Between June and August 1949, the streamliner was taken to four different dry-lakes points meets to allow Dean to get used to the car. During their last meet before Bonneville, the team ran a two-way ...

On this episode of HOT ROD Unlimited, HOT ROD Editor-in-Chief David Freiburger shares a brief history of the magazine from ...

Although there have been a number of books that have chronicled the rise of hot rodding, few have looked at this native American motor sport with the same eye that Dean Batchelor possessed. Batchelor, ...

Boyd's next mission starts with the unlikely discovery of a '65 Ford Mustang in an old barn. But as the team begins to tear apart this ailing American classic, full of holes and rusted metal parts, ...

Hot-rodding is an iconic American automotive pass-time, but such a specialized hobby has no shortage of jargon and lingo — ...

The American hot rod craze is believed to have originated in Southern California during the interwar years and into the early Cold War period. A time when the playbook detailing how to shove large ...

Carroll Shelby is a positive thinker and one hell of a hot rodder. What are obstacles to most people are only challenges to Shelby. As members of his racing organization put it, "If you wanted to get ...

Not many people get the chance to live 97 years, but Gene Winfield did. The creator of hot rod and Kustom icons born in 1927, passed away Tuesday after spending time in a professional care facility.

With only two weeks to go, the crew throws things into fifth gear, even avoiding a few last-minute potholes — like a too-small manifold that won't fit on the custom-built engine. But when the 'tub ...

American Hotrod takes a close up view of one of the premier hotrod builders, Boyd Coddington. He is an automotive industry legend, whose work embodies the American hotrod. From his families' small ...