They're not exactly hot rods and they're not exactly cars, but they sure have a lot going on. Behold: The Rat Rods of SEMA. They're not exactly hot rods and they're not exactly cars, but they sure ...

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 ...

In its 15th year, the Lonestar Roundup is the yearly confab of (mostly) traditional hot rods, with a sprinkling of trucks and customs, too. It's situated about 1300-miles from Los Angeles, and ...

The rat rod syndrome has no boundaries; it strikes youngsters, elders and it can appear in various parts of the globe. Russia is mostly known in our domain for giving birth to weird road rage videos ...

Hot Wheels took its annual Legends Tour to Detroit, a city with one of America’s most vibrant car cultures, and the results didn’t disappoint. The winner is a 1931 Dodge Rat Rod built by three members ...

A rat rod is a style of hot rod car that, in most cases, imitates (or exaggerates) the early hot rods of the 1940s, 1950s and early-1960s. The style is not to be confused with the somewhat closely ...

Danny Koker checks out five custom hotrods that scream individuality, style and power. We start in Milwaukee, with a classic ...

SAUGERTIES, N.Y. — Peter Duvaloois' rat rods are way cooler than your car. The fast machines, pieced together from vintage parts and scrapyard finds, also are rumblier, rustier and turn more heads on ...

Let's play a quick game of word association; if we say "rat rod", what would you say in return? We'd wager that "Mazda" wouldn't be the first thing to come out of your mouth. Hell, it wouldn't even be ...

The “rat rod” term gets used so much these days in America, that almost every old banger with some rust on it can be classified as one. Some go so wrong, that if a restored classic car gets no ...

This 1930 Model A rat rod is a monster of legend. With a mighty Cummins at the helm, it's a full-blown monster.

They’re sort of hot rodding’s modern art. Half deconstruction, half modern art and half post-industrial rust, which makes them 150 percent cool to look at. You can’t not look at them: made up largely ...