The Parting Shift: Cruise The Neighborhood In a Lenco Equipped, 584ci, 8-Second, Street Legal, 1964 Fairlane
There are few more pleasurable things to do in your car than strike out on a beautiful day and cruise around. The lack of a destination is typically part of the fun because a free form drive will...
Rough Stuff: Two Major League Wrecks From The IHRA Pro-Am At Richmond Dragway In Virginia
If you have been around the sport of drag racing for any length of time in either the spectator or racer capacity, you know that one of “those weekends” is bound to come up here and...
Changed! 2015 Hot Rod Drag Week Registration Is Saturday May 2nd Be Ready Or Be Left Out!
At 9:00AM Pacific Time on Saturday May 2nd, Hot Rod will post the registration link on their website and the electronic gold rush will take place again to fill the 350 open spots that the magazine...
McIntire Wins IHRA Nitro Jam – Sets Records In Bradenton
Photos by Chris Simmons – Courtesy of IHRA There were five class winners at the IHRA Nitro Jam Southern Nationals Presented By Crower over the weekend at Bradenton Motorsports Park, but Mike...
Gas-Tastic: This 1957 Chevrolet Is A Straight Axle, Tunnel-Rammed, Four Speed, Worn Paint Heap Of Perfection
I think it is fair to say that there are a couple of styles of cars that will literally never go out of style in hot rodding. 1932 Ford roadtsers will be around forever and 1955-1957 Chevys done in...
Check Out Liam Garrity’s Finest Action Photos From The March Meet 2015
(Photos by Liam Garrity) When Liam sends us photos, we’re always entertained. You see, he marches to the beat of a slightly different drummer. It’s like he was born several decades too...
More PDRA Drag Racing Photos From Rockingham!
(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) When you think PDRA, you think big loud crazy door slammers that make more power than anything else with doors on the planet earth or within our solar system. And for good...
Video Hilarity: Tiny Tractor Owns Mitsubishi Truck On The Dragstrip! Real Diggers!
Apparently in Thailand they use tractors that look to be a walk behind unit similar to some kind of Roto-Tiller. Of course you can’t expect farmers or their equipment to work EVERY hour of the...
PDRA Rockingham: Action, Pit Photos, The Most Powerful Door Cars In The World!
(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – The second event of the 2015 PDRA season took place at the historic Rockingham Dragway in Rockingham, North Carolina last weekend and it brought out some mammoth...
Have You Ever Saw A Studebaker Powered Anything Bang Gears Like This?
Richard Poe owns a pretty cool Studebaker, but it’s not one you would instantly recognize. Starlights, Hawks, Champions, and Larks are the norm when it comes to Studebakers you see at most...
Dyno KABOOM! Watch This Hot Rodded Mustang GT500 Suffer A Rod Bolt Failure At The Top End Of A Pull
While the GM guys like to throw rocks at late model Ford performance fans because the modular engines are more complex than the LS/LT series of engines, the potency of the Ford DOHC engines cannot be...
Insane Drag Save! Watch Two Cars Nearly Collide At A No Prep Race Yet Both Emerge Unscathed
The great thing about racing is that no one has seen it all. Guys who have been going to the drag strip for 40 years can still be wowed, shocked, and otherwise impressed with stuff. I’ve got...
Crunch Video: Watch An All-Steel Showpiece Chevelle Catch The Wall At Memphis – It Will Be Fixed!
Perhaps by favorite thing about being involved with as much racing stuff as I am is seeing everyone’s stuff. There’s just something cool about seeing some beautiful iron that you have not...
Test Your Gearhead Knowledge: Can You Name This Thing That We Found At Then And Now Auto?
A short while ago, we showed up at Then and Now Automotive in Weymouth, Massachusetts and demanded entrance to their fortress of a building which holds untold riches of killer ancient car parts. It...
