Hot Rod, Custom

Don “The Snake” Prudhomme reveals for the first time ever his incredible life and career on and off of the drag strip. Imagine spending a year with Don “The Snake” Prudhomme, having coffee together and talking about his life, his...

The history of hot rodding and performance cars has been well chronicled through the years. Books and magazines have covered the cars, builders, pioneers, engineers, early racers, muscle cars, street racers, etc. Most take a nostalgic and fun look at the...

How to Build a Repro Rod by John Thawley 1982, Paperback Steve Smith Autosports

Author: Matt Stone, Hardbound, 207 Pages, CT570, ISBN: 9781613252901,First Published, 2017 Ed was there from the very beginning. Born in 1921 to first-generation Armenian immigrants, Ed's first hobby was ham radio, but like many young men in the years...

Author: Ken Wickham, Softbound, 176 Pages, ISBN: 9780873499620, First Published, 2005 Plan and Build Your Dream Car Ken Wickham knows what it takes to build a killer street rod the right way—with patience, common sense and one eye on...

Author: Dain Gingerilli, Softbound, 159 Pages, ISBN: 9780760335161, First Edition, 2009 Whether at a local car club event or at a regional show, at a swap meet or just driving through town, some hot rods turn heads and others don't...

Author: Mike Chase, ISBN: 9780760351857, Hardback, Published in 2016, 224 pages,  Hot rods are all about creativity, but if there is a quintessential hot rod it starts with a 1 932 Ford. Henry Ford's simple, elegant design has inspired hot...

From The Editors Of Lowrider Magazine, Softbound, 172 Pages, HP-1383, ISBN: 075478013838 - 1st Edition, April, 2002 Lowriders are some of the hottest vehicles on the road today, and no one knows how to build them better than the editors at Lowrider...

Author, Jay Storer, Softbound, 128 Pages, ISBN: 155788479X, 1st Edition, May 2005, HP - 1479 Step-by-step assembly instructions for a '33 Ford Roadster replica Street Rodder regulars are most likely familiar with the Road Tour car that's built...

Author: Robert Genat, ISBN: 9781613250914 Detroit's Woodward Avenue was America's center of gravity for cruising and street racing in the 1950s and 1960s. Its widely paved surfaces with long sections of arrow-straight road between traffic signals...

By: Laurent Bagnard . If you haven’t noticed, traditional hot rodding is back in a big way. Among the scene’s biggest players are the members of an exclusive club known as the Burbank Choppers. The Choppers gained prominence recently with an...

By: Editors of Hot Rod Magazine . It was the heyday of hot rodding, the early 1950s, when the dry lakes beds, dragstrips, and open roads of southern California were full of cars that had been stripped down and hopped up for maximum power and style...