Rat Wrecker

[hemithunder]

I’m waiting for a set of wheels for another build so I decided to start another one… Too many on the bench as it is, but as you know it IS a sickness.

Lower part of the cab is from the ‘Lil Gasser. The top is a highly modified Chevy Luv bed cap. Fenders from a 32 ford, grill is an old Mercedes, The frame started life as a 1:32 scale Volvo semi, and the engine is a V12 Lambo out of a Contach sp? The boom is scratch built from household stuff, mostly.

[hemithunder]

Here are a few more pics.

[rlz58]

Pretty cool ,Great imagination.

[Tony T]

Pretty cool!

Countach. (pronounced "coontash")

Edited April 25, 2010 by Tony T

[jedimastergary]

Looks like a great build nice idea for a build use stuff around

the house for it

[RodneyBad]

Cool looking Wrecker ya got goin on.

Way cool..

[walt francis]

This baby just screams coooooool.

[Nick Winter]

Very interesting concept, one question, is that '53 Ford in the backround wearing a chevy bed? or are my eyes slipping.

[hemithunder]

Very interesting concept, one question, is that '53 Ford in the backround wearing a chevy bed? or are my eyes slipping.

Good eye, Nick, it surely is.

Thanks for all the nice comments, guys. I decided to change the tire and wheel set up today and hope to get some pics of that up later.

[Chuck Most]

Looking very cool so far- I've planning to build a rat wrecker around that cab I chopped in the January issue- this ought to prove inspiring!

[Nick Winter]

Good eye, Nick, it surely is.

Thanks for all the nice comments, guys. I decided to change the tire and wheel set up today and hope to get some pics of that up later.

I have a Ford bed you can have if you want, I can stand to see intermingling of truck parts.

[hemithunder]

I have a Ford bed you can have if you want, I can stand to see intermingling of truck parts.

That's ok, Nick. I like mixing up parts, thats how they (we) did it in the old days. Check out my 40 coupe build in the underglass section and you'll see what I mean. I'm from the school of "build what ya got". As a kid my dad had a 53 f-100 with a 55 Chevy bed on it, so I'm going to give it to him when I get it done. Keep watching the bench in future pics of my other builds and you may end up seeing the entire build up of it a few pieces at a time. I work on it whenever I find a piece that it needs.

[hemithunder]

Here are a few progress pics. The new wheels CHANGE everything about the look of this project. Comments not only welcome but encouraged!