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

America celebrates its 250th birthday this Fourth of July, making it an appropriate time to remember another patriotic milestone that inspired auto manufacturers across the country nearly 50 years ago ...

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 Pontiac GTO is commonly known as the car that kicked off the muscle car revolution during the 1960s. Though it would become one of many midsize American cars sporting powerful V-8s during the mid- ...

The Shadow Rods team got busy on the chassis, choosing their stamped ’32 front rails combined with their stock style ’33 Ford rear rails welded together. The front rails have a reduced taper to the ...

In a week overshadowed by the tragic death of Chris Raschke in the Speed Demon crash, land speed racing fans needed an uplifting moment, something to celebrate at the end of the week. Danny Thompson, ...

HOT ROD Power Fest was rocking from start to finish, packing a full day of pit road drag racing, autocross action, and a sprawling car show into the summer heat. We also kicked off the single-day ...

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 ...

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 ...

The direction we wanted to go with this build was to first rid the stock coupe of all the gee-gaw Model A stuff. That meant the bumpers, spare tire, Route 66 license plate, and other myriad items of ...

The news that 2023 would be the final year for the Dodge Charger and Challenger—as we know them, anyway—prompted us to go back into the archives to see what HOT ROD magazine had to say about these ...