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Iconic Drag Racing and Bonneville Pioneer Art Chrisman Has Died
One of the iconic symbols of drag racing and speed, Art Chrisman, has died after a long illness. He was 86. Pioneering the art of straight line racing in both drag racing in its earliest days at Santa...
View ArticleUndiscovered Builders Announced for 2016 Car Craft Summernationals
The five finalists for the Undiscovered Builders area of the 2016 Car Craft Summernationals have been announced. They are: Jason Vega and his 1978 Firebird, Jim Ransom displaying his Nova, Dave Kelley...
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Sneak Peek of Latest Projects Pro Builders are Bringing to 2016 Car Craft...
Car Craft’s 2016 Summer Nationals is a must-attend for all Street Machiners, but it is especially so for the top professional street machine builders. Happening this July 15 – 17 at Wisconsin State...
View ArticleBig Daddy’s One and Only Streamliner
Streamlining any race car is a seductive exercise you’ll find in everything from drag racing to Formula 1, and it seduces its fair share of luminaries as well as backyard racers. For years in the 1960s...
View ArticleCars Less Favored: The 1966 Dodge Charger
Describing why you like the styling of a certain car can be like explaining what chocolate tastes like. It’s especially not easy figuring why we like a less-popular car, but sometimes we know what...
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2016 Car Craft Summer Nationals Undiscovered, but not Unwashed, Builders:...
Undiscovered Builders is Sponsored by Amsoil For the 2016 Summer Nationals Car Craft has again called out for undiscovered builders to step up and be counted. We’re giving them some love to showcase...
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2016 Car Craft Summer Nationals Undiscovered, but not Unwashed, Builders: Jim...
Undiscovered Builders is Sponsored by Amsoil For the 2016 Summer Nationals Car Craft has again called out for undiscovered builders to step up and be counted. We’re giving them some love to showcase...
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2016 Car Craft Summernationals Undiscovered but not Unwashed Builders: Chad...
Undiscovered Builders is Sponsored by Amsoil For the 2016 Summernationals Car Craft has again called out for undiscovered builders to step up and be counted. We’re giving them some love to showcase...
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2016 Car Craft Summernationals Undiscovered but not Unwashed Builders: Nick...
Undiscovered Builders is Sponsored by Amsoil For the 2016 Summernationals Car Craft has again called out for undiscovered builders to step up and be counted. We’re giving them some love to showcase...
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2016 Car Craft Summernationals Undiscovered but not Unwashed Builders: Steve...
Undiscovered Builders is Sponsored by Amsoil For the 2016 Summernationals Car Craft has again called out for undiscovered builders to step up and be counted. We’re giving them some love to showcase...
View ArticleThe Amazing Amount of These Cars Never Expected to be at 2016 Car Craft...
Being the Car Craft Summernationals you’ve come to expect a wide assortment of muscle cars, street gassers, restored wing cars, and a gang of Bosses, Hemis, and SS Chevys. And you’ll not be...
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Celebrating 50 Years of the Incredible Chevrolet Camaro
One of the cornerstones of performance enthusiasts everywhere is celebrating 50 years of mostly uninterrupted Chevrolet pony power. Yes, HOT ROD has had more red Camaros on its cover than we can count...
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Cream Puff – The Saga of the Craziest 1960s Marathon Boat in History
If you’re wondering why HOT ROD is featuring a boat, here’s two reasons for starters: 1) It’s powered by a 1600 lb-ft of torque 12-cylinder Allison monster, and 2) HOT ROD Magazine sponsored this for...
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Stance, Proportion, and How to Mic-Drop Your Next Project
No, this is not about why Funny Cars should look like their real-life counterparts, though that’s a common discussion around HOT ROD and drag-racing circles, in general. Instead, this is about...
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The Unbelievable Story of How AMC Won a Trans Am Championship
In September 1967, American Motors Corporation (AMC) had no performance parts, no performance engineering group, no racing group, no engine-development program, and absolutely no plan for what it was...
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The “Black Ops” 1967 Fairlane Is the “What If” of Famed Blue Oval Speed Parts
One of the best things about hot rodding is that you can take the road less traveled. If you’re crafty, with a good imagination, you can combine that with a car considered less desirable and end up...
View ArticleThe Beginning of the End of the Rear-Engine Funny Car
Behold the best great attempt at what has become the archetype for Top Fuel dragsters: the rear-engine race car. HOT ROD related Tom McEwen’s catastrophic Lions crash in a rear-engine Barracuda a few...
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The Background and Buildup of the Danny Thompson Challenger 2.5 Bonneville...
With the historic running of Danny Thompson’s Challenger 2.5, we are posting this article by Thom Taylor that originally ran in the Sept. 2014 issue of HOT ROD. It gives some of the background behind...
View Article100-Plus Photos: Wild In the Streets, 2016 Roadkill Nights
So right up front, honestly, this was as crazy as you can image. Blocking off the infamous Woodward Avenue—one of America’s street-race capitols, and then actually conducting street racing? Roadkill...
View ArticleWild, Weird, Wonderful Woodward Avenue Dream Cruise 2016
Though it’s nearly impossible to convey the bonkers assemblage of cars and car crazies from the home of the car; Detroit, we humbly present some random shots from in and around 13 Mile and Woodward...
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