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When choosing the correct tire for your project, you need to keep in mind a few things:
1. Comfort
Are you doing a lot of driving? If you are, then you might want to keep a taller tire with moderate air pressure. This is no problem for a Rat Rodor some Muscle Cars. A tire with a wide sidewall has some give to it, giving you a gentle ride. Plus most Rat Rods have fat whitewalls and need a taller tire to be able to show it off. Smaller sidewalls or "rubber-bands" as they are referred to are hard on comfort and drive-ability, but are excellent for handling and are mostly seen on Resto Mods and most Hot Rods. These wheels go from 17" to over 22'.
2. Performance
As we mentioned previously, taller sidewalls do not handle as well as a low profile tire. Most people in Rat Rods are not exactly tearing up the mountain roads at breakneck speeds. Nor is anyone really thinking about going much over 65 mph in a jalopy. Most modern Hot Rods and Resto Mods have modern suspension and or air suspension and with the proper wheel/tire set up can reveal Corvette-like handling.
3. Looks
And most important of all, how will my rust bucket look? Again, as we said before, fat whitewalls are traditional Rat Rod tires. Wrap them around a set of 14 or 15" steel wheels and you are set. Muscle Cars always look good with the factory wheels. For extreme originality, some go to the extent of getting the reproduction bias-ply tires. Although not as good as a radial tire, they serve the purpose, but it wouldn't be a bad idea to invest in some spare wheels with a good radial tire for consistent driving. Modified Muscle Cars also called Resto Mods are very popular with their use of big wheels, skinny tires. Many wheel companies are offering reproduction style wheels at a bigger size so as to improve the handling and not sacrifice looks. Hot Rods go to the extreme with large wheel sizes. These are usually high dollar billet aluminum wheels. Keep in mind, high dollar wheels wear high dollar tires!
I hope this is a good guide to get you started in the right direction for your quest to find the right wheel and tire combination.
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Rat Rod vs Hot Rod
A Rat Rod is difficult to define but you know when you see one! They are often based on cars from the 1940's to the 1960's but some examples are as recent as the 1970's. Some Hot-Rods are assembed from a selection of parts usually dating around the 1930's.
To the people not familiar with Rat Rods these cars may appear unfinished and shoddy but that couldn't be further from the truth. Rat Rods were originally developed as an alternative to the glossy high-price Hot-Rods which were never driven and trailored to shows. Rat Rods are all about the fun of building and driving them and appearance take second place. The majority of Rat Rods that are seen at the shows will be dented and rusty but importantly they will have been driven there. If a part needs to be replaced then the owner will often fabricate the part themselves of fit a part that does the job equally well. If the Rat Rod is painted at all it is usually matt black or primered and often will have Maltese crosses on the doors and skull accessories such as the gear-shifter.
For the builders of these cars it is all about building a car that performs well both in speed and acceleration as well as handling and braking. For that reason the majority of the 'comfort items will be stripped away such as headlining, interior trim to give the best power to weight ratio possible. Many of the cars have heavily modified bodies and are often roof-chopped, channelled, lengthened, shortened etc.
The typical choice of engine for a Rat Rod is a V8 which would probably be a Ford Flathead V8 or an early Chrysler Hemi.
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How big of wheels could I fit onto an old VW Beetle?
I'm building a rat rod from miscellaneous pieces I'm finding. I'm thinking about modifying some old VW Beetle fenders to accommodate the stuff I already have, but how big of wheels can I fit onto a fender of that sort without using rubber bands as tires?
you can get the fiberglass wider fenders with flare, any size will fit! I've seen 15x 10 wheels on the back, but stick with 6s on the front!
Dallas Braden ready to put perfect game behind him
Published: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 8:24 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 8:24 p.m. ARLINGTON, Texas - A few hours after throwing his perfect game, Dallas Braden was back to being the kid from Stockton, Calif., hanging out with his dog and fish.
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