To celebrate HOT ROD's 75th anniversary, we teamed up with CASTROL GTX to bring you some of the stories that exemplify the core of what HOT ROD is and reflect the brand's influence on America's car ...

In the Aug. '09 issue, Ted Toki and the guys at Westside Performance stuffed a 4.00-inch crank into a 350 small block Chevy as an alternative to the same old 383 build. While the primary point of the ...

I started learning to work on cars in the late 1970s by helping my stepdad turn salvaged mid-1960s Chevy Chevelles into street-stock-class race cars. Throughout that period, I had my hands on a number ...

I have often heard it said that significant things happen in threes. I'm 90 percent sure it's coincidental, but the other 10 percent-well, not so sure. It's a Monday morning and I get a call from DSS ...

The late '60s were an exciting time for the automotive industry and fans of powerful cars. The archetypal "muscle car" was born in that era: traditionally American, accessibly priced, with a robust ...