A hot rod is, of course, a custom car designed with the express purpose ... What you're seeing is the hot rod's rebellious younger sibling, the rat rod. The original practice of hot rod ...

W hen you conjure up visions of rat rod trucks, you might be inclined to think of vintage haulers in a highly devolved state of decline, barely hanging onto a basic definition of ...

It had to be a personalized rat rod. “I chose Rolls Royce mainly because it’s a British car and it was built in England,” Sam explains. The team that ended up working on the build was ...

Jerry Riley of Florissant had an Opal GT in high school, which he sold after joining the US Air Force and being sent to ...

which annually hosts the Hunnert Car Pile-Up, one of the largest pre-1964 traditional-style hot rod and custom shows in the country. He says, "To me, a rat rod is a vintage car that's been hacked ...

Minter’s rat rod — based off a 1929 Model A frame that ... vehicles on display at the fifth annual Central Washington Custom Car and Cycle Show. Event producer Derek Snelson, who is also ...

He now specializes in building rat rods - the spectacular custom cars that mix old and new parts and often emulate the hot rods of the 1930s, 40s and 50s. Qatar pushes back on reports of $400M ...

When most car enthusiasts see ... He wanted a rat rod, a tow truck, and something with a supercharged engine—and ended up getting all three in one custom truck. The truck's cartoonish ...

Julie Moen of Port Angeles, right, points to the quirks of a “rat rod” built from a 1928 Ford Roadster by Dennis Broderson of Port Angeles, in the drivers seat, during Saturday’s Kiwanis Car Show at ...