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Double Take: Barnfind Shortened ’57 Bel Air Convertible
Traveling through Alabama on my way to another lead, I was in the middle of nowhere when I spied the tail of a 1957 Chevrolet Bel-Air Convertible sitting neglected in a carport. The owner was more then...
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Arlen Kurtis Has Died
Arlen Kurtis, son of fabled Indycar builder Frank Kurtis has died. Besides Kurtis’ prolific string of hundreds of Indy 500 roadsters, Champ dirt cars, quarter midgets, three-quarter midgets, Bonneville...
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Wrenchin’ Wednesday: Don’t Get Your Hood Hinges Twisted With This DIY Spring...
Wrenchin’ Wednesday is here, and we’ve got a quick way to save your hood hinges while we’re unpacking our bags for the Performance Racing Industry show. Even if you’re not Roadkill, hoods come off...
View ArticlePre PRI GALLERY #TENPRI16
It’s almost like getting a look at your Christmas presents before you get the chance to rip off the wrapping paper. We caught a look at all of the eye candy during the setup days for the 2016 PRI Trade...
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Al Ritter’s Wicked Cool 1952 Chevy 3100
Like any other kid growing up, Al Ritter of Cockeysville, Maryland, cut his teeth on Hot Rod and Car Craft magazines while hanging out at the local corner store with his friends. Of course plenty of...
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Car craft automotive news and readers rides
Blue Mistress Who: John Reagan Where: Firestone, CO What: 1970 Chevelle Malibu Restomod Why: John said his “Blue Mistress” is co-owned by a friend he has known for 20 years. “Together, we teamed up to...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: 1965 Dodge Coronet Undergoes a Facelift by Gary Dyer
In the early days of match-race madness, the primordial ooze that spawned Funny Cars—a 1965 Dodge Coronet, brimming with quarter-mile legacy—undergoes a facelift at the hands of mechanic Gary Dyer....
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How to Build an 850HP Big-Block Chevy
Atlas Performance Builds Nearly 850 HP The Atlas Performance team of Bret Bowers, Jason Gonzalez, Keegan Dykeman, and Cole Wagner had to split development time between this Spec Big-Block and the...
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Rescued From a Shop’s Rafters, the World’s Lightest Fuel Dragster Is Back!...
This Little Doggie Had the Bark and the Bite When late-night bench racing gets around to comparing “weight freaks,” there’s never a shortage of nominees. Sorry, no contest: Not content to build the...
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Joe Carroll Pulls Spec Puzzle Pieces Together to Win AMSOIL Engine Masters...
For the 2016 AMSOIL Engine Master’s Challenge Presented by HOT ROD, the Spec Big-Block class limited builders to off-the-shelf Edelbrock cylinder heads, but allowed porting and chamber modifications so...
View ArticleNew E3 Products at PRI #TENPRI16
It seemed as though it would just be a matter of time before E3 Spark Plugs introduced a new line of performance products. That time has come at this year’s PRI Show. We caught up with former Circle...
View ArticleThe Best Circle Track Cars on Display at PRI
PRI never disappoints when it comes to eye candy for race fans. We went from aisle to aisle to find the sweetest looking race cars at this year’s show. From Modifieds, to Sprint Cars, to Late Models...
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The Rowdy Race Cars of PRI [200-Photo Gallery]
Indy’s Performance Racing Industry (PRI) show is the mecca of all things mechanical for motorsport. You’ll notice some of them are dented and dirty, while others are pristine machines, but none of them...
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14-Year-Old Buys Charger, Has It 30 Years & Still Runs 9s!
All of a sudden, everyone’s talking about the “working class.” As pundits and pollsters so vividly demonstrated in November, white-collar weanies don’t know squat about what working-class Americans...
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New Murder Nova Unveiled at the 2016 PRI Show
Street Outlaws star Shawn Ellington unveiled the long-anticipated, new Murder Nova on Thursday December 9, 2016 at the Performance and Racing Industry Trade Show in Indianapolis, Indiana. The new race...
View ArticleJeff Lutz To Go Radial Racing in 2017
We caught up with Drag Week Winner, Jeff Lutz at the 2016 PRI show, wondering what he had up his sleeve for next year’s event. His street-going Pro Mod, the infamous flat-black ’69 Camaro Drag Week...
View ArticleHave a Crate-Engine Racecar? MSD has a Box for that at #TENPRII6
There are actually two new boxes and a distributor for your circle track car from MSD. The first part is called is the Circle Track LS Engine Control box. It’s for…wait for it…LS engine swapped...
View ArticleFreak Show Friday: What To Do With An Import
We at HOT ROD tend to shy away from the import side of modified cars, but when something as dramatic as this early 1970s Datsun 240 Z comes along, we gotta give it some love. Or not. This build...
View Article155-Image Gallery: All of the Engines from the 2016 PRI Show
The engine is the heart of any car, and the Performance Racing Industry show has more horsepower per square foot than any real estate in the country. The annual gathering of racers, builders, and...
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Check Out the Coyote Engine in this 1970 Javelin!
Jay Eggebraaten knows all the reasons why it’s tough to be an AMC fan. There’s a definite lack of aftermarket and restoration support, and it’s difficult to find good used components. While some may be...
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