We round up our top 10 favorite diesel- and gas-powered rat rod builds from over the years. ... typically lacking paint, showing rust, ... but Matt saw the pickup as a challenge.

HOT ROD Staff Writer Dec 01, 2009 It was Round 2, and we were back at Rubio's Auto Body in Sun Valley, California, to put the finishing touches on project Brutus.

The Baur family that entered the truck was on hand and I spent a few minutes with them learning the story of how the truck came to be. It seems the interesting rat rod was the vision of 83-year ...