LIMA — A customized vehicle is much like a tattoo: It’s personal and highly cherished. Many Rat Rods seen today have gotten their start from the basic cars of the 40s, 50s, and early 60s. The rat ...

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 ...

The “rat rod” scene has been around the hot-rod world for some time. It seems the early-model custom truck culture has come to accept the “rat rod” truck trend and its lifestyle. For some conservative ...

A lot of cars may have "bells and whistles," but today's Nice Price or No Dice GMC has wings and horns and lights and stripes—most of which are primarily for show. Let's see if this wild rat rod truck ...

In the world of custom builds, rat rods are a special breed. Ugly enough to be unstoppable head turners, these machines are if you like the ultimate sleepers, sending all the wrong messages to the ...

No one who builds a rat rod is concerned with taste—fight me. When the goal is to be as weird as possible, who cares if the paint is scuffed, or if the wheels are all the same? Better yet, just throw ...

BURBANK, Calif. -- The sound of steel scraping across concrete is music to the ears of Louis Marton. It's just his big 1941 Dodge truck converted into a low-riding "rat rod" truck pulling into a ...

Wikipedia defines a rat rod as "a custom car with a deliberately worn-down, unfinished appearance, typically lacking paint, showing rust, and made from cheap or cast-off parts. These parts can include ...

Though rat rods‘ ethos is to look weathered and worn-out, it doesn’t mean they can’t be showcases of dilapidated beauty. Possibly the grandest example is this 1946 Chevrolet cab-over beer tanker truck ...

Where aesthetics, audacity and functionality meet is a rat rod like no other: The Big Hooker. Designed and built by Brandon Kibbee from Kansas, this tow truck is both a showpiece and a utility vehicle ...

Rat rod trucks have been around for a while but their popularity—and their controversy—is growing. When you conjure up visions of rat rod trucks, you might be inclined to think of vintage haulers in a ...