The word “rod” gets thrown around and stapled to a lot of other words, making it a sort of universal automotive conjunction. “Hot Rod,” “Street Rod,” “Rat Rod” and even “Vette Rod” has been thrown around.

During my time at the now defunct Corvette Fever, “Vette Rod” was still in its infancy. Meaning a heavily modified and/or customized classic Corvette, “Vette Rod” leaned more towards the “Street Rod” flavor than anything.

Somehow, we can’t bring ourselves to swallow this monstrosity’s claim as being a Vette Rod. We’d maybe go with Rat Rod, but it’s ’77 Corvette platform disqualifies it. We’d go with “FrankenRod” though…

Built from a hodgepodge of various bits and pieces – be it automotive or not – found around an Alabama farm, this crazy patchwork of a Corvette is stitched together with discarded road signs, a restaurant-grade old pressure cooker, an early ’50s Chevrolet pickup bed, and a ’39 Dodge hauler.

The fancy of a budding metal fabricator-turned-automotive artist and rural Alabama farmer, Dan Arthur of Talladega, Alabama landed this Machiavellian machine in a trade for an F-150 and has since posted it on CraigsList.

Arthur explained, “He dropped the bottom, didn’t have no insurance, just had the front end laying around the farm and just stuck it on there. He just likes to weld and make stuff.”

The engine was bored .030-over and fitted with heat-wrapped fenderwell headers giving the bulbous-nosed creation a set of ominous ram horns jutting out of the hoodless Dodge front clip. Acting as an air cleaner is the aforementioned pressure cooker Swiss-cheesed for better breathing. The transmission is from a dirt-track race car.

The door panels are hewn from old road signs while the door handles are (and we’re not joking) deer antlers.