SAUGERTIES, N.Y. (AP) >> Peter Duvaloois’ rat rods are way cooler than your car. The fast machines, pieced together from vintage parts and scrapyard finds, also are rumblier, rustier and turn more ...

The rat rods were created as a low-budget alternative to the customized hot rods of the 1970s and the phrase was coined in 1972 by Rod & Custom Magazine. Snedigar’s rat rod doesn’t have a name, but it ...

When you conjure up visions of rat rod trucks, you might be inclined to think of vintage haulers in a highly devolved state of decline, barely hanging onto a basic definition of transportation. These ...

Peter Duvaloois’ rat rods are way cooler than your car. The fast machines, pieced together from vintage parts and scrap yard finds, also are rumblier, rustier and turn more heads on the highway.

To say that Tyler Ernst’s car is an eye-catcher is kind of like saying Marilyn Monroe is a screen goddess. Chopped and channeled within an inch or so off the road surface, the beat-up-looking 1930 ...

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 ...

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