Drag Week 2017, Determined or Demented?
Powered by Dodge, brought to you by Gear Vendors Overdrive Friday night Jeff Pagano, from East Hampton, New York, was just getting out of emergency surgery after driving from home on his way to Drag...
View ArticleDon’t Do This At Drag Week!
HOT ROD Drag Week 2017, powered by Dodge and presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive If you do this at Drag Week, or any strip for that matter, stay into it. If you drop it hard, as Mark Gissendaner did...
View ArticleDrag Week Monday Video: Fear, Fun, and Frustration
HOT ROD Drag Week 2017, powered by Dodge and presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive Each day of Drag Week is a drama, times 400. There are 400 cars with millions of ways they may or may never finish Drag...
View Article2017 Drag Week Tuesday Drive – Thinning Out the Herd
HOT ROD Drag Week 2017, powered by Dodge and presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive The fantastic times and speeds we’ve seen at both Cordova and Gateway are really only half of the picture that is Drag...
View ArticleDrag Week 2017: Wednesday On the Road – Good Weather and Good Times!
HOT ROD Drag Week 2017, powered by Dodge and presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive Talk to Drag Week veterans and soon enough previous years hot summer days will come up, so it’s been noteworthy that the...
View ArticleFreak Show Friday: Luke Skywalker’s Earth-pod
Looking like Luke Skywalker’s earth-pod, we are hard pressed to determine what this is, or what it’s for. It looks like a movie prop, but then it also looks like it is driven. We do recognize the late...
View ArticleDrag Week On the Road Thursday – Drip, Drip, Drip
HOT ROD Drag Week 2017, powered by Dodge and presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive Wrapping up Day 4’s drive from Great Lakes back to where we started at Cordova, we’re near the end and it shows....
View ArticleMaybe the Best Award at 2017 Drag Week!
HOT ROD Drag Week 2017, powered by Dodge and presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive Shifty Frank Romano will never give up his manual shift 1955 Chevy. If you talk to most people running manuals at Drag...
View Article2017 Drag Week-Race ‘em, Wreck ‘Em, Never Check ‘Em
HOT ROD Drag Week 2017, powered by Dodge and presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive Drag Week is the most fun you can have in drag racing—unless you’re blessed with lots of cubic-dollars or significant...
View ArticleAttracted Enough to a Car to Build One? Why Change It?
With all of the radical changes we see in the design and execution of some professional and garage-built projects, it’s puzzling to look at a car like this 1928 Ford roadster—originally built by Fat...
View ArticleThe Cook and Bedwell 1956 Slinghot
Kenny Arnold is behind the wheel of the brutal, heavily gusseted Scotty Fenn 100-inch dragster at the 1956 National Drag Championship campaigned by the Yeakel brothers. With a Cadillac engine built by...
View ArticleThe Beginning and End of the Front-Engine Dragster
At the dawn of drag racing, it was easy to tell which cars were fastest. They were the ones that looked like two rails, an engine, and four tires that someone sat on. Those stripped-down “bugs” or...
View Article40 Years At HOT ROD, the Marlan Davis Saga
Forty years at one company is crazy, but that’s the landmark we’re celebrating for HOT ROD’s very unique, devoted, and walking GM part-number catalog, Marlan Davis. Forty years! You know him as HOT...
View ArticleThe Bug That’s Actually A Buick!
Robert Freeman’s 1959 Beetle takes “buggin-out” to new heights. No, you didn’t pick up Hot VWs Magazine by mistake. This is HOT ROD, so relax. Behold Robert Freeman’s “Berlin Buick,” christened as such...
View ArticleBang ’Em and Hang ’Em! Drag Week’s Stick Shift Shootout!
A New Tradition Takes Shape In 2016, Brent McCoy started what is now an unofficial tradition at Drag Week: the Stick Shift Shootout. Brent noticed there was a bit of downtime between rounds of the...
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