Featured Hot Rods and Other Roadkillers

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…]

The story of Aaron’s Rat Rod goes like this: In 2007 I worked at a dealership in the local town that had a 1936 Dodge dump truck sitting in a grass lot behind a building. I’d have to trim weeds around it when the dealership got slow. I’ve always bought rat rod magazines and always thought about building one, but… [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…]

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…]

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…]

Melding design elements from different Chevy models, the 789 shows the world that you really can’t have enough of a good thing. [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…]

Rey Payumo of Kailua, Hawaii found this 1963 Chevrolet Impala packed with junk in a garage in Hayward, California. [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…]

Take a look at Danny Omasta’s LSx Engine Swapped 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air build, aka “Tire Killer”. [More…]

Harley Earl vowed to deliver a triumphant message: the legendary 1951 LeSabre, seen here at the 1953 Chicago Auto Show. [More…]

Come along as we check out our 1952 Chevrolet Styleline Deluxe Coupe ICON Derelict! [More…]

The luggage rack’d ’63 IH Travelette sports a custom chassis, new upholstery, interior, wheels and tires, and many custom designs and mods. [More…]

The “Siren Of TI” Chopper is a 900-pound masterpiece constructed as a tribute to the Sirens of Treasure Island Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. [More…]

A customer bought a 1959 GMC Truck, running, and came to us wanting a chassis swap to modernize but keep it a hot rod — a sleeper… [More…]

AJ Bohata from Fort Lauderdale, Florida built himself the ‘Medieval One’ after feeling inspired by a car and weapon collector. [More…]

Danny Love shared this story and photos with us ~ This pristine 1947 Ford Pickup belonged to his Dad, aka Jiggs. [More…]

Take a tour of Troy Gubser’s Turbo Diesel Chevrolet rat rod pickup! This thing sure has character, and it’s a blast to roll around in. [More…]

Rat Stab was a winter project of Blake Tourville, welder / fabricator at Sparks Speed Shop in Bethalto, Illinois. The project was based on a junk 1966 Volkswagen Beetle that he’d had sitting around for years. The [More…]