Hellcats & Scat Packs Shoot It Out In Las Vegas!
Our favorite modern Hemi street cars invade Las Vegas to go heads up drag racing! We are without a doubt at the pinnacle of factory performance. With the debut of the 800-plus hp Dodge Demon, the...
View ArticleRuss Moore’s 1929 Ford Street Shaker Packs Hemi Power
Imagine growing up as a part of the family business that was originally established in 1904 and still maintains its tradition. For Russ Moore of Strathroy, Ontario, Canada, being a part of the...
View ArticleA fuel-delivery system every multi-carburetor system should have and anyone...
Is there anything quite as sexy as a crop of carburetors sprouting from an engine? Yeah it’s been proven time and again that a single four-barrel on the right manifold will out-perform a multi-carb...
View ArticleThe 28th Grand National Roadster Show
It’s called the Grand National Roadster Show, but roadsters are only one segment of this remarkable event. In fact it takes many different types of hot rods to make up this world-famous show. The 68th...
View ArticleThe Color of Money: Daniel Nelson’s 1952 Henry J
Most Americans today would likely associate the name Kaiser with Permanente; others may put it with the steel and aluminum manufacturing companies; while historians, specifically those of the 20th...
View ArticleRace Report: Texas Radial Round-Up
The Radial Tire Racing Association kicked off its 2017 season with the Texas Radial Round Up at North Star Dragway in Denton, Texas on April 6–8 . This third season of RTRA drag radial series racing...
View Article1932 McGee Roadster on National Display
As part of a three-week tribute to the importance of custom cars in American culture, the Historic Vehicle Association placed the McGee Roadster on display in the National Mall in Washington DC to...
View ArticleReplacing the 1955 Chevrolet Quarter-Panel
Repair or Replace? It’s a question asked a hundred times during any build of a vintage hot rod. The answer is influenced by many factors and the answer to the same question, on the same car, can vary...
View ArticleGALLERY: Lanpher Scores First PASS win at Oxford
Oxford, ME- First wins never seem to come easily. Such was the case for Reid Lanpher on Sunday at Oxford Plains Speedway as he grabbed his first ever Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North main event....
View ArticleBuilding a 460CI Ford Windsor
Modern computer controls make bolting up a power-adder easier than ever before. But sometimes you need to go old school and make your horsepower the old-fashioned way: with all-American cubic inches....
View ArticleMonthly column for Shop Manual
Q My 1933 Chevy has a 283 engine (0.060 over), shorty headers, Edelbrock manifold, 200-4R transmissions, and 9-inch with 3.55 gears and positraction, all professionally rebuilt. Tires are 27 inches in...
View ArticleQuain Stott’s Garage is Packed with Period Correct Gassers
Quain Stott is the type of guy that people either love or hate. Many people love him because he’s preserving the history of drag racing by organizing a period-correct gasser group called the Southeast...
View ArticleThe Speedway Motors Week to Wicked 1952 Chevy Pickup: The 5-Day Transformation
On the heels of Classic Truck’s inaugural Week to Wicked build (that being the CPP 1972 C10), we were primed and ready—well, at least primed—when word came that Speedway Motors was allowing us the...
View ArticlePolished Sterling and plenty of Classic Elements for this 1956 Ford F-100 Pickup
A pickup truck comes to life once it rolls off an assembly line, not knowing where its fate might take it. Depending where it’s delivered it might serve commercial duty as a farm vehicle, tow truck,...
View ArticleCheck out the collection of Rare Mopars and Chevys in Ryan Cough’s Garage
Ryan Clough been very happy with the cars and parts he has assembled for the personal ‘showcase’ garage he just completed at the near Milford, Delaware. A successful RV franchise owner by trade, this...
View ArticleGallery: The Best of 1970s Drag Racing
Dave Kommel fell in love with drag racing in 1960 as a 10-year-old reading about Don Garlits in Hot Rod Magazine. He went to his first race in Union Grove, WI, in 1966 and started shooting trackside,...
View ArticleFlathead Valley Farm Find
Way out here in the Flathead Valley of Northwestern Montana, we don’t see professional restoration shops, rod shops, or trick truck shops on every corner. Even so, classic trucks abound. In fact, old...
View ArticleHot Rod Anything: Medieval One
When your fabricator says, “Just trust me, I’ve got the perfect project for you—but you can’t see it until I’m done,” it’s usually something unique and off-the-wall. Bohata Design Inc., out of Long...
View ArticleSaying Goodbye to Dale Jr. Means Saying Hello to Opportunity (Commentary)
Today’s news – albeit surprising, but not entirely shocking – that Dale Earnhardt Jr. will retire after the 2017 season has the racing world aflutter. The most popular driver in NASCAR will no longer...
View ArticleRoadster Shop’s Reimagined Inferno Camaro
There are a few things we can count on each year at the SEMA Show: monorail cars with attendees packed like sardines, being exhausted by the second day, and a car debut from the Roadster Shop that will...
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