Years before the muscle car era began, radical real-deal hot rods like these were ripping up dragstrips across the country. To celebrate HOT ROD's 75th anniversary, we teamed up with CASTROL GTX to ...

What defines a street car? Or even a race car, for that matter? During our HOT ROD Drag Week those lines are often more than a bit blurry. For a car to survive Drag Week, it must race all out for five ...

The iconic 1933 Ford Eliminator featured in select ZZ Top albums has a storied history behind it. Check out how it came to be ...

I encountered Dunphy’s Viper and 411 other cars like it (I’m using a broad definition of “like”) at HOT ROD Drag Week, an annual event that more or less started as a way to get people to shut up about ...

RISING SUN — Hot Rod Drag Week 2025 will make an appearance at Cecil County Dragway Sept. 18 This is the annual celebration hosted by Hot Rod Magazine and presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive. Cecil ...

In this episode of Hot Rod Garage presented by Lincoln Tech, our hosts Tony Angelo and Lucky Costa take the HRG project cars from last season and drag race them against each other! We’ve got the ...

As the name implies, Pro Street evolved from both the drag- and street-racing scenes. Its direct predecessors were the street freaks of the Seventies, American cars modified with drag parts for ...

If you can name a make and model of a car, odds are you could find it in the Memorial Coliseum parking lot Wednesday as part of the 31st annual Hot Rod Power Tour. “To put it simply, it’s car Nirvana, ...

For the past 58 years, the O’Reilly Auto Parts World of Wheels Auto Show has given car enthusiasts in the Chattanooga, ...

I’ll readily admit that drag racing is the form of motorsports which I am least familiar with. However, I have been monitoring with great interest the recent moves being made ...

In 1974, Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins took the body shell of a Chevrolet Vega and built a race car inside of it. It changed the world of drag racing. And after that NHRA Pro Stock drag race Vega appeared, ...

The NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion opened its three-day run on Friday at Famoso Dragstrip in impressive fashion with the quickest eight qualifiers in Nostalgia Funny Car history. Shane Westerfield, ...