In hot rodding's infancy, drag racing was not as it is today. Back then hot rodders decided King-of-the-Hill status by who had the fastest car rather than the quickest. In Southern California, the ...

What exactly makes a lowboy different from a highboy, and why did T-buckets change hot rod culture? Here's the history every ...

EXHILARATING FEELING I’VE EVER HAD. LONG BEFORE. FAST AND FURIOUS TURNED MODERN STREET RACING INTO A MOVIE FRANCHISE. THE TIE RODS WERE BURNING RUBBER FROM CONCORD MASS TO THE WEST COAST, RUNNING IN ...

For the first few decades of the 20th century, V8 engines were finicky, expensive things reserved for low-production luxury cars. Fancy pants Cadillacs and LaSalles were powered by V8s, while more ...

Some of the very first self-propelled vehicles were products of engineers and the curious in private garages and workshops. Within a few decades of the invention of the first car, companies were ...

Michigan Collector's Barn Reveals Historic Vehicles, Including a 1940 Ford Coupe and 1952 Triumph Trophy Motorcycle.

Anyone who is at least passingly familiar with custom cars has probably at least heard of the concept of a hot rod. A hot rod is, of course, a custom car designed with the express purpose of going as ...

At a recent Goodguys race (see "The Goodguys Hot Rod Drags" elsewhere in this issue), we spotted two cars that HOT ROD staffers were involved with during the early '50s. One was the original Troutman ...