When it comes right down to it, every car that appears in HOT ROD is one of the best. After all, we don't feature junk in this magazine. Sure, some cars may be "cosmetically challenged," but if ...

Between June and August 1949, the streamliner was taken to four different dry-lakes points meets to allow Dean to get used to the car. During their last meet before Bonneville, the team ran a two-way ...

The serenity of a barren, dry lakebed in the high desert north of Los Angeles is struck by the staccato sound of a straining flathead engine. The bark of the roadster's exhaust note belies its efforts ...

"Clam up, you squares. It's the law!" Shown from left to right are hot-rodders Del Erickson, Frank Gorshin, Lori Nelson, and John Smith buttering up policeman Chuck Connors (with hat) in a scene from ...

Even though we had two years of publishing HOT ROD Magazine under our collective belts and there were 24 separate issues of "The Automotive 'HOW-TO-DO-IT' Magazine" in our library, HRM was still a ...

The second World War ended the Southland's isolation. The draft sent native rodders, bearing snapshots of their highboys or modifieds, all across the country. Non-natives, who trained at El Toro, Camp ...