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A rat rod is a custom car with a deliberately worn-down, unfinished appearance, typically lacking paint, showing rust, and made from cheap or cast-off parts.

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November 6, 2026 at 6:30 AM
gratefuldavid.bsky.social
Making progress on the rat rod 4 wheeler! Got the gas tank & muffler off (for now) & installed the torque converter (mostly, til I realized the last bolt in the kit is crap; gotta get a new one). Getting it running by December is my goal. 🙌🏼💪🏼✊🏼👊🏼❤️
November 8, 2026 at 10:05 PM
weskrantz.bsky.social
It’s my 1969 Toyota Stout rat rod, LS1 swapped
November 4, 2026 at 4:58 AM
rainmaker1973.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy
A rat rod is a custom car with a deliberately worn-down, unfinished appearance, typically lacking paint, showing rust, and made from cheap or cast-off parts.
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A rat rod is a custom car with a deliberately worn-down, unfinished appearance, typically lacking paint, showing rust, and made from cheap or cast-off parts.
November 6, 2026 at 6:25 AM
canray.bsky.social
There's a reason one of my Transformer OCs is a Limo.

And another is a Rat Rod.

And a Hummer Fembot (*Sings* "She's a, Brick, House!")

...

I miss creating.
November 6, 2026 at 3:53 PM
treaticus33.bsky.social
I would say he’s the equivalent of a gym rat in basketball. Lives and breathes football and has coached HS ball the last three years. Maybe I am wanting him succeed so badly I can’t be independent. I just think he has that “it” in him that wouldn’t let him fail. Kind of Rod Brindamor of Hurricanes
November 5, 2026 at 6:24 PM
missingmon.at.app.wafrn.net
Red Rabbit Remote
Rose Run Radio
Ring Rise Right
Rat Rain Razor
Read Rail Robot
Rubber Rocket Rock
Rope Raw Rat
Red Ray
Rod RidRampant Ramshackle
Ransack Renaissance
Rendezvous Replica
Roaster
November 1, 2026 at 7:19 PM
goobydoobs.bsky.social
Got the Rid o Rat mixed up with the Skinny n Sweet again, huh
Lily Tomlin in the Movie 9 to 5 realizing she just poisoned her boss by putting Rod o Rat instead of Skinny and Sweet in his coffee. The boxes are the same size and color.
October 31, 2026 at 2:05 AM
rvroomie.bsky.social
Wait… you may want to reconsider! This is my Jeepster rat rod… with an E Type engine!
October 28, 2026 at 2:21 AM
phil-stone.bsky.social
By odd coincidence, I saw my first rat rod in the wild just this week. They are not very common in Northern Illinois.
It was black.
I really like the way those wheels work on yours.
October 28, 2026 at 12:25 PM
bloomlaurel.bsky.social
Here are recent acquisitions and swaps (the first two are for meren, the angels are for giada, and the dimir cards are for my wife's emet-selch of the third seat deck)

note: I ended up adding wood elves in over springbloom druid bc I don't have the land recursion to support land sacrifice rn

#mtg
springbloom druid, viridian emissary, syr Konrad the grim, morbid opportunist, awakening zone, haywire mite, and village rites for my meren, of clan nel toth commander deck. Simulacrum shaper swapping in over wood elves, bitterblossom swapping in over sifter of skulls, massacre girl most wanted swapping in over Summon Primal Odin, Rank Rat swapping in over mulch, Hapatra the desert fang swapping in over phytotitan for my meren of clan nel toth commander deck. Starfield shaper and resplendent marshal as new additions for my giada commander deck. Leechridden swamp, prodigal sorcerer, swallowed by leviathan, black mage's rod, secrets of the dead, confounding riddle, shark typhoon, exsanguinator, talrand sky summoner, murmuring mystic, rona sheoldred's faithful as new additions to my wife's emet-selch of the third seat commander deck.
October 30, 2026 at 2:52 PM
karloffiancryptid.bsky.social
Frankenzine: The Zine of Everything Frankenstein! Issue #2 (2017)
Illustration of Frankenstein's monster in a dark brown jacket walking forward through a spooky graveyard under a full moon. CREATURE DRACULA FRANKENSTEN HOFMAN Aurora long-box design (and in some cases, a licensed use of the original Aurora logo). Polar Lights also produced a limited edition Aurora-branded collector's box for Toys R Us that combined Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolf Man, and The Creature in a single oversized pack- age. Each figure was separately polybagged in the oversized box, and a numbered certificate of authenticity was included as well. Moebius went one step further than most other model companies, creating remarkably well-sculpted and beautifully designed model kits that went far beyond the quality of the original Aurora kits. Their original Bride of Franken-stein, a two-figure set featuring the monster and his bride sculpted by Jeff Yagher, featured a remarkably faithful rendition of the Elsa Lanchester Bride and the Boris Karloff Frankenstein Monster, produced to a quality unseen in other model kits. Their second Frankenstein original kit, produced in 2009 and also designed by Yagher, depicts the monster striding through an oaken door in a design based on a scene from the film. Again, the quality far surpasses that of the original Aurora models, rivaling that of the higher-quality limited edition garage kits produced in small quantities for the collector's market. In the aftermath of Moebius' models, Frankenstein has been moribund. There will always be limited-run fan-produced garage kits featuring Frankenstein, of course (recently, a number of original small-run Monster Scenes models inspired by scenes from Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein have shown up at various conventions and on eBay, for instance), but Frankenstein no longer looms large over the kit-model shelves in hobby and specialty shops. That's bound to change, of course... You can't keep a good monster down, after all! One of several Monster Rods kits designed to capitalize on multiple markets: monster models, car models, and the Ed "Big Daddy" Roth Rat Fink model kits that had done well for Revell. Mary Shelley's terrifying patchwork man was now was now an oversized torso and head mounted atop a tiny hot rod that he couldn't even be bothered to drive—-instead, Frankie was 1o0 involved with his yo-yo. By late 1965, the monster model craze had crested. Aurora offered a few more horror-themed kits—The Witch, The Forgotten Prisoner of Castlemare but they were unimpressive and eminently forgettable, in spite of heavy advertising on the back of millions of comic books. Aurora began to founder. This wasn't Frankenstein's final foray into the realm of plastic models, however. Aurora tried to breathe new life into the venerable kits beginning in 1969 with glow-in-the-dark versions, which featured luminescent heads and hands; they generated relatively little excitement in the retail market, and ultimately did nothing to turn around Aurora's flagging fortunes. Aurora wasn't willing to give up quite yet. however. They resurrected Frankenstein once again in 1971 as part of their Monster Scenes line of no-glue snap-together model kits, which included monsters, victims, and horrifying set-tings. The idea was that they could be combined into a variety of monstrous scenes. If the poorly-sculpted, kludgy figures and low-budget box designs wasn't enough to doom this line, their marketing slogan "Rated X.. for Excitemen!" was. Parents were offended by model kits with an X rating of any sort on the box, Aurora's new corporate owner Nabisco foods didn't like the negative pub- AURORA MONSTER SCENES SNAP TOGETHER FRANKENSTEN the model kit also drew from aspects of the Monster as portrayed by Glenn Strange, Lon Chaney Jr, and even Bela Lugosi), but the design was more iconic than logical. Why was Frankenstein walking away from a tombstone? How had he avoided tripping over it in his lumbering arms-outstretched march? Why would the monster even want to visit a graveyard, since he wasn't particularly proud of his deathly origins? Kids didn't care, though. They saw that striking box painting by Jim Bama (the same artist who would portray the iconic Doc Savage for Bantam Books just a few years later) and they wanted to take the monster home with them. And what they got was a relatively-easy-to-assemble model kit that was instantly recognizeable as the Frankenstein Monster, even before it was painted. That case of assembly was important: the kit consisted of about two dozen parts, none of wlich was particularly difficult to assemble or paint. Later model kits would add more challenging elements-gnarled trees. bats, rats, cell bars, lab equipment—that didn't always fit together as well, and often disattached at the slightest touch. But not Franken- stein: He was a sturdy figure, feet firmly planted on the grave, and almost any model-builder could completely assemble the kit in less than a half-hour. Frankenstein's success in 1961 paved the way for Dracula and The Wolf Man in 1962; The Mummy, The Creature From the Black Lagoon, and The Phantom of the The oversized box depicted the classic Frankenstein face; young buyers were so entranced by the heavy-lidded sepulchral gaze that most of them paid little heed to the smaller model kit photos. Imagine their surprise, then, when they began assembling the kit, only to discover that rather than a monstrous Frankenstein in an almost-two-feet-tall size, they were the proud owners of what we would nowadays call a super-deformed Frankenstein, a whimsical homunculus.
October 28, 2026 at 1:36 AM
wilsonfrontier.bsky.social
My neighbor 2 houses down had a 90s rat rod sports car on a truck bed for years. Every couple days he runs the engine and revs it repeatedly and LOUDLY. I wish he'd sell the damn hunk of junk. Its just an eyesore and an ear sore.
October 26, 2026 at 11:43 PM
bantowblog.bsky.social
「ラットロッド呼ばわり」をめぐる矛盾が大きく取り沙汰された例をひとつ。
2009年のアメリカズ・モスト・ビューティフル・ロードスター賞の最終選考まで生き残ったこの'30ロードスター・ピックアップは、リプロのボディー、全面的なカスタムシャシー、392ヘミを備えて売価20万ドルと見積もられた一台なんだけど、ある記者はこの見てくれを指して公然とラットロッド呼ばわりした。
ビルダーのローバック精神と結果、さらには外見がちぐはぐに絡み、ラットロッドという言葉が迷走した例。
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What Is a Rat Rod?
Insulting or aspirational? Join us as we delve into the who, what, when, and why of one of hot-rodding's most controversial terms of art.
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October 26, 2026 at 3:43 AM
jbtheexplorer.bsky.social
I had to grab Bone Shaker. I don't really like the fictional cars that #HotWheels releases, but this has become a classic at this point. It was first released 20 years ago and has been re-released with new paint schemes and variants dozens of times since.

#diecast #cars
A vintage rat rod-style car with a skull on the front.
October 25, 2026 at 3:31 PM
ambernymph.bsky.social
Plot of Rat in a— [I'm obliterated from orbit by a tungsten rod]
October 23, 2026 at 6:50 PM
jlp.systems
October 26, 2026 at 12:47 AM
greasydump.bsky.social
Blast from the past. youtu.be/0ZcbifYqpGc?...
The Rat Patrol Intro theme
YouTube video by Roy Rod
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October 23, 2026 at 11:31 PM
madmayday.bsky.social
new Colossal critter just dropped
fix the alt text window, stg i have been trying to describe rat fink and all the words are typing backwards. it's a grotesque rat cartoon driving a ridiculous hot rod with a blower and rockets and shit. it has text above that says "too mean to live, too young to die!" the blower says "waaka waaka!!" and underneath are shiny chrime words that say "speed, power, chrome"
October 23, 2026 at 5:51 AM
primaryradical.bsky.social
Here's some rat rod updates from my dad. Looks like he got the cab seated somewhat. I guess the challenge is getting the cab flush with the Mini frame right now.
October 21, 2026 at 11:51 PM
rwdettman.bsky.social
Uff da!-aihatsu

👌🏼rat rod '58

Love the road not taken.
October 21, 2026 at 12:54 AM
joyaz.bsky.social
#QP your Rat Fink Hot Rod
#synthart
October 20, 2026 at 2:43 AM
usclassicautos.bsky.social
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October 21, 2026 at 1:48 PM
didntcmecumin69.bsky.social
They're searching for MAGA in South Africa.

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The Rat Patrol Intro theme
YouTube video by Roy Rod
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October 19, 2026 at 5:36 PM
the-philadelphian.bsky.social
"rat rod"

Custom car with deliberately worn-down, unfinished appearance, or rust, made from cast-off parts. Parts can include non-automotive items, such as a rifle used as a gear shifter, wrenches as door handles, or hand saws as sun visors. If you might have a seatbelt.

#photography
#automorive
October 20, 2026 at 12:32 AM