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Jim McCraw visits the 2015 California Hot Rod Reunion
With words and photos, veteran automotive journalist Jim McCraw reports from one of the premier events of the vintage drag racing movement, the California Hot Rod Reunion. This time he’s taken a...
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Lost Hot Rods: Five Sweet Model A Ford Roadsters
Here’s the latest in our Lost Hot Rods series: a group of five noteworthy Model A Ford roadsters from the golden age of rodding. These cars never found fame, as far as we know, but they look like...
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Video: Hot Rod Racing at El Mirage in 1946
It doesn’t get any more grass-roots and old-school than this. See where hot rodding and drag racing were born in this circa 1946 film clip from El Mirage Dry Lake in Southern California. This...
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Video: Danny Ongais and M/T Rule the 1969 Funny Car World
Revised and updated: In this short film, we get a look inside the all-conquering Mickey Thompson funny car team of 1969. It’s one of the great stories in drag racing—check it out. Mickey Thompson...
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The Anglias: Drag Racing’s Little Monsters
Spooky to drive but fun to watch, the Anglia gassers contributed more than their fair share of excitement to the glory days of drag racing. Here’s a quick look back at the colorful little devils....
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Road Runners—an Original 1952 Hot Rodding Film
REVISED AND EXPANDED—This great old promotional film from 1952 shows original hot rods in action all over Southern California—on the streets, at the Santa Ana drag strip, and on the El Mirage dry lake....
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Video: American Drag Racers Invade England, 1964
In bright, beautiful color, presenting a classic drag racing moment: when American hot rodders crossed the pond to compete in Britain’s 1964 International Drag Festival. Here are two minutes of...
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Historic Hot Rod: The Arnett-Granatelli-Couch ’34 Coupe
REVISED AND UPDATED — Built by the legendary Joaquin Arnett and modified by Andy Granatelli, this hot rod first burned rubber over 60 years ago. Let’s take a closer look at the Bill Couch ’34 Ford...
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Five Fabulous Hot Rod Show Cars That Defied Taste and Logic
Sure they’re tacky, but they’re garish, too. Mac’s Motor City Garage revisits the golden age of wacky car-show theme rods, where camp and kitsch collide. It’s fun. Join us. As curious and unlikely...
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Video: Drag Racing Action at the 1970 NHRA World Finals
We love original color action from the golden age of drag racing, and we know you do, too. Check out this top-quality 1970 film featuring the NHRA World Finals from Dallas—it’s the good stuff....
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Lost Hot Rods: Five Sweet Model A Ford Roadsters
Here’s the latest in our Lost Hot Rods series: a group of five noteworthy Model A Ford roadsters from the golden age of rodding. These cars never found fame, as far as we know, but they look like...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Video: Hot Rod Racing at El Mirage in 1946
It doesn’t get any more grass-roots and old-school than this. See where hot rodding and drag racing were born in this circa 1946 film clip from El Mirage Dry Lake in Southern California. This...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Video: Danny Ongais and M/T Rule the 1969 Funny Car World
Revised and updated: In this short film, we get a look inside the all-conquering Mickey Thompson funny car team of 1969. It’s one of the great stories in drag racing—check it out. Mickey Thompson...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Anglias: Drag Racing’s Little Monsters
Spooky to drive but fun to watch, the Anglia gassers contributed more than their fair share of excitement to the glory days of drag racing. Here’s a quick look back at the colorful little devils....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Road Runners—an Original 1952 Hot Rodding Film
REVISED AND EXPANDED—This great old promotional film from 1952 shows original hot rods in action all over Southern California—on the streets, at the Santa Ana drag strip, and on the El Mirage dry lake....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Video: American Drag Racers Invade England, 1964
In bright, beautiful color, presenting a classic drag racing moment: when American hot rodders crossed the pond to compete in Britain’s 1964 International Drag Festival. Here are two minutes of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Historic Hot Rod: The Arnett-Granatelli-Couch ’34 Coupe
REVISED AND UPDATED — Built by the legendary Joaquin Arnett and modified by Andy Granatelli, this hot rod first burned rubber over 60 years ago. Let’s take a closer look at the Bill Couch ’34 Ford...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Five Fabulous Hot Rod Show Cars That Defied Taste and Logic
Sure they’re tacky, but they’re garish, too. Mac’s Motor City Garage revisits the golden age of wacky car-show theme rods, where camp and kitsch collide. It’s fun. Join us. As curious and unlikely...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Video: Drag Racing Action at the 1970 NHRA World Finals
We love original color action from the golden age of drag racing, and we know you do, too. Check out this top-quality 1970 film featuring the NHRA World Finals from Dallas—it’s the good stuff....
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Pioneer American Hot Rod Goes to Auction
One of Michigan’s best-known early hot rods, the 1933 Ford built by Oliver Hine, is headed to the auction stage in Fort Lauderdale on April 1. Here’s a closer look at the pioneering homebuilt....
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