Peter Duvaloois’ rat rods are way cooler than your car. The fast machines, pieced together from vintage parts and scrap yard finds, also are rumblier, rustier and turn more heads on the highway.

To say that Tyler Ernst’s car is an eye-catcher is kind of like saying Marilyn Monroe is a screen goddess. Chopped and channeled within an inch or so off the road surface, the beat-up-looking 1930 ...

A 1948 Ford Rat Rod Fusion... Jay Leno, renowned for his extensive automobile collection and vast driving experiences, is no stranger to rare and unique vehicles. Yet, even he was left astounded by ...

Julie Moen of Port Angeles, right, points to the quirks of a “rat rod” built from a 1928 Ford Roadster by Dennis Broderson of Port Angeles, in the drivers seat, during Saturday’s Kiwanis Car Show at ...

The Chevy 3100 we have here, although described as a rat rod, kind of misses all those points, and is, in turn, more of a regular custom. And not a bad one at that. Currently on sale for $35,000 in ...

Did you remember to have your healthy two liters of water today? Well, you can scrap all this, as there will be no water in the future - at least this what happens in the version depicted in Mad Max: ...

I've accepted that I have an acute talent for losing hideous money on cars, but this scenario is extensive and ends in just plain blackmail. Let's go back to 1998 when I decide to build a Rat rod '28- ...

-- Even if you don't remember every nuance of the plot of the 1982 film "Blade Runner," or even which of the myriad versions of the film you saw, its powerful visual images and bizarre-but-plausible ...

During what may have been one of the last summer-like weekends of the year, attendees browsed vintage cars at a car show on Sunday in Rexford. The event, held in support of the Rexford Fire District ...

Old cars with modern drivetrains are often terrible. People go too far in their restomods, turning classic muscle cars into the automotive equivalent of those LED-ridden black leather couches. But ...