The BEST episodes of Vegas Rat Rods
Every episode of Vegas Rat Rods ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Vegas Rat Rods!
Steve Darnell and his team of rat rod specialists are master automotive fabricators. They work out of a sprawling garage, Welder Up, on the outskirts of the Las Vegas Strip, re-building one-of-a-kind Mad Max-style "rat rod" cars out of hidden treasure for quirky customers. From a shotgun gearshift and mason jar tail lights, to death row electric chair car seats and horseshoe gas peddles, each rat rod featured on VEGAS RAT RODS is equal parts discarded treasure, high-tech performance parts and wild imagination from Darnell and his entire team.
#1 - Heroes and Villains
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/2018
Steve is asked to build a scary villain rat rod in three weeks and a vintage-inspired charity bike for military veterans in two weeks; Steve worries when the villain car frame takes longer than expected and the Vet Bike won't start.
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#2 - Son of A...
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/27/2017
To appease a demanding new client, Steve aims to make a big rig rat rod out of a 1979 Peterbilt that he once drove for his father's steel company.
#3 - Water Rat
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/4/2017
A family man with a need for speed brings a battered 50's era pickup to Steve looking for a bad ass rat rod the whole family can enjoy. To meet their client's demands the crew need to find a way to add glitz and gloss to a smoke belching monster.
#4 - Model A Mayhem
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/11/2017
A family man with a need for speed brings a battered 50's era pickup to Steve looking for a bad ass rat rod the whole family can enjoy. To meet their client's demands the crew need to find a way to add glitz and gloss to a smoke belching monster.
#5 - Fuel to the Fire
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/25/2017
Restoring a 1930's era fuel delivery truck proves a big challenge when the crew discovers a warped frame. Steve ups the anti and insists that the resurrected tanker feature 21st century technology, hydraulic brakes, and run only on bio fuels.
#6 - Shredding Metal
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/15/2017
A client comes to Steve with a pristinely restored 1954 Tin Woody Wagon, which Steve plans to burn in order to achieve the cool look he is after.
#7 - Vintage Speed Racer
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/18/2017
When a couple of local hot rod builders challenge Steve to compete in a race that features only period correct post-war restorations, he can't say no; his plan to make a race-ready 1931 Ford in just a week and a half has the team on edge.
#8 - Steel To Heal
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/1/2017
When Joe, Welderup's general manager, discovers that his 2-year-old son has cancer, Steve enlists the crew to build a custom vehicle that he hopes will give inspiration to anyone who is battling the disease.
#9 - American Muscle
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/8/2017
After Steve pens an ode to his working class roots in the steel industry called ``Blue Collar Man,'' he sets out to transform a rare but crumbling 1970s era Charger body into the ultimate blue-collar vehicle to star in the song's music video.
#10 - Stevel Darneval
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/2018
The crew transforms a 1958 Chevy Apache into a bad-ass Vintage Dirt Bike Hauler; Steve jumps at the chance to bring Evel Knievel's Formula 1 Dragster back to life.
#12 - Power Packing F100 Pickup
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/20/2017
An electrical lineman from Texas tasks Steve and the Welderup crew with customizing his company's first work truck, a trusty old early 1970s Ford pickup.
#13 - Joker's Wild
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/2018
Steve and the crew commit to meeting the original Superhero build time and delivering the Villain Rat Rod in three weeks; with no sign of a transmission, it doesn't look as though the crew will escape the clutches of this perilous deadline.
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#14 - Gassed Up Bootleggers
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/2018
Steve takes on one of his funkiest projects ever when he agrees to build a crazy 70's-era gasser racecar for a Navy Vet. Also, Steve tries to make money by restoring and flipping a Prohibition-era bootlegger Model A truck to a Vegas police captain.
#15 - One Big Gas Car
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/16/2018
The Welder Up crew scramble to finish the 70's gasser, but they run into several problems while testing the car out. Also, Merlon plans a surprise gift for Steve to replace a bike he loved as a kid but lost.
#16 - The Real Iron Man Revealed
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/2018
With only two weeks left to go, the Welder Up crew still has to build an engine for Tyrone's Iron Rod truck and install it and then re-cut the frame to add shocks.
#17 - Iron Man and the Mullet
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/2018
Steve and the Welderup crew have to get creative when they're tasked with building an iron-worker themed rat rod that doubles as a work truck. Justin makes a big mistake and Steve then tries to flip a beat up '67 Coronet that he finds in a junkyard
#18 - Tricks No Treats
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/23/2018
When Steve is commissioned to build a spooky car, he digs up a haunted '55 Chevy and Justin and Travis battle to modify the cursed car; Steve and Merlon flip a Depression era Plymouth.
#19 - Curse of the Haunted Rod
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/31/2018
The Haunted Rod is cursed. The suspension and the engine don't fit, triggering major body work; and when the engine doesn't fire they miss the deadline. Steve flips a 1920 Old Wayne Gas Pump to off-set extra labor costs on the Haunted Rod.
#20 - Big Bad Bus
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/2018
Steve faces his toughest challenge yet while designing a tour bus that represents Welder Up and meets the high standards of his sisters, Donnalee and Stacy; Justin drifts into unfamiliar territory with his 1962 Lark.
#21 - Bussin' Out
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/4/2018
The WelderUp tour bus receives an interior steampunk makeover, while Merlon converts a Cummins diesel engine to run on vegetable oil and Travis installs triple turbos. In addition, Steve stands to make his largest profit yet off of an unusual flip.
#22 - Model A Mayhem
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/12/2018
Driven by his love of Steve's Diesel Rat Rod, a heavy equipment operator commissions a version for himself; instead, Steve delivers a "go anywhere" rat rod that can climb mountains as easily as it whips down the highway at 100 mph.
#24 - Ranch Rod
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/24/2014
Steve digs back into his Montana roots to build his cowboy buddy J.R. the ultimate ranch truck by Frankensteining together a pair of vintage Dodges. Already struggling to get the truck done on J.R.'s ridiculous budget, Steve has to scramble to track down a vintage mini-bike for another client. With both jobs on the line, his crew goes on a black-ops mission that could solve both problems - or get them shot. It's a race to be done on time and on budget as Steve and the crew set out to prove that a truck can be a workhorse and look bad-ass.
#25 - Electro Rod
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/1/2014
When client Jonathan Mill brings Steve a 1928 Buick filled with rotten wood his excitement at rat rodding an original 'gangster' car soon fades when he learns his client wants it to be an electric car. The creator of the award winning electronic emergency brake, the E-Stopp, wants the car to promote his company at SEMA, the largest car show in the world. His crew doesn't want anything to do with it, so Steve takes the car to a new level that has nothing to do with green, and everything to do with creepy.
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