Hot rods, typically old, classic American cars with large engines modified for linear speed. Yep!
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[More...] The origin of the term “hot rod” is unclear. For example, some claim that the term “hot” refers to the vehicle being stolen. Other origin stories include replacing the engine’s camshaft or “rod” with a higher performance version. Regardless, these are some of our favorites…
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Barry Weiss made a fortune selling wholesale produce and feeds his unique car collection, including this ’47 Cadillac, with the proceeds.
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Charles is a one-man-show in a small three bay shop in North Troy, New York. He primarily designs and fabricates parts for cars that are far from rat rods, his project car is a 1947 Plymouth. While his business caters to newer cars, Charles admits that it’s the classics he really enjoys working on.
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Doodlebug is the colloquial name for a home-made tractor made during World War II when production tractors were in short supply.
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Michael Snow from Horneytown, North Carolina saw our Farmer’s Chopper post and shared his old school rat rod lawnmower with us.
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This truck was self-built with some help from neighbors, friends, and family. All the parts — every piece, came from Wabash County, Indiana.
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It took 24,000 hours and 1.3 million dollars to transform a ’55 Chevy Nomad into the award-winning Chevy “NewMad”.
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This is no ordinary Rat Rod. It was designed and built by an experienced Winston Cup race car builder with race-quality parts front-to-rear.
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South Texas Performance Turbo Diesel Rat Rod Truck built for The Rat Hard Build-Off ~ Builders get 30 days and $3,000 to build a Rat Rod.
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Melding design elements from different Chevy models, the 789 shows the world that you really can’t have enough of a good thing.
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The Roadkill Shop Truck Project: Take a ’77 Camaro and S-10 frame rails and build a new soul for the ’49 Studebaker in 30 days for $1,000.
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Rustfarm built this between 2000 and 2005. It runs and drives and can be seen at vintage motorcycle and tractor shows in and around Ohio.
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Tom Costain’s 1950 Buick Special inside and out as seen at the annual NHRA Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green, KY.
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via Combustion Chamber ~ This 1946 Chevrolet Truck is more than just a rat rod — it is a rolling memorial to our nation’s Veterans…
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RM Sotheby’s is offering the exceptional recreation at its Petersen Automotive Museum Auction on December 8, 2018
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Paul Witty’s Ford Falcon looks like it was literally pulled from a barn and straight into his garage and then brought straight to the event!
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The Diesel Brothers built this Chevy C10 pickup for Charity Air Ambulance and the company’s owner, Cheyenne Lord.
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One of our favorite comedians, Gabriel Iglesias, brings by his beloved VW bus, a pristine version of his very first ride.
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This rare ’66 IH Scout was rescued from a junkyard 49 years ago and was restored at home over the course of nearly two generations.
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This stellar 1969 Roadrunner RestoMod gets a 765HP Dyno-Tuned Hellcat powerplant and new chassis, and a whole lot more RestoMod.
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This Steve Darnell and WelderUp built ‘Haunted Rod’ is a 1955 Chevrolet that was found on Charles Manson’s ranch.
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Shirley Wallace’ lived in this two-story Spartan Manor travel trailer from age three until she went off to college 16 years later in 1969.
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A mechanic has become the unofficial king of rat rods in New Zealand, after building a series of incredible rat rods in his home garage.
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Gary Fisher and crew at Resurrected Rust Garage transform disparate parts into the Resurgence Rat Rod, Winner of the 2015 Rat Rod Build-Off.
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Rustarado — a 1954 Chevrolet Pick-up Truck — is a first-rate Rat Rod Truck crafted by one Craig Dolan. This truck is simply stunning and demonstrates some handcrafted features that are very well done such as the leather-work and hand-worked and hammered copper panels.
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Meet “The Gladiator” ~ A radical rat rod dually Volkswagen project by Otoresto…
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Hoonigan Bonus Published Dec 2, 2018, Raw test session video footage of Ken Block shredding in the Hoonitruck.
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Kevin Tetz takes a very rare 1959 Chevrolet Impala spotted at Wheels In Motion in Pottstown, PA. for a drive talks to owner Mike Yannessa.
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DEBOSS Garage’s Filthy Rich met up with fellow YouTuber ShawnCFarm to check out his TANKenstein rat rod tank and Black Widow Monster Trike.
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Jon saved this 1955 Chevrolet from a life on blocks to being NHRA certified drag car, able to run 8.50 in the quarter mile.
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Build breakdown with builder Paul Terlosky of House of Mouse Racing and his crazy, one of a kind Hellcat-powered 1968 Dodge Coronet cop car.
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Tom and Gail Wise disagreed about whether a broken-down car should be stored in a family garage for 27 years or sold for junk. He insisted they keep it because, he promised, one day he would find the time to fix the vehicle himself.
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Boasting a twin-turbo engine with more than 900hp — ‘Filthy’ is the world’s first full custom-road registered burnout truck.
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Dennis Collins walks you through two really special 1969 Ford R Code cars that he’s really excited to finally get to show y’all.
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Conor Sheffield’s 1939 Chevrolet rat rod is completely home-built. It packs a 6-71 supercharged LS engine and rocks an AC system.
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We happened across this roadworthy and amazingly functional 1966 Batmobile replica built by YouTuber Batcarguy.
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Justin Meyer and his 1952 Chevrolet Sedan were caught up with at the Holley LS Fest West.
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Go BTS of ICON, a SoCal company that marries old cars and new technology in a truly unique way, then go for a ride an ICON 1952 Chrysler.
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Over the past seven years Mason Mattocks has been building, driving and showing this awesome 1931 Ford Model A Sedan.
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Mike Crawat Photography artfully captured the essence and cool of this BMW Powered 1928 Ford Model A.
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One of Steve Darnell’s favorite builds at WelderUp is the old school bus. Steve shares everything that went into creating this unique rig.
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The car was a shell when he got it, now a running classic car with a Ford 302 V8 and a 5-speed manual transmission out of a Mustang 5.0.
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Joe Valentino home-built his rat rod with a Craigslist ’89 Dodge RAM donor truck and very little money. Here’s what came of it.
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Every hot rodder knows that going fast IS looking good. Here’s a gallery of cars from John Schultz that were Built For Speed.
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Its roadster weather in Halfass Kustoms’ neck of the woods — High time to get the 1931 Model A Roadster Hot Rod out on the road.
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Two brothers street rodded this 1947 Ford Coupe back in the 70s with a 302 SBF, automatic transmission, and a 1955-57 Chevy rear end.
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This ain’t no hybrid, instead, it’s a black smoke belching, gasoline guzzling, animal of a car that’s got some cool hidden engineering too.
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Wes bought the truck with the intention of making it his daily driver, but then else something happened. He discovered Auto-Cross.
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Rat Stab was a winter Volksrod project of Blake Tourville, welder/fabricator at Sparks Speed Shop in Bethalto, Illinois.
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Ball Metal Fab of Arkansas built this 1958 Chevrolet Viking 40 into an insane muscle truck dubbed “Demented” for Evapo-Rust.
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Take a rabblerousing ride along on a custom suicide shifter equipped Harley Davidson 883 Bobber.
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