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 ...

Hosts Brian Lohnes, David Freiburger, and John McGann talk to Jim and Mike Ring about how they went from small-town hot ...

The origins of HOT ROD Drag Week Presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive aren't a mystery; the magazine's editor-in-chief in 2005, David Freiburger, sought to build a new kind of street-legal drag race.

Hosts Brian Lohnes and John McGann sit down with longtime friend and co-host of HOT ROD Garage, Lucky Costa, to learn about ...

On day three the 2025 Chevrolet Performance HOT ROD Power Tour Driven by Hagerty just keeps picking up speed as it winds its way through the heartland of America. This massive rolling car show is our ...

We’re inching closer to this year’s Chevrolet Performance HOT ROD Power Tour Driven by Hagerty, and it’s shaping up to be the biggest one yet. Last year, we set a record number of participants for the ...

We wouldn’t have the hot rodding we have today if not for those gearheads and innovators who came before us. They were the risk takers and the mavericks who refused to conform and follow the herd.

H OT ROD is proud to celebrate 30 years of its famed HOT ROD Power Tour with a five-city tour that runs through the Southeast ...

For the January 2006 issue, HOT ROD's cover featured Carl Scott's '67 Chevy II pulling a wheelie—along with a fold-out poster of the wheelstand bound into the magazine. Scott was the overall winner of ...

Before you open the links and start adding up the mileage, we will do the heavy calculations for ya—this year’s total is 660 miles. It is shorter than other years, but this is also the mid-Atlantic ...