We start our rat rod truck adventure in Winston-Salem ... artist Randy Grubb in 2003 when I shot his infamous Blast-o-lene Brothers' Big Bertha—an old Seagrave firetruck that was converted ...

Where aesthetics, audacity and functionality meet is a rat rod like no other: The Big Hooker. Designed and built by Brandon Kibbee from Kansas, this tow truck is both a showpiece and a utility ...

The Ram 1500 TRX may be the modern benchmark for performance trucks ... But the owner of this rat rod solved that problem by dropping a massive, 8.8-liter big-block V8 under that rusty hood.

Chevy's 454 engine sets the standard for all other big-blocks. Most fat-block development centers around the popular Rat motor ... bearings and large-chamfer rod bearings, both of which are ...

The truck got its name because a big bundle of rats’ nests caught fire when Berry’s Builds first started wrenching on it. As you might imagine, there’s been a lot poured into this rig since ...

From 1965 through 1976, car shoppers could get a new Chevy with the "Rat" big-block V8 ... I know about the boat-anchor 366 big-block engine, which was a miserable truck-only plant with a ...