These hot rods, customs, and hot rod trucks were Builder’s Choice Award contenders—and winners—at the 2023 Goodguys Summit Racing Nationals. Car show enthusiasts love going to big national events to ...

Every car at the first Sacramento Autorama was a traditional rod or custom, but nobody knew it—in 1950, nobody called their cars traditional. It would take 50 years and a bunch of styles and trends ...

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Hot Wheels has announced the number-one build at the 2025 Legends Tour Las Vegas, handing top honors to a fully custom 1949 Chevy hot rod built by Calvin Calp and his team. With more than 140 cars ...

"I like taking history, restoring that history, bringing the old school stuff back, but modernize it, and giving it today's technology," Bodie Stroud, a custom hot rod builder, says in the opening ...

With a Master's degree in English Literature and six years of writing experience, Aayush has been contributing to TopSpeed for over two years. Since 95% of his personality is motorcycles, he goes ...

VITA and Carolina Reaper at Japan's Yokohama Hot Rod Custom Show 2025, showcasing bold interpretations of the Classic 650 and Guerrilla 450.