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 ...

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 ...

The rat rod syndrome has no boundaries; it strikes youngsters, elders and it can appear in various parts of the globe. Russia is mostly known in our domain for giving birth to weird road rage videos ...

As a sub-culture of the car hobby, ol' skool rods or rat rods as they are often called, is growing in size and importance. For example, ol' skool cars play an expanding role each year at the annual ...

What once was the empty shell of a 1931 four-door Chevrolet sedan is now a lean, mean racing machine. Members of the Chattanooga Rat Rod Association spent the past year in sporadic fits of cutting, ...

Rat rods originated as a counter-reaction to the shiny, custom-built hot rods that focused on looks rather than power. Many viewed them as expensive rolling decorations compared to the hot rods of the ...