We start our rat rod truck adventure in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where our man Jesse Kiser attended the Heavy Rebel Weekender rockabilly music festival and car show, a hardcore Mecca for ...

You have two tank tracks, the cab from a 1947 Mercury 2 ton truck and a Chevrolet Small Block V8 laying around your farm in rural Ontario, Canada, what do you do? Why you build an insane V8-powered ...

His latest project is a little different though because instead of a flood-salvaged Tesla, he's starting with a salvage-title Zero electric motorcycle and a Ford Model A rat rod. Yeah, you read that ...

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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 ...

The mid-size Chevrolet Chevelle is a storied nameplate even though General Motors’ division only produced three generations for the 1964 through 1978 model years. As a great representative of the GM A ...

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 ...

Regardless of being admired or mocked, rat rods are a work of personalization. They harbor innovation instead of conformity, functionality instead of precision, and enthusiasm instead of refinement.