Hot Rod

Charles Darmanjian’s 1947 Plymouth ~ Flat Black Rat

Charles is a one-man-show in a small three bay shop in North Troy, New York. He primarily designs and fabricates… Read More

4 years ago

Patrick and Ethel’s 1946 Chevrolet Pickup

This1946 Chevy was acquired in 2013 and has been worked over from the ground up. Patrick dropped and chopped the… Read More

3 years ago

Hot Rods Today – The Democracy of Customization

Naturally, everything is open to individual opinion. However, most hot rod enthusiasts simply do whatever they want to their cars.… Read More

3 years ago

2017 RatCity Rukkus ~ Las Vegas, Nevada

The Rodder Files brings you the 2017 Annual Rat City Rukkus, an annual car and culture show in Las Vegas. [More...] Read More

3 years ago

Building a Hot Rod ~ A Broke Man’s Guide

I'll admit right up front: For all the blabbering that I do about hot rods, I don't actually have a… Read More

3 years ago

Ingenuity in Action ~ 1958 NHRA Hot Rod Film

This vintage film explains how to prepare for and enter a car show and serves as an ethnographic account of… Read More

3 years ago

Hot Rodding is Dead

So You Heard That Hot Rodding Was Dead. Maybe you overheard somebody say that all the old tin was gone,… Read More

3 years ago