GALLERY: Northern Michigan Speedway
Our tour of the northern portions of Lower Michigan continues today with shots from Northern Michigan Speedway. The asphalt track located in Elmira, MI hosts Saturday night racing from mid-May until...
View Article4-Speed, Two-Ton, Big-Block Behemoths:1969 Ford XL At HOT ROD Power Tour 2017
HOT ROD Power Tour 2017 Is Presented By Chevrolet Performance And Driven By Continental Tire You gotta love these big, bad, behemoths, and Jan Schnur’s XL Sports Roof is one of the last and rarest....
View ArticleDead Brands Come Back To Life, and We’ve Got Some Strange Ones on HOT ROD...
HOT ROD Power Tour 2017 Is Presented By Chevrolet Performance And Driven By Continental Tire Pontiac, Plymouth, Packard, Pierce, Peerless—all car companies that share more than the “P” in their names....
View ArticleAdd Air Conditoning to your Old Car. It’s Easy.
It used to be that one of the first things you’d trash from your performance car was the air conditioning system, assuming your car had it, of course. It’s understandable, too, because the parts for...
View ArticleSmokey Burnouts From HOT ROD Power Tour 2017
HOT ROD Power Tour 2017 Is Presented By Chevrolet Performance And Driven By Continental Tire No car show is complete without the singed rubber and pungent tang of a burnout contest. At Gateway...
View ArticleRoad Trip Gallery HOT ROD Power Tour 2017 St. Louis
HOT ROD Power Tour 2017 Is Presented By Chevrolet Performance And Driven By Continental Tire Wednesday’s drive of Power Tour 2017 brought participants through more small towns and open back roads,...
View ArticleThe Shortest Road of HOT ROD Power Tour 2017 — Quarter-Mile gallery!
Burnouts, bangin’ gears, and full-tilt boogie — HOT ROD Power Tour is is not just about thousands of road miles through winding roads, we bring everyone to a drag strip (or two!) to live out their Top...
View Article1,460hp HOT ROD Power Tour Cruiser? Why Not?
HOT ROD Power Tour 2017 Is Presented By Chevrolet Performance and Driven By Continental Tire “Air-to-water intercooler; that is the trick.” Sergio Shifman from ProCharger gave us the secret to driving...
View ArticleGallery: Qualifying From 2017 The 24 Hours of Le Mans
The first shots have been fired in what promises to be an epic battle in the medieval city of Le Mans. The world’s best sports car racing teams are gathered for their annual twice-around-the-clock war....
View ArticleTop 10 Freaks of HOT ROD Power Tour 2017
HOT ROD Power Tour 2017 Is Presented By Chevrolet Performance And Driven By Continental Tire You’ve asked for them, and now we have the Top 10 Freaks of Power Tour. Some you’ve seen from our first...
View ArticleGALLERY: Badgerland Vintage Racers at Wisconsin International Raceway
The Badgerland Vintage Racers made their official season debut Thursday night as part of the Fox River Racing Club’s Thursday Night Thunder Program at Wisconsin International Raceway. The group aims...
View ArticleHave a new Camaro? Give it to LPE for 800 hp.
HOT ROD Power Tour 2017 Is Presented By Chevrolet Performance and Driven By Continental Tire We are on the 2017 HOT ROD Power Tour in a 2017 Corvette Grand Sport so we don’t look down upon the drivers...
View Article2017 LA Roadsters Father’s Day Show & Swap…Early Look
For the past 53 years the So-Cal rodding scene is treated to one of the longest running, eagerly anticipated, and well-supported rodding events in the country. In fact, it’s very common to run into...
View Article2017 LA Roadsters Father’s Day Preferred Parking or Where All the...
The 2017 LA Roadster Show & Swap is a Father’s Day tradition and has been so for the past 53 years and beginning around 1980 it’s been held at the Pomona Fairplex. Originally it was a single day...
View Article2017 LA Roadsters Show & Swap Roadster Photo Gallery
The LA Roadster Car Club has bene around for 60 years and their cars and their owners are a well-known lot. The Father’s Day show or the LA Roadster Show & Swap as it is officially titled has been...
View ArticleBuild A 500HP Capable 360 Magnum Short-Block On The Cheap!
A couple of decades ago, you could easily pick the boneyard for an inexpensive vintage engine core that would polish up nicely with a little cleaning and some machine work. Chrysler made millions of...
View ArticleFor Starters: First time behind the wheel?
I’m sure all of us can remember the first time we drove a car. I’m talking about one powered by an internal combustion engine, and even better would be one that was licensed to be on a paved road. I...
View ArticleFor the Oldsmobile Faithful, the Legacy of Lansing Lives on at the R.E. Olds...
I have to confess to some lingering attitude about the loss of Oldsmobile. I still shake my head over one of the oldest, most respected and successful automotive brands in the world joining the ranks...
View ArticleFlashback: This Lakester Initiated the Birth of Fuel Injection
Stu Hilborn’s Lakester From 1948 Stu Hilborn developed his fuel injection experiments with this car, his Bill Warth-built aluminum streamliner, in this photograph by HOT ROD founder Robert Petersen....
View ArticleArlen Vanke, Pioneer of Super Stock and Pro Stock Racing Has Died
Campaigning Pontiac Super Stocks early in the 1960s, when GM pulled the plug, Arlen Vanke switched to Mopars, becoming one of the dominant racers in the category. Arlen died June 16, 2017, at 80 years...
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