Hot Rod Featured Cars

	Tim & Carrie Strange's ’63 Buick Riviera Today’s kids, man, they just don’t get it. They have it all wrong. They have it better than we did when we were their age, and... more
	Tom Stephens’ ’70 Buick GS Tom Stephens appreciates vintage muscle. He’s raised a collection of rare-option Bloomington Gold-collection Corvettes of every hue... more

	Big Cad If you’re reading this you’ve done one of two things: You've read the August issue of Hot Rod magazine word-by-word and... more
	Kenwood’s ’63 Cadillac DeVille Convertible You saw the illustration in the February 2001 edition of Hot Rod's Power Tour News. You wondered if anyone would indeed be bodacious... more

	1935 Chevy Master - Robert Wood's '35 Chevy Street Modified This car represents the street-rod version of an idea that more people need to latch on to: use circle-track parts to create function and... more
	1969 Camaro RS - Built to Order Thanks To A Huge Aftermarket And A Hunger For The Latest Trend, Building A High-End, Pro Touring Car Is Just A Catalog And A Checkbook... more

	From Cruiser to Bruiser Whether you love it or it leaves you cold, Chrysler's PT Cruiser is an unmitigated hit. People are still standing in line to buy this... more

	Pro Stock Pantera What do you do with a 1200hp race car when you get tired of racing? You turn it into a show car. What do you do with a show car when you're... more

	Dodge Challenger Concept Car - '08 Hemi Super Stock Mopar Performance Builds An '08 Super Stock Hemi Challenger And Then Lets Hot Rod Beat On It. more
	Under-Budget Underslung Think you have to spend the big bucks to get a nice rod out on the road? Think again. more

	1936 Ford Coupe - The One For Some Guys, It Just Takes The Right Car To Bring Out The Inner Hot Rodder. more
	1969 Ford Torino Talladega - Street Cup Rick Stanton Built the Car We've Been Longing For: A NASCAR Racer for the Street more

	1939 GMC Custom Pickup If you have ever seen a stock 1939 GMC pickup, you know that it’s not much to look at. In fact, it was more a blind date from... more

	Jorg Will’s ’87 Heritage Softail Having a plan before you start any Harley project is important if you want to end up with the bike of your dreams. Jorg Will of... more
	Marie Todd’s ’87 FXR The look of a Harley-Davidson is unmistakable. A booming, chrome-laden V-twin slung in a long, low chassis will forever be associated with... more

	Holden Efijy Concept Car It's Probably the Most Beautiful Concept Car Ever to Come Out of an OEManufacturer. You May Be Surprised to Learn That It's From Holden... more
	Holden’s Ute SS This is the Holden Utility SS, built by GM’s Australia-based branch for its home market. We had one for a day in LA before it was sent... more

	1989 Honda Civic Si Boy, did we ask for it. First, we included a Honda, fer crying out loud, in the March ish of Hot Rod Magazine as an excellent example of a... more

	Spring Has Sprung A '41 Hudson With History more
	Smoke On The Hudson Alternative body styles still rule when it comes to bitchin’ street presence, and Butch Vanderbeck’s ’38 Hudson is one of... more

	Jeeps From Hell - Dare To Be Different Todd Blake's 12-Flat Ballast Box And Greg Zoetmulder's 8-Second CJ7 more

	Rocky Robertson's ’51 Kaiser Special On your mark! Get set! Go! There’s a trend in rodding called “Nifty Fifties.” Nifty Fifties—our term for passenger cars... more
	Dad's Different Kaiser After helping to build his son’s big-block-powered Nova, Dick Meyer of Santa Monica, California, wanted to build something different.... more

	The Fooserati and Creamsickle - A Different Street Rod Nobody will ever call Terry Cook conventional, that's for sure. The owner of Deco Rides, founder of the Lead East custom car show, and a... more

	1951 NASCAR-Like Custom Mercury - Larry West An unlikely top-speed shootout car that is totally bitchin'. more
	'03 Mercury Marauder Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the 2003 Mercury Marauder. more

	The Purist's Gasser - 1955 Oldmobile 88 A Lifelong Oldsmobile Purist Steps Over to the Dark Side To Build aBitchin' Street Gasser. more
	Tonight Show Walking through Jay Leno's shop leaves you with one resounding thought: "Man, did I ever enter the wrong line of work." Million-dollar... more

	1971 Plymouth Cuda - All In The Details High-end car companies like to brag that they are all about the relentless pursuit of perfection. If, rather than luxury drivers, they were... more
	The Fear Factor 1970 Hemi-Powered 'Cuda Reality-Show Host Joe Rogan Commissioned Rad Rides by Troy to Build theHemi-Powered Sick Fish 'Cuda more

	The Fix After initially being smitten with the on-road performance of Magnuson's supercharger kit on our project GTO and writing the glowing prose... more
	Dave Anderson’s ’66 GTO Jim Wangers, along with everybody’s favorite felonious car executive Jon Z. DeLorean, more or less hatched the original GTO way back... more

	Saleen S-7 The mid-engine Saleen S-7 has become a hit on the road circuits of America and Europe, winning four different GT Championships during the... more

	Saturn SCX With its turbocharged engine and sizzling yellow-to-red paint scheme, the Saturn SCX three-door coupe is a sure bet to ignite the passion... more

	CB1 Super Cobra - The Mongoose Corky Bell Set Out To Build The World's Most High-Tech Cobra. The Results Will Make Poor Guys Cry And Everyone Else Drool. more
	Shelby GT500: Snake Bit Again! After a year a teasing glances and a concept car, the boys from SVT andTexas officially unveil the production 2007 Shelby GT500. more

	1936 Studebaker Dictator Coupe Take a wistful glance over your shoulder, and it’s easy to see that the Thirties was an exciting time throughout the automobile... more
	1946 Studebaker Custom You’ve got to admit that the name Studebaker doesn’t give you the impression of wild wheels. But when you convert one into a... more

	1968 Toyota Corona Unorthadox Hot Rod- Heretic Can Hot Rod's Faithful Congregation Accept A Toyota As One Of Its Own? more

	2000 Volkswagen Beetle - Ron Patrick's Jet VW It's not the world's fastest street machine but from freeway speed up to about a buck-fifty, we wouldn't bet a pink slip against any... more
	1962 Volkswagen Bus - Riding with the King of Chop Ken Prather's Eye-Grabbing 1962 VW Drag-Style Bus is One Unique andStunning Machine more

	Volvo 1800S - Hot Rod Power with Swedish Lines Too often guys don't look at cars made outside of the US for something out of the ordinary to hot rod. Bill Snow did and the result is this... more

	Lone Star This Gen III LS1 thumps in a most unlikely suspect: A '33 Willys 77... more
	1940 Willys A neighbor of John Palarino, the owner/builder of this incredible ’40 Willys coupe, may have said it best when describing the... more