Remember hot rods from the good old days? Now meet hot rod 2.0, called the rat rod. A rat rod, as usually known today, is a custom car with a deliberately worn-down, unfinished appearance, typically ...

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 ...

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 ...