‘Ratted’ Australian VW vans at Volkswagen rally

English is a pretty flexible language, as these ‘ratted’ Volkswagen vans which were originally driven in Australia and were on display at a VW rally in eastern England, proves.

‘Ratted’ means that the paintwork is deliberately left in a pretty poor condition. At least, in a pretty poor condition if you aren’t a fan of ratted VWs.
If you are a fan, you will probably be willing to pay quite a lot of money for a well-ratted VW like these.
Naturally, I couldn’t resist writing a hopefully humorous scenario about well-ratted VWs.

Hopefully humorous ratted VW scenario

What if someone bought one of these well-ratted VWs with terrible paintwork, drove it home and proudly showed off the terrible paintwork without explaining that it’s a desirable feature, a desirable feature for which he has paid an extra several thousands of pounds or dollars.
What if this person’s loved one takes one look at it and decides that they don’t want it around, that it gives the wrong impression, that it’s a disgrace to the neighbourhood etc.
Alternatively, what if this person’s loved one decides that he only bought it because it was cheap, because it was all he could afford – and it was cheap because the paintwork is in such a terrible condition.
What if this person’s loved one decides that, for one reason or another, this VW could use a re-spray, that it would benefit from a nice new bright shiny coat of paint.
And what if this person’s loved one decides: `Hey, I’ll surprise him, I’ll get it re-sprayed when he’s out.’
‘Boy, will he be pleased when he sees what I’ve done…’