{"id":63526,"date":"2019-07-02T09:55:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T16:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=63526"},"modified":"2019-07-02T09:55:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T16:55:18","slug":"calendar-car-chris-floods-1931-ford-rat-rod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/calendar-car-chris-floods-1931-ford-rat-rod\/","title":{"rendered":"Calendar Car: Chris Flood&#8217;s 1931 Ford Rat Rod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jetpack-slideshow-noscript robots-nocontent\">This slideshow requires JavaScript.<\/p><div id=\"gallery-63526-1-slideshow\" class=\"jetpack-slideshow-window jetpack-slideshow jetpack-slideshow-black\" data-trans=\"fade\" data-autostart=\"1\" data-gallery=\"[{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/may_2cars-min.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;63528&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Calendar Car: Chris Flood\\u0026#8217;s 1931 Ford Rat Rod&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Calendar Car: Chris Flood\\u0026#039;s 1931 Ford Rat Rod&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Click Here to Begin Slideshow\\n\\nChris Flood\\u2019s 1931 Ford Rat Rod is the May Calendar Car, and a star in its own right. Chris built the car for his wife, starting with a 1931 Ford body that his wife\\u2019s cousin had lying around in his junkyard. The body was in Chris\\u2019 garage just a few days later and a project idea was born.\\n\\nLittle more than a shell in the garage, the Rat Rod was clearly going to be a ground-up build. Chris started with the frame \\u0026#8211; 2\\u0026#215;3 square tubing \\u0026#8211; then returned to the junkyard for an appropriate rear end. The drivetrain was eventually recycled from another project car, with a 355 Small Block Chevy motor dropped under the hood. More trips back to the junkyard and plenty of swap meets later, the Ford was complete. With floors made from old fencing and seats made from patio chairs, this monster carries the Rat Rod ethos all the way through. \\n\\n\\u201cReliable\\u201d and \\u201cRat Rod\\u201d aren\\u2019t always compatible concepts, but Chris made sure this \\u201831 Ford wasn\\u2019t just for show. It has traveled all the way from Wilwood, NJ to the Adirondack Nationals in Lake George, NY and to a multitude of shows in between. Chris also drives a 1954 Ford Customline (which we caught in this photoshoot as well), and you can find him and his wife at numerous events and shows with their gorgeous cars.&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/may_ratrod_car_2-min.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;63531&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Calendar Car: Chris Flood\\u0026#8217;s 1931 Ford Rat Rod 1&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Calendar Car: Chris Flood\\u0026#039;s 1931 Ford Rat Rod&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/may_cars_w_model-min.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;63529&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Calendar Car: Chris Flood\\u0026#8217;s 1931 Ford Rat Rod 2&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Calendar Car: Chris Flood\\u0026#039;s 1931 Ford Rat Rod&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/may_ratrod_car-min.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;63532&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Calendar Car: Chris Flood\\u0026#8217;s 1931 Ford Rat Rod 3&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Calendar Car: Chris Flood\\u0026#039;s 1931 Ford Rat Rod&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/may_green_car-min.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;63530&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Calendar Car: Chris Flood\\u0026#8217;s 1931 Ford Rat Rod 4&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Calendar Car: Chris Flood\\u0026#039;s 1931 Ford Rat Rod&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}]\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Chris Flood\u2019s 1931 Ford Rat Rod is the May Calendar Car, and a star in its own right.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":63528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3711,3700,3470,4879],"tags":[5566,4396,43,4892,5666,41,117,3846,4303,3934,4888],"class_list":["post-63526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classifieds","category-featured-vehicles","category-news","category-slideshow","tag-car-features","tag-featured-cars","tag-ford","tag-galleries","tag-james-cavanaugh","tag-news","tag-racingjunk","tag-rat-rod","tag-rat-rods","tag-rj-calendar","tag-slideshow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/may_2cars-min.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-gwC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63533,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63526\/revisions\/63533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}