Origins of drag racing could be traced back to lakes racers, and Leslie shares his involvement in the early drag racing days.
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Duffy Livingstone will always be remembered as the father of the Go Kart. This story, however, is about Duffy the hot rodder,....
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A year ago, Tales from the Strip: The Hot Rod Comics and Drag Racing Cartoons of Pete Millar opened at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. It was exciting...
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In the very early 1950s a proverbial tree fell, but today almost nobody remembers hearing it...
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Southern California's dry lake beds have attracted racers since the turn of the 20th century, but things really exploded in the Thirties...
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In 1948 Bill Waddill helped form a local hot rod club partially named for Genesee County where it was based. The balance of the name may have been influenced by an existing organization...
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We all enjoy stories from what seem like the glory days of hot rodding and we recently received a book filled with some great stories told by the guys that...
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In Rod & Custom's 50-year span, only nine motor-oil-for-blood fanatics have sat behind the editor's desk. As the second, Lynn Wineland had few traditions...
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Pete Eastwood lived a mere hubcap toss away from the goings on at Blair's Speed Shop and eventually punched a time card there along with the "who's who" of hot rodding.
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Simon and Garfunkel's song "Mrs. Robinson," posed the rhetorical question, "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?"
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Blackie Gejeian (ga-gee-an) has been traveling the country looking for the crme de la crme for his show held in March since he began in 1958...
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"God Bless the Flat Heads!" said the back window on Alex Xydias' pickup. It was the 1952 Bonneville Nationals, and the writing was on more than just SO-CAL Speed Shop's shop truck: the overheads, as the Cadillacs, Oldsmobiles, and Chryslers portended, would so
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We can't think of anybody who has contributed as much to hot rodding as Wally Parks, who passed away on Friday, September 28.
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The NSRA Street Rod Nationals is the granddaddy of events that pulls street rodders together from every corner of the U.S. But did you know that a couple of fishing buddies at R&C kick started the whole shebang?
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Inside The Speedway Motors Museum
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A Fireman's Full House of Projects
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It wouldn't be accurate to call Keith Weesner an automotive artist. He's an artist. Sure, you can see his work in hot rodding magazines and on the chests of any fan who has purchased one of his T-shirts at a hot rod get-together--but you can also see it hangin
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A Little Piece Of Chapter 4 Of "Edelbrock: Made In The USA"
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Legendary Hot Rod Builders
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The First 50 Years of Rod & Custom
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A brief history of the birth of Rod & Custom magazine.
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April 2003 Table of Contents
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“Why do you want to do a story on me?” That was Fred Larsen’s reaction when we approached him. Guys like Larsen are the reason Hot Rod magazine was created. He is the definitive, no-nonsense hot rodder. A member of the 300-mph chapter of the Bon
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What better place to meet Krafty Dick Kraft than at John Force’s incredible drag racing headquarters in Yorba Linda, California? Recently, I was fortunate enough to tour John Force’s high-tech facility as part of a small group that included, among ot
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He was defined physically by his famous sandals, shorts, and black horn-rimmed glasses. He was defined on the page by right-place-at-the-right-time photography and his colorful Gray-speak, a combination of ’50s slang, hot rod lingo, and his own unique voc
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