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 ...

Why? Because every mid-engine rat rod 1948 Ford COE dump truck needs a tiny Honda Trail 90 rat bike in its former engine ...

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 true to the rat rod movement -- leaving old cars or trucks in basically original ... For all its corrosion and roughness, the old '41 "hay hauler" now has a sweet side.

American-made pickup trucks have become rat rod material as well, and one of the greatest examples of the niche is the Chevrolet C10 we have here. Recently sold at a Barrett-Jackson auction for $ ...

The truck presently has a lot of things going for it as it plays the rat rod card. There are tons of rust and dents on the body, the bed looks awful, and you can barely see a speck of its original ...

Trophy trucks are awesome. With their endless suspension travel, knobbly tyres and ability to look at pretty much any landscape on earth and say, ‘yeah, I’ll have that’, you can’t help but ...

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 ...

1946 Chevrolet AK-series beer tanker rat rod. Facebook Marketplace, Zachary Zeller Ornate, patina’d copper is the theme of the truck, which is plated in the stuff from bumper to bumper.

In automotive circles, the term “rat rod” refers to a style of custom ... “It was a completely trashed truck headed for the salvage yard,” Bowen told me back in May at the 2012 Shell ...

No one who builds a rat rod is concerned ... as a nose for the truck’s menacing face. Two tiny headlights make up the eyes, while strategically placed metal rods that also look to be welded ...

Rat rod trucks have been around for a while but their popularity—and their controversy—is growing. When you conjure up visions of rat rod trucks, you might be inclined to think of vintage ...