The 1960s were not a strong decade for the traditional hot rod hobby. The youth movement shifted taste away from the nostalgia for things that represented the older generation. Factory muscle cars ...

Car makers like making things other than cars ... We've strayed off the topic of muscle cars and hot rods here, but let's drive it home: every gas-guzzling SUV takes a spot that could've been ...

Cars need two things above all else to run ... More boom equals more go, and more go is a very good thing in the hot rod community. Superchargers are compressors that force a larger amount ...

For our final rat rod truck, we bring you back to the final years of David Freiburger's tenure as editor of HOT ROD, when he brought us Mark Sax's magnificent chopped 1936 International rat rod truck.

Hot rods have gone through many interesting periods ... Miller designed the Fire Truck around a standard starting point for such things: the C-Cab. The C-Cab was the name given to the body used ...

Though cynics maintain that NHRA stands for "No Hot Rods Allowed," that's not the case at Pomona. Thanks to the Motorsports Museum's remembrance of things fast, hot rodders are reminded of who ...

HOT ROD launched its Facebook page back in 2008 ... What's the next big thing? It's hard to say how things will evolve, but it seems clear that it's all moving to a vertical format.

The Grand Finale hot rod, truck and BMX bike show runs Friday through Sunday in Houma. Presented by Trapp Chevrolet, it includes a Bass Wars sound contest, a chili-cookoff, a cornhole tournament and ...