The phrase is a spin-off of "rat bike," which was in reference to custom motorcycles built on the cheap. The late Gray Baskerville, venerated hot rod writer, is said to have been the first to apply ...

Porsche's name doesn't normally land into the same sentence with the term "rat rod". Then again, French builder Alexandre Danton doesn't create normal cars, so his latest project, the one you are now ...

Customized Lamborghinis aren’t all that rare. Tap a few letters into Google, and you’ll come up with all sorts of Raging Bulls wearing outrageous body kits, clad in colors bright enough to make Ray ...

NHRA racing is fun and all, but it can become stale due to the strict regulations imposed on every series. Racing outside a pro league is where things become a lot more interesting, as you can stumble ...

What once was the empty shell of a 1931 four-door Chevrolet sedan is now a lean, mean racing machine. Members of the Chattanooga Rat Rod Association spent the past year in sporadic fits of cutting, ...

Ian Wright joined CarBuzz as an automotive journalist and photographer in 2018. His career started with specialist publications, covering everything from Harley-Davidson to Ferrari. Before writing for ...

Let's go back to 1998 when I decide to build a Rat rod '28-'29 Model A roadster pickup after scoring a complete, bone-stock rolling chassis and drivetrain that a neighbor had liberated from a ...

Joe Kozuszek of Belleville admires the interior of an entry in Saturday’s Rat Rod Show in Grafton. Six-year-old Ethan Hosto of Worden gets a closer look at a “rat” on a rat rod at Saturday’s show in ...

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. Kerry ...

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 ...

I enjoy local car shows, and several events can be found nearly every summer weekend in the suburbs of Detroit. I like classic survivors, muscle cars, and well-executed restorations, but I usually ...