What Is a Restomod Build? For this huge subset of hot rodders, the path to automotive happiness is in improving their car to be a better street car with parts that give it modern braking, crisp ...

HOT ROD is “where it all began,” as the first magazine to cover the hot rod culture. Since that time, HOT ROD has evolved into a brand devoted to everything from hot rods to restomods, barn finds to ...

Bill Posey, former U.S. representative and lifelong automotive enthusiast, has died at 78. The racer and SEMA advocate spent ...

Back in the heyday of big-blocks and Tang, one American automotive brand stood outside the norm—American Motors Corporation, or AMC. Created out of what was at the time the largest corporate merger in ...

Ram has revealed the 2027 Rumble Bee lineup with up to 777 hp, multiple Hemi engine options, and performance-focused upgrades ...

HOT ROD Drag Week 2026: Dates, Locations, and Details for the Historic Route 66 Raceway Launch ...

Is an intake manifold an important part of a performance LS build? The answer is, obviously, yes. One need only look at the peak power difference between the least and most powerful intakes in this ...

As America celebrates its 250th anniversary, HOT ROD Power Fest will deliver a two-day festival packed with horsepower, drag racing, autocross competition, custom cars, and nonstop automotive ...

Welcome to the 1960s, the decade of the original muscle car! These are the 10 muscle machines that really mattered. To be clear, the full-size 1962 Pontiac Catalina and Grand Prix were not meant to be ...

If you’ve been reading HOT ROD over the last couple of years, then you already know we’ve been deep into the modern sport truck movement. From supercharged and turbocharged Ford F-150 builds to ...

As much as we'd like our cars to have personalities, memories, and human emotions, they're just machines. They can't tell you where they've been and what they've done. Wouldn't it be nice to query ...