He said he pursued the art because he couldn’t afford to pay someone $200 or $300 to pinstripe his hot rod. Among his pinstriping peers is 31-year-old Tanner Leaser of Arlington, Texas.

Does patina and/or flat paint make it a rat rod? See All 48 Photos. Worn paint or a primer finish is one characteristic of rat rods, ... This rough old roadster must be a rat right, right?

His next venture will be a 1934 Ford pickup rat rod for his 16-year-old son, Colby, who is learning how to drive. And, with 13-year-old son Carson, there may be another car project down the road.

We're about to give you some guidance on rat rod wheels but know up front that we do so with a certain amount of trepidation: it's hard to paint lane lines on a road that hasn't been paved. This ...

They are often Frankensteinian amalgams of old cars put together - the cheaper and dowdier, the better. Rat rods represent, in part, a populist revolt against the platinum-priced world of hot rodding.

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.

The 1948 GMC 3100 rat rod is a perfect ... 1948 GMC 3100 Rat Rod Is Why Old Broken Trucks Are ... they take old, mostly nonfunctional machines, and turn them into works of mechanical art.

The valley already is home to “Counting Cars” and “American Restoration,” reality shows that take old things and make them look nice and shiny. “Vegas Rat Rods” (10 p.m. May 19 ...

We know that all things aren't always what they seem, and such is the case with Ron Balduzzi's 1948 F1 Ford pickup, an old rat-rod looking truck that's anything but. His truck is all Ford, but not ...