1950 Merc suicide door rat rod

this is a 50 merc rat rod just goin for a ride. original flathead w/3 on the tree

** update **
u people are psychos! rat rod hot rod blah blah blah... who cares? this isnt a legal document. i use the term rat rod. its an old black car that could use a once over to be nice, black rims no hub caps and the interior is busted! it runs and drives and is as good as its gonna be with the amount of money i am willing to put into it. its a rat rod.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• merc
• mercury
• dave
• churilla
• 50
• 49
• 51
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• chopped
• hot
• street
• rat
• rod

[dans91widow]

I painted my '91 toyota pickup satin black only because it had ugly faded red paint(pink) and gay ass graphics up the side, and I wasn't going to stand for that. And then I found a set of rims for my truck in a junk yard and painted them red and put some cheap ass white wall tires on it. And I lowered the truck 3" all the way around. But I don't call mine a rat rod or rat truck. But people seem to like it, even the traditional rodders where I live because they've never seen it done before.

[user232345]

you're in denial. it's a rat truck. it sounds derrogitory but it's not. good luck with it! Deuce

[ng596]

i actually own a car just like it. black with blue pearl. all original 56k on the original flathead v8 with a 3 on the tree. it's a lead sled low rider. and nowhere near a rat rod.. rat rods are okies who wants to be that.. and no original flathead is a hotrod.. sorry... best car ever built keep it unchopped and with the . only beaners do that.. if you have a link where you purchased the visor please let me know.. i have the skirts and the squirrel cage air conditioner already

[fordv8man]

@dans91widow Sounds cool for a 91 Toyota- better than 22 inch chromes etc YUCK!!!

[Triole666]

To me a rat is tatty, rough around the edges and kept in mechanically sound condition no matter what the car is. A rod is a rod (hot or street), fenderless, chopped, channelled and what have you. A ratrod to me is a combination of the above. Like your car eitherway :)

[SlickD217]

Shes a beauty.

[moparmaniac21]

I go by; hot rod being your typical deuce coupe nothing to special but not basic, street rod being your chromed out custom rods with A/C and sound systems, and rats are bare, ugly, and bad to the bone. Lead sleds are the late 40's and most 50's full size cars that are low and slow.

[aworange91]

I'd lower it more ;)

[dunn98632]

flathead three on the tree love it

[parentalpa]

Nice! i had a 51 that ran a small block with stock 3 speed box. the guy who owned it before had fucked up the ride but it was a cool head turner.

[leedsninja]

sweet!

[mageac]

well a hot rod is modified for performance and a rat rod is just made cheaply, like they did in the 40s and 50s, the others in my opinions are types of hot rods