1932 Ford Rat Rod With 900 HP Top Fuel Blown GM V8 Is as Over the Top as Cars Get
This 1932 Ford rat rod might just be the wildest build we’ve seen to date, thanks largely to its top fuel dragster-blown GM big block.
In the automotive enthusiast realm, there are many different types of builds and styles that folks have come up with over the years, but perhaps none of them are quite as over the top as the rat rod. Typically, folks take vintage cars, chop the roof so that you can barely see out of the windows, slam them to the point where they’re basically scraping the ground, and stuff ridiculous amounts of power in those machines to make them rat rods, then leave their patina intact – oftentimes, while adding various parts to the mix that come from all kinds of creative places. This 1932 Ford rat rod is a perfect example of its breed, and it certainly checks all of these boxes with ease.
This wild, seemingly difficult to even drive 1932 Ford rat rod was featured in a recent video from AutotopiaLA, and it clearly left quite the impression on our host – not to mention everyone that spotted it being filmed on that particular day. It’s owned by a fellow named Griffin Steinfeld, who has always had a thing for rat rods – which is also true of his father. He stumbled across a builder of such rides on on Instagram who goes by the name Rat Rod Jeff, a man that has developed a reputation for building those types of machines, albeit with copious amounts of power to boot.
Rat Rod Jeff just so happened to have a 1932 Ford Model B body laying around that was previously slated for another project that wasn’t going to happen, so that made the perfect place to start. From there, Jeff transformed a sketch of the desired finished product into what we see here in just 10 months, adding a full roll cage, chopping the top to the literal extreme, tossing on some massive rear meats, and gifting this machine a truly insane powerplant.
That powerplant is an all-aluminum, tall deck, 565 cubic-inch big block Chevy V8 with a Brodix block, AFR 385 Magnum heads, a Holley EFI setup, and the proverbial cherry on top – a massive supercharger lifted straight from a DSR Top Fuel Nitro dragster. The car that piece came off of made around 11,000 horsepower, but in this more road-friendly guise, still helps the big V8 crank out an easy 900 ponies – which is more than enough for the street in a package like this.
As one might imagine, this vintage Ford rat rod looks and sounds truly insane driving down the road as a result, with driver and passenger donning hearing protection to save their ears for that test drive. It’s a truly stunning build by any measure, and provides us with a pretty easy explanation as to why folks love rat rods in the first place – there’s just nothing else like them, after all.
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