Whatever the original impetus, the look has caught on, and folks of more affluent means have begun to flock to the build style, transmogrifying the rat rod truck from common-man status to status ...

Remember Ed Roth's Rat Fink art? You don't see it around as much as you used to, but it used to be inescapable at every classic car show. Every Nova and GTO would have a sticker in its window ...