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A stripped early Ford roadster hot rod with an exposed flathead V8 at a 1940s-50s dry-lakes gathering, warm archival tone
History & Heritage

The History of the American Hot Rod

Jim Vasquez · · 12 min
Traditional flamed highboy hot-rod roadster cruising an open American highway at golden hour
Car Features

The Classic Hot Rod Story

Jim Vasquez · · 19 min
A stripped-down prewar Ford roadster hot rod sitting low and nose-down on a cracked dry lakebed with desert hills behind, sepia archival tone
History & Heritage

The Dry Lakes: Where Hot Rodding Was Born

Gary Nowak · · 8 min
A 1950s Southern California speed shop storefront with a red-and-white belly-tank lakester parked out front on a period street
History & Heritage

The So-Cal Speed Shop and the Postwar Boom

Gary Nowak · · 7 min
A dignified 1948 fat-fender American street rod parked in warm evening light, its tall grille and sweeping separate fenders standing as the emblem of the pre-1949 street rod cutoff
Car Features

The Pre-1949 Cutoff Explained

Jim Vasquez · · 6 min
A press photographer with a large flashbulb press camera shooting a chopped hot rod coupe during a 1950s magazine photo shoot
History & Heritage

How Hot Rod Magazine Spread the Culture

Patrick Walsh · · 7 min
Two nose-high gasser drag cars staged at the starting line of a 1960s Southern California dragstrip, with a period crowd and old timing tower
History & Heritage

Gasser Drag Racing History

Patrick Walsh · · 10 min
1932 Ford deuce five-window coupe highboy hot rod with exposed frame rails and chrome grille shell, three-quarter front view at golden hour
History & Heritage

The Deuce Coupe: The Definitive Hot Rod

Gary Nowak · · 8 min