In the beginning, hot rods were street cars built to go fast—on the street, at the dry lakes, and (later) at the dragstrip. As the movement "matured," to many people form became more important than ...

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 ...

The hot rod dates way back to the 1920s, but found its cultural footing in post-World War II America. Soldiers armed with mechanical training picked up cheap Ford Model Ts and found ways to make them ...

Some of the very first self-propelled vehicles were products of engineers and the curious in private garages and workshops. Within a few decades of the invention of the first car, companies were ...