Jared Jakins and Carly Jakins are Emmy nominated documentary filmmakers and life partners rooted in the rural American West.

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 ...

I enjoy local car shows, and several events can be found nearly every summer weekend in the suburbs of Detroit. I like classic survivors, muscle cars, and well-executed restorations, but I usually ...

How did Big Bang Theory’s Raj once put it? Old broken things are so much better than new things that work? If you think about it, this could actually be the guideline of custom builders: they take old ...

Generation X has been accused of everything from being inarticulate to totally uninvolved. Yet car-loving members of the SoCal chapter of the Gen X-ers are on a mission from "Rod"?a return to who, ...

Anyone who is at least passingly familiar with custom cars has probably at least heard of the concept of a hot rod. A hot rod is, of course, a custom car designed with the express purpose of going as ...

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 ...

Feb. 14—DICKINSON, N.D. — The world of rat rods, once dismissed as little more than heaps of scrap metal, has captured the hearts of car enthusiasts Lee and Lisa Hageman. For them, rat rods provide ...

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 ...