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Originally Posted by ratrod1923
I'm personally building a '23 t-bucket that will use a found / scavanged parts. It will be sitting on a '94 Ranger chasis and have a 429 BB to move it down the road, hopefully only on the rear wheels 
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Sounds cool! Just build it with safety in mind, ok?..
I've seen too many folks drag the remains of a '40s pickup cab out of a swamp, slap it on the rear of an S-10 or other easily obtainable bone yard frame, bolt the (whatever) motor solidly to the frame, set up the suspension with hardware store grade bolts, forget about having a full floor, sit with the driveshaft out in the open next to them, twist a bunch of wires together for a harness, run 2 wheel rear brakes and consider such an unfinished (and unsafe) POS a Hot Rod.
At first I liked the Rat Rod scene, building what you can scrounge into a rod, but too many idiots building unsafe junk as I described about...plus the Rat Rod Kulture crap pretty much gave me a bad taste along with a TON of others. Trad rods, whether finished or not are great! But I don't want to share the roads with junkers pieced together with baling wire.
Jan
