Rakesh Babu, a Kerala mechanic, built a unique, fire-spitting rat rod from scrap, blending Indian automotive parts and a visible Ambassador engine. Not road-legal, it's designed for shows.

We start our rat rod truck adventure in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where our man Jesse Kiser attended the Heavy Rebel Weekender rockabilly music festival and car show, a hardcore Mecca for ...

If so, your opinion on rat rods—and by extension, diesel rat rods—may be informed by whether you are already invested in traditional hot rod building (pre-1949 hot rods) and the long history of ...