It's rare that a professional car builder gets a free moment to even think about their own project, let alone dive headfirst into one. And it's rarer still that their personal workspace at home is ...

Discover HOT ROD’s Top 10 Cars of 2025—our third year reviving this iconic list. See the trendsetting builds, top builders, and innovations shaping car culture. The HOT ROD staff had a busy 2025, to ...

MACUNGIE, Pa. - More than 1,500 hot rods and custom builds have rolling into Macungie Memorial Park this weekend for the 46th annual Wheels of Time Jamboree. It's not just cars, there's a flea market, ...

Hot Wheels has announced the number-one build at the 2025 Legends Tour Las Vegas, handing top honors to a fully custom 1949 Chevy hot rod built by Calvin Calp and his team. With more than 140 cars ...

Enjoy the Southwest scenery surrounded by vintage cars and trucks during the Goodguys 16th FiTech Fuel Injection Spring ...

Our exclusive render design makes this Ford rat rod meaner than everything else.

An internationally renowned builder of bespoke custom cars, Paul Bacon, has completed his most ambitious project yet – a steampunk hot rod built from scratch. The Automatron is a horse-drawn ...

Hot rods are for many people the cherry on the custom cars industry cake. Typically American, these builds have inspired generations of drivers ever since bootleggers started converting their cars in ...

It feels that every other hot rod is a 1930s Ford, so it's worth thinking outside the box. Here are five cool alternatives to ...

Fresh from winning the Grand National Roadster Show Best Radical Custom class, earning the Outstanding Display Award and the ...

From the site of the Large Cars & Guitars truck show in Kodak, Tennessee, early in May, Brian Bourke of the Fitzgerald Peterbilt-affiliated custom shop Semi Casual walked us through these twin builds ...