It’s Friday, You Need 12 Minutes of Hill Climb ‘Cuda (Raw Audio)
We’d be lying if we said we didn’t have a bit of a soft-spot for Jess Neal’s Pikes Peak Vintage Class-winning 1971 ‘Cuda — but just listen to it! Jess is a veteran at the mountain and won PPIHC’s...
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Transzilla—We Install The SuperMatic 4L85-E From Chevrolet Performance
If you’re old enough to remember when a street rodder wanting an automatic transmission had to choose between a slant pan Hydramatic or a Powerglide you probably recall how exciting it was when the...
View Article2017 O’Reilly Auto Parts 55th Annual Chicago World of Wheels 525 Photo...
Another Chicago is a wrap. The 2017 O’Reilly Auto Parts 55th Annual World of Wheels and its legendary Legend Cup along with many other topflight awards and activities such as the ISCA Championship...
View ArticleNew Series Alert! Midwest Street Stock Series Forms
It’s very encouraging to us at Circle Track when someone gets the initiative (and bravery) to create a new series in the world of short track racing. While many of the series that pop up are geared...
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HOT ROD Interview: 2016 Funny Car Champion Ron Capps
Take 5 With Ron Capps Though Ron Capps is the 2016 NHRA Funny Car champion, we took the opportunity to ask him questions we’ve wanted to ask for years, unrelated to this, about his first championship....
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The 1948 Ford Sedan That Brought A Sports Car Buff Back Into Street Rodding
After 36 years as a diehard Austin-Healey enthusiast, Jerry Wall has returned to the street rod scene, behind the wheel of this 1948 Ford Fordor. Jerry was a street rodder in high school in the ’50s...
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This Handbuilt 1934 Ford Convertible Is Perfect and It Only Took 23 Years
The town of Humphrey, Nebraska, has about 800 people, a couple schools, a bank or two, no traffic lights, and a hot rod shop called Boesch Auto Body where nationally known street machines and street...
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Chip Foose and Marcel DeLay Converted This Speed33 Cabrio Into A Hardtop Coupe
“I’d like to have a car like that.” Ron Brown and Chip Foose were sitting in a restaurant a few years ago. They were talking about street rods, in particular Speed33s. Ron had owned one of these...
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Gather ‘Round the Petersen With The King — Richard Petty’s 80th Birthday
All rise! Hear ye, hear ye — The King is in court. Or, at least the Petersen Automotive Museum, as the museum will honor “The King” Richard Petty along with Hostetler Companies and Ford Performance, on...
View ArticleWhere Did T-Buckets Come From?
Where It All Began You hardly ever get an opportunity to see the origins of a hot rod trend or whole category of hot rod, but in this image from April 1957 you can see the two cars that started the...
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TOPP PERFORMANCE ACQUIRES GAERTE ENGINES
Rochester, IN – TOPP Performance Race parts acquired engine building powerhouse Gaerte Engines earlier this week. Now under the direction of TOPP and Kevin Birchmeier, the change of ownership was...
View ArticleBarn Full of Birds—and a Charger!
Going Back to the First Major Barn Find I Documented, Not Much Has Changed! More than a decade ago, I discovered a place that would change things forever: TJ’s place. It wasn’t just a barn find—his...
View ArticleMarch Monday (Big Block) Modified Madness!
Our series of showing off our favorite Modified shots continues this week with the beasts of the Northeast – the Big Block Modifieds. We had reserved this Monday as a time to bring out those mean Mods...
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Ed “Big Daddy” Roth’s Mysterion and Mysterion II
I loved Ed Roth, especially as a child. If Roth had been a traveling circus, I would have left home to join. As it was, I got a chance to work with him in the 1980s and 1990s on some cars and art. I...
View ArticleFirst Look at Five Star’s New Late Model Body
Carl Schultz, owner of Five Star, gave us an overview of the new body. Some of the new features include: a greater brand identity, aerodynamic equality, fenders that are not nose specific, a wider...
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Craigslist find of the Week: Ford Fairlane/Torino
I have always been drawn to odd cars, ones that are just a bit less common. Not necessarily custom cars, but the factory cars that weren’t quite as popular as their mainstream brethren and often from...
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Making the Scene: Traditional Hot Rods & Customs Steal the Show at the 2017...
Forgetting for the moment that Motown reached a record high of 70 degrees F on the opening day this year, the Detroit Autorama has been the hot rodder’s oasis amid the snow and usually bitter cold of...
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Project Car Update: Checking in on Truck Norris and the CC/Malibu
Our in-house project vehicles keep rolling along. When they last appeared in the pages of Car Craft, we finished installing a Performance Automatic 4L60E in the Malibu and a Fuel Safe fuel cell and...
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HOT ROD Power Tour 2017 Registration, Dates, and Locations — Kansas City...
Our seven-day, seven-city, 23rd annual HOT ROD Power Tour returns for 2017, June 10-17. Be sure to bookmark www.hotrod.com/powertour for future updates, pertinent info, and new stories. Registration is...
View ArticleThe 1967 “Invader” Roadster Has Twin Everything
One of the things we’ve always liked about this alternative shot from the Invader feature from HRM’s July 1967 issue is that in spite of this being a twin-Pontiac engine, twin-Hydro transmission,...
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