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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cale Lohr from Greensboro, North Carolina wanted to build a custom rat rod pickup with a rip snortin’ LS V8 under the hood. However, he also wanted something unique, something hardly anyone had even ...

I've accepted that I have an acute talent for losing hideous money on cars, but this scenario is extensive and ends in just plain blackmail. Let's go back to 1998 when I decide to build a Rat rod '28- ...

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 ...

Honest Charley Speed Shop was a landmark in Chatanooga, Tennessee, for years. When they went out of business, Corky Coker, of Coker Tire, bought the name and the old building so that Chattanooga ...