Why do early Mercurys make great traditional customs? We found out when 30 of the best Merc lead sleds showed up at the 2023 Burbank Road Kings car show. The 2023 Road Kings Car Show in Burbank, ...

Discover HOT ROD’s Top 10 Cars of 2025—our third year reviving this iconic list. See the trendsetting builds, top builders, and innovations shaping car culture. The HOT ROD staff had a busy 2025, to ...

Soon to be retired builder shows off a respectable classic hot rod collection. American car culture can essentially be summed up, in all of its glory, with just a couple of words, legendary speed. The ...

HOT ROD: Neil Sinclair and one of his current cruisers; a 1937 American bodied Ford business coupe, which still runs, with an ...

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 ...

Earlier today, I met my friend's 5-year-old son. I was amazed to see how big his diecast collection was. He had a miniature truck he drove around the paddock all day. And to think, so many of us ...

Not one, but three Oldsmobile models themed on the classic TV sitcom “The Beverly Hillbillies” are headed to the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale 2025 auction. One of them is a replica, but the other two ...

Original hot-rod hero, founder of the So-Cal Speed Shop, WWII veteran, and one of the founders of SEMA and the SEMA Show, Alex Xydias passed away this morning in Southern California. He was 102.