Let’s embrace the enthusiast passion… even if we don’t always understand it. I was recently having a conversation about a car show, with a colleague, when he launched off into a rant on the inclusion of “Rat Rods” in this show. For those unfamiliar, Rat Rods are an “homage” to the early days of the hot rodding movement. However, these rods are made, by design, to look rough and unfinished—with flat black paint, or rusty panels, for example—to distinguish them…
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