Featured Hot Rods and Other Roadkillers

This is no ordinary Rat Rod. It was designed and built by an experienced Winston Cup race car builder. The build was completed with race-quality parts front-to-rear for superior performance and reliability. “DELIVERANCE” was completed in March, 2012. [More…]

24,000 – That’s how many man-hours it took to build the “NewMad”. 24,000 hours and 1.3 million dollars. Hot rod designer Chris Ito was commissioned to pen the redesign. The NewMad began its life as the first generation Chevrolet Nomad, the halo model wagon derived from the Motorama Corvette of 1953-54. [More…]

Michael Snow from Horneytown, North Carolina saw our Farmer’s Chopper post and shared his old school rat rod lawn mower with us. He tells us that he had an old riding lawn mower sitting around for parts, and one day he just went crazy on it. He lowered the front end, chopped the hood and grill, and more. [More…]

Build a Hot Rod in 30 Days for $1,000? This truck has been built twice — with a tear-down and cross-country move in between. The first build section documents the build mating the ’49 Studebaker [More…]

This Turbo Diesel Rat Rod Truck from South Texas Performance, based in Victoria, Texas was built as the shop faced some top rat rod builders in The Rat Hard Build-Off. The contest, sponsored by Rat Hard [More…]

N2a Motors is a California based custom auto manufacturer with a mission of reviving the art of American coach building. Melding design elements from different Chevy models, the 789 shows the world that you really can’t have enough of a good thing. [More…]

The Mighty Car Mods boys embark on an ambitious project to build an epic sleeper with a 1000% increase in power. [More…]

Erin Francis of Langley, BC, Canada shared this 1956 Ford F-100 truck with us. Erin found the truck in Portland, OR in near stock condition. In just 5 months, the truck was restored and modified with independent front suspension and a four-link rear with coil overs on all corners, plus some more custom touches. [More…]

This beautiful 1935 Ford rat rod dubbed “MoonShine” is an absolute monster, and is also featured in Rat Rod Magazine… [More…]

Brandon DeJesus rolls a ’31 Ford Model A rat rod, but it may not be what you’re expecting — it’s powered by Toyota’s 2JZ-GTE power plant — an inline-six-cylinder engine that is sooo ready to make staggering amounts of horsepower that, more than two decades after its introduction, professional motorsports teams of all kinds still seek out these early ’90s 3.0L engines. [More…]

Over the past seven years Mason Mattocks has been building, driving and showing this awesome 1931 Ford Model A Sedan. [More…]

The following was sent to us via our Facebook page. We love nothing more than hearing stories like this. Be inspired — Start a project, and get another one back on the road. [More…]

Industrial designer Keith Charvonia stops by Jay Leno’s Garage with his amazing RestoMod it took eight years to build by himself in his home garage… [More…]

It might be hard to believe, but Bob Bruhn’s stunning ’65 Rambler Marlin is very much a home-built car. [More…]

Wes Smith has always been into cars, but he grew tired of cleaning his show cars every time he took them out. Then he discovered rat rods and started hunting for a Model A or a 30’s ford truck for a project. He was unable to find anything that was done the way he wanted it. So he did it his own way. [More…]

The Redneck Repo shop truck is a 1954 Chevrolet 3100 with a 1953 front clip. The wrecker box is handmade and features a 1930’s hand crank boom. A 1962 327 powers the truck and sports an Edlebrock aluminum intake and Edlebrock AFB style carberator, original ’60’s Cal Custom aluminum valve covers and more. [More…]

Go behind the scenes of ICON, a company in southern California that marries old cars and new technology in a truly unique way. Then, get behind the wheel of owner Jonathan Ward’s 1952 Chrysler Town [More…]