In the 1960s, Detroit’s horsepower race created a new kind of performance car that blended everyday practicality with ...
During the 1960s, drag racing competitions sanctioned by the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) reached unprecedented levels of popularity, so American manufacturers introduced a series of ...
On paper, muscle cars were supposed to be blunt instruments, all noise and straight-line speed, easily outgunned by bigger, ...
Dodge claims the all-new Charger is the world's most powerful muscle car. However, can we even label an EV as a muscle car? Defined as a two-door powered by a V8 by the petrolheads' unwritten laws, ...
In 1974, Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins took the body shell of a Chevrolet Vega and built a race car inside of it. It changed the world of drag racing. And after that NHRA Pro Stock drag race Vega appeared, ...
We say goodbye to a Detroit street racer who blew us away in the HOT ROD Magazine Fastest Street Car wars of the 1990s. Rick Dyer was never the quickest or fastest Pro Street racer, but he left his ...
For example, the first high-compression V8 built for road use came about in 1949. It was called the Rocket V8, produced by Oldsmobile, and it made just 135 horsepower. However, just about 15 years ...
Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...
Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...
The 1961 Chrysler New Yorker, slathered in improbable Dubonnet Iridescent—a shocking OE color that presaged the wild high-impact colors that would arrive on muscle Mopars just a few years later—is the ...
Popular Hot Rodding invites 10 ultimate muscle cars to a three-part drag-race, speed-stop, autocross competition to find out which new muscle car project is the best of 2012.