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 ...

You've probably heard of hot rods, street rods, and rat rods before, but there are quite a few distinct differences to them ...

You have two tank tracks, the cab from a 1947 Mercury 2 ton truck and a Chevrolet Small Block V8 laying around your farm in rural Ontario, Canada, what do you do? Why you build an insane V8-powered ...

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 ...

His latest project is a little different though because instead of a flood-salvaged Tesla, he's starting with a salvage-title Zero electric motorcycle and a Ford Model A rat rod. Yeah, you read that ...

The rat rod. It looks like it belongs in a music video or on an old ZZ Top CD cover.’’ Neither of us knew exactly what this rat rod was, so we started chatting up its owner, Ron Henning of Tarpon ...

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SAUGERTIES, N.Y. (AP) — Peter Duvaloois’ (doo’-vuh-LOO’-iss) rat rods are way cooler than your car. The fast machines are pieced together from vintage parts and scrapyard finds. They are rumblier, ...