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Exciting Competition at the Lucas Oil, NHRA 2018 Winternationals!
Exploding engines, crashes, and a new record kicked off the 2018 NHRA calendar at the Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals at the Auto Club Raceway in Pomona, California. Early on, Funny Car legend John...
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Full Rotisserie Restorations Happen in this Iowa Home Shop
A shop that keeps this hobbyist busy with his classic car projects. Mick Rau / Council Bluffs IA Mick Rau is a retired railroader and a life-long car guy. “Growing up, my dad drove AMCs,” he says....
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Street Outlaws and gas Monkey Garage go head-to-head in Mega Race!
Grudge racing is the easiest way settle rivalries between drag racers. Someone has something to prove, both guys think they are the fastest, and there’s usually an insane amount of money on the line....
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HOT ROD Drag Week Registration Goes Go Live – HERE – March 3, 2018
It’s that time of year again — HOT ROD Drag Week registration is set for March with 400 entries available. It’s time to mark your calendars and commit to finishing last year’s to-do list, everyone’s...
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Light Show—Picking The Right Turn Signal Flasher For LEDs
Q Recently I converted the parking lights/turn signals and the taillights/turn signals in my 1956 Chevrolet to LEDs. The good part is they are really bright; the bad part is now the turn signals won’t...
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Next Level ’69 Charger With Full Restomod Treatment
Father-and-son projects are a staple of the car hobby, and it doesn’t really matter what brand flavor you like, there are always stories to be told. Sometimes these stories involve a passing of the...
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Quick Tips: Cleaning cylinder bores for better ring seal and power
When building an engine, it’s the little things that separate good engines and great ones. On initial start-up, getting a quick piston ring seal is critical—and having a clean, properly lubricated...
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First-Time Repeat: Dan Cervantes’ 1956 Chevy Bel Air
Despite being one of the most popular—and repurposed—movie poster taglines of all time, George Lucas’ “Where were you in ’62” has certainly struck a lot of reflective mental chords for folks over the...
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Installing Holley’s iNTECH Cold Air Intake for 2011-2014 Mustang GTs for...
When it comes to cold air intake systems for the 2011-2014 Mustang GT, enthusiasts are spoiled with choices. So when Holley Performance Products set about designing a cold-air intake system for the...
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Building a Car Scratch isn’t Easy. We get Advice from the Pros
There’s rebuilding a car, then there’s building a car from nothing but sheet metal and tubing. Most of us are familiar with piecing together a car little by little, but very few have created something...
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Petty’s Garage Unveils Latest Warrior Mustang and F-150
When you’re overseas in the military it can be tough to order that new Mustang or F-150 you’ve been saving for (or any Ford for that matter). Military AutoSource (MAS) has been helping our military...
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Not About Rod Runs, The Allure of Rallies and Tours Appeals to Hot Rodders
Grundy Insurance’s new book The Allure of Rallies and Tours is not about hot rod runs, but it would be insulting to hot rodders to assume they are not interested in other types of automobiles. Brass...
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Specialty Vehicle Engineering Now Offers a 1,000HP Yenko Camaro
Love the Yenko name, but think you need more power than Yenko Chevrolet could offer in the late-‘60s? Specialty Vehicle Engineering (SVE), of Tom’s River, New Jersey, has a solution: enter the 2018...
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The Bondurant School At 50
With all the talk lately that we’ve been doing about getting the younger generation involved in cars and Mustangs, one thing hasn’t been discussed and that’s teaching them the basics of driving and...
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Turban Built Shelby GT350
When this author unsuccessfully tried his hand at selling cars, I met a dealership technician by the name of KJ (Kiranjit Birdi) who was heavy into the performance car game. It was not out of the...
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Rolling Bones and More Surprises at the 2018 Grand National Roadster Show
Many hot rodders voiced outrage when the Grand National Roadster Show relocated to the Fairplex in Pomona, California, in 2004. After all, it had been a Northern Californian staple since 1950, settling...
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Build The Ultimate, Toughest TorqueFlite
When we began searching for an A-727 TorqueFlite to hold up to the 825hp Ray Barton–built Street Hemi going in our ’65 Coronet, we found most transmission companies claimed their units could only...
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Tailgate features a late-’30s Chevy
It may appear that this late-’30s Chevy or GMC has run into the trees. I think that it’s been parked long enough to have the trees grow up around it. The hood’s askew, debris fills the engine...
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Left for Dead, This F-100 is Alive and Well
Sometimes your job becomes the perfect source to assist you in your hobby. From Walterboro, South Carolina, Ken Stanley is a welder and millwright who put his welding skills to good use during the...
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Professor Hammer’s Metalworking Tips
Stripping a truck down to bare metal can make extensive modifications easier, but stripping the entire vehicle may not always be necessary or even recommended. Q I bought your Chopping and Sectioning...
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