Hot-rodding is an iconic American automotive pass-time, but such a specialized hobby has no shortage of jargon and lingo — here's what some of it means.

One of the most significant elements of any hot rod build is without question a well-designed and thoroughly thought out perimeter chassis. While there are tried and true formulas regarding a ...

Between June and August 1949, the streamliner was taken to four different dry-lakes points meets to allow Dean to get used to ...

Hot rods have gone through all kinds of trends over the past 80 years, but many of the rods being built today—by home builders and pro shops alike—are traditional rods equipped with suspension setups ...

Anyone who is at least passingly familiar with custom cars has probably at least heard of the concept of a hot rod. A hot rod is, of course, a custom car designed with the express purpose of going as ...

Meet Uncertain-T, the hot rod that disappeared for 50 years. Half a century later, the Ford Model T-inspired vehicle is now returning to the American car show circuit that it once dominated. The one ...

Some of the very first self-propelled vehicles were products of engineers and the curious in private garages and workshops. Within a few decades of the invention of the first car, companies were ...