The 1950s: When HOT ROD Magazine Went From Regional to National. Part 2: Drag racing and Detroit. ... By '57, HOT ROD Magazine-style car tests were an important part of the editorial package.

Altogether, nearly 10,000 hot rods, customs, muscle cars and classic trucks swarmed the grounds from Thursday through Sunday, making the Street Rod Nationals one of the largest car shows in the world.

Cool Cover Cars: HOT ROD ’32 Fords Invade Pebble Beach. ... and a Burns dual-carb manifold, among myriad other upgrades. McGee reportedly drove the car daily until the 1950s.

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.

Brimming with hot rod and sports car history, ... Livingstone was racing a sort of full-scale go-kart in the form of a Ford T-bucket body mounted on a Model A frame. In 1950, ...

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 ...

'City of Hot Rods' film is a trove of stories about Detroit, cars and all of us. ... Detroit custom-car extravaganza Autorama’s 1950s origin as a fundraiser for a drag strip in the city.

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.

Its previous lifetime began in the late 1950s as Norm Grabowski’s hot rod (featured in both Hot… The post Carspotting: The Hot Rod Sacrificed For “My Mother The Car” appeared first on The ...

Museum in Summerville showcases love for cars, 1950s America. November 6, 2022 at 5:39 p.m. ... a 1934 Ford hot rod that Dee Pitts, Wyatt's girlfriend, calls her Barbie car.