It’s shockingly easy for a once-major road to go forgotten, as we see from a Los Angeles Times article this week about California’s Ridge Route Road, supplanted by Highway 99 and later Interstate 5 a...
Image courtesy The Old Car Manual Project. The picture tells a thousand words. Dad grins knowingly as his India Ivory over Matador Red Bel Air Sport Sedan pulls the steep grade. His wife and daughter...
Hot rods and street rods tend to evolve over time – tastes change, better components are released all the time, and builder/owners are almost never satisfied with them as-is – but this aluminum-bodie...
All artwork from Stefan Marjoram’s 2015 Auto Art Advent series. Courtesy of Stefan Marjoram. Artist, photographer, animator and filmmaker Stefan Marjoram has been sprinkling a little extra magic into...
Photos courtesy ChipFoose.com, Hooker Headers, SEMA. Chip Foose’s ubiquity in hot rodding and customizing is no mere fluke of reality television. Instead, the custom car designer’s more than 25 years...
Servicing a Ferrari can sometimes cost as much as an entirely new car. And then there’s their apparent propensity to catch fire. But out of adversity comes opportunity, and Eric Hutchinson embraced t...
Everybody reading this should know by now that I am constitutionally unable to pass on featuring any shortened vehicle, and this 1974 Volkswagen shorty bus for sale on Hemmings.com is no exception. N...
The photo above, which came from the Culture Ride Tumblog, might look a little strange, but it’s not the result of any sort of forced perspective or other camera tricks. Instead, the Beetle on the ri...
Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers. What if Carroll Shelby had the ear not of Henry Ford II but of his father, Edsel Ford? And what if sports cars became a phenomenon in the United States not afte...
Photos by the author. It’s springtime in Central Texas and that means the Lonestar Round Up has convened in Austin for a hot rod weekend. The show brings builders, musicians, artists, vendors, and fa...
Photos by the author. It’s springtime in Central Texas and that means the Lonestar Roundup has convened in Austin for a hot rod weekend. The show brings builders, musicians, artists, vendors, and fas...
One of the unlikeliest stories we’ve seen on Japanese Nostalgic Car as of late was their look back at that hazily remembered period of time in the late 1970s when Japanese cars suddenly became fair g...
Photos courtesy AACA Museum. Yarr, matey! The deck’s been swabbed, the canvas a-been hoisted, and while others like her now be in Davey Jones’s locker or still at sea, the H.M.S. Truckie sails on, co...
Photos via TommyIvo.com. As a lifelong showman, even birthdays become an excuse to entertain, which is why “TV” Tommy Ivo will be celebrating his 80th birthday with a public birthday bash at the NHRA...
We don’t want to give free HFOD passes to every vehicle like this 1934 Ford “Panther” for sale on Hemmings.com, but seriously, anybody who’s gonna hitch together two or more engines, Freight Train- (...
According to the Showvans blog, the recent Cleveland Autorama’s show-within-a-show dedicated to custom vans was the largest indoor van show in more than 30 years. Also shows how far custom vanning ha...
A few cars from Customs by the Sea at Wildwood in 2015. Photo by Richard Toonkel. In 2014, online hot rod and custom encyclopedia Kustomrama debuted Customs by the Sea, a “traditional” custom car sho...
It’s a good bet that many of you started following Jay Leno’s old car exploits after he got involved in the subculture of giant tank/airplane/firetruck-engined roadsters, and he returned to that form...
From the various reviews online, the 1967 flick “Hot Rods to Hell” probably isn’t worth tracking down for the cinematic value, but it does at least offer some decent carspotting, as we see from the a...
There’s no mystery to cars, even modern hybrids: They’re just metal, glass, plastic, and electronics, and they can be taken apart and put together in all sorts of ways, as we see from one man’s effor...
We consider them legends today, but the people racing at Bonneville in the early 1950s were for the most part just regular guys looking to go fast. Fortunately, a couple enthusiasts went out there wi...
We mentioned it briefly in the story about the Amelia Island Concours’s vintage trophy class, but the 1937 Cord that won the Stevens Challenge Trophy has already been hanging out with that piece of h...
Let’s be honest: Back in the 1950s, no one bought panel vans as daily drivers. Instead, they were generally snapped up by plumbers, electricians, painters, carpenters and business owners needing a re...
Photos via Customs and Hot Rods of Andice. The catalogs and reference books all say it shouldn’t exist, but according to both its owner and the shop that built it, the 1939 Oldsmobile Series 60 that ...
With the rest of the Internet going ape over the recently released photos of the Bugatti Chiron, we thought we’d look back over the confluence of the Volkswagen and Bugatti names, a tie-up that – wou...