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Lone Star Round Up – A Hot Rodder’s Shangri-La
When the Lonestar Round-Up, sponsored by The Kontinentals Car Club, hits Austin, TX in early April each year it’s like the whole dang town has turned into a cool car Shangri-La. The very air vibrates...
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The 2017 NSRA Street Rod Nationals South
It Was Wet and Wild in Knoxville What can we say? It’s springtime in Eastern Tennessee and that means beautiful green foliage, spring flowers, and generally moderate temperatures, but all that lush...
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We Visit The 400-Car Property For Sale In Canada, It’s Wonderland.
For Sale: Wonderland. Mike Hall’s 400-car collection and all the land it sits on can be yours if you dare to dream the same dream. I’m sitting in my rental car outside of JP’s Diner in Salmon Arm,...
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GALLERY: Apel Captures WIR TUNDRA Win
Photos by Jason Shultz and Eamon Bauman Kaukauna,WI – There is a cliché in sports about playing until the last buzzer. In Saturday’s TUNDRA Super Late Model Series event at Wisconsin International...
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New Speed Parts For Your Ride
Adjustable Pushrods For LS Engines What it is: Comp Camps XD-A adjustable pushrods. Why you care: Designed to reduce weight and improve accuracy, Comp Cams’ new adjustable pushrods allow for accurate...
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Turn Back Tuesday: Ernie Nicholson’s Super Clean Super Stude 1941 Studebaker...
Ernie Nicholson’s Super Stude 1941 Studebaker coupe. This clean coupe shot in 1967 ran locally and competitively in and around Los Angeles. Nicholson, who owned Ernie’s Super Shell gas station in South...
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Romance Quiz: How Much Do You Love Your Car?
Hey, Good Lookin’ Do you love your car as much as you should? Answer the following questions to see if your passion for your project burns true. 1. Park your car and walk away. Do you want to look...
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Frame Draggin’ Brat Rod: Barbie Jeeps Need Not Apply
Pink Barbie Jeeps aren’t for everyone—at least, not Brad Marshall and his 7-year-old daughter, who have this wicked, electric rat rod instead. Growing up, she saw a friend of Brad’s bagged S-10 lay...
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GALLERY: Farmer City 74
Illinois drivers Bobby Pierce and Shannon Babb were not going to let any invaders take the glory from their home state during the inaugural Farmer City 74. The event took place Thursday and Friday...
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Win Free Tickets for AFR’s V8Builds Autocross and Car Show!
AFR is giving away free general admission tickets to the V8BUILDS Autocross & Car Show, which will take place at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, CA on Saturday May 20, 2017! To get a ticket,...
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Lokar Performance Opens the House
The Lokar Open House is back and it seems to get better every year. This giant cruise-in takes place at Lokar World Headquarter and it proves to be a great facility for events such as this pre-Nats...
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Behind The Wheel With Legendary Stunt Driver Debbie Evans
Bullitt, The French Connection, The Blues Brothers, and the Fast and Furious franchise–– who hasn’t walked out of a theater and wondered what it would be like to be a stunt driver in one of those...
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Video: Behind the Wheel of Two, Modified Camaros Pre-Running Power Tour
As the 2017 HOT ROD Power Tour presented by Chevrolet Performance and driven by Continental Tire rapidly approached, the time came to pre-run the route. The whole point of Power Tour, the world’s...
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Dirt Cars: Then to Now
In the very first issue of Circle Track, we ran a story by Alex Walordy about car builder Barry Wright called “The Wright Way.” In that piece we detailed just about every aspect of how his cars were...
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A 3,000HP Coyote Engine? Find All the Details Here!
The performance world changed drastically in 2011 when Ford released its latest Mustang powerplant, the Coyote 5.0. The days of the vaunted 5.0L moniker had returned, but this time the famous...
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Dyno Day: Trick Flow 270 Mopar Heads
If you’ve been following Car Craft’s Mopar 470 testing, you’ll remember that in the Feb. 2017 issue, we hit 700 hp while testing various rocker-arm ratios. In the May 2017 issue, we moved up to 720 hp...
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Carl Swift: Irwindale Raceway’s “Mr. Unbeatable” in the 1960s
Unbeatable. Until 1950, onlookers stood on curbs around U.S. cities to watch street racers. C.J. “Pappy” Hart changed all that. He created organized drag racing on an idle airplane taxi strip in Santa...
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How to Set Ignition Curves and Create Optimal Performance
Ignition timing is easily the single most important tuning adjustment on an internal-combustion engine, yet the concept of ignition curves continues to be elusive for many enthusiasts. All it takes to...
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HOT ROD Interviews “The King” Richard Petty
On the Occasion of His 80th Birthday, We Interview “The King” He’s one of the closest things we have to royalty. “The King” Richard Petty has won seven NASCAR championships and a record 200 NASCAR...
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25 Photos to Remind Of The Glory Days Of 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,...
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