The truck presently has a lot of things going for it as it plays the rat rod card. There are tons of rust and dents on the body, the bed looks awful, and you can barely see a speck of its original ...

On a road trip a year later, I finally find an A truck bed for $100 and some dash rails for $50. That's $3,850 by now, but I figure I've still got a few things to sell off, so it's OK. Wrong.

The truck's cartoonish proportions were created by moving the front axle forward 24 inches, chopping the roof 5.0 inches, and modifying the rear of the chassis so the bed sits lower between the ...