Hot Wheels took its annual Legends Tour to Detroit, a city with one of America’s most vibrant car cultures, and the results didn’t disappoint. The winner is a 1931 Dodge Rat Rod built by three members ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“I get an endless amount of garbage from people about buildingrat rods, but I get just as much about them being diesel powered,” Steve says. “I grew up in the steel industry, so I was used to watching ...

It's 2022 and there are millions of classic cars rotting away in barns and junkyards. Are they worth saving? Well, let's say that maybe only one percent of them still have a shot at becoming ...

Joe Kozuszek of Belleville admires the interior of an entry in Saturday’s Rat Rod Show in Grafton. Six-year-old Ethan Hosto of Worden gets a closer look at a “rat” on a rat rod at Saturday’s show in ...

Custom builds are meant to be unique, and depending on who’s working on them, that can mean a number of things. A great choice of colors and a smart combination of hues is often the easiest path ...