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…]

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

Erik Gagnon built his pro-touring patina 1966 mustang for the sole purpose of having fun, auto-crossing, and beating the hell out of it. [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…]

With heavy focus on aesthetics and style, Chris Walters from Jay Leno’s Garage built himself a clean weekend cruiser out of this ’63 Beetle. [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…]

This sinister ’67 Tempest sports a naturally aspirated 455 with 6X heads which makes it a capable, and quite fun cruiser. [More…]

Back in the 40s, this once innocent Chevrolet pickup truck left a dealership’s lot and began a lifetime of hard work and faithful service. But after it’s rebirth, it can live life with a bit more horsepower as a Chevrolet Rat Rod Truck. [More…]

This smokin’ 1950 Chevrolet Sedan Delivery will soon find its way on top of a 1993 Caprice Classic, a Craigslist purchase that will provide modern everything for this chassis / body swap build. The goal is to fully swap the b-body chassis, floor, wiring harness, lighting, seats and any other creature comforts for this build that will remain patina. [More…]