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We fell in love with Mike                     The seats                    French Lake
                       Carr’s comfortable, sturdy, arr’s comfortable, sturdy,
                       C                                             are cool                     Auto Parts
                       and of course beautifully                     enough                       has been one
                       crafted seats and we’ve         on their own, but when you                 of our most
                       never looked back.              add these killer gold-fl ake   trusted friends in this whole magazine
                       Never underestimate the         cushions from Top Stitch to   journey.This year they provided a rear
              comfort of a good solid seat! These      the mix, the combo becomes   end and some miscellaneous parts,
              custom beauties are representative of    a beautiful work of art. eautiful work of art.   but above that – they continue to
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              the outstanding work at Iron Ace.                                   support our efforts and the rat rod
                                                                                  community as a whole.





                                         Our friends at Dagger
                                          provided the dimple
                                         dye set used to create                             Coker Tire may be one
                                         lots of “holy” aesthetics                          of the most prominent
                                         throughout the car. This                         names in old school rubber,
                                          look was inspired by                              but to us the company
                                              the frame.                                   and heritage represents
                                                                                          something far deeper than
                                                                                          a brand. Like the matching
                                                                                            Rocket wheels, we are
                                                                                           proud to run (and burn)
                                                                                               Coker rubber.
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             Along with stepping up long with stepping up long with stepping up   Our
            to become our presenting               f friends riends
             sponsor at SEMA, Lizard             at Mora t Mora
                                                 a
            Skin has been applied to the         Motor-
            entire underside of the car,         works
                                                                                         While not complete hile not complete
             fi rewall, inside doors, and      s spooled the pooled the                   W
             cowl… and boy, does this          r rear-end for ear-end for                at the time of writing,
                stuff ever make a              u                                          our paint-fl inging
                                               us, and have continued to s, and have continued to
                  difference.                  support the magazine, rat                 friend Monte Roach
                                                 rod community, and of                     will handle the
                                                 course our magazine                        pinstriping.
                                                      builds .
                                                                                                  Back in
                                                                                                  2011 Bryan 011 Bryan
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                                                                                                  fell in
                                                                                                  love with
                                                                                                  Rocket
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                                                                                           wheels and has used heels and has used
                                                                                          them ever since. It’s no
                                                                                           surprise to see them
                                                                                            here on our most
                                                                                           important build ever.
                 We were introduced
                to this cool technology o this cool technology
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                 when it was used on
                 Vegas Rat Rods last
                 year, and we were
                thrilled to incorporate   Ron Lahr contributed                Curt Wilson has    I In our continued n our continued
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                it into this year’s build.   several additional   NICK DAGEL   been involved een involved   effort to build a car
                 The E-Stopp push       components to         WIRING          in all the RRM    that can be driven
                 button emergency       help everything     Wiring will be   builds one way or   to the ends of the
                brake adds a level of   fi t together with    handled by      another, whether   earth, all of our oil
                safety to the car, and   the frame. A 2015   wiring guru Nick   he’s mounting   and lube is of the
                can double as a theft   Build-Off contestant,   Dagel, as with all   tires or lending   highest quality.
                 prevention device revention device   Ron brings a lot of   of the previous   mechanical   This car is proudly
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                   when hidden.       ingenuity to his work.ngenuity to his work.  Tour Rats.our Rats.  advice.  running all AMSOIL.
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