Years before the muscle car era began, radical real-deal hot rods like these were ripping up dragstrips across the country. To celebrate HOT ROD's 75th anniversary, we teamed up with CASTROL GTX to ...

The original COPO Camaros of 1969 were born from dealership cunning, not corporate planning. Dealers like Fred Gibb used the ...

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Repeat something enough times, with enough confidence, and before long it’s bound to be taken as fact. Take, for example, the widely held notion that the Pontiac GTO was the original muscle car. There ...

Drag racers have been zipping down quarter-mile tracks since the sport was born. Here's how they decided on that distance and ...

The result is astonishing performance: with proper setup and traction, the COPO can cover the quarter mile in under 8.0 ...

Rick Lorenzen had such a good time growing up as a hot rodder in Southern California that he re-created it all in a museum. Lorenzen passed away June 16 at 82, but the Lions Automobilia Foundation and ...