Vic and Debbie Hager have their own way to mark those special occasions: They build hot rods ... Photos The car was a roller, sitting on its stock frame and still fitted with its Model A axles ...

It takes a certain amount of faith to dive headlong into a do-it-yourself, traditional hot rod ... a Model A piece he downed 4 inches. He also built a whole new floor to channel the car 4 inches ...

Ford 3-Window Coupe hot rod, built on a custom Randy Ellis Design frame and powered by a Holley EFI-fed 383ci stroker V8, is ...

A 1930 Ford Model A coupe with a '58 ... are really into these traditional cars,” said shop owner Brian Bass, 35, who works six- and seven-day weeks to build hot rods that look as if they ...

Installing these engines in '32 Fords became routine. A majority of the early hot rods were "open cars," typically stripped-down Model T, Model A, or Model B roadsters, but the '32 Ford Coupe ...

Twanna Rogers, 75, from Palos Verdes Estates, Calif., and co-owner of the Thermal Club, on her 1932 Ford three-window coupe hot rod, as told to A.J. Baime. When I was growing up, I remember seeing ...

“I had an old ’31 Model ... hot rod, the right way. “I had always wanted a ’29 roadster,” he explained. “I always liked how cars were built post-World War II … ‘traditional cars ...