SAUGERTIES, N.Y. (AP) — Peter Duvaloois” (doo”-vuh-LOO”-iss) rat rods are way cooler than your car. The fast machines are pieced together from vintage parts and scrapyard finds. They are rumblier, ...

Feb. 14—DICKINSON, N.D. — The world of rat rods, once dismissed as little more than heaps of scrap metal, has captured the hearts of car enthusiasts Lee and Lisa Hageman. For them, rat rods provide ...

Peter Duvaloois’ rat rods are way cooler than your car. The fast machines, pieced together from vintage parts and scrap yard finds, also are rumblier, rustier and turn more heads on the highway.

A rat rod is a style of hot rod car that, in most cases, imitates (or exaggerates) the early hot rods of the 1940s, 1950s, and early-1960s. The style is not to be confused with the somewhat closely ...

CHANDLER, Ind. – “It’s fixin’ to get intense. We from Louisiana,” Dennis “Crab” Landry, a self-described Cajun from south of New Orleans said. A rat rod did donuts in the burnout pit as he spoke a day ...

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SAUGERTIES, N.Y. — Peter Duvaloois' rat rods are way cooler than your car. The fast machines, pieced together from vintage parts and scrapyard finds, also are rumblier, rustier and turn more heads on ...