The rat rod is any hot rod that has been unfinished, shabby or incomplete look, which allows a lot of room for creativity. The rat rods are vehicles made on the concept of the classic hot rods but ...

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 ...

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 ...

Peggy told me that it is a hard vehicle to categorize, possibly falling into truck, rat rod or other miscellaneous categories. Roy Baur founded Baur Trucking in 1956 and still runs it to this day.

Quincy Jones lived for 50 years after attending his own memorial service. When the musician suffered a brain aneurysm in 1974, his chances of survival were said to be so slim, and his stature so ...

To create a rat rod out of a hot rod, you need to inflict deliberate, controlled damage upon it with the ultimate goal of creating something rugged and lived-in. It's kind of like acid-washing jeans.

The Declasse Tornado Rat Rod is one of the GTA Online Halloween vehicles that doesn’t provide much other than an appealing look. Despite being powered by a pretty hefty big-block single-overhead ...

Rat rod trucks exist on a continuum, from barely-safe-to-drive to high-speed-track-warrior. These examples of rat rod trucks will help you fine-tune where you stand.

Rebellious rodders first started building rat rod-style road machines 60-plus years ago, but the term "rat rod" only made it into gearhead parlance sometime in the 1990s. This coincided with a new ...

Have you ever wanted to see an Audi R8 with nearly 2,000 hp drag race a 1927 Ford Model T rat rod with 960 hp? No? Well, we're here to give it to you anyways, or the madmen over on the Hoonigan ...