Rat Style Clio - My first car

[Ratted_Clio]

so i know a lot of yous on this site dont like modified cars that much, but meh i feel like sharing my car with yous anyway. I bought this car as my first car in august of last year for a whopping £400 and since then it has somewhat changed. the first thing i done was buy fog lights for it from a scrap yard, next was the sound system (i dont have any photos of it...its a 10 inch sub in the boot ) and some clio alloys. that is when i realised i was going to go for a rat look with my car seeing as it was so cheap for me to buy! i bought a metallic blue bonnet out of a crap yard and grinded down to bare metal and let it rust in the elements, i also got a renault espace splitter and fitted to my car along with a cherrybomb back box, next i had to put the steel wheels back on due to bald tyres....so i painted them red and blue. and recently i got the lend of a set of rota RKR's for the day and i took some photos.

 

[Addicted]

People like modifications, but tasteful ones.

I think you need a flamesuit, as no offence but it's turned into what looked quite respectable into scrap!

​Each to their own and all that though.

 

[BoatNonce]

FFS, I actually need a Ph.1 bonnet in Gris Boreal. Yours appears to have gone all rusty though.

 

[Alan]

Christ.

 

[Kelv]

Erm, lost for words.

what a pile of .....

 

[banther]

Looks gash

 

[DannyBhoy]

um...

 

[-Danman-]

Not really my cup of tea.

I like the Rota's though

 

[Heez]

 

[Daz.]

See if it was an actual rat I would have no problem.

But all you have is a standard car with a rusty bonnet - so therefore it's stupid. I actually like the odd rat but yours simply isn't it.

 

[alexr19]

I thought this style had died.... As long as your happy. Welcome to CS

 

[alexr19]

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[aucky]

Words, I have none.

 

[Craig.M]

Um, I don't like it, so am out

but, it's your car, as long your happy with it.

I thought cherry bombs were illegal?

 

[gez 172]

Ohhh my eyes!

Looks a tidy cheap little runner when you first had it.

Now it looks like a moving scrap yard...

You'd have been better off buying cleaning products and just keeping it looking like a fresh/clean respected first car.

 

[Sunglasses_Ron]

It's 4am I am unable to sleep. I come onto CS to see what's happening and find this. What are you thinking! It's f**king hideous!

Now I feel sick and doubt ill be getting back to sleep anytime soon.

 

[JDA92]

Guys come on be nice...

personally mate it needs a lot more work to be "rat style" I'd take the bonnet off put a decent one on and then work on it from there, but each to their own.
heres a picture of my mates old rat fiesta, in all fairness though it was half way to rat style when he bought it...

 

[Scott™]

Looks mint on the rotas. Now get that bonnet sprayed

 

[.GAZ.]

:O

 

[Adamm.]

What drugs are you smoking? I want some.

 

[182Turboo]

Thought rat was dead :/ and well buried

 

[Rubicon_]

Quite like the last couple of photos.

 

[martynzs]

Trying WAY to hard, and still failing. The originators of true 'Rat' look will be turning in their graves knowing the current trend is for 17 year olds with small engined hatchbacks slapping on a rusty bonnet on and thinking that makes it rat...

If you left it standard with just a nice drop and the ROTA's it would be a different story.

 

[Lawro]

We like modified cars, within reason.. What is modified about that? Seriously, it is just rusty and has Ronald McDonald's shoes as wheels.

 

[Ratted_Clio]

i can actually say that these responses are exactly what i expected hahaha, and i know it is not 'rat' enough but as i said i have only had the car 7/8 months so i am still modifying it as i go. i will try to make it look better with a set of coilovers and possibly a set of 13 inch deep dish retro wheels. though i am happy to see some people actually saying they don't like it but they don't care, bit of a change from all the rest of the people on here hahaha

 

[Ex-User (36231)]

Wasn't the idea of these to have a sh1tter on the outside and a MINT engine bay?

 

[Ratted_Clio]

Wasn't the idea of these to have a sh1tter on the outside and a MINT engine bay?

no the idea for this sort of style is to make the car look like a moving skip, on a decent set of wheels and a nice note to the exhaust it hahahhahaha

 

[Dan...]

You should have left it as it was .. looked a tidy first car for 400 quid

 

[Sam]

Who the girl?

 

[Ratted_Clio]

Who the girl?

i have no idea hahaha, i was coming out a car show that i was entered into and she sat on my bonnet and had her picture taken :L she even patted down her ass when she stood up in case it was dirty lol

 

[Knuckles]

Isn't the whole point of RAT to fix broken things with parts of other modes of transport for little to no money?

so purposefully going out and damaging a bonnet to fit it to a perfectly sound car kind of defeats the object of RAT.

​and Cs does like mods, fyi

 

[r&skxa]

On the painted wheels it looks awful, on the Rota's it's passable. I quite like it. It great to be different, so carry on! Maybe a VAG car would have been a better choice as you could have picked up a MK3 for peanuts.

 

[Lal B3N]

FLOL at that Fiesta picture being "rat".

 

[Knuckles]

Wasn't the idea of these to have a sh1tter on the outside and a MINT engine bay?

RAT stands for Recycled Automotive Transport, and is about keeping your vehicle on the road for as little as possible, often borrowing parts from other cars.

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[Ratted_Clio]

sorry guys for writing yous didn't like modified cars, i just said that from the stories i have heard about this site. but i can see yous do like modified cars....within reason

 

[martynzs]

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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[JP83]

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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Agreed. I hate this forced rat style on modern cars. It doesn't work, and looks s**t I'm afraid to say.

Saying that, true rat didn't even involve any "sprucing up" or maintenance. You treated the car like you stole it. I've not really seen a rat car I like. Rat bikes on the other hand, seem to do it justice.

 

[Harpham]

I don't think it's as bad as people are making out. Not my cup of tea, but its a decent first car.

 

[.LiamC.]

I'm almost liking that, which is worrying... :what:

 

[Chapster5]

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