In the Summer 2025 issue of HOT ROD, we celebrated home-built cars—built not bought, as some would say—and that is a large part of HOT ROD’s legacy. Since the first issue, our mantra has been to ...

The most amazing thing about the current decade is that it's nearly complete. Suddenly it is 1988, and the year 2000 is just around the corner. Some of us surely thought the automobile would be as ...

Some of the very first self-propelled vehicles were products of engineers and the curious in private garages and workshops. Within a few decades of the invention of the first car, companies were ...

Owning a 1932 Ford hot rod means living in two eras at once. The car’s bones come from the earliest days of Ford’s flathead V8, but most Deuces on the road today are the result of decades of ...

The hot rodding world is filled with common terms that gearheads throw around a lot. These terms are used throughout the hobby and describe many of the different customization techniques and parts ...

Anyone who is at least passingly familiar with custom cars has probably at least heard of the concept of a hot rod. A hot rod is, of course, a custom car designed with the express purpose of going as ...