QUOTE (nferno @ Oct 20 2009, 09:03 AM)

Its all horses for courses. There is just as many unsafe rat rods/customs as there would be minitrucks. Alot of the rat rods ive seen i would not even consider safe, just accidents waiting to happen.
Engineering for Customs/rods is totally different than a normal street car though.
There is a lot more leniency in the laws for starters and what might be considered unsafe on a load bearing vehicle with weight above 1000kg, might be a different story on a 600kg non load bearing rod. Look up the National guidelines for the construction of street rods in Australia, you will be surprised with exactly what you can get away with in a rod versus a street car here in Australia.