Part 2: Drag racing and Detroit. HOT ROD's 40th anniversary coverage from the January 1988 issue illustrates what was happening in the 1950s.

The goal is help you plan and build a '50s-style hot rod by giving a general guide to some of the styling trends that you would have seen on hot rods between 1950 and 1960. All of the cars in ...

The variety of pre-World War II cars is outstanding, with a mixture of traditional hot rods and contemporary street rods.

When Rodney "The Rodster" Reisdorph started the first Scene of the Crash Rockabilly/Psychobilly Car Show in 2014, he was ...

The recent Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance hosted a special class called Class V: 1932 Ford Historic Hot Rods, four of which were former HOT ROD cover cars.

Brimming with hot rod and sports car history, this race-winning mashup was owned and written about by Car and Driver's Brock Yates.

Its previous lifetime began in the late 1950s as Norm Grabowski’s hot rod (featured in both Hot Rod magazine and a Mamie Van Doren movie, Sex Kittens Go To College).

In the garage of Ron and Laura San Giovanni are “His” and “Her” models. His is a blue 1932 Ford roadster. Hers is a maroon ...

A customized 1950 Mercury named “Maximus” took home the Detroit Autorama’s 2023 Don Ridler Memorial Award late February, considered by many to be the top prize in the hot-rod hobby. The ...

Around the 1950s, hot rodding became more mainstream, with homebrew car clubs getting gearheads together to create the fastest, sleekest rides imaginable and hitting the racetracks.

Michael Beasley’s life took a dramatic turn after being selected second overall in the 2008 NBA Draft. But, despite his ...

Like a boxcar of parts arriving at the factory that builds sports cars, the documentary film “Detroit: City of Hot Rods and Muscle Cars” assembles a collection of seemingly disparate ...