Doesn't run? Put a 'Vette engine in it!" Back in the '60s, when the Corvette was king, one sure way to wake up a stock production slug was a healthy dose of high-output Corvette power. The 'Vette ...

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One of the most famous trucks to wear a Dodge badge is the L’il Red Express Truck. The lore of the L’il Red Express was almost as good as the truck itself, as the L’il Red Express was technically the ...

Remember that awesome Volga Roadster from a few months ago, the BMW 6-Series rebody that looked like a Ford 49 concept car? Well, the guys who did that custom rod are at it again. This time they have ...

The Ford F-150 SVT Lightning arrived as a factory hot rod pickup that treated the work truck as a legitimate performance platform, not just a parts hauler. More than three decades later, that decision ...

Car creativity knows no bounds. We’ve been over this: The VW Beetle pickup was certifiably strange, the Mercedes E430 death kart was the product of someone with the right idea, and the Nissan 350Z ...

The custom car world is a very diverse one, but despite this you can always bet on certain kinds of vehicles to be in a more favorable position than others. Like, say, the pickup trucks of old, who ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

In this episode of HOT ROD Garage Mike Finnegan gets tips for strengthening sheet metal using a bead roller from world-famous ...