Rat rod trucks exist on a continuum, from barely-safe-to-drive to high-speed-track-warrior. These examples of rat rod trucks will help you fine-tune where you stand.

1946 Chevrolet Rat Rod based on a C10 pickup truck got sold last month during the Barrett-Jackson auction for just $11,000 ...

Me & My Car: 1931 Chevrolet sedan rat rod in Concord in unique category Not for everyone, automotive genre has an unconventional fan base ...

There are rules to follow if you want to build an authentic rat rod. Chrome and anything machined from billet aluminum is, of course, verboten. A rat rod is an homage to the way hot rodding used to ...

Check out a chopped 1947 Chevy pickup truck with a rat rod treatment. The 1947 Chevrolet uses a 2005 Chevy Tahoe engine and other sourced parts.

The words “rat rod” are thrown around a lot these days, but what exactly qualifies a build to fall into this category? Most would say that rust (lots of it) and a heap of old mismatched parts ...

Video Find: Unique Chevy Rat Rod Defies Logic By PickupTrucks Staff June 5, 2014 ...

Still, both cars are impressively fast. It's a thrilling run overall, and it's actually cool to see an old rat rod smoke a more modern G-body GM. But I haven't lost a bet here, so I might be biased.

This mad scientist 1947 Chevrolet Rat Rod build features a 5.3 liter V8 pulled from a Tahoe, borrows parts from a '95 Cougar and '95 S10, and sold for $7,200.

Weingartner Racing took this Chevy Big Block "Rat" Engine and added some major horsepower to it using off-the-shelf parts upgrades.

At Camaro Performers we started several project cars and did a ton of tech. Eventually I was made editor of Vette magazine for a short time before being slotted to run Super Chevy magazine.

He grabbed this shot of a pitch-perfect rat rod truck that we peg as a Chevy 6400 three-quarter ton model built sometime between 1951 and 1953.