After World War II, in the days before the internet and cable television, young people spent their free time customizing their cars, with engineers like hot rod pioneer Ed Iskenderian turning ...

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 ...

Goodguys has awarded its 2026 Classic Instruments Street Rod of the Year title to John and Jennifer Fairleigh and their ...

Reviewing the past 40 years of hot rodding's history naturally leads us into the next century, and the temptation to predict the future of our sport beyond 1999. Where will hot rodding stand 15 years ...

You may or may not know that Pontiac built a 301-cubic-inch V8 from 1977 to 1981. Although it was touted as lighter than its Chevrolet small-block counterparts, it was far from a barnburner. Just ...

Tony Angelo has been building fast and somewhat sketchy cars for longer than many of you reading this have been alive. If you've been following the car scene, particularly on the east coast, you ...

Whether it’s reproducing parts that are no longer available, or creating one-off performance parts, 3D printing has opened up a lot of possibilities. But those parts are only as good as the templates ...

The professional-grade 16,200-square-foot car shop at this West Linn, Oregon estate shifts auto hobbyists into next gear. Boys will be boys. Especially when it comes to things mechanical. From a very ...

Portrait of the artist wearing a sweater vest and an eyeball ring. Williams’s paintings typically require a large amount of draft work and, frequently, use of a magnifying glass. Toward the end of our ...

“Hot Rod Lewie’s is about old-school rodding,” he wrote recently in a mission statement of sorts. “We believe in the greaser … one man with a vision, turning raw iron into something he is proud to ...