A Cheyenne mechanic who loves NASCAR and building rat rods, potato cannons and a smoker out of a beer keg has a new hobby.

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.

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 ...

The enthusiast world typically falls into two camps: those who love rat rods and those that loathe ... SS and control arms from a derelict Panoz racer. While not originally a right-hand drive ...