A rat rod shows its colors, or lack thereof, on Saturday in Grafton. Chuck Darnell of Quincy, right, talks about his 1960 Cadillac show car during Saturday’s Chop Rod Ramble. A visitor admires a ...

The phrase is a spin-off of "rat bike," which was in reference to custom motorcycles built on the cheap. The late Gray Baskerville, venerated hot rod writer, is said to have been the first to apply ...

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 ...