Much of North America is seeing the advent of one of the most gruesome winters in recent years, so perhaps we need to remember the better, sunnier times, to cope with the whole ordeal. For example, we ...

Chevrolet’s Big Block V8 engines, affectionately known as “Rat Motors,” have a storied history rooted in the high-performance automotive engineering that transformed muscle cars and hot rods. The term ...

HIGHLAND FALLS, N.Y. - The Storm King Highway, a twisting two-lane ribbon carved into a mountainside here nine decades ago, hardly seemed the place to test the roadworthiness of a hot rod that looked ...

Imagine driving a 1,100hp, twin-turbo sport truck with 1,400 lb-ft of frame-twisting torque-and not just in a blinding blast through the quarter-mile, but on a cross-country run. This was no feverish ...

Sometimes we are so close to the action that we don't really see what's happening. Case in point: the current and future direction of rat rodding. As entrenched insiders with decades of experience and ...

Hot rod builds a mouse trap and tries to catch a rat. Originally published in the August 1998 issue of Hot Rod magazine. To celebrate HOT ROD's 75th anniversary, we teamed up with CASTROL GTX to bring ...

A unique example of a classic Chevy truck is up for auction in Ventura County, California on Bring a Trailer. It’s what you might call a “rat rod” version of a 1963 Chevy C10 that’s been heavily ...