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 ...

Aaron Brown has spent years in stock-car racing, but his passion has shifted from ovals to long, straight lines. After starting his career building cars that raced in NASCAR's Cup series, Brown opened ...

Chevrolet’s Big Block V8 engines, affectionately known as “Rat Motors,” have a storied history rooted in the high-performance ...

Why? Because every mid-engine rat rod 1948 Ford COE dump truck needs a tiny Honda Trail 90 rat bike in its former engine compartment, shrouded by a gym locker. With makeshift construction and a ...

Oct 7, 2012 Oct 7, 2012 Updated Jun 12, 2015 COLUMBIA — Don Grogan and Ron Bogg’s 1946 Hudson pickup wasn’t like the other vehicles at the 38th annual Old Wheels car show at Nifong Park. It had no ...

Imagine driving a 1,100hp, twin-turbo sport truck with 1,400 lb-ft of frame-twisting torque-and not just in a blinding blast through the quarter-mile, but on a cross-country run. This was no feverish ...

In the world of custom builds, rat rods are a special breed. Ugly enough to be unstoppable head turners, these machines are if you like the ultimate sleepers, sending all the wrong messages to the ...

The Ram 1500 TRX may be the modern benchmark for performance trucks, but many gearheads go to old haulers searching for performance. And while many trucks from the old day are underpowered and slow, ...

Firestone and legendary racer Mario Andretti are teaming up in order to save lives with a new driver safety education campaign. The program includes a series of television and print ads in which ...

Inspired by his love of tattoos and rat rods, Richard Hales, owner of Sakaya Kitchen, is preparing to debut his food truck this Sunday at the Fall of the Arts Festival. His Dim Ssam A Gogo food truck ...

Old trucks should never die—they should just be repurposed. Everyone ought to do their part in keeping them from the scrap heap, especially if you’re capable of building something like this 1945 Chevy ...

BURBANK, Calif. -- The sound of steel scraping across concrete is music to the ears of Louis Marton. It's just his big 1941 Dodge truck converted into a low-riding "rat rod" truck pulling into a ...