Category: Rat Rods

Bug of the Apocalypse

[Images of ROMP found here, here and here, video here.

Rat Rod

Somewhere in California.

[Images found here, here & here. More rat rods in The Archive.]

VW Lead Sled Beetle

Not exactly a rat rod, but still cool. [Found here via here.]

1949 Mercury Cyclops

[Dieselpunk Mercury found here. Unknown original source.]

Monsterbug Rat Rod

[Photos found here & here, no other info. More rat rods in the Archives.]

Retro-Future Beetle Stretcher

Retrofuture Volkswagen prototype was designed by Mikhail Smolyanov / Solifuge Design, and he’s got a similar VW Bugsled in black. Since there are no images of modications in progress, I assume that the version above was never built.

HOWEVER, there is this:

Similar design, yet not the same. Image searches for this work in progress produced no matches.

[Top & bottom images found here. Not quite Rat Rods, but I stuck them in The Archive anyway.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

Mostly impulsive stuff previously posted elsewhere. The owl’s face (top left) is a from a linoleum cut by Gorehound Smithers.

Myomancing Hot Links

On My Own, The Muffs, (2019) The Muffs were a successful punk band from SoCal, formed by bassist, guitarist and lead singer Kim “Kimba” Shattock in 1991. Shattock suffered from ALS (aka Lou Gehrig’s Disease) for several years, and soon after recording the band’s final album No Holiday, she passed away in 2019 at the age of 56.

THIS DOG.

HO Spiral 1
HO Spiral 2
HO Dilemma

Cheese bra.

Math much?

Blues Moose Radio.

Campers and campers.

Milk pandas (and more).

Sound up for the SkaFire.

A big test is coming October 4.

Those terrifying little upticks…

Theft-proof suitcase [via Bunkerville].

Pasta la vista, baby [via Mme. Jujujive].

“We have never seen anything like this.”

Doodling on a glow-in-the dark LP with a laser pointer.
[via Memo Of The Air]

[Top image found here, unknown origin.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

More Rat Rods

[All images found at Rat Rods Rule! More rat rods here.]

Pantagruelian Hot Links

Boombada, Les Baxter (1960) From the great 1988 compilation album Swing For A Crime, this recording includes an intro clip from The Big Heat (1953), featuring Lee Marvin being firm but gentle, and then just firm.

Seahorse.

It was hot.

Dot Matrix.

Quiet modesty.

Do the Electric Clam.

Advertising honesty.

The cause of the fires.

Chiropractors be like..

Lab-grown meat looks real.

Humane Resources & Failed Interviews.

250 photo I.D. badges [via Mme. Jujujive].

A phenakistiscope of rats [via Memo Of The Air].

The first flower grown in space [via Bunkerville].

[Top image: Background story on that 2012 Ratrod unknown, found here via Tineye.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

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