Hoodride/Rat style - Stylish or bad taste?

[Len]

It is being sheep like.

It is following a trend that orininated on a totally different type of car and people thinking ooooh I could do that to mine.

Its not original.

It does not fit on any vehicle newer than say the 60's - so Beetles and Campers just creep in.
It was originally on 30's and 40's styled Hot Rods.


Yes you are all little Baaaaaa lambs!

[Daz...]

Not much ever is original. Even when a new car comes out and has never been modified the first thing people do is try out "old" styles to see what works.

It's very rare that something completely new is done to a car. So even all of these amazing cars that supposedly push the boundaries are copying someone else. We are all sheep. Including you Len!

[martinb]

It is being sheep like.

It is following a trend that orininated on a totally different type of car and people thinking ooooh I could do that to mine.

Its not original.

It does not fit on any vehicle newer than say the 60's - so Beetles and Campers just creep in.
It was originally on 30's and 40's styled Hot Rods.


Yes you are all little Baaaaaa lambs!

surely people are therefore trying to be original by taking a styling trend from a different ere/style of cars and then trying to apply it to something more modern rather than following the normal trends associated with that type of car?? 

arrgh now im even confusing myself.......


Baaaaa 

[gibby]

It is being sheep like.

It is following a trend that orininated on a totally different type of car and people thinking ooooh I could do that to mine.

Putting my pedantic head on the above doesn't make sense, being a sheep is following the crowd yeah, so if someone started it on a totally different type of car then surely they would make them inovators for that type rather than sheep.

Does this mean because stone age man carved up some animal skin to cover his feet, then that makes us sheep for wearing shoes ?  

[tom26]

whoa. hope i haven't started too much of an argument here! having read all the posts so far, looks like some very valid points are being made.
 i don't think the sheep comment is entirely fair though. Are we not all guilty of taking ideas from rides we admire?

[Len]

Hey only I'm allowed to be pedantic - according to joe!  

TBH I just dont like the Rat look! Not on anything!
Even Ozz's car - I kept thinking how good it would look with a decent paint job and a nice interior!

Daz I may well become a sheep if I put a body kit on mine!

[Len]

whoa. hope i haven't started too much of an argument here! having read all the posts so far, looks like some very valid points are being made.
 i don't think the sheep comment is entirely fair though. Are we not all guilty of taking ideas from rides we admire?

Just trying to educate these heathens of the origins of the Rat look and why it doesnt suit modern cars.
Therefore any attempt to do it it on any modern car is mindlessly following a trend which is sheeplike!

[Daz...]

It's also because Len enjoys a (mass)debate.

...and because he's a sheep...bodykit 

[mase]

i think this 'sheep' lark depends on exactly wat len means.

now if your talkin about people who just follow a trend or style cause its 'in' at the moment, without actually thinkin about what they like, then i think your right, it takes no originality or imigination to copy other ideas only cause its what seems to be popular at the moment.

however, just because someone sticks to a certain style, and a certain look of car... that doesnt automatically make them a sheep, IMO its about taking inspiration from cars and look u like and creating something that u think reflects you... rather than doing what everyone else is doing in an attempt to 'fit in'

as for the rat look... it can be effective, i love ozz's mk1, and there is a green / grey camper rolling round me with faded surf / cali stickers in the windows... it just fits! but when it is produced rat, rather than natural aging, it can go so so wrong.  

[Daz...]

any attempt to do it it on any modern car is mindlessly following a trend which is sheeplike!

What if the person doing it happens to like that particular style and feels it says something about them as a person (and I don't mean it says they like to copy stuff). Does that make them a sheep?

Mase got it right - if you like something then do it. If not then don't. The only true sheep are the one's that have to have the latest mod because everyone else just happens to be doing it aswell.