The dandy-rod backlash found a home in 1997, when Jay Ward and Kirk Jones founded the Billetproof show in Albany, Calif. It banned post-1964 cars, fiberglass parts, digital gauges and the billet ...

The 1935 Dodge pickup street rod we have in the gallery above is unique because of the way it was built, and weird because of the color combination which could give fashionistas headaches. Styled ...

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 ...