The following nine runners-up represent what the HOT ROD staff considers the cream of the street machines that have appeared in the magazine during the past year. All these vehicles fought a tough ...

When we at Hot Rod magazine invited ourselves to this year’s Cheap Truck Challenge, we immediately viewed it as a competition. 4WOR Tech Editor Fred Williams kept telling us that CTC was simply ...

A freewheeling drag racer enters a local championship meet and finds himself head-to-head with the tyrannical town boss who has already arranged for his own son to win.

Hot Rod Magazine, would turn up at a gathering of cool custom cars—say, the Car Craft Street Machine Nationals in Indianapolis, circa 1979. There, they’d scout the wildest, most incredible ...

We've said it before and we'll say it again: There's just something special about a hot rod-style Jeep. Mostly built with his own two hands, Bruce's CJ-7 is powered by a 1972 AMC 360ci V-8 that's ...