If so, your opinion on rat rods—and by extension, diesel rat rods—may be informed by whether you are already invested in traditional hot rod building (pre-1949 hot rods) and the long history of ...

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 ...

Don’t really know what you guys consider a rat rod, but the amount of work and details put into this truck here definitely moves it to the upper hot rod class for us. Yeah, it has a rusty shell, but ...

We're not sure where the recent kink for diesel swaps has come from -- other than maybe an abundant number of Dodges finally retiring from under their Cummins turbo-diesels and ending up in junkyards ...

Many of you already know how magazines can be a great source of inspiration. Studying pages filled with images of different vehicles is the perfect way to define your own tastes and mentally design ...

Rat Rods, Hot Rods, Classic Cars, Motorcycles equal a good time at one of the coolest steel yards on earth. Special appearance by Katy Kruze and coverage from Rat Rod Magazine and Ride Hard Magazine.

Steve Thaemert and his father put a thousand dollars together four years ago and, defying media industry trends, launched a magazine to follow the passions of do-it-yourself builders of hot rods. They ...