The SCTA-RPM Nationals Dirt Drags brought vintage hot rods back to El Mirage for the first drag race there in nearly 80 years ...

Many of today’s most popular performance upgrades trace their roots to racing. Here’s how competition helped shape the ...

America celebrates its 250th birthday this Fourth of July, making it an appropriate time to remember another patriotic milestone that inspired auto manufacturers across the country nearly 50 years ago ...

Every year, HOT ROD Drag Week attracts one of the most diverse collections of bona fide street/strip cars in America ... and a few that wish they were. Nearly every popular Chevrolet you can think of ...

Creating a Ridler-winning car these days is a passion project to create the best of the best. The check the winner gets is barely enough to cover the cost of one wheel, so it’s certainly not done as ...

Is there a more imposing shape from the muscle car era than a 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle? It has become one of the defining symbols of Detroit’s horsepower wars, and few cars command more attention ...

Anybody who’s built a vehicle for SEMA knows the overwhelming mix of emotions, ranging from excitement and anticipation to frustration and despair. Most people do it once and swear they’ll never make ...

Don Yenko was a young, struggling jazz pianist trying to break into the NYC jazz scene before coming to the realization that the life of a musician would be a hard one. After the prodigal son returned ...

There was a lot to see at Roadkill Nights Powered by Dodge, and one of the more intriguing vehicles wasn’t making laps on the Woodward Avenue dragstrip. We got our first look at the 2027 Hennessey ...

There’s a song that goes “Rainy days and dragstrips always get me down,” or something like that. Yeah, we may be cool, but we’re not cool enough to control the weather, and Tuesday’s HOT ROD Drag Week ...

If you’ve been living on a remote island for the last few years, let us catch you up on the latest happenings in the OEM performance market. Dodge is back to doing what it does best—building ...

From the November 1969 issue of Hot Rod magazine: Those who appreciate good cars had an eye out for the GS 455. Buick may have the surprise issue in the super-car series this model year. The 400-cubic ...