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See The Winners In The Hot August Nights Cup Contest
On Saturday, August 6, Billy and Debbie Thomas’ 1939 Oldsmobile convertible, built by Harold Chapman from Customs and Hot Rods of Andice, won the coveted Hot August Nights Cup in Reno, Nevada. One of...
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Danny Thompson Enters the 400mph Club
After an agonizing two years of cancelled Speed Week trials and mechanical failure at the World of Speed event in 2014 that kept him from backing up a 400mph pass, Danny Thompson has broken the AA Fuel...
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Video: Infiniti’s Variable-Compression Engine Reshapes the Internal...
What is one of the most critical variables you can set when building an engine? That could be a long debate, but compression is certainly one of the main ones. It dictates not only how much power you...
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16 New Mopar Products You Get To See Before SEMA!
It should come as no surprise, but manufacturers work all year round to develop new products for the Mopar marketplace—not just in the few weeks leading up to the annual SEMA Show in Las Vegas every...
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Make Flawless Wheel Tub Patch Panels For Any B-Body. Video!
One of the very key considerations when making sheet metal repairs is keeping the relationships between all the parts involved intact. Uni-body cars are just what the name implies, a single spot welded...
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Prepping fresh sheetmetal for Paint
When our good friend, “Guardrail” Willie Martin birthed the notion to recreate the 1928 A roadster that his father and grandfather raced together in the ’40s, word began to circulate around Willie’s...
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How to Make Your Own Side-Exit Exhaust on a G-Body
When properly tuned, side-exiting exhaust produces some of the sweetest music to a driving enthusiast’s ears. We imagine the sound sensation is similar to that of driving a Trans-Am race car. You feel...
View ArticleBilly the Kid’s Demon at the 1973 AHRA Winternationals
It was the 1973 AHRA Winternationals at Beeline Dragway in Phoenix. William E. Stepp (aka “Billy the Kid”) had a well-established reputation for being one tough customer long before his entry into drag...
View ArticleThe Beginning of the End of the Rear-Engine Funny Car
Behold the best great attempt at what has become the archetype for Top Fuel dragsters: the rear-engine race car. HOT ROD related Tom McEwen’s catastrophic Lions crash in a rear-engine Barracuda a few...
View ArticleRace Engines from Speed Week 2016
The SCTA’s Speed Week has got to have the widest variety of engines of any race event in the world. Where else can you see a rotary-powered Nova, a Triumph with a motorcycle engine, or a streamliner...
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Five More Painless Performance/STREET RODDER Top 100 Winners From Hot August...
While STREET RODDER Magazine was attending Hot August Nights in Reno, we selected 10 vehicles as winners in the 2016 Painless Performance/STREET RODDER Top 100 program. We already gave you a sneak peek...
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How To Change Your Setup For Different Race Tracks
At some point in your team’s life, you might venture out to different tracks than the one you race on regularly. When you do that, you must learn how to setup for those tracks. If they are much the...
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Driving an Old Car Makes You a Local Celebrity
The scene: Stop-and-go traffic on Interstate 405 North in Los Angeles. I’m sweating to death in the Dodge Polara in the fast lane—“fast” being a misnomer at this point. The windows are down in the...
View ArticlePhotos from Big Rig, Truck, and Vintage Racing at Anderson Motor Speedway
Short track racing doesn’t just have to be about race cars. It can be about race trucks too. On July 30 Anderson Motor Speedway held a night of action with the Big Rig Bandit Series and the Southeast...
View ArticlePhoto Gallery of Traditional Hot Rods and Customs from the Wendover Nugget
Driving your car on the salt at Bonneville is a rite of passage for hot rodders. It’s one of the few racing venues that looks exactly as it did in the 1950s, so it serves as a virtual time machine to...
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Where’s the Fun? Our Readers’ Rides and Letters to the Editor Picks of the Month
Pro Street Who: Jeff Whitfield What: 1968 Chevrolet Chevelle 300 Deluxe Where: Central Illinois Why: Let’s kick off this month’s WTF with a wheels-up Chevelle! Jeff says his Chevelle started life as a...
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Home-Built Sheet Metal Engine Sets Bonneville Record
When Pete Aardema couldn’t find a short-stroke, big-bore 4-cylinder to meet his class at Bonneville, he built his own. Astute HOT ROD readers will remember the full feature on his home-brewed sheet...
View ArticleARP / Street Rodder Autopalooza.org Road Tour Pt 1
Autopalooza.org is the website that showcases Southeast Michigan’s automotive heritage by featuring the car shows, cruises, and events that make the area such a hotbed for the car culture. The site is...
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Tire-Spinning, Clod-Throwing Vintage Hot Rod Action at the 2016 Hot Rod Dirt...
A few years ago, Mike “Nick” Nicholas reestablished the Hot Rod Hill Climb in Georgetown, Colorado, just about an hour’s ride west of Denver. There, deep in the mountains, he reincarnated the climb...
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Spy Video: Camouflaged Shelby Mustang Ducks and Runs from Photographers — GT500?
It’s that time of year again: The new models are due next spring, and the year’s closing seasons are full of prototypes and test mules chasing miles before their big premiers. This week we have a...
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