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 ...

If so, your opinion on rat rods—and by extension, diesel rat rods—may be informed by whether you are already invested in traditional hot rod building (pre-1949 hot rods) and the long history of ...

Too impatient to build your own hot rod Chevrolet pickup? If you answered yes in your head (and let’s be honest, you probably did) you are in luck because one in mint condition has just entered the ...

MINI did build a bunch of strange cars over the years. However, none of them had any link to American car culture. On the other hand, this random rat rod build we found is pure creativity and deserves ...

If you read Jp magazine with any regularity, than this is not the first Jeep rat rod you have seen on our pages. While they will likely never be as common as TJs with long-arm suspensions and 35-inch ...

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 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 ...

I enjoy local car shows, and several events can be found nearly every summer weekend in the suburbs of Detroit. I like classic survivors, muscle cars, and well-executed restorations, but I usually ...

What once was the empty shell of a 1931 four-door Chevrolet sedan is now a lean, mean racing machine. Members of the Chattanooga Rat Rod Association spent the past year in sporadic fits of cutting, ...

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 ...

Tucsonan Artimus Gil has no problem driving a vehicle that looks like it came straight out of “Mad Max: Fury Road.” In fact, it is kind of his thing. Over the last decade, one of Gil’s primary rides ...