The History Channel has been airing its uniformly excellent Automobiles series for a couple of years now, and the holiday marathons F have become a tradition well worth avoiding your family for. Now, ...

On this episode of HOT ROD Unlimited, HOT ROD Editor-in-Chief David Freiburger shares a brief history of the magazine from its inception in 1948 to its massive redesign that launched with the ...

Discover HOT ROD’s Top 10 Cars of 2025—our third year reviving this iconic list. See the trendsetting builds, top builders, ...

In this episode of HOT ROD Unlimited, David Freiburger traces the history of street-legal drag racing, with insider information on the development of the Fastest Street Car Shootout in the 90s, the ...

FEELING I’VE EVER HAD LONG BEFORE. FAST AND FURIOUS TURNED MODERN STREET RACING INTO A MOVIE FRANCHISE. THE TIE RODS WERE BURNING RUBBER FROM CONCORD MASS TO THE WEST COAST, EILER RUNNING IN CIRCLES ...

Hosts Brian Lohnes, David Freiburger, and John McGann talk with award-winning car builder Bill Ganahl about the business of building cars, how styles change, and some HOT ROD history. Bill Ganahl was ...

Some of the very first self-propelled vehicles were products of engineers and the curious in private garages and workshops. Within a few decades of the invention of the first car, companies were ...

From the January 2013 issue of HOT ROD: Builder Dan Webb recreates the iconic vehicle that set the 200-mph bar back in 1950. To celebrate HOT ROD's 75th anniversary, we teamed up with CASTROL GTX to ...

The story of Hot Rod City in Torrance starts with one man: Anthony “Tony” Capanna. Capanna, sometimes misspelled “Capana,” was born to Italian immigrant parents in Utica, New York, on June 14, 1921.

“Hearst Magazines and Verizon Media may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below.” A new exhibit at the Audrain Auto Museum in Newport, Rhode Island, celebrates East Coast hot ...