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Cory and Ashley Taulbert’s Deuce Coupe is Both Period-Perfect and...
Sometimes the weirdest fads from rodding’s past repeat themselves. Back in the late-1960s hot rodders building early cars such as Model Ts, As, and 1932 Fords went through the “resto-rod” phase where...
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Your Quick Reference For Each Drag Week Class and Category
If you’re not participating in HOT ROD’s Drag Week, one of the best activities for enthusiasts is to pick your favorite class of racecars and follow along to see how they fare day by day. Especially...
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Allison V12-Powered “Cream Puff” Boat Narrowly Escapes Lake Nacimiento Wildfires
Last month we ran the story of “Cream Puff”, the Allison V12-powered marathon boat from the 1960s that HOT ROD Magazine sponsored, and owner John Fell restored. It will be featured in our December 2016...
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Racing and Promoting Legend Blackie Gejeian Has Died
90-year-old Michael “Blackie” Gejeian, a racing and show promoting legend from Fresno, California has died. A five-time NASCAR dirt track champion, Blackie is best remembered as being part of the...
View ArticleWeird Cars, Combos, Components and Nitro at the 2016 HOT ROD Drag Week
HOT ROD Drag Week, presented by Gear Vendors Under/Overdrive One thing you can depend on each year at Drag Week is the freak streak that runs through many a Drag Week participant. The 2016 edition is...
View Article2016 HOT ROD Drag Week Gonzo Gassers Gallery
HOT ROD Drag Week, presented by Gear Vendors Under/Overdrive We are awash in Gassers at the 2016 HOT ROD Drag Week presented by Gear Vendors Under/Overdrive. Well, maybe not awash, but we’ve got a lot...
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Cobra Jet Killer You Can Use as a Textbook at the 2016 Drag Week
HOT ROD Drag Week, presented by Gear Vendors Under/Overdrive Looking for a light, cheap, newer platform to build a Drag Week hauler, Steve Trance out of Jupiter, Florida, looked at Camaros and...
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1967 Camaro Stretches Street Sanity Ceiling
HOT ROD Drag Week, presented by Gear Vendors Under/Overdrive At the 2016 HOT ROD Drag Week we’ve got some big tire heavy breathers that bring a smile to all who gaze upon them and the sheer craziness...
View ArticleVideo: David Schroeder’s 1966 ‘Vette Hits The Wall When Chutes Fail at 199 MPH
HOT ROD Drag Week, presented by Gear Vendors Under/Overdrive The 1966 Corvette of Dave Schroeder, a car well known at HOT ROD Drag Week and in other street-legal drag racing circles, hit the wall...
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First Nitromethane Entry: Brian Kohlmann’s Chrysler Fuel Coupe at 2016 Drag Week
HOT ROD Drag Week, presented by Gear Vendors Under/Overdrive After a horrendous crash at the 2015 Roadkill Nights in Pontiac, Michigan, Brain Kohlmann got his bell rung good. Like off from work for...
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Big, Heavy Monte Carlos Are Some of the Fastest Cars at Drag Week!
HOT ROD Drag Week, presented by Gear Vendors Under/Overdrive Every one of our quartet of 1970-‘72 Monte owners at the 2016 Drag Week readily admit their cars are heavy pigs. Most tip the scales at over...
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Cruising Middle America In A Gasser on Drag Week
Gassing up Gassers every 60 miles while blazing the byways and boulevards of Midwest America, then boiling hoops through six days of drag strip shenanigans is the essence of Drag Week. The image of...
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This Ex-Pro-Stock Camaro Is a 7-second, Nitrous-Fueled Street Car
HOT ROD Drag Week, presented by Gear Vendors Under/Overdrive Mike Wenzler doesn’t know why he traded his ‘62 409 Impala for this Pro Stock 1987 Camaro built by Willie Rells in San Diego, that has...
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Grandad’s 1957 210 Chevy Makes a Great Drag Week Warrior
HOT ROD Drag Week, presented by Gear Vendors Under/Overdrive Tommy O’Donnell from Fort Worth is a lucky puppy. His grandfather “NE” bought this 1957 210 hardtop new in ‘57 to drag race. They made a...
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Rod & Custom Editor and Neuspeed Founder Bill Neumann has Died
We are saddened to learn that Rod & Custom Magazine editor and founder of Camarillo, California, Neuspeed Performance Systems; Bill Neumann died September 6, 2016. Hitting the East Coast car show...
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Australians Give Drag Week Winner, Jeff Lutz, the Bubbly Drenching of his Life
HOT ROD Drag Week, presented by Gear Vendors Under/Overdrive The award for winning the big prize at HOT ROD Drag Week can sometimes continue well after the accolades, acceptance speeches, and hugs and...
View ArticleThe Most Notorious Custom Paint Job Ever Sprayed
My dad would say the best artists hide their mistakes. I don’t know what an accountant was doing giving advice to his budding car designer son, but there is no better example of this adage than Earl...
View ArticleTwo New Books For Hot Rodders
New books have just been published by or about individuals both near and dear to HOT ROD, which should make them of interest to you. The First Lady of Motorsports: Linda Vaughn by former HOT ROD Editor...
View ArticleWill Harry “Hand Grenade” Hibler, Fly, Explode, or Make a Clean Run at the...
This is Harry “Hand Grenade” Hibler in Mike Butler’s Top Fuel dragster at the 1971 March Meet at Famoso. Harry ran San Fernando Drag Strip for years in the late-1950s until it closed in 1966, as well...
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HOT ROD Interviews Connie Kalitta
If HOT ROD could crown a drag race king it would be Connie Kalitta. Why? Improbably, he’s the last man standing from the early days. He’s outlasted Don Garlits, Don Prudhome, Tommy Ivo, Ed McCulloch,...
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