The hot rod dates way back to the 1920s, but found its cultural footing in post-World War II America. Soldiers armed with mechanical training picked up cheap Ford Model Ts and found ways to make them ...

We found this 1935 Ford to be a beautiful mess of a build. Yeah, it looks like Tim Miller cobbled it together, but the closer you look, the more you find that Dick Banjo is pretty well sorted out.

The passing of the sleezy scrounge and his backyard "bitsa" (a bomb built from bits of this and bits of that) was inevitable. Old clunkers have become "collectibles." Junkyards have become recycling ...