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 rat ...

He built the tube-frame chassis with a NASCAR-style truck-arm rear suspension. The front suspension is Brown's own creation; it looks like a traditional spring-over hot rod setup at first glance ...

The “rat rod” scene has been around the hot-rod world for some time. It seems the early-model custom truck culture has come to accept the “rat rod” truck trend and its lifestyle.

It's just his big 1941 Dodge truck converted into a low-riding "rat rod" truck pulling into a driveway. Marton's goal was to create the coolest truck around, an aggressive beast that started as a ...

Let's see if this wild rat rod truck has us wanting to buy a ticket to that show. Our good friend and self-claimed purveyor of "the dumbest automotive channel in all of YouTube," Tyler Hoover ...

American-made pickup trucks have become rat rod material as well ... much longer than on the base truck, a roundish cabin that’s a tad closer to the rear axle than the front one, and a very ...

Where aesthetics, audacity and functionality meet is a rat rod like no other: The Big Hooker. Designed and built by Brandon Kibbee from Kansas, this tow truck is both a showpiece and a utility ...

Then we found out about this rat rod pickup truck. It's pure coolness. Powered by a turbo diesel, this 1949 Chevy pickup has essentially been saved from the scrap yard thanks to its owner and ...

The winner is a 1931 Dodge Rat Rod built by three members of the same family and powered by a twin-turbo Cummins diesel engine. While the truck is labeled as a Dodge, we’re not seeing much that ...

Whatever the original impetus, the look has caught on, and folks of more affluent means have begun to flock to the build style, transmogrifying the rat rod truck from common-man status to status ...