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1978 HOT ROD Magazine “Street Machine of the Year” For Sale Right Now
Buy a piece of HOT ROD history, as well as an attention getter, blown mid-engine freak show, and bonafide Street Machine of the Year recipient. This mid-engine Olds 442 had it all in 1978, and it’s on...
View ArticleTurn Back Tuesday: Mickey Thompson’s Titanium Pinto Funny Car
One of the most unique Funny Cars from a period when they were becoming more homogenized, the M/T Pinto Funny Car was powered by a blown Ford Boss 429 Shotgun motor, in a titanium Woody Gilmore chassis...
View ArticleFreak Show Friday: Firebird-Jeep Mishmash-up
If you’ve ever wondered what you would get if you crossed a Jeep with a Firebird, we would suggest committing yourself to the nearest psych ward of your local hospital. Or, you could just bonk the...
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$561 Project Truck at HOT ROD Power Tour 2017
HOT ROD Power Tour 2017 Is Presented By Chevrolet Performance And Driven By Continental Tire Tom Moore set out to spend as little as possible for a Power Tour ride, and we think he might have just set...
View ArticleFirst Look: 200 Images from HOT ROD Power Tour 2017
HOT ROD Power Tour 2017 Is Presented By Chevrolet Performance And Driven By Continental Tire We get our first look at the amazing cars and trucks cueing up for the 2017 Power Tour at the registration...
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Aftermarket Pioneer Vic Edelbrock Jr. Has Passed Away
Vic Edelbrock Jr, one of the guiding lights of the aftermarket, past president and board member of the Specialty Equipment Manufacturing Association (SEMA), and scion of the Edelbrock Company for...
View ArticleAdam West of TV Batman Fame Has Died
If you are of a certain age, the 1960s TV show Batman was a wild must-see series for a couple of years, no doubt due to the Batmobile for us car enthusiasts, but also for the campy acting of Adam West...
View Article50-Plus Shocking and Fabulous Freaks From HOT ROD Power Tour 2017
HOT ROD Power Tour 2017 Is Presented By Chevrolet Performance And Driven By Continental Tire Having a freak is neither a bad thing, nor a good thing necessarily. If it’s different, and maybe brings a...
View ArticleGallery: Slammed! Cars and Trucks-How Low Can You Go?
HOT ROD Power Tour 2017 Is Presented By Chevrolet Performance And Driven By Continental Tire Some go for speed, some for stance or style, while others want their cars and trucks to be extreme in...
View ArticleGallery: Over 100 Early Iron OG Builds on HOT ROD Power Tour 2017
HOT ROD Power Tour 2017 Is Presented By Chevrolet Performance And Driven By Continental Tire We’ve seen an increase at the 2017 HOT ROD Power Tour of pre-1955 heaps over previous years. Look, the older...
View ArticleFlashback: The Flyin’ Football Gasser of KS Pittman
Known as the “Football” when Big John Mazmanian ran his aerodynamic Austin as his last A/Gasser, this shot from 1968 shows it in its KS Pittman iteration after he purchased it from Maz. Of course...
View ArticleHOT ROD Power Tour 2017 Problems Averted in Galesburg, Illinois
HOT ROD Power Tour 2017 Is Presented By Chevrolet Performance And Driven By Continental Tire Sometimes problems arise beyond the pre-planning, planning, care, and 20-plus years of everything that could...
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2017 Power Tour Cyclone Spoiler II That Got Its Owner Into the 150mph Club At...
HOT ROD Power Tour 2017 Is Presented By Chevrolet Performance And Driven By Continental Tire If you think that Power Tour is just for rocking chair cruisers, think again. Michael Callahan from...
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4-Speed, Two-Ton, Big-Block Behemoths:1969 Ford XL At HOT ROD Power Tour 2017
HOT ROD Power Tour 2017 Is Presented By Chevrolet Performance And Driven By Continental Tire You gotta love these big, bad, behemoths, and Jan Schnur’s XL Sports Roof is one of the last and rarest....
View ArticleDead Brands Come Back To Life, and We’ve Got Some Strange Ones on HOT ROD...
HOT ROD Power Tour 2017 Is Presented By Chevrolet Performance And Driven By Continental Tire Pontiac, Plymouth, Packard, Pierce, Peerless—all car companies that share more than the “P” in their names....
View ArticleTop 10 Freaks of HOT ROD Power Tour 2017
HOT ROD Power Tour 2017 Is Presented By Chevrolet Performance And Driven By Continental Tire You’ve asked for them, and now we have the Top 10 Freaks of Power Tour. Some you’ve seen from our first...
View ArticleFreak Show Friday: Pink Trick Trike
There’s nothing normal about his Ford Model A mongrel, not even the color. We think this started out as a 1928-29 Model A pickup, but so much of what it once was has been modified that it’s sort of...
View ArticleFlashback: This Lakester Initiated the Birth of Fuel Injection
Stu Hilborn’s Lakester From 1948 Stu Hilborn developed his fuel injection experiments with this car, his Bill Warth-built aluminum streamliner, in this photograph by HOT ROD founder Robert Petersen....
View ArticleArlen Vanke, Pioneer of Super Stock and Pro Stock Racing Has Died
Campaigning Pontiac Super Stocks early in the 1960s, when GM pulled the plug, Arlen Vanke switched to Mopars, becoming one of the dominant racers in the category. Arlen died June 16, 2017, at 80 years...
View ArticleJack Conely, Prolific Engine Builder and Racer Has Died
Jack Conely was a talented racer and engine builder, contributing to race teams in NASCAR, USAC, Indy, IMSA and ARCA. He died May 10 at the age of 87. A Michigan Motor Sports Hall of Fame inductee, he...
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