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 ...

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

As a sub-culture of the car hobby, ol' skool rods or rat rods as they are often called, is growing in size and importance. For example, ol' skool cars play an expanding role each year at the annual ...

The best analogy to describe the difference between hot rods and rat rods is that you'd proudly take home and introduce a hot rod to your parents, but on your deathbed, you'd still remember the wild ...

There is no carmaker out there with as much influence over the custom industry as Ford. The Blue Oval has been making cars pretty much since cars were invented, and that in itself isn’t spectacular.

What once was the empty shell of a 1931 four-door Chevrolet sedan is now a lean, mean racing machine. Members of the Chattanooga Rat Rod Association spent the past year in sporadic fits of cutting, ...