Rat Style Clio - My first car

[Toby]

I would fold that blonde up like a deck chair.

 

[JP83]

Worked like a charm Peter! You really riled CS! . Now guys my Astra or Peters rat Clio? lol!

Your Astra - with your lollipop uniform

I would fold that blonde up like a deck chair.

Like the one in Boosh's eBay thread?

 

[Jack-D]

It's good to try and be different, but as has been said above it's too forced.

I don't know much about the RAT scene, but from what I gather it takes years of changing items for other parts as and when they need replacing, which in turn creates the true look.

 

[Chapster5]

Your Astra - with your lollipop uniform

I forgot about that .

 

[Laura]

this is rat.

 

[Adamm.]

^^ And it still looks s**t lol.

 

[Wick]

Poor girl's gonna need a tetanus shot.

 

[ClioKemp]

Whether its a 'genuine' rat or not, rat cars are sh!t, end of. Forced or naturally sh!tty there is nothing cool about ratted cars. However, I appreciate you're doing something different than the get a 1.2 and make it into a Sport rep project which in my opinion is also very pointless. You started with a nice base there so if I were you I'd put it back to how you first got it and start again. Looked great for a first car so its such a shame you're turning it into scrap really.

 

[Jamie16v]

It looks s**t on modern cars. Campers and bugs maybe, but I'd rather seen a clean standard with subtle mods.

 

[Spongebob 172]

I'm not really one for rat look motors,but I have to say I do like the look on the older style vw splitties and beetles.

 

[Adam.P]

Normal bonnet, bit of lows on some coilovers and remove the gash rear stickers, that'd actually look pretty good.

 

[Advikaz]

Oh err....

Not a fan to be honest mate. If you lost the rusty bonnet & rear stickers it would look alright tho in my oppinion.

 

[JDA92]

Maybe one exception guys?

Dragon Performance RX7

 

[Martin.]

Oh my. IT BURNSSSSs

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[Scotty-boi]

Ding some panels, roof rack stacked to the sky with s**t, park bench in the front, put about 400bhp in and you might be getting there!

 

[NoahRobinson07]

Return it to the normal paint, and leave the Rota's on and you'll have a smart looking car.

Calling it Rat, well your a bit stupid for that. Thats not rat, its not rat unless every time you go to get in it, there is a risk of you falling through the floor, or there are so many rust holes, that you have to drive with the windows open for fear of carbon monoxide poisoning. Thats a rat car.

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[Nick_Leeds]

Words fail me.

 

[ali-ham]

'RAT' is not for me, fair play to you for being brave enough, i would have lowered it on a nice set of wheels, kept it clean and saved your money for bigger and better things.

 

[DannyBhoy]

Those hazard stickers :headno:

 

[Dr HMS Derv Destroyer]

daniels old mk1 rat van looks more rat' taa 'tat 'tat 'tat than that !

 

[BoatNonce]

If I had my exhaust that close to the bumper, the bumper probably wouldn't last very long.

 

[Keyser Soze]

CS is turning into Edition38 lol

 

[jesus]

Cars that are cool anyway + rat look = awesome.

Shitters made to look shitter = massively s**t.

 

[Haydn]

I don't know much about the 'rat' scene but I do actually like your car, despite many others practically hating it. It may be ugly but it will turn heads, at a show or on the street!

This might help you for future idea's... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Iv42AOZIk

 

[GrahamS]

unfortunatley I have a love hate relationship with "rat look"

Sometimes it's just an expression for "I have a rubbish car"

Othertimes it looks good.

I haven't made my mind up. I would get the original bonnet back on and go more euro considering you've got what are lovely wheels. No actually I'd just get it back to normal, enjoy how frugal the engine is and save up for a big bad bhp toy or a house deposit.

As long as you like it that's all that matters I bet your mother doesn't though

 

[alexr19]

Maybe one exception guys?

Dragon Performance RX7

Wasn't this bright pink before they ratted it?

 

[B3RRYo]

If you rusted the whole car it'd look a lot better.. All or nothing in my eyes. But fair play every1 needs to experiment (Y)

 

[2Damnsly Andy]

If you rusted the whole car it'd look a lot better.. All or nothing in my eyes. But fair play every1 needs to experiment (Y)

Might struggle with the wings.....

 

[B3RRYo]

Could sticker bomb? Or a messy spray job

 

[JackL172]

would look awesome if you did a flush drop on those wheels! i had an experiment with a 'ratty' interior in my old clio...

 

[jamievt]

how can you get a bonnet rusty and abit of hazard tape and say its rat look nearly as bad as people who put some buckets in and a cage mounted to the interior plastics and say theyve got a 'track' car ....

 

[Ray Gin]

So, rusty bonnet = 'rat'?

​LOL.

 

[Spedem]

Can't just f**k your bonnet up then say its rat look, coilovers and wheels should be next on your list

 

[Knuckles]

I don't know much about the 'rat' scene but I do actually like your car, despite many others practically hating it. It may be ugly but it will turn heads, at a show or on the street!

This might help you for future idea's... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Iv42AOZIk

Turning heads isn't always a good thing... I'm certain if I walk through my town centre with my left nut hanging above my belt I'd turn heads

 

[Dr HMS Derv Destroyer]

Wasn't this bright pink before they ratted it?

it had been on fire when it was pink iirrc. seen it on that fast car special

 

[dmallett]

What a crock of s**t.

But if it makes you happy then stick at it

 

[Jcs]

That rx7 was awesome before they 'ratted it'

Most people defend their ratted cars by saying oooo it's different, it's really not, there's even a forum for it. Ratlook.co.uk or something.

If this had 1*2 lump or something epic then maybe I might respect it, but in it's current state, this is something I point and laugh at in the street. Awful.

 

[Ryanj]

There is difference between true rat (which you dont understand) and forced rat though.

Rat comes from (as has been said above) caring little for the exterior of the car but spending all the cash on engine/running gear. Originates from the 50's/60's in the USA when people were picking up 30's cars that has been sitting for years gaining real patina, not sanding down perfectly good cars to make them go rusty.
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wrong. What happened was; there were two blokes, one said to the other "hahahaha your car is s**t." To which he replied "no, it's meant to look like that. Honestly. It's called...umm...rat style..." Then Suddenly everyone with a rusty bucket of s**t thought, that's a f**king great excuse!

 

[JDA92]

My old college tutor summed it up pretty well, "people rat their cars when its a heap of s**t and the car is beyond repair"

 

[Haydn]

Turning heads isn't always a good thing... I'm certain if I walk through my town centre with my left nut hanging above my belt I'd turn heads

​This is true... Not advisable obviously! Hahaha...