Discover HOT ROD’s Top 10 Cars of 2025—our third year reviving this iconic list. See the trendsetting builds, top builders, and innovations shaping car culture. The HOT ROD staff had a busy 2025, to ...

HOT ROD’s “Where It All Began” tagline is literally true in the case of land speed racing at the Bonneville Salt Flats. In 1947, a year before he launched the magazine, Robert E. Petersen joined a ...

A 1956 Chevy hot rod built by Dennis McCarthy offers a personal take on classic American performance. McCarthy, who specializes in picture cars at Vehicle Effects and is widely recognized for the Fast ...

The hot rodding world is filled with common terms that gearheads throw around a lot. These terms are used throughout the hobby and describe many of the different customization techniques and parts ...

Strap in and hold on tight, because we are throwing it back to the golden era of drag racing! In the 1950s and ’60s, the ...

FEELING I’VE EVER HAD LONG BEFORE. FAST AND FURIOUS TURNED MODERN STREET RACING INTO A MOVIE FRANCHISE. THE TIE RODS WERE BURNING RUBBER FROM CONCORD MASS TO THE WEST COAST, EILER RUNNING IN CIRCLES ...

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 ...

It's not like the roads are littered with hot rods, far from it. In fact, each time you see a hot rod out in the wild, it's a cool experience — even the best factory hot rods are few and far between.