The 2025 Shiny Rust Hot Rod show took place over the weekend at the Oakland Expo Center in Waterford, Michigan. It focused on ...

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 ...

How did Big Bang Theory’s Raj once put it? Old broken things are so much better than new things that work? If you think about it, this could actually be the guideline of custom builders: they take old ...

When William "Kid Billy" O'Brian started collecting castaway speed parts for a budget-build 1929 Dodge, he never imagined that rat rods would become such a sensation. O'Brian just wanted to put ...

A MASTER mechanic has become the unofficial king of rat rods in New Zealand, after building a series of incredible rat rod ...

Custom builds have always been flamboyant creations, and ever since the beginning (and even now, in some cases) a good part these projects were nothing more than decorative pieces of hardware, with no ...