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 hot rod dates way back to the 1920s, but found its cultural footing in post-World War II America. Soldiers armed with mechanical training picked up cheap Ford Model Ts and found ways to make them ...

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 ...

Regardless of being admired or mocked, rat rods are a work of personalization. They harbor innovation instead of conformity, functionality instead of precision, and enthusiasm instead of refinement.

Back in the early 80s, Uncle Sam decided to equip its ground troops with something-on-wheels that would go anywhere, carry enough firepower to orchestrate a coup by itself, take a beating if needs be, ...

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 ...