A MASTER mechanic has become the unofficial king of rat rods in New Zealand, after building a series of incredible rat rod masterpieces in his home garage. David Jeffery, of Rolleston, has always had ...

Steve Thaemert and his father put a thousand dollars together four years ago and, defying media industry trends, launched a magazine to follow the passions of do-it-yourself builders of hot rods. They ...

Danny Koker checks out five custom hotrods that scream individuality, style and power. We start in Milwaukee, with a classic ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN ANTONIO — A custom car shop in Southeast Texas will face some of the top hot rod builders in the nation in a contest that favors substance over style. South Texas Performance, based in Victoria, ...

Catawba, NC. October 27, 2015 – The Garage Shop owner Aaron Brown and his 1939 Ford street legal land speed truck are looking to tackle SEMA Battle of the Builders. The World’s Fastest Rat Rod dubbed ...

Looking over from Europe at the kinds of crazy modded pickups folks have over in the US, one is impressed by their diversity. We have canyon carvers, EVs, ones that sound like 1980s rally cars and ...

GOODLAND, Kan. (KWCH) - An effort to breathe new life into a vehicle decades past its prime nears its completion in northwest Kansas. How long does it take to build a custom vehicle? At Northwest ...

A Rat Rod is a style of hot rod or custom, “blue-collar” car that, in most cases, imitates or exaggerates the early hot rods of the 1940s, 1950s, and early-1960s. “It is a low-buck, resourceful, ...