I agree!

Same

@@toddtouchberry👍👍

putting the radiator in the back is from drifting and autocross

@@kylee.woyote7237 considering the only information of it is coming from racing, i'm confident that that's where it came from edit: especially when literally all of the tutorials on how to do it are on drift and road race builds

True on KW having round holes and Pete having slots, had both trucks

You can literally order that exact piece of perforated sheet metal with the margins off of McNichols.

Gross!

"Excellent engineers/fabricators" I thought the whole point of the rat rod aesthetic was to have a car that just looked like it was tacked together from old parts aka: antithetical to the idea of "excellent engineering."

What I imagine is the piece of chrome is laying on the ground in a scrap pile and the guy says, "what's that from" "Old kw" "Can I have it?" "Sure"

Totally agree!

I like the look. I’d prefer the power of the v8 tho if it were mine. Nice to admire all the unique builds out there.

I was thinking it was a 4 because he has so much of it tucked back under firewall. I do need some education though... I'm only seeing 4 exhausts and 3 intakes... they share intake in pairs, and middle 4 share middle two exhaust?

@@vernzimm I thought that also. I must take a closer look again when I have time.

No such thing as too much horsepower

Agreed. Never heard that before and I've been watching Dennis on tv for probably 20 years

He helped created the formula for Pringles chips , hence the mustache dude on the can.

@@rdhudon7469 No shit!?!

looks like he is really putting that degree to good use

RD . NO FKN WAY

I quit reading Petersen Publishing magazines when they became a subsidiary of GM: “Look what we shoved a 350 and 350 into this month.” Maybe they weren’t owned by GM, but Petersen sure was cozy with GM.

@@kennethjackson7574 many of their publications used to be great. Then Hot Rod Magazine stopped featuring actual Hot Rods and Car Craft stopped focusing on customizing. Street Rodder became "lets show you to weld Brand X IFS kit into your frame" and of course as you say, the obligatory 350/350 instal feature. I much prefer originality and creativity over cookie cutter rodding!

The 6- cylinder rat-rod is probably a joy to take through windy roads.... Nice wide low-end power curves are what inline 6's are known for.... Several very nice cars there... This one was probably a JOY to take through the Twisties, with it's equal weight distribution, very Low C.G. and wide stance... I imagine that log manifold with the good sized plenum and the 4 single barrel GM carbs really gave this engine some pulling power in the bottom to mid-range.... Very nice set-up! It would be really cool with a Kandy green paint job!!!

@@michaelmartinez1345 Now you're talking! Candy green with purple pinstriping, tuck and roll upholstery, chrome reverse rims with whitewalls, sixties show car style!

@@martinharris5017 Yeah!!! That car would look AWESOME with work like that!!!! I really like the rear mounted radiator to evenly distribute the weight over the four wheels, and that low C.G. and wide stance!!!! That thing probably handles turns like a go-kart!!!! The in-line 6 he's using is an excellent choice for tractable-smooth power delivery through the turns....I would install a couple of aftermarket sports-car bucket seats up in front to keep both people firmly / comfortably placed, with some decent shoulder belts... Yeah, that thing would be the big fun on the photo that was shown of the road winding through the mountains....👍

no doubt he would. that car is the definition of ratrod and probably the coolest one ive ever seen and im 51.

I agree, i like some big rims, but not on every single damn car on the planet

I think most tires have sidewalls. The tread would just fall off if they didn't.

@@tyttuut On most newer cars the tread is just wrapped around the out side of those huge diameter ghetto reehuums. It has to have a bead molded into it, but no actual sidewall.

@@geraldscott4302 That is super wrong.

@@tyttuut No it's not, they literally have under once inch of sidewall. Basically can't make it any smaller because it's to the point where it's just a super built up bead with a tread. Even new OEMs are using there stupid huge wheels for looks. Ride is terrible, weighs a lot, and they bend constantly. But, it masks ugly disproportionate body lines.

They generally fall into a "homebuilt/kit car" category depending on the state. The other option is to use a factory built chassis that has a vin number and existing title. Home built cars has to adhere to some very basic road standards, like light size, placement, output, brake lights, indicators etc there's a bunch of other qualifying needs to get a title and register it but none are all that difficult to accomplish and still build something this unique and "rough". If using an existing titled factory built chassis and registering the vehicle under that existing vin/titke you have to adhere to whatever the standards were at the time the chassis was built. Example would be if the safety equipment requirements at the time the original donor was built required a lap belt, your build needs to have a lap belt and even that only applies to states that require periodic safety inspections to maintain registration. Insurance can be a different animal and most states make insurance a requirement to register so you could face difficulty getting sone wild build insured but from a basic state vehicle requirements standpoint it's practical free reign on what you want to build. Compared to the millions upon millions of factory built cars on the road - rat rods, hot rods, classic restomods etc make up such a small percentage of vehicles on the road that most states see it as a non-issue to leave their legality very open. The line of thought is if you are driving a custom built car with no airbags, seat bets, roll over protection etc and you get hurt/die in a car accident that's on you, you knew the risks.

Washington doesn’t have inspections

Wish we had some more freedom like this in europe

@@LukebeingLuke I think Australia has a good compromise with modified automobiles, from what I understand you may modify your car but an engineer has to sign off on it for safety reasons. In some parts of America it's not uncommon to see cars bouncing down the road because of bad shocks/struts , worn out suspensions and structural damage to the body and chassis.

there's still places in the country that don't have inspections at all. if it's insured & has turn signals on it you can register it

The conversation was struck via Forrest and many of the Knuckle Skrapers are also UofI Alum. Next time I see Dennis at a show I'm gonna shout "YOU VANDAL!"

Amen !

Yep. Nothing says progress like turnip cart suspension and carburators...

Rallye cars and Hillclimb cars have been doing this since like the 70s

what you see on youtube is not the majority. there's a lot more ppl building cars than you think, nobody ever did stop building wacky cars, you just don't see them.

@@Comfy_Bed glad to hear it.

I would think that with the right know how it could be reasonably affordable. I'd love to do a straight 6 Ford 300 hot rod.

Rumor.

@@rockettcustoms6266 not a rumor

All those things are true.

@@MyClassicCarTV pringles daddy!

It reminded me of a 240z

I thought the same thing. Maybe that's all the pipe he had.

I think it might also have been made that way to be proportional to the windshield. Many rat rods I've seen try to adhere to a 'dollar bill' windshield height which is about 6".

Nice to know abit of his history, a chemist by education.

Welcome and enjoy!

Thanks for watching!

Hell , I'd buy a bunch .