The phrase is a spin-off of "rat bike," which was in reference to custom motorcycles built on the cheap. The late Gray Baskerville, venerated hot rod writer, is said to have been the first to apply ...

Not one single thing on this 1947 Chevrolet pickup build seems to be sourced from the vehicle. This is rat rod at its finest. A vehicle that runs in the bare minimum of ways, and turns heads doing so.

We start our rat rod truck adventure in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where our man Jesse Kiser attended the Heavy Rebel Weekender rockabilly music festival and car show, a hardcore Mecca for ...

Holley LS Fest in Bowling Green, Ky. is full of unlikely engine swaps and heavily modified hot rods. One of the most interesting attendees this year was this 1973 Plymouth Duster riding on a chassis ...

It's not a street rod, but it's "driveable art" that is bound to attract attention at this weekend's Street Rod Nationals East in York. The "Dady Rat" was built by three generations — father, Johny ...

The 1947 Chevrolet Rat Rod you see here looks as if the builder fused together an Ariel Atom and old rust-bucket. While that isn’t the exact DNA of this machine, it is a Frankenstein build with parts ...

When talking rat rod stuff, a 1957 Chevy Wagon isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind. Nonetheless, this is exactly what we are dealing with here and it’s all a superb piece of rusty metal.

The rat rods have my full attention. I finally found a show truck no one cares if I touch. And these things are something else, let me tell you. They might not be shiny, but they’re sure as heck ...

The rad rod is, as Sam Hard of Hard Up Garage oh-so-eloquently describes it, “this and that, and this and that.” Builders, the community and the automotive media are quick to put labels on what a rat ...

It may surprise you, as it did me, that there is actually a car collector category called rat rods. One might compare a rat rod to some modern art sculpture that not everyone can appreciate the ...