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Some kids want to grow up and be just like their dad. Pat Gorman was one of those youngsters who looked up to his good ol' pop for inspiration. Makes [...]

Making what once was old into something new is what hot rodding is all about. Yet sometimes the dream of what you want can go a bit astray. That's what [...]

Few things go more unnoticed than body mounts on body-on-frame Chevy classics like Chevelles, Impalas, Bel Airs, and Biscaynes. For one thing, it is not always known how to replace [...]

* Hot rods have the unique power to transport us to a different time. For some, maybe as vividly as The Beatles, bell-bottoms, or even a first kiss. For others, [...]

Modern Ford enthusiasts will be happy to hear that old-school hot rodding tricks are not dead. Ford has done a fantastic job engineering the 5.0L Coyote engine, which currently makes [...]

Who was the first to bat 1,000? 1,000 horsepower, we mean. Well, the Napier Cub 16-cylinder airplane engine was said to make 1,057 hp in 1920, and land-speed racers went [...]

One of the greatest things about HOT ROD Drag Week[TM] is the way racers think up recipes to tackle the bipolar task of the hell week: to go fast as [...]

When it comes to NASCAR's 'aero warriors,' the Plymouth Superbird is more famous, but Tom Bailey isn't a Mopar guy. Actually, he isn't a Ford guy, either. Bailey's most well-known [...]

Since it's 1960 inception, the Dodge Dart gradually shrank over its generations, and by 1968 it had settled in its spot as Dodge's inexpensive compact, replacing the Lancer in 1963. [...]

Brandon Furches' 784hp, 3,600-pound, turbocharged LS.4 2004 Monte Carlo SS gets a lot of heat on the internet, but it's not what you expect. Though open-minded observers dig it for [...]

Celebrating its 70th anniversary, the 2019 Grand National Roadster Show--the longest-running indoor car show in the nation--brought together at the Pomona Fairplex east of Los Angeles, more than 600 of [...]

Jim Mercurio grew up on a healthy diet of all things Mopar, which was fed to him on a daily basis by his immediate family. His good ol' dad was [...]

Greg Rupp inherited a problem. He traded his street rod for a very nice '67 Plymouth Belvedere with a 383 and a four-speed. The B-Body was a really clean car, [...]

* Tommy Franklin says, 'I have been involved with cars since I was born. My dad has always had street rods and race cars, so I was hooked from the [...]

* The story is as old as hot rodding. Call it hot rodding lore --you know it, eyes bigger than stomach bite of more than they can chew. But this [...]

Quick, name five off-road pickups! Now, if you're anything like the average truck enthusiast, your mind probably rattled off pickups like the Toyota Tacoma, Ram Power Wagon, Chevrolet Colorado ZR2, [...]

Most car magazines clamor forover-the-top, spare-noexpense feature cars, so it's therapeutically Zen when we encounter a car that's beautiful in its simplicity, one whose main purpose is to be driven. [...]

It might be hot rodding's first commandment: 'Thou Shalt Install a Dual Exhaust on Thine Muscle Car.' And for good reason: the symmetry improves the sound and exhaust tuning of [...]

You know how the story goes. Boy grows up in love with hot rods, buys his first car, has a blast, gets married, parks the car, has kids, sells the [...]

In our youth, we built smaller-scale car models, because, quite frankly, that's what we can afford. In this way we can try different vehicular modifications without breaking the bank. You [...]

* We've always held that the essence of hot rodding eclipses the gnashing of the mechanicals and the pride associated with a clean, spectacular rendition. A lot of the time [...]

Perhaps best known for creating the bizarre, oversized hot rod-driving caricature Rat Fink, famed artist, cartoonist, and car customizer Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth was born in Beverly Hills, California, in [...]

Every shop has that one great customer--that one person who truly enjoys the process of the build and keeps coming back again and again for the next car. Some of [...]

* Gasser is a term in the dictionary of hot rodding that evokes pure adrenaline. There's nothing quite like watching these radical cars launching from the lights with the scent [...]

* Patrick D g doesn't give a hoot about how fast or how quick his car rips up a straight line. In his head he couldn't abide a ham-fist 1,000-horsepower [...]

When it comes to powering any hot rod project that you've been working on, there're basically three options: buying a crate engine, buying a junkyard engine or building an engine [...]

This is a story about building a 5-second Mopar. It all started when then HOT ROD Editorial Director David Freiburger shared a link from Craigslist featuring a back-halved '71 Dodge [...]

Wait, what? This is a drift car that looks like a muscle car, powered by a late-model engine, and dressed like something Dan Gurney would have driven in the 1960s. [...]

Car Craft turns 65 years young in May 2018. We can trace the origins back to 1953 when a little magazine named Honk! was spun off of Hot Rod. Looking [...]

In 1957, the Chevrolet Corvette was introduced with the new 283ci fuel-injected V-8 engine. Touting one horsepower per cubic inch, it was a real breakthrough at the time. Many moons [...]

Having tested endless aftermarket and ported stock LS cylinder heads for our sister title Hot Rod, it seemed odd that the stock stuff was never included. A test of the [...]

Engine Swaps are BecomingMore Software-Driven Than Ever Before, Breeding a New Era of Digital Hot Rodding If there's one technology that has changed everything we know about how a car [...]

When you own a hot rod shop you get to see a lot of projects go from start to finish with numerous goals and aspirations used to get them there. [...]

Hot Rodding is a hobby--not a career--for the vast majority of us. We drool over billet, but settle for cast, and pinch pennies to eke the most out of our [...]

The Tremec TKO five-speed transmission is one of the most versatile aftermarket replacement gearboxes available. The TKO was designed to replace a great number of three-, four-, and five-speed manual [...]

*Despite what you might surmise, this is a genuine success story. Despite a long, arduous journey finishing the car, it wouldn't be a real project unless adversity prevailed, at least [...]

Q: I drive a 1993 Thunderbird LX 5.0L. I want to convert the front hubs from 5 on 41/4 inches to 5 on 41/2 inches. The rear hubs are already [...]

The G-body Malibu drips with 1980s flair, so we've opted to highlight the original look and feel en lieu of a stripped-down, racecar interior. We said in our first installment [...]

With the rising prices of early 1970s hot rods, the GM G-body remains the popular budget-friendly platform. It's a car we're familiar with here at Car Craft, having built multiple [...]

A+Buying gifts for avid motorsports fans can be tricky. So whether they race themselves or just veg out in front of the TV on race day, we've compiled some of [...]

Hot rodding at its very core has never been about paint and panel gaps. It has always been about working with what you have to make your car better. Los [...]

The reference to our hot rods as toys implies that we are somehow childlike and compelled to continue to play with toys. While I personally feel vintage cars and hot [...]

In ancient times, Detroit Raw supplied the youth market with hot cars, defined it with them, but they easily handed off the muscle car powertrain to a bunch of mature [...]

Originally inspired by Project X, Popular Hot Rodding's long-running 1957 Chevy project car, this is the third '57 drag car Jeff Lutz has built, and it's the culmination of everything [...]

With the holidays right around the corner, it's time to think about what to get your hot rodding friends and family members. We here at Chevy High Performance would like [...]

* A father and son (or daughter) often bond outside the immediate family to enjoy interests like fishing, racing, target shooting, bible study, sports of some stripe, the 4H Club, [...]

If you were to look up the word 'sublime' in Mr. Webster's book, you would find that it means 'beautiful, excellent, complete, and morally worthy.' A secondary definition says 'convert [...]

WITH OUR WEEK TO WICKED MUSTANG NOW PAINTED AND BACK IN OUR SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA, TECH CENTER, it was time to start reassembling to prepare for a week of intense [...]

As an impressionable grade schooler, Ray Bruno would walk past a stunning silver-skinned 1956 Vette on his way to class every day. With its Torq-Thrust wheels and black tuck 'n' [...]

DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU live, big-block Chevy 8.1L engines can be found cheap. We are not sure why, but compared to the LS-series truck engines, these torque tanks are plentiful [...]