Discover HOT ROD’s Top 10 Cars of 2025—our third year reviving this iconic list. See the trendsetting builds, top builders, ...

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 ...

Why is Steve Castelli smiling? Because he's got more bikes? More toys? More gas station signage? No. Just a new, super bad-A cam guaranteed to make his Hot Rod Willys badder! Roy Brizio and I agree.

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 ...