In the Summer 2025 issue of HOT ROD, we celebrated home-built cars—built not bought, as some would say—and that is a large part of HOT ROD’s legacy. Since the first issue, our mantra has been to ...

Legendary custom car builder Scott Sullivan discusses his roots at the drag strip, his signature wide-tire street machines, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Hot Rod Editor in Chief John McGann – all ...

As the name implies, Pro Street evolved from both the drag- and street-racing scenes. Its direct predecessors were the street freaks of the Seventies, American cars modified with drag parts for ...

NAGS HEAD, N.C. — The OBX Rod and Custom Festival returned to the island this week for its seventh year, which was all started from organizers long-time love and appreciation for cars. "I always loved ...

From the January 2013 issue of HOT ROD: Builder Dan Webb recreates the iconic vehicle that set the 200-mph bar back in 1950. To celebrate HOT ROD's 75th anniversary, we teamed up with CASTROL GTX to ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) The HOT ROD Power Tour, featuring thousands of custom cars and pickups, makes a return visit to Fort Wayne on Wednesday with the potential for traffic problems on roads near ...

Len Palmeri was honored with the Preservation Award at the 2026 Detroit Autorama for his one-of-a-kind steel car named ...

Hosts Brian Lohnes and John McGann talk with former Car Craft and HOT ROD editor Jeff Smith on a lifelong career working for car magazines.

If you can name a make and model of a car, odds are you could find it in the Memorial Coliseum parking lot Wednesday as part of the 31st annual Hot Rod Power Tour. “To put it simply, it’s car Nirvana, ...

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 ...