This next car comes as a tip from JB1025 offered My neck is hurting just to look @ this ! But has Kewl Factor…Kewl indeed, you’ll need a sweet neckbeard and sleeve tatts to truly do this thing justice, but a few days of itchy neck and arm dermatitis is a small price to pay for […]
What is the last thing you would expect from the classic little Honda S600? Acceleration? Burnouts? Extended wheel base? Yeah. Any single one of those things would get you surprised, but this next car combines all of those attributes into one insane Honda subcompact sitting on a Ford Model A frame with big block V8 […]
There are times when a ride in a home built rat rod doesn’t make sense — let’s say you are trying to impress the parents of your new girlfriend. And there are times when a rat rod does make sense — when you are trying to terrify your daughter’s new potential boyfriend. However, in either […]
File this next classic car find under the heading “I don’t know what it is…but I like it!” And for some stranger reason, the seller isn’t asking some ridiculous amount of money for his…umm…thing. Yeah. Does it float? Find this 1955 Diamond T Rat Rod offered for $6,500 near Cincinnati, OH via craigslist. Tip from FuelTruck. […]
If you’ve got an old car with an inline-6 engine up front the easy route to making power is to replace it with an number of domestic V8s…but the easy way isn’t the DT way…no sir…NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT! The DT way to do things is to take your non-crossflow inline-6 and add another […]
The art of the custom car has changed over the years — and most of the “custom” stuff you find for sale today is just a bunch of junk from an online catalog randomly put together. Thankfully there are a few visionaries still around who will build something truly unique…some anomaly. Find this 1956 International […]
There are few rules in the world of custom vehicle creation, but don’t be a copy-cat seems to be something the next seller followed closely. Just don’t follow this thing too closely, because something might fall off. Find this 1979 Chevy-Buick Rat Rod offered for $4000 in Columbia, TN via craigslist. Tip from DM. The seller […]
This next car comes as a tip from Michael B who writes: Boy, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a rat rod that looks like . . . . well . . . . a rat. Michael is 100% correct, it I saw this thing in my garage, I’d scream at the top of my […]
The Ford Model A is just about unrecognizable once hot rodders get their hands on them, but that shouldn’t stop you from getting your own A-bone. The basic recipe is to drop the car until the body is inches from the ground, chop that big open greenhouse into oblivion, and then stuff the biggest V8 […]
There was a lot of talk this year about how America doesn’t build anything anymore and that we’ve transitioned to a service economy. All the manufacturing jobs have moved to Asia, blah, blah ,blah, we just sit at Charbucks and use the latest app on our mobile device that we are making payments on, blah, […]