Who dares cut up a classic 1955 Chevy 210 hood, rudely exposing giant dual carburetors atop a 498 cubic inch blown big block engine? Rat rod master fabricator Steve Darnell of WelderUp, that's who.

The enthusiast world typically falls into two camps: those who love rat rods and those that ... from a derelict Panoz racer. While not originally a right-hand drive car, Lee swapped things around ...

He got some tires and tie rods from a friend who used to race lawnmowers (yeah, really) and went from there. He wanted this rat rod to be totally slammed (lowered as far as possible), but that ...

“We took my rat rod and dressed up in bib overalls and went to a Halloween ... “NASCAR was created out of bootleggers back in the late ’40s after World War II racing their moonshiner cars,” he said.