Anyone who is at least passingly familiar with custom cars has probably at least heard of the concept of a hot rod. A hot rod is, of course, a custom car designed with the express purpose of going as ...

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 ...

Jeremey Rainey's Volkswagen Beetle rat rod is the definition of the "built not bought" slogan that so many hot-rodders live by. He purchased a rusty 1964 bug and went to work on the blank canvas.

A 1928 Dodge from his late grandfather started it all for Steve Darnell ofVegas Rat Rods. "He was a World War II vet, he was a bad-ass, and he was the nicest guy on the planet. I rebuilt the car and I ...

General Motors’ Oldsmobile brand has been sent to car Valhalla for a while now (since 2004, to be more precise), but that doesn’t mean its vehicles have been forgotten. Let’s take the Oldsmobile 88 ...

If you read Jp magazine with any regularity, than this is not the first Jeep rat rod you have seen on our pages. While they will likely never be as common as TJs with long-arm suspensions and 35-inch ...

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 ...

A Westmoreland County man is looking to turn his Steelers-themed hot rod into money for UPMC Children's Hospital. With the power of the original Steel Curtain, Shawn Smith's Rengage Rat Rod rocks the ...

It may surprise you, as it did me, that there is actually a car collector category called rat rods. One might compare a rat rod to some modern art sculpture that not everyone can appreciate the ...