To a certain extent, every hot rodder is an artist. Cars are our canvas, or real-life versions of rolling sculpture. Perhaps that's why hot rodders also admire real art, especially when it involves ...

You have very likely seen artist Robert Williams' several large hot rod posters, often sold at car shows and swap meets. You may even have one or more on your garage wall. Two of them first appeared ...

Jeff Norwell enjoys invoking a definite sense of action in his hot rod art. ‘Car’ was the first word out of his mouth, he says, and as soon as he could hold a crayon he was drawing them. “I started to ...

Portrait of the artist wearing a sweater vest and an eyeball ring. Williams’s paintings typically require a large amount of draft work and, frequently, use of a magnifying glass. Toward the end of our ...

When talking about hot rods based on vintage American cars, we usually think about 1930s Fords of the three- and five-window variety. But slightly newer, 1940s vehicles can also morph into stunning ...

Internationally renowned builder of bespoke customer cars, Paul Bacon, has completed his most ambitious project yet – a ...

Like a boxcar of parts arriving at the factory that builds sports cars, the documentary film “Detroit: City of Hot Rods and Muscle Cars” assembles a collection of seemingly disparate components into a ...

Another work of automotive art has rumbled out of the Rods by Reid workshop at Te Puna. Showcasing skill and passion, applied in equal measures over more than 4000 painstaking hours, the latest Rods ...

More than 80,000 spectators crowded onto four kilometres of the Fraser Highway running through Aldergrove on Saturday Sept. 7 to ogle more than 1,200 specialty vehicles displayed on the roadway and ...

While Canada’s NHL teams tank, our hot rodders rule the roost. Rodding, the most expressive of automotive obsessions, blossomed across the continent after Hot Rod magazine began spreading the gospel ...

Late summer means another weekend packed with festival choices. This time it’s gay pride, classic cars and hot rods, arts and wine, antiques and collectibles. Here are the highlights: Palo Alto ...

The 2025 Shiny Rust Hot Rod show took place over the weekend at the Oakland Expo Center in Waterford, Michigan. It focused on classic cars, and shiny or rusty, big or small, they had them all on ...