Great Scott! The 6-second, 200-mph, 1981 DeLorean build we detailed earlier this year is quickly taking shape, so we thought a little update of one of the coolest drag builds currently underway would ...

The SCTA-RPM Nationals Dirt Drags brought vintage hot rods back to El Mirage for the first drag race there in nearly 80 years ...

We already know the main selling point for racing with alcohol fuel (methanol) in classes where it is allowed: In an engine tuned correctly it can make more power than gasoline. That's all you need to ...

Every year, HOT ROD Drag Week attracts one of the most diverse collections of bona fide street/strip cars in America ... and a few that wish they were. Nearly every popular Chevrolet you can think of ...

The most expensive thing you can do to your automotive project is to paint it. Yes, you can certainly come up with ways to do this job on the cheap, but the results will generally reflect the amount ...

Anybody who’s built a vehicle for SEMA knows the overwhelming mix of emotions, ranging from excitement and anticipation to frustration and despair. Most people do it once and swear they’ll never make ...

The 1970 Chevy Monte Carlo does have a Chevelle vibe going on, sporting a large, rectangular chrome grille with two horizontal dividers and adorned with a "knight's crest" (also called a Corinthian ...

About the Pro Street look, Scott says it developed after years of attending drag races as a kid in Ohio. “I grew up at the dragstrip,” he said, adding that he realized early on that he didn’t want a ...

Don Yenko was a young, struggling jazz pianist trying to break into the NYC jazz scene before coming to the realization that the life of a musician would be a hard one. After the prodigal son returned ...

Creating a Ridler-winning car these days is a passion project to create the best of the best. The check the winner gets is barely enough to cover the cost of one wheel, so it’s certainly not done as ...

Every year we get reader mes-sages asking about the fate of a potential breakthrough engine technology developed by late legendary racing engine builder and high-perf tuner Henry "Smokey" Yunick with ...

At HOT ROD, we’ve covered the Durango SRT Hellcat a few times before. Mike Galimi logged the details during its Last Call swansong in 2024 and followed that report a year later with a diary of his ...