Introduction

[jimisbell]

Well.........not to start an argument....but I didnt bring it up.....

1)I dont see paint being a reasonable criteria. I have seen glossy paintjobs that look worse than a good flat paint.

2) I grew up with hot rods in the 1950s, graduated HS in '54. Hot rods are any car with a non stock engine PERIOD.

3) Rat Rod was a term coined in the 1960s by people that wanted to feel better about spending huge amounts of money on a car made out of steel tube and plastic containing ONLY one true automotive product, the engine. It gave them someone to look down upon after their silly expenditures on a car that would never grace a racetrack.

4) if the difference is "finished/unfinished" then I think that is a very inane criteria.

I will say no more on the subject except to cite my 77 years and 120+ cars of expertise growing up in Southern California.