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 1930s Ford Roadster that has been hotrodded for decades. Sleek, black and ...

In the world of custom builds, nothing screams outlandish more than a car that seems to have been eaten away by rust and chopped to pieces by bullets. They call them rat rods and, most of the time, ...

What would you call this thing? "It's between a hot rod and rat rod I guess," says Mark Ricker. "It's not all rusty like a rat rod but is not traditional either." It looks hard to drive, channeled low ...

On Wednesday just prior to the 2020 Grand National Roadster Show, the Pomona Fairplex was just starting to show signs of life. The roadsters in competition for America's Most Beautiful Roadster (AMBR) ...