W hen you conjure up visions of rat rod trucks, you might be inclined to think of vintage haulers in a highly devolved state ...

What you're seeing is the hot rod's rebellious younger sibling, the rat rod. The original practice of hot rod customization can be traced as far back as the 1920s, with gear-minded teenagers ...

While the definition of rat rod can be up to some debate, we're creating our own category here. This, in our minds, qualifies as a rat rod rockcrawler for reasons that should be obvious.

The winner is a 1931 Dodge Rat Rod built by three members of the same family and powered by a twin-turbo Cummins diesel engine. While the truck is labeled as a Dodge, we’re not seeing much that ...

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.

Can it be called a rat rod? Regardless, the vehicle is fresh out of the oven, having made its debut last week. Whether you'd like to smash this Charger back to its original form or would prefer to ...

Prius Repellant, the world's most famous diesel rat rod, is built by the guys at WelderUp. The whole Internet knows that car from the famous "F**k you and your Prius" memes. Of course, pollution ...

Steve Darnell, the creative force behind Welder Up, in a promotional shot for Vegas Rat Rods We’ve been having great fun watching Vegas Rat Rods on Discovery, so we thought it was time to take a ...

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 rat ...