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One has a Flathead, One a Blown Olds, But Somehow These Traditional Hot Rods Share the Same Soul

There is just something about a traditional styled hot rod that just makes people smile. Even folks that wouldn’t describe themselves as traditional hot rod fans somehow find themselves drawn...

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From Dirty Dozen to Unreal Adventure 2026 Invited Subscriber: Pete Meyer and his 1963 Willys Wagon Made The Cut!

A few days ago we shared the Unreal Adventure Dirty Dozen, those 12 rigs that came from more than 100 submissions to be chosen to participate in Unreal Adventure 2026. Out of those 12, 5 will be...

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Retropower’s Austin Allegro Build Is Restomod Greatness. But is it Hiding a Secret? You Bet Your Ass It Is!

This here is something special. It’s not that an Austin Allegro is at the top of my british car list, but it is certainly up there! And when you see what has been done to make this what some...

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Building A 1968 Camaro Drift Car In Autoshop, and Then Taking It To The SEMA Show AND PRI! This is Something Special!

When the Los Angeles Career Center decides to do something, they go all in. Given the fact that Southern California is the epicenter of hot rodding and racing, it makes sense that a project like this...

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Jay Leno Takes a ride in ONE of the TWO 1914 Knox Model 46s still in Existence: This is a 496 CI Overhead-Valve Monster From the Nethercutt Collection!

Sometimes we forget just how bad ass humans were 100-140 years ago. I say this because the amount of invention and ingenuity that was happening in the world was just insane. I mean people came up...

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End Of The Line: This Video Review of The 1995 Corvette ZR-1 Shows The Pinnacle Version Of The Hot ‘Vette

All good things must come to an end, right? Corvette fans learned that in 1995 after Chevrolet announced that they’d produce a final run of less than 500 ZR-1s before shutting down that line...

The Charger, Part 8: Fixing Gauges Once And For All With Classic Instruments

In our last update on my Charger, I had just dragged my heat-soaked hind end from a 1,500-plus mile roadtrip to the Chrysler Carlisle Nats and back home again, with not one hint of trouble from our...

WHAT IS THE BEST LS INTAKE UNDER BOOST? SINGLE PLANE vs DUAL PLANE BLOW-THROUGH DISTRIBUTION TEST!

I’ll never forget the first time I was in a dyno cell while testing an engine with 8 oxygen sensors. Instead of just having one or two, which is the norm on most of what we work on around here,...

EXTREME TOP FUEL – INCREDIBLE NITRO AMERICA FILM FROM THE NORTHERN NATIONALS US 131 MOTORSPORTS PARK

The first time I went to US131 was during Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week in 2005. We ended the week there, with a bunch of rain, but ultimately waited it out and finished on a dry race track....

The TMI Trim Awards From The SEMA Show. 2023’s Best Car and Truck Interiors From The Show.

Many folks think that the SEMA show is all about the cars that are on display, when in fact it is really about the parts and pieces that are on display ON or IN those vehicles. With that said, it is...

Derek From Vice Grip Garage WON 1st Half At The Freedom Factory but BLEW UP Charlotte! And You Won’t Believe How?

Leading laps at the Freedom Factory for the 2.4 hours of Le Mullets is awesome, but blowing up the big block in the burnout truck was certainly not on the menu for this particular weekend of fun for...

Video: Here’s The Best Twin Stick Big Rig Video We Have Ever Seen – Explanation and Operation

Over the years we have showed you a multitude of videos featuring truckers running twin-stick big rigs down the road. Some of them have been funny, some of them painful, but none of them have been...

Soaking Horsepower: This Film From The 1953 Gold Cup Regatta Shows Roaring Hydroplanes In Action!

While we’re not the biggest boat racing fans in the world here we do love old hydroplanes. They looked like proper waterborne hot rods, kind of like the Batmobile, and they always had massive...

Amazing Video: Watch A Guy Turn An Automotive Air Conditioning Compressor Into A Running 3-Cylinder Engine!

A short while back we showed you a wild video where a guy took the little compressor from a refrigerator and made it into a little working engine. It as fun and crazy and required a lot of brains to...

Our Street Machine Nationals Photos Keep Coming: Hot Rods, Customs, Trucks And So Much More!

Here’s another gallery of photos from the Street Machine Nationals, and if you missed any of our previous photos there is a link below that will take you to all of them as well. (Words and Photos...

Budget Shop Truck: Squarebody Long Bed To Short Bed Conversion – Gas Tank, Brakes, Driveshaft, And MORE!

In this latest video there are lots of other details getting handled, like a driveshaft, brakes, fuel system, and more. In the first video we shared the shortening of the bed and chassis to convert...

From Sniper EFI and NOS Nitrous to Entire Build – Ryan Jones’ 1966 Gulf Livery Mustang Feature From Ford Fest

Video Description: A standout car this year at Holley Ford Fest was Ryan Jones’ 1966 Gulf livery-inspired Mustang. This classic beauty, a family project with help from friends, was transformed...

Will The Iron Trap Garage Barn Find 1939 Ford Convertible Run After Sitting Abandoned For Years??

Well, the ultra rare 1939 Ford Convertible may be in better shape than the boys even thought, so they are thinking it might be worth seeing if this sucker will run and drive. Because they...

FREE LIVE Drag Racing! Fall FootBrake Frenzy #15 – Saturday

If you are looking for great side-by-side drag racing all weekend long, and you love door car drag cars, then we’ve got a race for you! Here’s the Fall Footbrake Frenzy, brought to you by our...