In the Summer 2025 issue of HOT ROD, we celebrated home-built cars—built not bought, as some would say—and that is a large part of HOT ROD’s legacy. Since the first issue, our mantra has been to ...

NHRA turns 75. Discover how Wally Parks used HOT ROD magazine to legitimize drag racing, standardize the quarter-mile, and launch the world’s largest motorsports organization.

Its HOT ROD magazines 65th anniversary in 2013, and to celebrate, the staff hosted a once-in-a-lifetime car show: a collection of 300-plus cover and feature cars from the pages of the mag, dating all ...

Recently, HOT ROD magazine's Mike Galimi was a guest of NUVO's ON THE AIR with Amanda Gore series to discuss the 20th annual HOT ROD Drag Week. Coined as, "The world's toughest competition to find the ...

Yet within 15 years, and the turn of the century, youngsters from Burbank to Birmingham were creating traditional-style hot ...

Cars pour into the grounds here at Auto Club Raceway Pomona for the In-N-Out Burger and HOT ROD Magazine 70th Anniversary Celebration!