Built to dominate street races, this '75 Mustang packed a ridiculously powerful 505 V8 and ran a 9.5-second quarter mile.

It's said that McMullen loved to go fast and hated to lose ... Titus later sold it to HOT ROD photographer Andy Southard, and the car had its fenders removed and other modifications made during ...

For the first few decades of the 20th century, V8 engines were finicky, expensive things reserved for low-production luxury cars ... to the birth of the hot rod movement as we know it today.

A hot rod is, of course, a custom car designed with the express purpose of going as fast as realistically possible. Technically, any car, modern or retro, can be modified into a hot rod ...