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.

It's not like the roads are littered with hot rods, far from it. In fact, each time you see a hot rod out in the wild, it's a cool experience — even the best factory hot rods are few and far between.

Some of Robert E. Fisher’s earliest memories are from the final months of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s, when big and powerful cars were at his father’s body shop in Broadalbin. “That was ...