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 ...

Rat Rod builder Joshua Joyce built a Cummins turbo diesel train to take his daughters to school. A custom, one-of-one ...

The phrase is a spin-off of "rat bike," which was in reference to custom motorcycles built on the cheap. The late Gray Baskerville, venerated hot rod writer, is said to have been the first to apply ...

“I get an endless amount of garbage from people about buildingrat rods, but I get just as much about them being diesel powered,” Steve says. “I grew up in the steel industry, so I was used to watching ...

Since the dawn of the 20th century and for a little over 60 years, America’s auto landscape was completely different than it is today. Companies that no longer exist for decades made insane cars by ...

Joe Kozuszek of Belleville admires the interior of an entry in Saturday’s Rat Rod Show in Grafton. Six-year-old Ethan Hosto of Worden gets a closer look at a “rat” on a rat rod at Saturday’s show in ...

Chevrolet’s Big Block V8 engines, affectionately known as “Rat Motors,” have a storied history rooted in the high-performance automotive engineering that transformed muscle cars and hot rods. The term ...

If you’re into cars, craftsmanship, or powerful storytelling, you’ve got to check out the short documentary Rat Rod . This ...

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 ...

There are birthday presents, and then there are birthday presents. You know, the amazing ones that are the polar opposite of phoning it in. This is one of those presents. So, [peterbrazil]’s wife is a ...

Rat rods are traditionally powered by fuel-burning V8s that would make environmentalists shiver with anger. This one is a little different. The following rat rod is owned by YouTuber Rich Rebuilds, ...

In the early decades of the last century, pickup trucks were not uncommon on American roads. Several companies were making them, including the time’s giants Autocar or Reo. As the one who opened the ...