The old and the new – including rust bucket “rat rods” and one of the best street machines ever built in Australia – are on display at Summernats 24.

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We're talking about the biggest craze to hit the gearhead world since Pro Street in the '80s. It's had traction for at least 15 years. No one wants to admit it, no one wants to talk about it, and ...

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 ...

They’re sort of hot rodding’s modern art. Half deconstruction, half modern art and half post-industrial rust, which makes them 150 percent cool to look at. You can’t not look at them: made up largely ...

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The old and the new - including rust bucket "rat rods" and one of the best street machines ever built in Australia - are on display at Summernats 24 as the car festival gets into full swing. The ...