Whatever Happened to Kustomizing?
Whatever happened to customizing newer cars? How did such a popular trend in car building come to a screeching halt? In the 1940s through 1950s, turning a car into a “mystery car”—one that contained...
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The 2017 Woodward Avenue Dream Cruise in Detroit is a Celebration of American...
The Woodward Avenue Dream Cruise in Detroit keeps getting bigger, better, and more bodacious. The boulevard is more engorged with iconic and interesting cars and trucks, and a lot of what passes by in...
View ArticleFreak Show Friday: BMW CS NASCAR Coupe
Let’s say you love your BMW CS coupe, but you also love NASCAR, and especially Richard Petty and his 1970 Plymouth Superbird. The answer to this conundrum is easy, and here before you. Just convert...
View ArticleFreak Show Friday: Truckmaro
We’re not sure what the owner of this customized truck was after, but it’s definitely extensive, exclusive, and unique. There is obvious affinity for the newer Camaro, as that is prominently on...
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Blasting Through Town At Drag Week 2016 with Mike Wenzler In His Pro...
With the announcement of the passing of Drag Week staple Mike Wenzler of Battle Creek, Michigan, we dug up this video of he and Thom Taylor in his Pro Stock/Pro Street 1987 Camaro headed for the final...
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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...
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Don’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...
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Drag 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...
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2017 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...
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Drag 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...
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Drag 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....
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Maybe 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...
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2017 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...
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Attracted 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...
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The 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...
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40 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...
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The 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...
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Bang ’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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