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 ...

A heavily customized 1955 Ford Fairlane Club Sedan with magazine-feature pedigree and classic hot rod attitude is set to ...

A complete run of Hot Rod Magazine stretching back to 1948 has hit the market, and it is not some casual stack pulled from a ...

Nick Deutsch isn’t a famous car builder, nor is he a race car driver. He’s a guy with a vision that he made a reality, and he jumped in on a trend we’ve seen popping up all around the country: car ...

Hot Rod Editor in Chief John McGann – all photos John McGann Hot Rod Magazine editor in Chief John McGann joins Dane Neal on WGN Radio. Hear as John shares the excitement around this annual event that ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) The HOT ROD Power Tour, featuring thousands of custom cars and pickups, makes a return visit to Fort Wayne on Wednesday with the potential for traffic problems on roads near ...

The 2025 Shiny Rust Hot Rod show took place over the weekend at the Oakland Expo Center in Waterford, Michigan. It focused on classic cars, and shiny or rusty, big or small, they had them all on ...

If you can name a make and model of a car, odds are you could find it in the Memorial Coliseum parking lot Wednesday as part of the 31st annual Hot Rod Power Tour. “To put it simply, it’s car Nirvana, ...