Hot Rod Oddity: The 1958 Oberhausen Electric Supercharger
The early years of hot rodding produced some wild and wonderful ideas, for example the Oberhausen electric supercharger. The golden age of hot rodding was a trial-and-error enterprise. The...
View ArticleThe Schaller Double-Lobe Camshaft
Here’s another wildly creative idea from the early years of hot rodding: The Schaller Quarter-Speed Double-Lobe camshaft. How does it work? Read on. Harold G. “Bus” Schaller was a well-regarded...
View Article’60s Style Setter: A Quick History of the Cragar S/S Wheel
The Cragar S/S was by far the most popular custom wheel on the hot rod and muscle car scene all through the ’60s and ’70s. Let’s check out its history. With its line of Cragar speed equipment, Bell...
View ArticleEd Wood’s Legendary Allison V12-Powered ’64 Chevelle
The ’60s and ’70s saw some wild street machines, but none were wilder than Ed Wood’s ’64 Chevelle powered by an an Allison V12 aircraft engine. Ed Wood passed away in 2009, and his wild Allison...
View ArticleVideo: The 1963 NHRA Winternationals Custom Car Show
Join us for a quick tour of the colorful 1963 Winternationals car show, a major event on the classic rod & custom scene. In the early years of the National Hot Rod Association, the sanctioning...
View ArticleThe 1965 Kaehni Ignition Mystery
In 1965, hot rodders were baffled by this ignition system with just one spark-plug wire to fire all eight plugs. How could that ever work? It did, and here’s how. Readers of Hot Rod magazine in June,...
View ArticleRemembering the Ford Custom Car Caravan, 1962-65
In the ’60s. Ford tapped directly into the exploding hot rod and custom scene with its Custom Car Caravan. 1963 Ford Astro by Bill Cushenberry As baby boomers came of age in the early ’60s, they...
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