HOT ROD has been in the Top 10 ranking business for sixty years, albeit it has been an on-and-off affair. We resurrected the beloved rankings in 2023 after a long hiatus and the first HOT ROD Magazine ...

Building an engine requires patience and careful attention to details, even if it's a bone stock rebuild destined for everyday use, but a performance engine is asked to provide its handler with a bit ...

It feels that every other hot rod is a 1930s Ford, so it's worth thinking outside the box. Here are five cool alternatives to ...

A famous hot rod has been unearthed by California dealer Galpin Motors after decades in hiding. Called "Uncertain-T," the car was a fixture of the show circuit in the 1960s, and was immortalized as a ...

On episode 11 of HOT ROD Garage, we round out a bunch of El Camino upgrades with a big heart transplant. Gone is our old 383ci small-block and in its place is a Chevrolet Performance LS376/525 ...

Our exclusive render design makes this Ford rat rod meaner than everything else.

I encountered Dunphy’s Viper and 411 other cars like it (I’m using a broad definition of “like”) at HOT ROD Drag Week, an annual event that more or less started as a way to get people to shut up about ...

Some of Robert E. Fisher’s earliest memories are from the final months of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s, when big and powerful cars were at his father’s body shop in Broadalbin. “That was ...

The 2025 Shiny Rust Hot Rod show took place over the weekend at the Oakland Expo Center in Waterford, Michigan. It focused on classic cars, and shiny or rusty, big or small, they had them all on ...

Hot rods were once a huge part of American youth culture, so much so that hot rodders developed their own language. Here are ...

On Saturday March 23rd through the 24th it’s Motorhead Madness and there’s plenty to see down at the DECC. From antique autos, to hot rods, even racecars, people with a passion for cars can show off ...

Enjoy the Southwest scenery surrounded by vintage cars and trucks during the Goodguys 16th FiTech Fuel Injection Spring ...