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2017 Detroit Autorama Preview: All the Ridler Award Winners 1964–2016
It’s nearly here! The 2017 Detroit Autorama happens this coming weekend, February 24-26, at Cobo Center. Here’s a preview, including a gallery with all the Ridler Award winners from 1964 through 2016....
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Pirelli Great 8 Chosen at the 2017 Detroit Autorama
Straight from the show floor at Cobo Center, here are the Pirelli Great 8 finalists for the Ridler Award at the 2017 Detroit Autorama. They’ve selected a fascinating assortment of cars this year—please...
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Renaissance Roadster Wins the 2017 Ridler Award
This year’s Ridler Award at the Detroit Autorama goes to the owner/builder team of Nancy and Buddy Jordan and Steve Frisbie with a reimagined 1933 Ford they call the Renaissance Roadster. Here’s a...
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Video: 1965 National Hot Rod & Custom Show
Live from the golden age of hot rodding, here’s an awesome Universal Newsreel item on the 1965 National Hot Rod & Custom Show in New York. From the Munsters Koach to the Surfite, see the hot rod...
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Video: Hot Rodders Invade Bonneville, 1951
Here’s a priceless moment in hot rodding history: national newsreel coverage of the third annual National Speed Trials on the Bonneville Salt Flats. (Revised and updated.) By 1951, the hot rodding...
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A Mickey Thompson Magical Mystery V8
From the fertile mind of Mickey Thompson in the early ’60s came this fascinating creation, a Pontiac V8 with twin GMC blowers and a pair of seriously crazy cylinder heads. Let’s dig in for a closer...
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Video: Celebrating the Bob McGee ’32 Ford Roadster
The ’32 Ford roadster built by Bob McGee is a legend in the hot rod movement, and recently the pioneer highboy was enrolled in the National Historic Vehicle Register. Here’s a beautifully produced...
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Video: The Choppers, a Classic 1961 Hot Rod Movie
Bad movies can be good fun. Presenting The Choppers, a lurid tale of wild hot rods and troubled teenagers. It’s got everything—including TV Tommy Ivo’s famed T-bucket roadster. See it here. It’s...
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Video: Dry Lakes Racing Before the War
Check out this priceless home-movie footage from the California Dry Lakes scene in 1940—before hot rods were called hot rods. This amazing home movie (8 mm film converted to newfangled digital...
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Drag Racing in Harlingen, Texas Circa 1962
Check out all the classic old-school drag cars in this awesome digital scrapbook from Harlingen Air Field circa 1962. First, a little housekeeping: This wonderful video scrapbook of vintage drag...
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Your 1,000-Horsepower Factory Crate Engine Has Arrived
At the SEMA performance industry show in Las Vegas this week, Mopar reset the bar for factory crate engines—at 1,000 horsepower. Behold the Hellephant 426 Hemi V8. Once upon a time, the 1,000-hp...
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Auction Watch: The Tom McMullen Deuce Roadster
At the Mecum Kissimmee auction in January, a historic hot rod will cross the stage: the famed ’32 Ford roadster built by racer and publisher Tom McMullen. One of the great stories in hot rodding...
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Video: 1965 drag racing documentary — The Hot Rod Story
Here’s a great old film from Southern California exploring the wild world of drag racing in 1965. Don’t miss this one, hot rodders and drag racers. REVISED AND UPDATED — Produced by the the...
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Video: Drag Racing Action at the 1962 NHRA Winternationals
From Pomona, California, here’s a great film vintage film report on the 1962 NHRA Winternationals. The more things change, the more they stay the same—so goes the old saying. The drag strip on...
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Zingers!
Like monster T-shirts come to life, the wild and whimsical Zingers have been entertaining hot rodders of all ages for nearly half a century now. We were too young to be taking notes at the time,...
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Video: The 1965 New York Hot Rod & Custom Show
Live from the golden age of hot rodding, here’s an awesome Universal Newsreel feature on the 1965 National Hot Rod & Custom Show in New York. From the Munsters Koach to the Surfite, see the hot rod...
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Video: Chip Foose Explains What Makes the 1932 Ford So Great
What makes the 1932 Ford the world’s favorite hot rod? Noted designer and builder Chip Foose breaks it down for us. Among the gearheads of the English-speaking world, Chip Foose hardly requires an...
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Five Carburetors: Why Not?
One V8 hot-rodding trick of the ’50s that never quite caught on was the 5×2 carburetor setup. But you know, it’s not such a terrible idea. The photos we’re sharing here have made a few laps around...
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Video: Don Garlits Tells His Favorite Slingshot Dragster Story
Few racers can tell a story better than Don Garlits, and fewer still have such great stories to tell. Big Daddy calls this one his favorite story about the front-engine dragster era. As many of you...
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Video Walk-Through: Impression, Chip Foose’s Award-Winning ’36 Ford
Impression, the reimagined ’36 Ford roadster built by Chip Foose, is the finest hot rod ever built, some will say. In this video, Chip points out its amazing details. “You’re only as good as your...
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