Irony

by JLF , Tuesday, August 12, 2014, 19:17 (3697 days ago) @ Byron

I find the whole rat-rod thing to be pretty ironic. Back in the day, we built "rat rods" because that's all we could afford! If dangerous lack of engineering was going to kill me, I would have been long dead before I hit 30.

During the build of my 1933 Plymouth coupe with a 383 and Torqueflite tranny, we had to go for a test drive. No floorboard so we laid 1x6 boards across the frame rails, and set two metal milk crates on them to sit on. Then we ran a coat hanger through one of the many holes in the firewall, and hooked it to the carburetor. We fired the engine, used a stick to bump the tranny pawl into drive, and gave the coat hanger a yank.

PS: One of my last cars was a really nice "T-Bucket" with a hot 350 with three deuces on it. If one floored it from a dead stop, it would flip over backwards, literally. So it was fun to get it rolling, *then* give it 3/4 throttle, and carry the front wheels for 10-15 yards. Oh... It had motorcycle wheels up front, and no front brakes.

JLF