Exclusive paparazzi action shot of Aaron Grote and his “Atomic Punk” bubbletop hot rod at the Playboy Mansion for Mopars At The Mansion. That’s “Grote,” not “grotto.” C’mon, man… Imagery courtesy Aar...
Hot-rodded 1930 Austin for ale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Very cool and unique Austin bodied hot rod – Consistent Show Winner Fine Quality Build – Traditional ’50’s Style – Only ...
Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. To many Corvette owners, the idea, let alone the existence, of a Corvette driven by its front wheels likely amounts to blasphemy. To John Jacobi, it was just...
When I first moved from the East Coast to California, I paid attention to the whispers of “hi-riders” I kept hearing at car shows in the East Bay region of the Northern California San Francisco Bay A...
When we first heard of the automotive-centric series that our cousins up the hill at Condé Nast Entertainment had sold to Netflix, we were admittedly a little skeptical. “A drag race elimination show...
Photo by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Sotheby’s. Two is a coincidence and three is a trend, they say, but they likely weren’t talking about Volkswagen Things sitting on air suspensions and sporting le...
Photos by Mike Maez, courtesy Gooding & Company. Imagine any top-level sports team not only going undefeated through an entire season and, as a result, winning a championship, but also setting a scor...
Photos courtesy Southeast Gassers Association, Caleb Sewell, Hoosier Racing Tire Quain Stott. Probably the best name in motorsports right now – not just because it’s the one behind the Southeast Gass...
Gasser-style 1986 Fiberfab MGTD for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Gasser, 355 Ci, 4bolt block, block is O ringed, line board ,tork plate honed,decked, TRW froged pistons,H beam...
1959 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Holiday Sport Sedan. Image via The Old Car Manual Project. It seems like every time we write about a car, we find something to love about that car–even if its nothing we’...
Skidmarks observed at Bonneville in 2006. Photo by the author. Before any season of sanctioned racing on the Bonneville Salt Flats begins, a heavy truck pulls a heavy drag made up of multiple steel I...
Sam Foose (L) with Goodguys founder Gary Meadors in 2014. Photo courtesy Fuel Curve. His son Chip may be better known, but it isn’t likely one will find someone better-respected in the Southern Calif...
From the seller’s description: 1960 Chevrolet C-10 pickup truck is equipped with a converted 350ci V8 backed by a super T-10 4-speed manual transmission. 1960 marked the first year of production for ...
We might argue that one of the main reasons for the redesign of the Muscle Machines weekly newsletter was to not just celebrate the new look of the magazine, but to be a regular source of…well, alter...
On the show floor at MCACN 2013. Photo by Terry McGean. When it launched back in 2009, the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals seemed like something a little different for the muscle car crowd, an alte...
Streamlined trains and divided highways, but oddly no airplanes, represented state-of-the-art transportation in 1941. If you’ve seen those blue “Eisenhower Interstate System” signs with the General-t...
The KiMo Theater in downtown Albuquerque on Route 66. Photo by Karen Blaha. Where Route 66 passes through downtown Albuquerque and takes the name Central Avenue, the neon signs of the tourist-laden r...
From the seller’s description: 1937 Ford coupe. Awesome old school hot rod. Super nice clean body. Custom interior and tons of old school speed equipment with the right upgrades, like hydraulic brake...
The Super Charger concept, posed with the “Hellephant” 426 supercharged crate HEMI engine. Photos courtesy FCA. Let’s face it: Nostalgia still sells, especially to hardcore horsepower junkies. To hig...
In the ongoing saga of the Wild Cherry custom van, Teri Maddox of the Belleville News-Democrat reported this week that Chris Carter has been extradited to California and that it appears the van has b...
Images are by RBW Classic Electric Cars, except where noted While the sounds, smells, and feeling of an internal-combustion engine and three-pedal manual transmission have always been an integral par...
Pfaff Design’s rendering of the H and H Performance 1970 Bronco. H&H Performance Inc. of DuBois, Pennsylvania, has long been known for Mustang restorations, but it also does Bronco buildups, and its ...
Images courtesy Scott Kennebeck. Scott Kennebeck thought his big-block powered 1974 Chevrolet Corvette was safe. It was kept in a locked trailer on a storage lot located off of Route 120 in McHenry, ...
Image courtesy ArteAuto.com. The videos are shaky and grainy and in Spanish, but 65 years later they remain fascinating because they’re first-hand accounts of the fourth running of La Carrera Panamer...
Aaron Kahan’s 1927 Ford Model T coupe is anything but bad news. Footage: @benkahan Since we’re celebrating one of the greatest annual drag racing events this week – the California Hot Rod Reunion – w...