Tornado Rat Rod

"Who can say when the innovative hot rod designs of the 30s and 40s shaded into the grungy rat rod counterculture of subsequent decades? And who can say when that genre was overrun by mediocre welders with endless disposable income mutilating good cars and jacking off to their own edginess in the back seat? What we can say is that this beauty comes with a moist towel as standard."

- Southern San Andreas Super Autos description.

The Declasse Tornado Rat Rod is a vehicle to be featured in Grand Theft Auto Online as part of the continuation of the Bikers update.

Grand Theft Auto Online
The Tornado Rat Rod is a highly-modified "hotrod" variant of the rusty Tornado, where several cosmetic changes were made to the vehicle.

The front section of the vehicle has been stripped down to the structure and enlarged in order to fit the massive engine in place and the large exhaust pipe stacks on the sides. The front end features a small rusty bumper with two turning lights and, behind it, two circular headlamps. The front axle is composed of a single aluminium bar with small shock absorbers and two articulated bars connected to the structure, in a similar fashion to the Hotknife and the Fränken Stange, as well as two small wheels with "Dukes" rims. The engine itself has no visible parts covering the front, exposing the rotating timing belt around the gears for the cams, crank, water pump, timing belt adjusters and idlers, as well as eight rusty velocity stacks and "TORNADO" badges over both cam covers. On the rear section, two large wheels with thick drag racing tires and "Five Star" rims were applied to the car and the rear fenders have a much larger wheel arch to fit these. The rear axle also has a heightened suspension and reinforced with another set of shock absorbers and four articulated bars. As for the middle section, however, the cabin has been left untouched, as well as the trunk and rear end.

Grand Theft Auto Online
The Tornado is powered by a hefty big-block single-overhead camshaft V8 with 8 large velocity stack carburetors, in an FMR (front-mid engine, rear wheel drive) layout, laid longitudinally and coupled to a 4-speed gearbox.

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Trivia

 * As with animated primary drives in the motorcycles of the Bikers update, the Tornado Rat Rod features an animated timing belt powering every engine pulley.