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I’d venture to say our local honda enthusiasts would say this is an old trend. How about a plaid bra on the front of an integra?
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z157/mustardmadman/DSC04934.jpg
moawdtsi:
The older I get, the faster things appear in my rear view mirror. Or, alternatively, the later I show up for shit.
BTW: that Burberry bra looks photochopped to me. And not very attractive.
It’s real, here’s another couple of pics.
http://www.kcsr.org/viewtopic.php?t=255718
I have a picture of a Cutlass Supreme in otherwise great condition, besides a hood off of a car involved in a fire. I too don’t get this trend.
As a long time TTAC reader, I have to say, this post made me register.
Rusty hoods are a half-assed perversion of Hoodrides. For those not aware, it’s the vintage-VW-scene equivalent of rat-rods. However, it has spread to other, less Nazi-based makes, but seems to be based primarily on sanded-to-metal hoods. I do not understand this.
There’s a guy on the Scionlife forum who sanded down the hood on his xB, proclaimed that he didn’t care what anyone else thought, and then proceeded to attempt to rip a new cornhole on anyone who told him he was a car-ruining ass.
Ratrods and Hoodrides only work if they don’t come about deliberately. Got an old car that looks like crap but goes fast? Hell yeah! Sanded all the paint off the hood of your late model sensible compact car? You’re retarded!
How on earth someone would think that a rusty hood looks attractive is completely beyond me.
All these yrs of driving rusty old heaps and now I’m stylish. In 07, the hood on my 330kmile 88 BMW 528e succumbed to metal fatigue on the left side latch mount. I found a 2″ long screw and screwed that corner of the hood to the fender. I drove from Ellijay GA to Hartford CT non stop and never opened the hood.
Andy D, how does it feel to be a trend setter?
The hood is non-structural and easily replaced, so oxidation really isn’t an issue.
Honestly CF is so overdone that I think the rust looks better.
Compared to the idiots that spend thousands on wheels, bodykits, wings, etc., these people simply going down to home depot and geting a disk sanders for their drills seems downright logical.
I would never do this, but compared to other tuner trends this isn’t so bad.
As others have said, this is obviously rat rod inspired. I wonder how long it will take for people to take the fenders and hood off their civics and just drive around with a front bumper and grille like a classic hot rod.
It’s ‘tards like this that give teenage Civic owners a bad reputation.
Maybe this is pre-post-apocalyptic art?
I don’t see many tuned/modified cars on the roads anymore. I see a lot more clunkers.
I submit that the Burberry-esque plaid bra/mask on the front end of the Integra was installed by a very bad person, or at least a person who really doesn’t like Integras. I mean, the front end of US-market Integras is the least attractive part of the car as it stands, but you don’t need to go overboard. In any case, a very bad person was involved. No word whether any LOLcats were harmed in its application.
Considering how disturbing this is, I need to go downstairs and check on my car, make sure the stock front end clip is there with all the lovely scuffs/whatnot.
mtypex:
It was most likely done by a chav, which is even worse than a very bad person.
I understand why some people have 20 inch wheels and other upgrades, they want to impress others. This is saying that I can’t afford to pay for a decent hood.
I thought I was ghetto-chic and edgy when I bent the antenna on my Camry during high school into a zig-zag and removed the wheel covers. My dad was none too pleased about that; I imagine I would have gotten the belt had I done this… on purpose.
As if rat-rodders doing it on purpose (seriously… it’s cool if the car is a bajillion years old and was rusting in the first place, but stripping primer to encourage rust is just desperate…) wasn’t bad enough… now we have wannabes doing it?
My car is a more authentic ratrod than some ratrods are… the two thousand rock chips, scraped bumpers, faded headlights on my otherwise clean and tidy car scream “I don’t care about looks” more authentically than any rust- or black-primer mod in existence.
That and my ghetto straight pipe exhaust.
@niky :
Your car isn’t chipped, scraped, or faded. It’s developing a patina. That’s what I tell people about my xB. So far, it works. Besides, rat rods are only cool if they occur as a consequence of age and cheapness, so I think we’re both on our way there.
A skilled engineer at my former employers had a Subaru WRX outfitted with a rusted hood finished with clearcoat to preserve it.
@paul_y: Patina… I think that’s the perfect description.
People sometimes ask me if I feel bad about my faded paint. I look at the car, calculate the cost of new paint versus the cost of another high-performance mod, and… well… I guess the results speak for themselves.
There is a guy on a miata forum who has a rusted hood on his car. the thing is, since the miata has an aluminum hood stock, he had to buy a cheap steel replacement hood to stick on it.
@kurtamaxxguy:
I think we have to revoke your car nerd card. Subaru Impreza WRXes have an aluminum hood which doesn’t rust. Aluminum will oxidize, but it takes a very long time and just makes it dull looking and forms a barrier to further oxidization.
So unless your friend had a regular Impreza, the hood won’t rust.
@paul-y and niky you have it right.Its like prewashed denim or distressed furniture you can’t buy it you got earn it.
I’ve got you all beat.
I was a grouch 20 years ago when the idiot young started wearing caps backwards on their heads, with the sun visors pointed straight back.
I also didn’t really like, athough I think I a least understood the context, idiot young wearing too-large pants mounted well down below their ass, dragging in street, and shuffling along like they are desperate for a toilet. The prison shuffle. ??. My own nice clean bright smart professionally employed niece who is just now finishing her masters degree, still dresses like that on weekends. She drives a stinky old yellow Escape with several weeks of crap fluttering about inside and a pair of 18″s in a box out back. Hat on backwards.
She acts OK face to face.
I eagerly look forward to the next fashion trend. What will it be — mud? Hail dents? Bullet holes? Rear-end collision damage?
This country is going to hell. And get off my lawn!
I kind of like it on some of the older civics. These two in particular pull it off well:
http://memimage.cardomain.com/ride_images/3/2823/222/32055110938_large.jpg
http://memimage.cardomain.com/ride_images/3/2823/222/32055110951_large.jpg
I’ll get off your lawn now…
paul_y :
“There’s a guy on the Scionlife forum who sanded down the hood on his xB, proclaimed that he didn’t care what anyone else thought, and then proceeded to attempt to rip a new cornhole on anyone who told him he was a car-ruining ass. “
HA! I remember that! I was about to post the exact same thing, in fact.
Wasn’t that a riot? I imagine the situation is much the same everytime one of these hood-sanding boneheads appears on a car forum.
“Wait, tell me again why you’d want to use a belt sander on the hood of your car?”
“SHUT UP I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU THINK”
Who are you on SL? I’m ZOMGxB. Don’t tell nobody. :p
The rusty hood isn’t complete with a roof rack filled with the castoff decor of the local TGIF on top.
I like a worn old car, there’s an appeal, but I’ll never understand guys who take nearly brand new cars and top it with a rusty hood (like the blue GTI in the gallery).
Paint and clearcoat add weight. The lighter bonnet combined with the downforce provided by the tunable rear wing will help keep the rear wheels firmly planted for maximum traction.
Oh wait, this is a FWD car.
Nevermind then – now it’s just plain stupid.
Does this mean that all of those rust old Fiats and Alfa Romeos from the 1970’s were actually ahead of their time? I can’t wait for cracked bumper covers to be considered hip and trendy. How about broken side windows? The possibilities are almost endless.
@JuniorMint:
I’m WhoKilledTheJAMs.
It ain’t fair. You work and work to have a nice rusty hood on your Civic, and then you have to paint over the stuff on your rear fenders.
It’s like when you start going bald at the same time as ear hair appears.
Looks like abstract art for the masses!
I’m down for it.
@ Rusnak_322
Stripping the paint and color anodizing an aluminum hood would be cool, but buying an old steel hood for it to rust?
Street gang tags on the sides and roof and tail will be next…
Unless the metal actually flakes off, a well-rusted steel hood is probably heavier than a pristine one, due to the combining of oxygen with the iron to form iron oxide.
And, it’s just dumb, like getting an Izod alligator tattoo, or something.
Just like baggy jeans and tiny bicycles were born out of poverty only to become cool, rusted hoods are just a kid running out of money to finish the job, now become an art form. Nothing more..
WOOHOO!!! I can be cool now! The hood is the only body part on my old Saturn that will actually rust. Who’d have thought that an old SW1 could be cool. Now where is my belt sander.