A hot rod is, of course, a custom car designed with the express purpose of going as fast as realistically possible ... What you're seeing is the hot rod's rebellious younger sibling, the rat rod. Read ...

Described by author Steve Rupp as a branch off of the rat rod tree, the patina style gets impetus from the fact that new ...

On the other hand, today’s 1965 Mercedes-Benz 220S ‘Heckflosse,’ has been purposefully curated to appear semi-ratty in its reimagining as a rally racing rat rod. According to the ad ...

He got some tires and tie rods from a friend who used to race lawnmowers (yeah, really) and went from there. He wanted this rat rod to be totally slammed (lowered as far as possible), but that ...

The modern-day trout angler has a vast array of fly rods to choose from. As someone who’s spent far too much time in fly shops looking at and thinking about all these options, I understand how ...

Graphite rods—or graphite-heavy hybrids—tend to be lighter and stiffer (“fast action”) but also more brittle, so you wouldn’t want to hand one to a 3-year-old. Fiberglass rods—and fibe ...

Registration and the NHRA Museum kept us busy as the HOT ROD staff looks toward the opening day of a five-day road trip.

BY 8am on Saturday morning, the streets around the Bank Hotel Dungog resounded with roars as highly-polished show cars and ...

Rod Wave launched the Last Lap Tour in Glendale, Arizona, on Saturday, Oct. 19, treating fans at Desert Diamond Arena to a ...

The joke is that the passion for cars begins with a toy and since 1968, Hot Wheels has been the hot rod toy car brand for ...

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The Tropicana Las Vegas’s demolition follows the city’s long tradition of imploding its past to make room for the future.