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 ...

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 ...

BMW 2002 makes for one unique rat rod [w/video] The enthusiast world typically falls into two camps: those who love rat rods and those that loathe them. As with every corner of automotive world ...

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.

What happens when you take a hot rodding icon and turn it into a rat rod? You end up with the coolest junkyard ride in the country and deserve to break the internet without a huge butt ...

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 ...

This rat rod look is perfect for the kind of hacked-up roadster that a Tesla-powered Cobra necessarily is. Those drivetrain components don't fit the car as delivered by AC, it needs to be heavily ...

A rat rod shows its colors, or lack thereof, on Saturday in Grafton. Chuck Darnell of Quincy, right, talks about his 1960 Cadillac show car during Saturday’s Chop Rod Ramble. A visitor admires a ...

In fact, it is kind of his thing. Over the last decade, one of Gil’s primary rides has been his rat rod, “Shackrat Sally,” a vehicle pieced together using parts from different makes and ...