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yeah, thats overkill for sure...
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Sometimes less really is more.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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waaaay too many SPIDERS. it would make me itchy
if life gives you lemons keep them because hey,free lemons.
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He even went as far as to paint double fog lines on the road.
- I love the rain the most when it stops.
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I've always been a fan of linoleum floor covering in automobiles. Must not be available in spiderweb...
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Wow! Now THAT car would be WAY cool to drive around in!
(...on October 31st...only!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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It even looks like the valve covers and firewall are all painted with detail too. It is too much but a cool car alright.
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Should be Riding
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that's real Henry steel right there, watch it go for at least 5k more than its current bid
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It may be over done but I like it. The cartoonish look appeals to me.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
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I like it too. I would only change a few things.
Always remember to be yourself. Unless you suck. Then pretend to be someone else.
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I dont know...It is what it is...I like it, i see alot of the rat rod lookin jobbies around here, Flat black real rough lookin...like those too.... Dude definitely put some work into it!
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this is definitely no rat rod
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Uh huh, good point, Dave! Just as the Munstermobile wasn't a bare bones "Rat Rod" either! Uh huh...'cause from what I've heard, Herman wouldn't allow Lilly, Grandpa, Eddie, or that foxy Marilyn to step inside ANY Hot Rod that didn't at least have SOME of the comforts of the house at 1313 Mockingbird Lane!  (I'm sorry, but this Hot Rod is just WAY TOO cartoonish for my tastes...BUT like I said above, it MIGHT BE kind'a cool to drive around on Halloween!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Just sayin, hot rods and "rats" are different. While this is a little eccentric, it still has a lot of the traditional hot rod style.
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Just sayin, hot rods and "rats" are different. While this is a little eccentric, it still has a lot of the traditional hot rod style.
Yeah, I know. I just used your clarification on this matter to, first, get my little "Munster" joke in, and secondly, to once again state for the record that I think the guy has gone way overboard with his "theme" on that traditional Hot Rod.
It's kind'a like what Larry said above..."Sometimes less IS more"!
(...unless of course your name happened to be George Barris, and you're creating a car for a certain grotesque family featured in a certain 1960's sitcom!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I really like it and the more I look at it the more I like it. I also loved the Munsters car and even did a gear shift like that one in a 63 VW Bug I had that I put a Porsche engine and trans in. I liked Grandpa's coffin rail too.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
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Very cool, er,,,, Kool Krazy Kustom Kar!! Yep, reminds me of the models I made as a kid, combining the parts from different kits
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Yeah, well, I'll bet you ALSO liked "The Munsters" better than the "Addams Family" TOO, didn't ya Ian??? (...though seeing as how neither Gomez, Morticia, Grand Mama, Uncle Fester, Wednesday, Pugsley, Lurch, nor Cousin It EVER had a cool-azz Hot Rod, I guess I CAN kind'a see where you're comin' from here, ol' buddy!!!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Wait a minute...now that I THINK about this, both Wednesday AND Pugsley due to their ages probably wouldn't have gotten their respective drivers licenses until at least the year 1972 or '73 and WAY past the time that series was canceled, huh?! AND, Cousin It probably couldn't have passed the vision test at the DMV either, huh?!
And so, it would've been impossible for them to drive...a Hot Rod or ANY vehicle for that matter, huh?!
(...and so, just forget what I said about them!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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If you remember the Addams Family then you know Lurch did the driving and the car was in no way a hot rod. I bet Pugsley would have had one had the show lasted long enough for him to get one though. Now that I think of it I wonder if maybe the real identity of that seller might be Pugsley.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
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Too much for sure, but I bet he elicits a lot of grins when it's driven.
Al
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I gotta go with Dwight on this one... it's a one day a year (Halloween) car! But hey... each to their own!
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I could like that, IF my last name was Munster. 
Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python
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interesting piece of work. so much detail and then this.....  a transmission cooler that wont see any airflow and the hose wrapped around the drive shaft? what was he thinking? 
Erwin
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interesting piece of work. so much detail and then this.....
a transmission cooler that wont see any airflow and the hose wrapped around the drive shaft? what was he thinking?
Your right about the cooler, but the loops just a tailshaft loop not a hose.
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Yep, the loop catches the front of the driveshaft if it breaks to stop a pole vault when you really don't want it. The more I see the more I like. I'm sure that cooler has some cooling effect even if it isn't in an optimum position.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
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youre right Paul, I went back and theres another picture which shows it better.
Erwin
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Maybe inspired by Ed "Big Daddy" Roth - Rat Fink!
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It may be over done but I like it. The cartoonish look appeals to me.
+1
I'd totally drive it, and not just on Halloween.
Does there really need to be a war between the Addams and the Munsters, can't we all just get along??? really...
~Brent 
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Does there really need to be a war between the Addams and the Munsters, can't we all just get along??? really...
~Brent
 Great pix find there, Brent!!!
(...but to answer your question here..I doubt Rodney King ever meet either the Addamses NOR the Munsters, but I COULD be wrong!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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