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Krass & Bernie: A New Car Class Is Created!
The guys are getting ready for Musclepalooza, but don’t have a body to put on the beautiful chassis Bernie has put together. Looking around the garage, they might be able to cobble something together...
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Swipe Candy: Cacklecars and Fuel Funnies from SoCal’s Cruisin’ Grand
Seventeen years ago, Steve Waldron came up with the idea of blocking off several blocks of downtown Escondido, California for a car show and with the help of friends in the local business community,...
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10-Second 1963 Plymouth: The PERFECT Mix Of Street & Strip!
When Elwood Engle arrived at Chrysler in December 1961, it wasn’t a minute too soon. Dodge and Plymouth were hemorrhaging sales to Ford and GM as a result of the recently outdated “forward look” style...
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The ARP/Street Rodder Sherm’s Plating Surf’s Up Tour Part 1
For the last eight years or so we have wrapped up the Road Tour summers with the Sherm’s Custom Plating Road Tour in California. Sherm’s owner Gary Matranga and partners Art Holman and Dave Dougherty...
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How to ditch your points-triggered Delco ignition and easily install a...
In this age of electronic fuel injection and ignition it’s hard to believe there are still some running around with a points-trigged ignition system. The concept of breaker-points ignition is all about...
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A 1967 Ford Mustang 390 Convertible for Summer Time
When George Martin first started dating his wife Kathy, he received the normal interrogation from her family. Rightfully so, they wanted to know who their daughter was dating and were pleasantly...
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Check Out This Heirloom Model T Tub & More in the January 2018 issue of HOT...
The bright (and we mean bright!) yellow Model T Tub on the cover of the January 2018 HOT ROD Deluxe has an amazing backstory you won’t want to miss. Originally built in the hot rod boom days of the...
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The Dustbin Duster, Part Two: Dropping Engine, Mounting Seats, and Installing...
The Dustbin Duster project is starting to take shape as we get familiar with the car and start making design decisions. The elevator pitch is that the car will be fully controlled by the Holley...
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From Barn Find to One of a Kind Custom: A V12 Powered 1933 Chevrolet in Sweden
This one-of-a-kind 1933 Chevrolet Master Special sedan may very well be the perfect combination of influences from three very different car scenes. The owner, Mattias Saikkonen, grew up with a father...
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Dan Nissen and the Expat Forest Service “Week Wagon” take Spirit of Drag Week
HOT ROD Drag Week 2017, powered by Dodge and presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive Strictly speaking, the Spirit of Drag Week award is defined as someone who “most demonstrates a do-or-die attitude while...
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2018 GT Performance Pack Level 2 raises Mustang GT’s game and bridges the gap...
All enthusiasts can relate to this; evenings in the garage and weekends at the track, which is exactly what the Mustang team at Ford did. Gearheads everywhere can appreciate the extra time and effort...
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Why We Do What We Do at Circle Track
I wrote a column several years ago discussing why we do what we do here at Circle Track. I think it is important to re-address that topic and I was recently motivated to do that by a “reader” who wrote...
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Catch the Intense Action from the Uncivil War 3 Outlaw Race
The small tire drag racing scene has progressed a lot over the last decade. It was once the Outlaw 10.5 guys who stole the show, but the class was all but phased out for smaller tires, stricter rules,...
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Surviving Drag Week: How to Keep It All Together
HOT ROD Drag Week 2017, powered by Dodge and presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive As someone new to the event, the thing that impressed me the most is how Drag Week is as much a battle of longevity as...
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Pit Stop: How to Repair Stripped Crank Balancer Bolt-Hole Threads
QUESTION I ran into a problem while doing a top-end rebuild of the stock 350 Chevy small-block in my 1974 El Camino. I discovered while trying to reinstall a new factory-style balancer bolt and...
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Vintage Road Test: Editors in 1967 Impressed With All-New 1968 Oldsmobile 4-4-2
Motor Trend’s Dec. 1967 issue presented an overview of the 1968 supercars, among them an Oldsmobile 4-4-2 that the editors described as “a performance car par-excellence.” They started the 4-4-2’s...
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Reader’s Ride: 1966 Chevelle Super Sport
In the 1990s a friend of mine bought a Sandalwood 1966 Chevelle Super Sport. He didn’t know if he should put a new 502 crate motor in the car or keep it stock. It came with a 396 and a factory...
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The ARP/Street Rodder Sherm’s Plating Surf’s Up Tour Part 2
On Sunday morning we all headed south and enjoyed the beautiful drive from Ventura to the Los Angeles area on the famous Pacific Coast Highway. The focus for today was beaches, Bugattis, and cool hot...
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How-To: Shelby Rear Brake Trick on Early Mustangs
There is no doubt that one of the most collectable and attractive cars ever made in the 1965-66 Mustang Shelby G.T. 350. Real ones get serious money these days, so a lot of people build clones out of...
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This Just May be the Baddest 1966 Chevy Nova on the Planet
Despite what you might surmise, this is a genuine success story. Despite a long, arduous journey finishing the car, it wouldn’t be a real project unless adversity prevailed, at least for a while....
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