If so, your opinion on rat rods—and by extension, diesel rat rods—may be informed by whether you are already invested in traditional hot rod building (pre-1949 hot rods) and the long history of ...

Wikipedia defines a rat rod as "a custom car with a deliberately worn-down, unfinished appearance, typically lacking paint, showing rust, and made from cheap or cast-off parts. These parts can include ...

Don’t really know what you guys consider a rat rod, but the amount of work and details put into this truck here definitely moves it to the upper hot rod class for us. Yeah, it has a rusty shell, but ...

We're not sure where the recent kink for diesel swaps has come from -- other than maybe an abundant number of Dodges finally retiring from under their Cummins turbo-diesels and ending up in junkyards ...

Rat Rod builder Joshua Joyce built a Cummins turbo diesel train to take his daughters to school. A custom, one-of-one hand-built rat rod designed after a coal mining train, The Rail Rat turns heads ...

The definition of a rat rod implies, among other things, that it should be built with used or cast-off parts. Rich Benoit’s Ford Model A fits the bill, but can it still be called a rat rod if it has ...

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 ...

You may have heard it elsewhere: Rich Benoit, from the Rich Rebuilds YouTube channel, bought himself an electric motorcycle. From savage, to be a bargain, but the frame was in such a poor condition he ...