Automotive
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Freak Alert!
3,424 HP SUPERCHARGED 24-CYLINDER PETERBILT SEMITRUCK
5 min |
April 2020
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SPEED PARTS HALL OF FAME
HOT ROD’s objective has always been to cover what’s happening in the hot rodding world—the people, the trends, the races, the culture, the cars, the builds, and so on.
1 min |
April 2020
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FLEX FUEL
SWITCHING FROM GASOLINE TO E85 (AND BACK) HAS NEVER BEEN EASIER
3 min |
April 2020
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Does 'Ram Air' Work?
Popularized by Pontiac back in the 1960s, the term “Ram Air” (as used by its space cadets—aka advertising staff) for a sealed induction system that receives cooler outside ambient air instead of really hot underhood air is a misnomer—at least when applied to road vehicles traveling at legal highway speeds.
2 min |
April 2020
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Why Does My Corvette 350 Small-Block Miss and Stall Out When the Engine Gets Hot?
C.R. Miller Asks…
8 min |
February 2020
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Take Five With LEAH PRITCHETT
The NHRA Top Fuel Driver Tells HOT ROD How Persistence Paid Off and that You’re Never too Good to Stop Learning
9 min |
February 2020
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LIGHTNING QUICK
THIS 600ciFASTBACK MAKES OVER 2,000 HP WITHOUT THE NEED OF BOOST OR ALCOHOL
4 min |
February 2020
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The Numbers Game
[Here are our real-life examples: the destroyed “real” muscle car on the trailer and the new “fake Road Runner” in the foreground.
2 min |
February 2020
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HIGH 5.998 FIVES
HOT ROD DRAG WEEK 2019 PRESENTED BY GEAR VENDORS
4 min |
February 2020
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WHAT'S INSIDE TREMEC'S ALL-NEW SEVEN-SPEED DUAL-CLUTCH TRANSMISSION IN THE NEW SHELBY GT500 MUSTANG
Does This DCT Equal Faster Shifts, Quicker Lap Times and More Fun?
7 min |
February 2020
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SIX ON THE FLOOR LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE
A Modern Overdrive Transmission Swap for Ford Fans
5 min |
February 2020
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F-BODY ELEGANCE
EAT YOUR HEART OUT FERRARI! THIS ’71 CAMARO IS THE ONLY EXOTIC WE NEED
4 min |
February 2020
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ON THE SCENE
The 2019 U.S. Nationals
1 min |
February 2020
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CHEAP 454 UPGRADE
I am building a budget 1935 Ford truck rat rod and wondered if you could help with some basic engine mods. I have a complete running 1973 big-block Chevy truck chassis with all the components. What would be the cheapest and most direct route to wake this engine up? I’m looking more for torque than big horsepower. I know this was the low point on the performance scale but it was too good of a deal to pass up. It has a Turbo 400 and 4.10:1 rear gears.
2 min |
February 2020
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Drag Week Is Speed Week
Fifteen years in, and I can say I am extremely proud of creating HOT ROD Drag Week— and boast that without false humility because this event was completely shaped neither by me nor by HOT ROD, but by the participants whose sense of adventure, sportsmanship, and climbing of personal mountains of automotive achievement made the event what it is and has been for a decade and a half.
2 min |
January 2020
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Big Bad Baller
FORMER NBA CENTER JIM McILVAINE’S 1969 CYCLONE GT IS A SLAM DUNK STREET MACHINE
7 min |
January 2020
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The Quiet Revolution
Performance Electric Cars Have Arrived, and the Opportunities Are Amazing
7 min |
January 2020
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Built For Boost
Rich Mehas’ 2,200 HP 1966 Coronet 500
7 min |
January 2020
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'It Was An Off Year'
RAIN, THEN RACERS FLOODED THE BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS FOR SPEED WEEK 2019
5 min |
January 2020
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Steve Barton's 2019 Ridler Winner - Mad Science
In the world of rare automobiles, owning a 1-of-only-100 vehicle is not that uncommon.
5 min |
December 2019
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Fifty-Year Love Affair
Bill Gise bought this Cobra half a century ago, and it’s still his pride and joy
5 min |
December 2019
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Ideal Imperfection
I have a conflicted relationship with patina.
3 min |
December 2019
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Family Tradition
A Father’s ’57 Chevy Drag Car Inspired A Couple Of Car-Crazy Brothers
5 min |
December 2019
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2019 One Lap Of America
We are masochists, the lot of us. We’d have to be to subject ourselves to the rigors of what is perhaps the last great open road event in the United States.
9 min |
December 2019
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The Indy Offy Land-Speed Mash-Up
Bill Wendt’s Replication of the 1959 Indy 500 Winner Is Actually Meant for Bonneville.
5 min |
March 2017
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Respect Your Elders
Ted Eaton’s 60-Year-Old Mercury Y-Block Takes Vintage Class Win
2 min |
March 2017
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The Odd Squad
A Unique SoCal Car Club Is Open to All Comers
5 min |
June 2018
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Take 5 With Aaron Kaufman
Many of you know Aaron Kaufman only for his antics from the Fast & Loud TV show (and maybe for that glorious beard), but if you ask Aaron what he is, he will be quick to tell you he’s just a guy who likes cars.
7 min |
June 2018
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The Shoebox Stop
How We Scored a Good Meal and a Great Story in Texas.
3 min |
November 2016
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One-Bay Wonder
A Crazy, 750hp Unibody Chevelle Built at Night and on Weekends in a Single-Car Garage.
3 min |