Before around 1935, the only wheel you could get on a new car was a wire-spoke wheel. For this reason, the antique look of pre-war wire-spoke wheels is highly sought after in the rat rod world.

The dandy-rod backlash found a home in 1997, when Jay Ward and Kirk Jones founded the Billetproof show in Albany, Calif. It banned post-1964 cars, fiberglass parts, digital gauges and the billet ...

1928 Ford Model A Rat Rod Pickup. Captured by our man Steve Rupp at the 2018 SEMA Show, this 1928 Model A pickup truck has long ditched its utilitarian function for use on the open track.It was ...

We take a step back and analyze rat rods and the history behind them. Only at www.hotrod.com, the official website for Hot Rod Magazine.

He now specializes in building rat rods - the spectacular custom cars that mix old and new parts and often emulate the hot rods of the 1930s, 40s and 50s. More for You Tom Hanks ‘storms out ...

So I asked Tim Titsworth, of Concord, who owns this issue’s featured car, what motivated him to build a rat rod. “I’m a contractor,” he said. “I’ve always been a welder in construction ...

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It's not about cars so much as it's about art. Or it's about cars imitating art. Or vice versa. The car as canvas. Ultimately, it may be the future of hot-rodding, since those of us who still ...

The rat rod vehicletotal for members is around 60 and the club currently has 10 "builds" of "new" vehicles in progress. Many are customized pre-1940 cars with a small-block Chevy V-8.

His next venture will be a 1934 Ford pickup rat rod for his 16-year-old son, Colby, who is learning how to drive. And, with 13-year-old son Carson, there may be another car project down the road.

He already had bought a rat rod to convert it to an electric car. And he decided to take these two lemons and make lemonade out of them. Blending the two vehicles together.

Rebellious rodders first started building rat rod-style road machines 60-plus years ago, but the term "rat rod" only made it into gearhead parlance sometime in the 1990s. This coincided with a new ...