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EVER wondered what happens when you put an electric motorcycle motor into a rat rod? Well, one car fanatic has the answer. Rich Benoit, a YouTuber from Gloucester, Massachusetts, has created something ...
The Rat Fink Reunion is open to the public year-round when Trixie is in town. The hours are Wednesday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday and Friday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 9 pm ...
It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, which means it’s also too quiet. Time to disturb the peace with another Polaris RZR body swap. This one will make Henry Ford roll over in his grave ...
It all started with an old, displaced 350 Chevy engine. Now, more than three decades on Taranaki's Steve Cashin has produced the rat rod of his dreams, a 2013 Replica Durant. For many years Cashin ...
The hot rod scene is awash with jargon. Some of the terms sound cool, but it isn't always immediately obvious what they mean. Don't worry, we're hear to help.
My 20-year-old gutters were rusting, and that’s why I was up on a ladder with a steel brush, a cleaning brush, a cleaning rag, a paint brush and a bucket of silver roof paint.
It seems the interesting rat rod was the vision of 83-year-old Roy Baur, founder and owner of Baur Trucking of Cahokia Heights.
AN ECCENTRIC mechanic has converted a London taxi into a crazy rat-rod van in just seven days. 44-year-old Paul Bacon, from Leicestershire, spent over $600 on a traditional black cab and with the ...
They’re also called Rat Rods, and while no one thinks of them as vermin, you might say these cars and trucks are far down the food chain from a ’59 Cadillac or a ’37 Cord.
Rat Rod owners are car cats with the sense to allow their vehicles the dignity and respect to grow old gracefully. Candy Apple red metallic paint, at $12,000 a coat, was unavailable when a Chrysler ...
Thus, the rat rod was born. The term "rat rod" is believed to have been coined by Hot Rod Magazine Editor Gary Baskerville, who used it to refer to a junked-up hot rod owned by artist Robert Williams.
Famous creator and analyst Broughy1322 also tested the Declasse Tornado Rat Rod and found that it can complete one lap in 1:18.277, which is a disappointment even though it has decent acceleration.