“Rat rod.” You would have a hard time thinking of a term, or a trend, that has been as controversial in our hobby as that—except for a similar term from 75 years ago: “hot rod.”
Rough, raw, and rusty rods have been around since the earliest days, but the “rat rod” tag entered the gearhead vocabulary about 25 years ago. The venerated HOT ROD staffer Gray Baskerville is
