:

roscobbc said:

I had 'patina' cars when they were described back in the day as pieces of rusting, over compounded and polished junk.

Inadvertently you probably invented the rat look rosco.

Crazy world ,hot rodders painted there cars satin black because they couldn't afford a repaint ,

Move on 50/60 years Lamborghini and their like are charging £25K extra to do the same to their customers cars.

and think they just invented it.

Ha! - I have shown this before but oxide primer patches all over - drivers side fender off a scrapper, hood in grey primer and 'banded' black painted wheels - all this 45 years ago in the mid 70's..........

As you say, that's just how it was back then.

There was a maroon (well it was once) '57 Bel-Air 4 door post sedan that lived a couple of roads away from me in West London that looked like that back in the mid 70's.......looked like it had had an underbonnet fire at some stage, as hood top paint was all blistered and rusted, ran a set of corroded slot mags and a black tuck n roll interior that was likely done in the USA in the 60's.......might have a photo of it somewhere, that I took on my little pocket 110 camera I used to carry around when out cycling around the local roads looking for interesting cars

[LeighW]

rat rod said:

roscobbc said:

Here we go Ratrod erection time - https://youtu.be/ptKnZJQvKCo

OH DEAR, Think i've just had a accident in my pants

Just catching up on the bits I'd missed on this thread. I thought I recognised that 57, found this amongst my Flickr pics from the Mopar Nats at Santa Pod.

57 Chevy by LeighW, on Flickr

[rat rod]

LeighW said:

Just catching up on the bits I'd missed on this thread. I thought I recognised that 57, found this amongst my Flickr pics from the Mopar Nats at Santa Pod.

57 Chevy by LeighW, on Flickr

I love the 57 ,either standard or like this one, or maybe this one and a convertible if i won the lotto.

[rat rod]

aeropilot said:

As you say, that's just how it was back then.

There was a maroon (well it was once) '57 Bel-Air 4 door post sedan that lived a couple of roads away from me in West London that looked like that back in the mid 70's.......looked like it had had an underbonnet fire at some stage, as hood top paint was all blistered and rusted, ran a set of corroded slot mags and a black tuck n roll interior that was likely done in the USA in the 60's.......might have a photo of it somewhere, that I took on my little pocket 110 camera I used to carry around when out cycling around the local roads looking for interesting cars

There must have been yanks littered all over parts of London during the late 60's/70's ,they were just old cars then not classics,

dinosaurs that nobody wanted,

Remember going to Lincoln Motors on the Great West Rd ,Brentford with my dad,they were the main American Ford ,Mercury

and Lincoln agents, not sure if i got the name 100% right, This must have been in the 60's Went up in his 55 Fairlane coupe that he

bought while on holiday in Jersey of all places for £250 in 1959,It was stuck in a corner covered in dust in a main Vauxhall agents,The sales

man thought we were mad as nobody in Jersey wanted it being so big, remember a line of 50's and 60's Thunderbirds, later Fairlanes and

Galaxie's parked outside the workshops at Brenford, love to go back in time and have another look

Edited by rat rod on Monday 7th June 17:35

[rat rod]

newsatten----------- Got just the project for you ,should keep you off the streets for a while .

Thought you might like another one to play with Maserati Merak ,needs a little TLC.

You could keep P5BNij company , It's on Car& Classic , Ref C1348028 ,

[newsatten]

rat rod said:

newsatten----------- Got just the project for you ,should keep you off the streets for a while .

Thought you might like another one to play with Maserati Merak ,needs a little TLC.

You could keep P5BNij company , It's on Car& Classic , Ref C1348028 ,

RR your all heart! oh dear thats one scary prospect , i'l check if Euro Parts do any body panels

Good lord that was tough today, lasted to 3pm, but should have bailed earlier, just to long on my feet, this is deffo going to take awhile!

[P5BNij]

newsatten said:

rat rod said:

newsatten----------- Got just the project for you ,should keep you off the streets for a while .

Thought you might like another one to play with Maserati Merak ,needs a little TLC.

You could keep P5BNij company , It's on Car& Classic , Ref C1348028 ,

RR your all heart! oh dear thats one scary prospect , i'l check if Euro Parts do any body panels

Good lord that was tough today, lasted to 3pm, but should have bailed earlier, just to long on my feet, this is deffo going to take awhile!

Buy it, or else! So there! It needs saving coz it's RHD! Those alloys would look great on my Biturbo, if only they were five bolt jobs instead of four bolt....

[rat rod]

newsatten said:

rat rod said:

newsatten----------- Got just the project for you ,should keep you off the streets for a while .

Thought you might like another one to play with Maserati Merak ,needs a little TLC.

You could keep P5BNij company , It's on Car& Classic , Ref C1348028 ,

RR your all heart! oh dear thats one scary prospect , i'l check if Euro Parts do any body panels

Good lord that was tough today, lasted to 3pm, but should have bailed earlier, just to long on my feet, this is deffo going to take awhile!

All you need is a small block and your in business, sorry couldn't resist it.

Sorry to hear about today, wasn't going to be easy but sounds like it was worse than expected,

You must take it easier,not worth rushing it and messing up the good work so far,

Sorry if i sound like your mother

[rat rod]

P5BNij said:

Buy it, or else! So there! It needs saving coz it's RHD! Those alloys would look great on my Biturbo, if only they were five bolt jobs instead of four bolt....

Bet you wished you waited now, should buy the Merak instead of the Biturbo NOT

In away it's so cheap but don't know what you would do with it,


wheels and gearbox looks the only things worth saving,

[newsatten]

[quote= rat rod]
Bet you wished you waited now, should buy the Merak instead of the Biturbo NOT

In away it's so cheap but don't know what you would do with it,


wheels and gearbox looks the only things worth saving,

be a good buy if ones has a car thats been launched, assuming the sub assembly's are usable? terrible sham this becoming a parts car,

[rat rod]

newsatten]rat rod said:

Bet you wished you waited now, should buy the Merak instead of the Biturbo NOT

In away it's so cheap but don't know what you would do with it,


wheels and gearbox looks the only things worth saving,

be a good buy if ones has a car thats been launched, assuming the sub assembly's are usable? terrible sham this becoming a parts car,

As said before ,small block, leave the paint, and have the first rat look Masa,

Love to see the faces of the Maserati owners club members when you turn up on the lawn with it,

Would be a repeat of me getting thrown out of the VSCC meet in my 3 window .

[aeropilot]

rat rod said:

newsatten]rat rod said:

Bet you wished you waited now, should buy the Merak instead of the Biturbo NOT

In away it's so cheap but don't know what you would do with it,


wheels and gearbox looks the only things worth saving,

be a good buy if ones has a car thats been launched, assuming the sub assembly's are usable? terrible sham this becoming a parts car,

As said before ,small block, leave the paint, and have the first rat look Masa,

Love to see the faces of the Maserati owners club members when you turn up on the lawn with it,

Would be a repeat of me getting thrown out of the VSCC meet in my 3 window .

I like your thinking - it needs a proper engine
Its only a Merek after all, so not really worth saving, as its basically half Citroen FFS.

[rat rod]

aeropilot said:

I like your thinking - it needs a proper engine
Its only a Merek after all, so not really worth saving, as its basically half Citroen FFS.

Almost bought one back late 80's or early 90's ,can't remember now, worst super car i've ever driven ,

So slow but it did have a blow on the manifold which didn't help , hated the Citroen steering and brakes,

Could have been just that car, it felt really tired.

Newsatten use to own one , i'm sure his must have been a better car than this one was.

Edited by rat rod on Tuesday 8th June 08:45

[CAPP0]

Sat in a petrol station this morning and a guy pulls up alongside me in a lovely maroon '72 Ranchero. Really nice looking thing. It was plain and basic, in a very good way, by which I mean it hadn't had any obvious tat bolted on, although possibly non-standard wheels. Had a good chat with him, he said he'd had one years ago when his daughter was born and had to sell it then, and got back into one after she had grown up. Nice to see!

[some bloke]

I quite like this - not a V8, but a fun cruiser for 10k.
Seems straight and original.
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1347746

[aeropilot]

some bloke said:

I quite like this - not a V8, but a fun cruiser for 10k.
Seems straight and original.
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1347746

The lack of a V8 is easily fixed

Its a 3 pedal car already, so just needs the tunnel sorted and drop a Tremec 5-speed into it with a sbf or bbf, and the column change removed.

Not really convinced by that blue and red interior.......that's pretty horrific despite the price tag, and its an odd style as well, not very in keeping with the period..

Shame someone couldn't be arsed to clean the protection coating off the new white walls for the photos