Rat-look - hot or not?

[Wayne]

Only really works on older cars.

[danny_p]

cars  with a rust bonnet  or just all the paint stripped arn't rat they are sh!t.

a proper RAT car  imo  is a car that has rusted / aged naturaly  and some nutter has spent all there money when restoreing it on the motor, so it should be fast,  trying to make a car rat look actulay removes the rat look as your effectivly doing bodywork ( even tho your f**king it up )

a rat look car  is an ol shed that no ones done anything with  as in it looks sh!t and it's not even fast

[thai-wronghorse]

cars  with a rust bonnet  or just all the paint stripped arn't rat they are sh!t.

a proper RAT car  imo  is a car that has rusted / aged naturaly  and some nutter has spent all there money when restoreing it on the motor, so it should be fast,  trying to make a car rat look actulay removes the rat look as your effectivly doing bodywork ( even tho your f**king it up )

a rat look car  is an ol shed that no ones done anything with  as in it looks sh!t and it's not even fast

I concur. Anything else is just w@nk.

[mjr]

Can understand this look on some old campers and beetles but not seen a RAT golf that looks anything other than ridiculous. Just my 2p

[SoundillusioN]

Can understand this look on some old campers and beetles but not seen a RAT golf that looks anything other than ridiculous. Just my 2p

This....

I am yet to see a rat Golf that I properly like, well I saw one once, it was a genuine barn find that looked fecked, the new owner got it road worthy and left it at that.  However, at no point was he trying to be scene, he just thought that it should solider on as he found it and respected it for doing so.

[AnDub]

not

[Yann]

I like the rat look but it's gotta be done properly with the same attention as you would to a top show car and it has to be the right car/bus for it to work. It's not as easy as throwing paint stripper and letting rust, thats not rat look thats a shed. It also takes a lot to keep but on the right car done properly looks as good as any show car. Well that's what I think

[CL-SID]

Each to there own, life is boring without diversity...

However, I struggle to understand why you would minic something that developes natural though. Surely there are enough sheds out there. If someone wants to find a knackered mk3 and sort the engine and running gear out then its a rat. To take a perfectly decent golf and screw it up is just insane. 

[Mr Blue]

A few guys on here are running rat look. Lewy, JV and Thom89 all have ratted mk2's


Have I seen your motor in the bed-of-fraud area? by chance?

[berpsta]

cough http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=237637.0