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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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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We happened across this roadworthy and amazingly functional 1966 Batmobile replica built by YouTuber Batcarguy.
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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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“Wild Torquey” 1931 Chevrolet Diesel Rat Rod ~ bagged, straight axle’d, Cummins diesel, nitrous, methanol, and a hell of a lot more.
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The sky’s the limit for Jay Leno and John Travolta as they take a blue 1955 Ford Thunderbird convertible for a nice joyride!
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Josh Mazerolle paid $250 for a 1977 Hilux that had spent 15-years in the desert. He ended up creating one of the wildest mini trucks ever…
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This roadkillin’ muscle truck is an amalgamation of factory original parts, aftermarket goods, and Frankenstein modifications.
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This hand-built Plymouth Duster is an unholy marriage of Mopar, GM, and Nissan components carefully grafted into an image of a race car.
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Gabe is not a builder or fabricator and was able to put this stellar Mustang together in his home garage over a period of time.
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This ’27 LS1 powered T-Bucket is a 1,000 HP backyard built bucket of death that slays the quarter-mile just a hair under 9 seconds.
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Check out this insane 1967 Volkswagen Beetle turned radical GSX-R1000 powered Volksrod from the clearly creative mind Steve Hudlow.
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Ben Kahan highlights some of the many cool features on his dad’s (Aaron Kahan) 1927 Ford Model T Coupe, dubbed “Bad News”.
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Dennis travels to Ernie Adams’ Dwarf Car Museum in Maricopa, AZ.
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Automotive designer Jonathan Ward gives us an inside peek into the ICON 4×4 brand and his latest creation, the ICON Chevy Thriftmaster truck.
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David Colvin’s 1946 Studebaker M16 Detroit Diesel Rat Rod ~ Originally a 12′ Dump Flat Bed Septic Service Truck.
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This video showcases the five Cadillac cars that more than any of the other Cadillac cars helped Cadillac build its great reputation.
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The guys from Hoonigan heads out to the ECTA standing mile race in Arkansas to see what this series is all about.
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Mattel unveiled the winner of the second annual Hot Wheels Legends Tour at the 2019 SEMA Show in Las Vegas. The Nash Metropolitan custom car, built by best friends Greg Salzillo and Dave Ford.
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This is one of the most famous motorcycles in the world, the 1967 land speed record-breaking Indian “Burt Monro Special”…
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This 1965 Mercedes-Benz 190D has had it’s Diesel removed and has been swapped up to a modern BMW E30 turbocharged powerplant.
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This 1938 Dodge rat rod was punished at one time with 100s of bullet holes. Somehow, it survived that barrage of hot lead to drive again.
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The Dreise Steampunk Hot Rod was recently finished after a year long build, this is a 1935 Chevy modified to fit onto a custom built frame with hand built sheet metal and parts.
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This is a 1951 Hudson Hornet powered by a 292 Chevrolet six cylinder with Offenhauser Intake Manifold and dual carburetors.
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Two NHRA licensed drivers spent a night out drinking, and ended up putting an alcohol burning funny car engine in a station wagon!
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1932 Ford Roadster ~ The quintessential hot rod. Industry pioneers celebrate the Bob McGee Roadster, a truly special car from a bygone era.
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Wee-Man and his 1962 Chevy Impala in Long Beach — hear a good story, shred a local skate park, and grub up on some quality Mexican food.
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This rod features a ratted out, chopped and channeled ’57 Wagon body on a custom built frame and a 355ci Small Block Chevy engine.
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BAD A$$ Custom Peterbilt HOT ROD SEMI
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