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 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 ...

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Remember the '60s? They say that if you can, then you probably weren't there! But besides a cultural revolution and some great music, there was a revolution in the auto industry, too. And for many ...

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, ...

Tucsonan Artimus Gil has no problem driving a vehicle that looks like it came straight out of “Mad Max: Fury Road.” In fact, it is kind of his thing. Over the last decade, one of Gil’s primary rides ...