W hen you conjure up visions of rat rod trucks, you might be inclined to think of vintage haulers in a highly devolved state of decline, barely hanging onto a basic definition of ...

As he began the process, he found several layers of Bondo and as he peeled the layers, he noticed the character of the car and decided to make it a rat rod. The rat rod is a hot rod with an ...

More often than not, whenever you say hot rod you say Ford. For many customizers, the Blue Oval is the go-to make to create stunning custom builds based on or inspired by vehicles from many ...

where a cheaply made custom motorcycle was referred to as a rat bike. According to Hot Rod Magazine (and who would know better?), auto journalist Gary Baskerville is credited with co-opting the ...

Justin Combs and Cuba Gooding Jr. were dismissed from Lil Rod’s lawsuit after a judge ruled the case wasn’t properly served by the court’s deadline. Justin Combs and Cuba Gooding Jr. walked ...

Aftermarket forged crankshafts, rods, and pistons have been around forever ... the Gen III/IV Chevy LS, and the Gen III Dodge Hemi. These are the most popular late-model fuel-injected engines ...

Now in its 38th year, Mecum/Indy 2025 has been the platform for tens of thousands of those sales (minimum), which include some of the most revered factory-built hot rods of the 1960s to 1970s ...

On episode 25 of HOT ROD Garage, host Tony Angelo tries something new: a diesel engine swap! Watch him take a 1973 D200 with a badly shaking 400 BB, yank it out, and cram a 1995 Ram 2500 Dodge ...

All the way back on episode 5 of Roadkill, David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan spend 24 crazy hours with a 1930 Model A Rat Rod and a 2012 Lamborghini Aventador to find out which wildly impractical ...