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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...