Noticed the ad says rear disc brakes. Says the front brakes don't work and they are drums anyway. :) Ken Quoting "amcyclopedia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <farna@.MISSING-HOSTNAME.>, MISSING_MAILBOX_TERMINATOR@.ERROR., UNEXPECTED_DATA_AFTER_ADDRESS@.ERROR., farna <farna@xxxxxxx>: > : > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > You just have to be careful looking at something like that! The "rat rod" > craze has hit hard, and some people throw together whatever junk they have > and call it a "rat rod". Some I've seen recently are plain death traps -- > they shouldn't be on the road at all. This one looks rough, but if you look > closely at the details you'll find that it's fairly well put together. There > are good welds (they have been allowed to surface rust -- doesn't hurt > anything) and things like brakes haven't been overlooked. The rear axle has > nice heim joints and such. It would still need a close inspection before > actually buying/driving, and it won't be registerable for the road in some > states. you can't see everything in the photos, but there's enough good to > think the builder built it with the intent to make it reasonably safe to > drive. That it was driven in the 50s and 60s helps a little, but not much. > Might be a fun car, but for $11K I could throw something together in a > similar fashion. Finding > the old > body and chassis would be the hard part, but then a true "rat rod" was built > with what could be found. > > To bad it doesn't have a big Twin-Six in front though, or even a straight > eight! > > > Frank Swygert > Publisher, American Motors Cars > > > _______________________________________________ > Amc-list mailing list > Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.amc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/amc-list > _______________________________________________ Amc-list mailing list Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.amc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/amc-list