Hot Rod, Custom

By: Paul D Smith . The essence of hot rodding has always been to make something that was designed and engineered in Detroit look better and, more importantly, go faster. At the epicenter of hot rodding's formative years prior to and just after World War...

By: Tony Thacker . In 1931, Henry Ford announced that his company would produce an eight-cylinder car, if only because its competitors were building fours and sixes. The result, introduced in 1932, was Ford Motor Company’s first V8-powered car. The...