where it too won the top prize. He now specializes in building rat rods - the spectacular custom cars that mix old and new parts and often emulate the hot rods of the 1930s, 40s and 50s.

By simplifying it down to its barest characteristics, hot rod fans refer to superchargers simply as blowers, because they blow air. A blown engine has a supercharger attached. The term chop doesn ...

The event will be filled with many of its traditional offerings, including the Trucker Olympics, Iowa Pork Chop Cook-out ... non-working showpieces; and a Rat Rod class. Awards will also be ...

The Langley Good-Times Cruise-in is hands down the biggest car show in Western Canada and one of the top 10 in North America ... prevalence of so-called rat rods that look like they are assembled ...

For example: “Dear Porsche factory, please would you build me a chopped-top Speedster based on a 993 with a 300bhp engine in the back? Grazie. PS my favourite colour is yellow.” Welcome to a ...

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Today (August 12) Top Rank announced that featherweight prospect Albert “Chop Chop” Gonzalez, the latest star to emerge from the Robert Garcia Boxing Academy, has signed a long-term contract ...

I tend not to be keen, at all, on SUVs in general – only a few have passed harmlessly under my gimlet gaze – and SUVs which have had a roof-chop to turn them into supposed coupes start me ...

He was still a new hire when he got to put his traditional hot-rod knowledge to work on the flathead-powered ... the roof had taken a beating. Hansen chopped the top four inches, giving the car a ...

To celebrate Saab’s 50th anniversary back in 1997, Norwegian auto body expert and Saab enthusiast Per Ekstrøm set out to do something special. He decided to build a one-off coupe, based on the ...

They're not quite hot rods and not quite street rods. Rat rods are somewhere in-between; people with Mad Max mentalities design the best of them. The cars are low, raucous and chopped. They also tend ...