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'70s And '80s Musclecars - Street Machines!
The late '70s and early '80s are hip again, especially as they apply to street machine styling. Here are examples of the era. more
Oppose Federal "Cash for Clunkers" Program
Washington lawmakers hope to spur new cars sales by creating a program that gives tax dollars to consumers who turn-in older cars to be crushed. more
Mendy Fry - Nitro Kitty
The saga of Mendy Fry, fabricator, mechanic, and driver of a wicked vintage Nitro Funny Car. Guys who read this will fall in love with her instantly. more
Remembering Eric Rickman
A Hot Rod Bio of Eric Rickman.. He Has Been There, Done That - And Shot the Pictures To Prove It! more
Wild Paint on This 1970 Chevy Camaro SS 396
Wild paint from back in the day. more
Horsepower High
A Shop Class That Teaches Life Lessons And Where Burnouts Prevent Dropouts. more
Burt Munro The World's Fastest Indian Movie Boneville Race Records - Where It All Began
Real BurtRecently released on DVD, The World's Fastest Indian stars Anthony Hopkins as Burt Munro, the New Zealander who overcame all odds to bring his scrappy, homegrown '20 Indian Scout to the Bonneville Salt Flats and set records from 1962 through about 1 more
1990 Ford Mustang & 1992 Chevy Camaro Smog Legal - Where It All Began
Smog YearsThis column usually relies on old photography from the archives, but we came across some artwork we were compelled to share, even though it repulsed us into recalling this magazine's obsession with smog-centric project cars. It was 1992, and we wer more
Don Schlag Chevrolet Car Collector - Musclecar Jackpot
We're all subject to our own peculiar obsessions. Go on eBay and you'll find literally hundreds of subcategories under the general Collectibles. There are people who collect feed sacks and others who just have to have all the Buffy the Vampire Slayer trading c more
Traditional Gasser Cars - Gasser Fever
To many hot rodders, young and old, there's just nothing as cool as a gasser. The nose-high stance and brutal simplicity take us all back nearly a half-century to a time when amateur drag racers ruled. It was a time when a few buddies could pool their resource more
Ak Miller History - The Best Hot Rodder in the  World
Tracing the life of hot-rodding pioneer Ak Miller is sort of like watching a Speed Channel version of Forrest Gump. If something important happened in rodding history, Ak was there. Lakes racing? Yep, before World War II and as the SCTA's first postwar preside more
Pro Mods - Door Slammers
The History And Controversial Future Of The Baddest Door-Slammers On The Planet more
Gearhead Life - National Corvette Museum
Gearhead Destination Of The Month National Corvette Museum, Bowling Green, Kentucky more
1970 Baja 500 Banshee Olds 350 - Hot Rod Archives
The Olds BansheeThis month's story on rally racing made us think of racing musclecars on dirt, which made us think of the early days of the Baja 1000 when guys did just that. Perhaps the most memorable dirt rod was built by Vic Hickey, designer of the suspen more
General Motors Desert Proving Grounds Golden Anniversary
I got my marching orders on Friday morning. I was to drive the 420 miles from LA to the General Motors Desert Proving Grounds (DPG) in Mesa, Arizona, and infiltrate its 50th anniversary celebration on Sunday, March 2. About the only difference between the DPG more
iCan! Inc. Heidi Van Arnem Passes Away At Age 35
Birmingham, Mich., Nov. 11, 2001-- Heidi Van Arnem, 35, founder, chairwoman and chief executive officer of iCan! Inc., died Sunday, Nov. 11, 2001, of acute respiratory failure in William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich. In 1999, Van Arnem founded more
Racing with the North Shore Mafia in Super Street Shootout
It’s Saturday night in Memphis, and the fall sky is clear, the air cool and the moon full. The sound of horsepower growls like a pack of junkyard dogs as Chuck Samuel calmly leans on his ’86 Camaro in the moonlit staging lanes of Memphis Motorsports more