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 ...

Building a rat rod isn't for everyone. Slamming together one of these radical machines requires an out-of-the-box thinker. Someone who's willing to commit years of work to fabrication and ...

This is for all the guys who are addicted to super sizing. You know, the largest soda at the 7-11, the Camaro with the widest rear tires on the planet, and a Rat motor that must displace at least 500 ...

Roger Rentola and Bryan Dagel don't worry about waxing their quirky vintage vehicles. They are, after all, rat rods. Unlike their more polished cousins in the antique and street rod family of older ...

HIGHLAND FALLS, N.Y. - The Storm King Highway, a twisting two-lane ribbon carved into a mountainside here nine decades ago, hardly seemed the place to test the roadworthiness of a hot rod that looked ...

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 ...

SAUGERTIES, N.Y. — Peter Duvaloois' rat rods are way cooler than your car. The fast machines, pieced together from vintage parts and scrapyard finds, also are rumblier, rustier and turn more heads on ...