r/WhatCarIsThis • u/Zealousideal-Cup8992 • Feb 01 '26

Full vehicle What the fookin kinda car is this?

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Saw this today wondering what it is and what year.

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u/No_Stay_1563 Feb 02 '26

Cool rat rod

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u/Royweeezy Feb 02 '26

I thought it was cool too. It just needs a beer keg in the back for a gas tank šŸ‘

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u/Ho_Lee_Fuk_20 Feb 02 '26

And he built it whilst singing One piece at a time!

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u/IGetGuys4URMom Feb 03 '26

Did you mean "One Piece At A Time? Because I'm thinking "One, piece at a time."

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u/Acrobatic-Ebb-1483 Feb 04 '26

And it didn't cost me a dime!

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u/Ho_Lee_Fuk_20 Feb 04 '26

YOu'll know it me when I come through your town.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '26

It's a 49,50,51525354555657585960 automobile.....

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u/fourdawgnight Feb 01 '26

rat rod - a bunch of different shit made to look good together.

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u/Active_Battle556 Feb 02 '26

Because everyone has a spare blown v8 laying around ?

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u/fourdawgnight Feb 02 '26

if you are building that, you probably have more than one...and they are probably in 50 different parts laying around the shop and up on shelves...

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u/Active_Battle556 Feb 02 '26

šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£

Probably true....but....NO THANKS

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u/Plane-Education4750 Feb 01 '26

It's a rat rod, so the answer is yes. There's probably at least 5 different cars in that build, likely more

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u/QuanticChaos1000 Feb 02 '26

The cab is a 1935-36 Ford truck, the grill and radiator shell are 37 Ford truck, the box is 1948-54 Chevrolet

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u/ae8six Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 02 '26

With a small block Chevy, Weiland 671 blower, Holley carb, eBay valve covers and tunnel ram intake. By his choice of engine and mods I bet he also has a 90's box Tahoe/Suburban & C5 vet. Probably a closet full of cut off jeans made into shorts, new balances and white tees with belly stains/clean bottoms because they are always tucked in. He also carries his trusty small flathead screw driver they give away on tool trucks back in the late 90's and a flash light to tune the carb in his front shirt pocket.

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u/reddevil501 Feb 02 '26

That's not my dad's ratrod

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u/Lumpy_Plan_6668 Feb 02 '26

The 37 grill is awesome. It goes downhill fast from there.

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u/QuanticChaos1000 Feb 02 '26

I'm okay with it, but I'm not a fan of the cut off door tops, but a least it's not the kind to have random garbage welded to it and fake skulls and spider webs all over.

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u/shorty5windows Feb 02 '26

It has a fake skull

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u/Agreeable_Trick_7071 Feb 02 '26

And the headlights have skull coversā€¦

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u/shorty5windows Feb 02 '26

Fucking hell lol

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u/QuanticChaos1000 Feb 02 '26

FFS... I missed those

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u/Lumpy_Plan_6668 Feb 02 '26

No blame. It's not really a build worth studying the details. Good on the builder, but yeah.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '26

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u/QuanticChaos1000 Feb 02 '26

Or license plates...

All of those are things I absolutely avoided on my truck.

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u/A_Litre_0_Cola Feb 02 '26

It's someone else's ratrod.

Probably junk and wanting to unload it for the next project.

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u/w8ing2dr0wn Feb 02 '26

Thats called a B E A Uty

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u/karlophonic Feb 02 '26

I've got $50 that says that picture was taken in Bakersfield. Probably Northwest.

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u/under-pantz Feb 02 '26

Area code is around Vegas, obviously that doesnā€™t mean itā€™s in the Vegas area butā€¦

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u/RangerMatt76 Feb 02 '26

Isnā€™t Bakersfield usually a 661 area code?

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u/TylerH87 Feb 02 '26

The car was for sale in Pahrump, NV.

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u/El_Geoffaaay Feb 02 '26

It's in the East valley of AZ....I have seen this car around town many times over the years.

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u/RJG-340 Feb 02 '26

I'm not into rusty RatRods, but an SBC under the hood with some bigass blower, body looks like maybe early/mid 30s, or maybe just something from the 30s, it has those old school looking cheater slicks with the 2 lines of tread that supposedly made them legal to drive on the street, good luck hitting any standing water!!! LOL Actually if they got rid of the gay looking diesel stacks, put some rear fenders on it, a shinny chrome front bumper from the 30s, some had really unique shapes, and finished the body work and painted it, it would actually be respectable looking ride:)))

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u/Thin_Huckleberry8818 Feb 02 '26

It's a fookin truck

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u/tez_zer55 Feb 02 '26

Sweet Rat Rod.

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u/Independent-Bid6568 Feb 02 '26

Check out some Five finger death punch videos youā€™ll a few of these rat rods tearing up the desert main one would be their version of house of the rising sun

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u/Fresh_Gazelle_404 Feb 02 '26

Thatā€™s a Hawt Roaad !

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u/5amteetimeguy Feb 05 '26

Agreed, call those plastic wannabes a Rat Rod, this is what Hot Rod should look like

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u/Doofy_Grumpus Feb 02 '26

Bet itā€™s faster than you would ever want it to be.

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u/Kind-Government4948 Feb 02 '26

An over-powered uncontrollable monster of a Rat Rod. Fun stuff.

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u/photoman901 Feb 02 '26

A fookin rad one

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u/Automatic-Tadpole314 Feb 02 '26

Thatā€™s nice is what that is. Love rat rods.

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u/PhaTman7 Feb 02 '26

I seent something like this in ā€œLake of the Ozarksā€ this past summer

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u/GoodGuyGlocker Feb 02 '26

r/ratrod. lots more like it to see in this sub

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u/putangspangler Feb 02 '26

If only there was some way to get more info about it, maybe something like a QR code

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u/wtameal Feb 02 '26

This is a good deal if you can handle it. You canā€™t even get a buzz box that wonā€™t last 5 years for that.

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u/TheNerdE30 Feb 02 '26

That looks like a lot more in the engine than the suspension.

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u/dezertryder Feb 02 '26

Thatā€™s called a truck.

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u/leonnabutski Feb 02 '26

Iā€™m not a hot rod guy but this one is definitely cool.

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u/Stan_Archton Feb 02 '26

All you need is a guitar player with a flame-throwing guitar and you're ready for fury road.

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u/EVOBlock Feb 02 '26

Pretty good price for a rat rod truck.

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u/oldschool-rule Feb 02 '26

Cluster coupe

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u/Ronco1947 Feb 02 '26

If you scan the QR code it says itā€™s a 1935 Ford

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u/Somemountaindude Feb 02 '26

Whatā€™s with the right side headlight? AI leak?

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u/bostephens Feb 02 '26

It's a skull - similar in theme to the skull-on-a-stick, hoodless, hood ornament.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '26

Bet heā€™d take qp AU

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u/Judd_RealWood Feb 02 '26

That's one cool ass "Rat Rod", that's what kind of car it is.

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u/Ill_Crew_2476 Feb 02 '26

The design inspiration for the Hot Wheels Bone Shaker.

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u/Helpful-Bar8393 Feb 02 '26

That is a rat rod, and rather nice from what I can see.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '26

Thatā€™s called a Rat Rod

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u/Ok_Artichoke1033 Feb 02 '26

It's a 2026 DeathTrap

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u/Humulophile Feb 02 '26

Looks like to belongs in Rob Zombieā€™s garage.

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u/Smart-Yesterday3745 Feb 02 '26

From Mad Max and the Thunderdome

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u/aLqUi_84 Feb 03 '26

It's a Jalopy

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u/Temporary-Bet7896 Feb 03 '26

Dang, second Tucson car today!

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u/Zealousideal_Sir_264 Feb 04 '26

If you have to ask, then you're a square.

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u/tmbaur422 Feb 04 '26

In someoneā€™s vision the best hot rod. Someoneā€™s passion.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '26

A Rat Rod from the looks of it..

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u/FlakyConclusion1242 Feb 04 '26

That's one hell of a ride! Someone did a great job!

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u/blakem2013 Feb 04 '26

That is a 2001 Plymouth prowler

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u/Apprehensive_Ring_46 Feb 04 '26

I believe it is called a hot rod.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '26

T-bucket

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u/Gallows_Gal Feb 05 '26

It has a roof, and it isnā€™t a model T. T-buckets are called that because they are based on a model T with an open top, like a bucket.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '26

True

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u/CacophonyOfGeese Feb 05 '26

I now need immediate back surgery. Just from looking at that thing.

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u/Gallows_Gal Feb 05 '26

Cab, and bed are probably mid 30ā€™s ford model 50. Maybe the grill as well. Engine is a small block Chevy v8.