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GRETSCH G5410T ELECTROMATIC “RAT ROD”

RRP: $1,899

If you spend enough time glued to the gogglebox, you’ll find you can’t move for American car restoration shows. The plots are always a bit on the thin side. And there’s usually a stupid deadline… a deadline that can’t possibly be met. Yet something that looks as though it was pulled from the trash compactor on the Death Star is transformed into a sleek new conveyance with minutes to spare. Every. Single. Episode.

Quite often these shows will produce something described as a “Rat Rod”. Beloved by rockabilly cats and kittens, these things are the antithesis

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