March 2023

Hot Rod

Oriented to High Performance, Personalized Cars and the Sport of Hot-Rodding

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Be Heard!
Over the last several months, I’ve made a concerted effort to find and feature “traditional” hot rods, and that stuff has finally started showing up here in these pages. I hope you’ve been enjoying the RPM Nationals coverage, seeing Gray Baskerville’
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Just Torque
You’ve never seen another flathead like the one in this ’32 roadster. This engine is one of a kind, full of unique engineering ideas from the nimble mind of Dick Raczuk. Dick is one of the fortunate ones who can say, “I never went to work a day in my
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Daytona Speedweeks 1957
The 1957 running of Speedweeks at Daytona Beach was a busy time for Editor Wally Parks and Research Editor Ray Brock. Their top priority was for Parks to hustle the Hemi-powered Suddenly Plymouth Savoy across the Florida sand in search of a new speed
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Holiday In The Sun
For Rich Rossi of West Nyack, New York, having an Olds in the garage brings back copious memories of good times from his well-spent youth. “When I was in high school, I had a ’57 Super 88. I loved that car. As a Vietnam veteran and having grown up in
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Flatties!
Cars from all over California and as far away as Arizona, Washington, and Colorado made the trip to Santa Margarita Ranch for the sixth annual RPM Nationals Flathead Drags on September 24, 2022. Located halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco,
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The Hot Rod Archives
The main blurb teases the cover car as the ’05 Mustang, but Editor Ro McGonegal’s story and Randy Lorentzen’s photography capture Mustang coupe and convertible concept cars, created at Ford Design California to “have an impact on the production Musta
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Antique Car Antics
I know from experience that racing can be an intense, stressful experience that requires concentration and patience. Imagine preparing not only your own car, but also three customers’ cars. Such is the job of Jay Dean of Nostalgia Ranch in Fallbrook,
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Drag Week pt. 2: Gassers, Hot Rods, And The Eliminator
A couple of fun, old-school categories are nestled in the wide range of categories that make up the eBay Motors Powers HOT ROD Drag Week Presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive event: Gasser and Hot Rod. Both category titles are self-explanatory, with Ga
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It’s Better With Billet
There’s no denying that the LSX engine family has been hugely successful and impressive, and aftermarket support for it has been plentiful, boosting the platform’s horsepower-making ability. We’ve seen impressive power output from these engines over
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Reengineered!
Years ago, if you wanted your hot rod to have a truly high-performance, lightweight, and strong front suspension system with proper tire-to-track geometry, it was a matter of tearing off all the OE stuff from your vehicle and fabricating a race-style
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Pony Express
Love them or hate them, the Ford Pinto is an icon of American automobile manufacturing from the ’70s. Ford’s subcompact Pinto, designed to compete with the likes of the Vega and Gremlin, went on sale in September 1970 as a 1971 model. Production cont
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Torque monster!
When you look at a modern Chevy engine, that’s not what you’re really seeing. Instead, it’s a GM “corporate” engine that is used across all the various brands (at least those that are still with us). But back in the day that wasn’t the case. In the g
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How Do You Choose?
Email us at hotrod@motortrend.com We’re fortunate to work with some excellent photographers—the best in the country, I’d confidently argue. When choosing the team to help cover HOT ROD Drag Week, it was easy to select the line-up I did. Wes Allison i
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The One Day Coupe*
What does internationally renowned hot rod builder Troy Ladd of Hollywood Hot Rods, do on his one day off? Why, he builds himself a hot rod, of course. “The cars we build for our customers are pretty intense,” said Troy, “they’re highly detailed, and

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