Larry Dixon Tries to Chop Down the Christmas Tree
During the final round of competition at the NHRA Toyota Nationals at The Strip in Las Vegas, driver Larry Dixon spun his Top Alcohol Funny Car completely around on the hit, narrowly missing the...
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Diesel Power in a Desoto
Leon Eckery has been messing with cars all his life and he’s been through a number of hot rods, and did his share of drag racing, rock crawling, SCCA racing, and even motorcycles. What intrigued him...
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2017 Gallery: NMCA West Finals
When it came to organized drag racing, a large contingent of heads up racers would take to Auto Club Dragway in Fontana, California, where the NMCA West series has been a familiar place for the past...
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Reader’s Ride: 1970 Challenger R/T
This all-California car (built at the L.A. assembly plant) once belonged to a drug dealer in Southern California. In the mid-1990s he was busted and all his property seized, including the car. The...
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Post-Collector Exhaust Add-Ons Can Affect Exhaust Tuning
The optimum diameter at the end of any megaphone extension pipe is about 1.414 times the collector flange diameter. The extension diameter at the open end should have a cross-sectional area twice that...
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A Quick Reference Guide to Overdrive Automatic Transmissions and Parts
One of the greatest innovations of the ’80s was the incorporation of overdrive into manual and automatic transmissions. Overdrive has been a terrific means to reduced wear, tear, and fuel consumption...
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Top Fuel Circa 1969
At HOT ROD Deluxe, we are fortunate to count as friends many people who were actively involved in racing back in the good ol’ days, from racers and car builders to the journalists and photographers who...
View ArticleUMI Performance Acquires Track for Testing and Events
Updates planned for facility to be renamed UMI Motorsports Park. PHILIPSBURG, PA [RAMEY WOMER] — UMI Performance has announced the acquisition of CNB Bank Raceway Park in Clearfield, PA. The property...
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Veteran Photographers Robinson, Adams and Gewertz Win Awards in 2017 CHRR...
Roy Robinson, Lions Drag Strip’s track photographer in the mid-1960s, has won the 2017 Leslie Lovett Memorial Photo Contest for a parachute shot of the Adams, Rasmussen & Stewart slingshot in the...
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HOT ROD’s Monthly New Product Picks!
Compact, Remote-Mount TPS TCI Automotive // 888.776.9824 // TCIauto.com TCI Automotive recently updated its adjustable, remote-mount throttle position sensor (TPS) to keep moving parts from...
View ArticleRoadkill Nights on Woodward Avenue
If you attend a drag race where the drivers’ meeting includes the sentence, “There will be four more trains coming through, watch for the lights,” you’re probably at a Roadkill Show event. Roadkill put...
View ArticleFor Chuck Ellis, This Free 1964 Valiant Became the Dream Machine
The ideals of horsepower come in many designs. Some simply like it brutal—all power, all the time. Some like technology: What is the coolest way to make the air pump under the hood as complicated as...
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The Hippy Drag Racer: One Life of a Drag Racer’s Collection of Cars
A few years ago, a friend mentioned a collection of cars he’d heard about sitting in a guy’s yard, south of where I reside. The pictures showed a 1970 Super Bird, 1969 ½ Super Bee, and other rare...
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Changing Control Arm Angles: On Purpose or Not
Back in the heyday of Cup racing, I attended track tests put on by some of the top teams at various tracks, and one of the things many of them did was make changes to the upper control arms. At that...
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Watch: Gymkhana 10 TEASER in case you missed it
Although it’s been out for a few days, there is no denying the obvious trend of the Internet breaking every time Ken Block and the Hoonigans put out a new piece of content. The world to absorbs it like...
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Hundreds of Flathead-and Banger-Powered Hot Rods Make the Scene at the 2017...
Thanks to both some new and some tried-and-true events catering to the old-school hot rodder, the hobby is alive and kickin’ and building an audience of enthusiastic and faithful followers. Big-time...
View ArticleGiant Preview Of Mopars From SEMA Set-Up Day! #TENSEMA17
The SEMA Show in Las Vegas is the perfect intersection of the newest, coolest performance parts and the best of the car-building world. As merchants and manufacturers vie for each other’s time, the...
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The Detroit Speed 2017 Open House and Car Show
Detroit Speed, Inc’s. Open House party takes place every year in conjunction with the Goodguys Southeastern Nationals held at nearby Charlotte Motor Speedway. The event has grown year over year and the...
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Top Sportsman Drag Racers from America and Australia
South Pacific Pro Radial Specialists! The popularity of fast street car genre racing is far-reaching, and that includes a couple of very dramatic Camaros deep within Australia’s thriving drag racing...
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1956 & 1959 Corvettes Found in Barn … Wait There’s More!
What started out as a pair of 1956 Corvette bodies buried in the basement of a wood shop since the late 1960s was shaping up to be one ’56 and one ’59, plus a surprise, according to Bernie. “I...
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