A custom rat rod with a 900-horsepower blown V8 turns a simple parking lot startup into a loud display of raw mechanical ...

What would hot rodding be without cool T-shirts? Some of the best were created by a self-taught Southern California illustrator named Greg Tedder. To celebrate HOT ROD's 75th anniversary, we teamed up ...

What exactly makes a lowboy different from a highboy, and why did T-buckets change hot rod culture? Here's the history every ...

As Craig Callum approaches his second anniversary as Design Manager at Hot Wheels, I caught up with him to discuss his personal car collection and what inspires him as a designer. Trinity Francis: ...

The XR-6 (which stood for "experimental roadster, six-cylinder engine") was the brainchild of associate editor LeRoi Smith. As he recalled in the buildup's first installment (March 1962), he was bench ...

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 ...

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 ...

Portrait of the artist wearing a sweater vest and an eyeball ring. Williams’s paintings typically require a large amount of draft work and, frequently, use of a magnifying glass. Toward the end of our ...

The hot rod dates way back to the 1920s, but found its cultural footing in post-World War II America. Soldiers armed with mechanical training picked up cheap Ford Model Ts and found ways to make them ...