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KapitanRost is a rusty, lowered 1960 Volkswagen Beetle. Rat-look, slammed vintage Volkswagens is what they were before hoodride and that is what they are now. Yes it’s true, the hoodride website is dead, but the idea lives on. I like the cars and I did follow the website.
A Rat-look Vdub is an old vintage Volkswagen that’s been lowered and has original faded or worn paint. In the best case, the car will also have rust and patina. Mismatched panels, dents and missing parts enhance the look because they add more character and originality. Driving a Rat-looker is about making use of a car everyone else would avoid because it’s “ugly” or “beyond repair” and being able to love it for what it is. It’s enjoying your car because you built it the way you want, and not how everyone else thinks it should look.
Shit man… Now that’s a real Hoodride.
KapitanRost (Captain Rust) is a little 1960 VW thats crusty and slammed to the asphalt. Sitting outside some old boys house, uncovered for 27years, you can imagine the tin worm has got in and well and truly had a field day. But luckily the floor and heater channel bottoms completely rotted out so all the rain water just ran out and kept it pretty dry.
The build began by taking the fenders off, dropping the body off the chassis to the ground, new floorpans and heater channels welded in, Cut, turned and narrowed beam, dropped spindles for the front and three clicks at the rear drop the chassis low enough to scrape the pavement with even just a hint of a dip.
We may as well have a tasty little 1600 dual carbed motor up for it and a set of well-worn 5.60×15 Denman Elegantes on rotten 5 bolt Sprints. Completely worked over braking and steering systems and a new set of Bugpac shocks finish off the rolling stock.
A bargain roofrack with a cooler and period Samsonite suitcases, smothered with old hoodride stencils add icing to the cake.
Well it boils my kettle i tell ya!
