Page 18 - Issue 33

PHOTOS & WORDS BY ROBIN HETCHLER

By nature, rat rodders don’t need to fi nd a reason to hit
the road and spend a day cruising in their “built to drive”
machines, but for one tight knit family of Mid-Western rat

rodders, a reason found them. Over the 2014-2015 holiday
season three of them lost their fathers to various types
of cancer and a fourth member of the group’s father was
also diagnosed with cancer. The extremely close timing of

these events seemed some sort of calling and inspired the
group to start planning their areas fi rst rat rod benefi t cruise.

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