A year ago today was the day I thought to myself *I’m bored of car forums and I’m bored of seeing what the next sheep has done to their vehicle*.

Then I came across the many styles of ratting by total fluke on a image search.. It felt a bit like the first time I watched the Sex Pistols on TV.

I quickly came across this abused drift example and I was totally hooked!

It had to happen, it was going happen, and it did! The rest is history. Hours later the website was bought and being worked on constantly, and still is to this day.

So I type this just to say thanks to everyone that’s become part of the community and forum – you’re all a great, friendly bunch and have some fantastic cars that forever change.

For the moderators and event organisers for all their hard work, for the magazines and their coverage, for the people that love the many rat styles old and new, and even more thanks for the people that hate everything about this style which makes the rest of us bond together even more! (we love you).

All I’m left to say is – Happy Birthday Rat-Look.com!

Evening all! Thought I’d drop a quick post in before 2010 hits!

Most of you will notice a slight(!) change in the website. Yup – We’ve upgraded! Something easier to manage, so we can update you lot more often with the latest rat news, even via twitter on the top right, add further rat cars to the gallery and also a calendar on the right hand side bar so you don’t miss any of the important shows or meets this year! Click each link on that and it’ll take you straight to the thread you want on the forum with all the info!

We’ve got a few tiny things to clear up still, but hopefully it’ll add enjoyment to the website for everyone involved. Expect another update shortly with other news.

That’s all for now folks!

Check out the evolution of Pete’s ratted 306 Estate from scratch Here…

Firstly, The date is now set for the New Year Meet and it is going to be on Sunday 10th January 2010 at Hooters, Nottingham NG2 3AS. This is the warm up meet before April’s big RL meet, so if you’re free, get your name down! This will be the first of many rat-look.com events planned for 2010, as we’re aiming to dominate all the major UK shows this year too!. If people thought 2009 was the year of the rat scene, they’ve got another thing coming..

We’d also like to thanks all the publicity we’ve been getting recently from everyone! Retro car mag hit us up with a mention for our first major meet a while back, Performance Ford magazine have mentioned us in the latest issue that features a couple of Rat Fiesta’s, and FastCar Magazine did a entire issue dedicated to the Rat Look, with pictures of our big meet, links to our forum and many of our members having their own feature! (great work guys)

Well done to Rob with his Nissan Assassin and also mada2607, Sophers and VWB and their Xmas themed photoshoot- both won this months December ‘Mainsite Banner’ competition – Pictures will be uploaded onto the mainsite shortly! We also have on the cards some funky Rat Look Merchandise that you’ll soon be able to wear. We’ve currently got some Dog Tags being created with the help of VWB that you can purchase already, but we’re also aiming for some T-Shirts and Hoodies to be available soon – We just need your input and help if you know of any decent places that can produce what we need for a good price!

It’s been a long time coming, but now Rat-Look.com members can get a discount through Chris Knott Insurance with your ratted vehicle (which I already have used myself for the past year) and I don’t think that you could be in safer hands. I think everyone’s sick to death of insurance companies who charge huge APR on monthly payments, have rubbish customer service or simply are a pain in the backside when you have to claim from them and then they don’t want to payout, or if they do – give you figures worth only pennies! Hence why I chose these guys. Their feedback speaks for itself. See the banner link above for info.

Tim is actually part of the forum now too, and will try and answer any questions that you may have. Give them a try when your renewals due and see what they can do for you! (don’t forget to quote “REF 986 – RAT-LOOK.COM” for the discount)

Thanks for reading guys and girls. From all the Rat-Look Team, we hope you have a great Christmas and a Happy New Year! See you on the forums and at the Rat Look meets!
Ry, Adam, Soph & Jon

Welcome to September’s update of rat-look.com. We’ve had an eventful couple of months, namely with the huge success of rat-look.com’s first official meet! with an astounding 50+ people turning out for the event in over 30+ cars, everyone had an amazing time, be it if they were ripping up the drag strip, enjoying the BBQ and beers, the cliché campfire moments or just laughing at the gawping tourists and locals as we cruised around StRatford-upon-Avon on our way to the race-track. Fastcar were also in attendance so watch out for us in a future issue as well as Retro car mag!

If you’re interested in seeing the pictures from our first event then Click Here. For all the details on what went on then check out This thread. Finally if you want to see a video then there is one on Facebook Here. Talks are already under way for next years meet with a few big surprises planned. Finally, thanks to Darren who organised the meet for us all!

Elsewhere on RL, we seen the forums grow, and a couple of the guys have been promoted to Global Moderator status, so the boards will be managed much better. Further cars have been added to the Gallery pages, and a few changes have been made. You can expect the Guides section to be dealt with properly next, along with the forum style finally being completed and the main site generally looking a lil’ bit nicer.. So watch this space.

We also have the online rat-look magazine that is currently in pre-production thanks to mykez69 and a few helpers. We’ll wait and see how this one pans out. As I always say I’d love to hear from you with your thoughts and suggestions, so get emailing on the contact page! Already I’ve had people from around the world comment on how they love the site which is great! But if you have any further ideas then that would be awesome too.

That’s it for this update though. I’m having trouble with coming up with cheesy lines to say goodbye with, so for now ‘Catch you next time when we’re even bigger and much better!’ /Cheese.