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Building cars is just fun to create as you go
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You don't know how it's going to look until you're finished. And it's the end product that you hope to achieve
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I don't like to copy what other people have
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I like to build cars that stand out from the others. My name is David Jeffrey and I build rat rods
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Car enthusiast David has always had a love of cars and for the past seven years he's taken that passion
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and turned it to creating some incredible and unique vehicles. I like rat rides because they're different to what you see in all the magazines
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you see the standard 32 roads do it and they're just different colours or depends on how much money you put into them is how they look and yeah
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they're just fun to drive. The original rat rod, built by David, was named Bellerat
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My daughter's name is Isabella and we call it Bala for short, so Bela and Rat
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Bellar Rat took about four months to complete. She's a small block sherry, worked so she can move when you need it to
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runs into the zoomies so you can make it loud or quiet at the time depending on
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your mood. Put the old shotgun shells on there as a airbag system so as you can see
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it's sort of made up of just lots of different parts but together they sort of make up a car You even got the luxuries of a stereo system in the sunroof The cost for Ballarat was probably around the 12 to for individual parts We been offered some good money for Bellarayette but it a personal car and I want to keep that
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David's wife Suzanne has been a fan of his work since the beginning
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often helping him by pitching in on projects. I think I'm really proud of what he creates
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It's amazing what he does in the garage. It's not, you know, it's not something that he just works in the garage and then switches off and then comes inside
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We built Browlerot first. We've built the diesel one since then. Still trying to get that through the system
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And the Rolls Royce were just finished in the last few days
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The favourite would be semi-ratt because it was done as a family car
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It towed beautifully. It's got a big long semi-trader that normally goes behind it
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Cars are always finished in some aspect, but most people think they're not finished
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finished because they're not painted or I like the best deal because it shows its history
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it's that might be a hundred years old why cover that up yes he has won a few awards he
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has won beach hop 2012 we've won beach hop 2016 with semi rat I'm very proud of David I
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think he's achieved a lot building these cars and he still continues to achieve a lot
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Winning the awards is a big achievement. Demand for a rat rod, yeah, seems to be growing against the witters of our transport industry
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But people like something different. They like to stand out. Most people, you know, want to stand out somewhere or another
