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 ...
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, EILER RUNNING IN CIRCLES ...
There’s still a charge in the air after the record-setting 2025 HOT ROD Drag Week—an event that delivered the most entries in history and barrier-breaking performances. Now, HOT ROD is proud to ...
From the January 2013 issue of HOT ROD: Builder Dan Webb recreates the iconic vehicle that set the 200-mph bar back in 1950. To celebrate HOT ROD's 75th anniversary, we teamed up with CASTROL GTX to ...
Hosts Brian Lohnes, David Freiburger, and John McGann talk with award-winning car builder Bill Ganahl about the business of building cars, how styles change, and some HOT ROD history. Bill Ganahl was ...
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 ...