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Rat Rods are typically interpreted to be the Hot Rods kids build during the 1930s - 1950s, using modern parts, and originality. Rat Rod designs and styles take quirky shapes from any era of car and use these shapes to hopefully build a radically designed car. Rat rods are an existence, it's a way to go overboard, but not be caught in keeping your car pretty. In most cases the uglier the better. Rat rods are big, traditional street rods are bigger, and muscle cars are ridiculously out of sight. But there's still the '33 Ford roadster, the essence of a hot rod and a car that has been done every which way including Sunday.

Rat rods are for individuals who want to experiment with engine performance and other features while keeping costs to the bare minimum. Rat Rods are one of the most popular concepts going these days. Rat rods are for fun! Rat rods come in many flavors: coupes, t-buckets, pickups and even newer vehicles are being converted into "unfinished" rat rod style cars.

There's no concern for original or authentic parts or trim, and they're often dotted and splotched with patches of primer -- because hey, a car doesn't need paint to be driven, right? Rat Rods are meant to loosely imitate in form and function, the "Traditional" Hot Rods of the era. Biker, Greaser, Rockabilly, and punk culture is often credited as influence that shapes of Rat Rodding. Rat rods are inexpensive cars put together by street rodders who don't want to spend a fortune on fancy design. Rat rodders spend little money, but their cars turn many heads.

Rat rods are a throw back to the days when most of us couldn't afford to have a really nice car, so instead of spending money on the appearance, the drive train (motor, tranie, rear end) received the attention. I think maybe wistfulness is the driving force behind the old car craze. Rat rods are hot-rods that looks unfinished and/or old and/or abused and they are often painted only with primer instead of glossy paint like hot-rods usually are. I feel these cars are like punk-rock was/is for the music industry. Rat rods are often powered by flatheads, straight sixes, straight fours and other relatively uncommon engines such as those made by Cadillac and Studebaker.

The author of The Rat Rod Pimp would like to take you back to an early era of FAST CARS and tricked out rides.

Drive better electrically

The same energy source that lights up your living room, amps up your microwave, burns up your toast and executes convicted felons in Alabama is about to fuel up your automobile. Every forward-looking carmaker has either one in their pipeline, in concept or on the drawing board. But the electric car is actually an old idea.

The history of electric vehicles

Funny enough, electric engines have been around since the mid-1800s. Europeans have been getting about via electricity for nearly 200 years. The first American-invented electric engine was developed by a Vermont blacksmith named Thomas Davenport back in 1834. Of course, his battery-powered vehicle was only big enough to transport an undersized lab mouse and could only run until it ran out of track. However, Davenport’s small achievement was foundational in creating the first American electric streetcar systems. Later, the London Underground developed the first electrically fueled underground rail in 1884. But it wasn’t until 1895 that Americans seriously focused on electric vehicles. In that year, A.L. Ryker produced and marketed­––of all things­––an electric tricycle. By 1897, electric taxi cabs were being manufactured for bustling taxi trade in New York City. It wasn’t long until electric cars were being developed and mass- produced by every major automobile company: Studebaker, Edison, Columbia, Ryker, Baker, Woods and Anderson. Names, most of us have never heard of. Then in 1925, another new concept car had been developed­: the hybrid. That’s right, a part gas-powered, part electric-powered vehicle. Sound familiar? However, the Woods cutting-edge hybrid automobile was a bust. It was too slow, too expensive and too hard to service. Hmmm.

By 1912, the average home had been rewired for electricity. With that, infrastructure was no longer a problem. These new-fangled electric cars started to take off. In fact, the electric car had the lion’s share of the automotive market. These electrified autos were far easier to operate than those complicated gas-powered vehicles that came equipped with a very intimidating gear shifter and an odd assortment of pedals. The electric motors were quieter than the rattling roar of that hellish internal combustion engine. And they didn’t leave your clothes reeking of gasoline. All in all, very civilized.

Then, suddenly the brutish gas-powered car simply left its electric cousin in the dust.

What happened? Texas struck oil.

Back with a vengeance

But the quiet, civilized electric car is back en vogue. Nissan has its Leaf due out in 2010. General Motors has its all-electric Volt also in production. And America’s cities are gearing up for this not-so-new technology. Recently, Mayor Bill White announced a plug-in hybrid program with as many as 10 charging stations around his large metropolitan city. The city? Houston, Texas. Oil town. Ironic, huh?

Oddly enough, electric cars bode well for the hometown of Mobil, Shell and Chevron oil. They will help the Texas natural gas industry, which provides much of the state’s electricity. And wind power, another booming Texas energy source, may become much more popular for those needing to charge their vehicles overnight.

Just think! You plug in your hairdryer, your coffee maker and your electric toothbrush. Pretty soon, you may be plugging in your car. Just like your great grand-dad used to do.

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I found a few pages to The Atlanta Constitution newspaper issue no. 49, and it is dated august 3rd 1930!?

on one of the pages it advertises "free wheeling Studebaker's contribution to motoring - the sensation of 1930! What is free wheeling? this is the question that thousands of motorists are asking. free wheeling is the second milestone in automobile development" it goes on to say "you shift from high to second, back and forth at 40-50 miles an hour, and never touch the clutch" "you need use the clutch only to start or back up" " the braking power of your engine is available as readily as in conventional cars" "for the first time in a motor car you can get the full benefit of momentum automatically. When your car has gone 10,000 miles your engine has only "worked" only 8,000 miles" "you save 12 per cent on gasoline, 20 percent on oil - even more in heavy traffic" could anybody help me figure out how much this is worth?

your Atlanta Constitution newspaper is worth $200.

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