Rat rod magazine pdf

A gargantuan pipe wrench for a front bumper? Dangling wires escaping from the crude wooden dashboard? Why, this just adds to the appeal. A broadsword for a shifter—and who needs upholstery for the drilled bomber seats? The body should be channeled deep over the frame, the lower the better.

These stylistic appurtenances are quintessential rat rod, but exceptions abound. Why not, for a change, raise a rusted Ford high off the ground for off-road use? Why not create a rusty monster truckwith a single, massive, centered front tire? The soul of the hobby exudes crude, rebellious beauty. And the rat should be a shitload of fun to drive. Rat Rod Magazine is going into its tenth year. Rat Rod Magazine looks different from the others, and the articles and columns found in Rat Rod differ also.

The look of the magazine comes across as subtly more artistic than other hot rod magazines. The contents page has four small photos reproducing the title page of each featured article. These photos, stacked one atop the other on the right side of the page, are shown in low resolution, inviting a nostalgic almost sepia presentation. The respective page numbers, small and white, are directly to the left of each image. This composition is on a black field adjacent to a subliminally but sharply defined field of deep, deep brown.

Editorial information is given in small font, on the last two pages, over a close-up of a rat interior. The article on the off-road Ford has a border of monochrome strips with an arboreal motif.

Rat Rod uses double page layouts to advantage. The front cover, although a photograph, is photoshopped for the look and feel of a hand-drawn, hand-colored illustration. Some interior photographs are in monochrome. The art director Sotipops has done well. Looking closely, one can see symmetric designs drilled into the rusting doors and hood—Jones' own handiwork. Antique Coca Cola serving trays function as floor boards, an oversized bullet plugs the overflow tank, and safety pins keep the spark-plug wires together.

The cable bracket is a silver spoon. The Rat Rod has won three car-show awards, most notably the Chrome and Suede Award at a Good Guys show, where it was the only car in the winners' circle without a paint job.

To Jones, the car is complete. And seat belts. It should have seat belts. Calla Cofield. Click here to download the pdf version of this article. Physicists are revisiting what they previously assumed about how dark matter interacts with itself. This month, Symmetry presents a series of articles on the past, present and future of quantum research—and its many connections to particle physics, astrophysics and computing.

Inventions like the transistor and laser changed the world.