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The Dirt Cheap Adventure - Road Warriors

Wed, 23 May 2012 11:05:00 -0700

The Dirt Cheap Adventure - Road Warriors

This 1972 Catalina was bought for $650, drove over 800 miles from El Paso to home and still made it in one piece.

These days, HOT ROD hits the road hard and often. Our new web show, Roadkill, has thus far sent us traipsing through nine states looking for adventure while piloting questionable vehicles and putting bullet holes in a bucket list any hot rodder would be proud of. We've been off-road, off the map, and out of our minds filming the first two episodes. (You may have read in the Mar. '12 issue about our debacle in a '68 Ranchero).

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Printable Schedule of Events

Mon, 21 May 2012 15:05:00 -0700

Printable Schedule of Events

The 2012 Hot Rod Power Tour Event Schedule

Click on the link below to see what's going on during the 2012 HOT ROD Power Tour presented by Chevrolet Performance Division. All the who, what, when and where. The "why" is obvious. C'mon by.

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2012 Power Tour Driving Directions

Mon, 21 May 2012 06:05:00 -0700

2012 Power Tour Driving Directions

The Official 2012 HOT ROD Power Tour Driving Directions

After driving and re-driving and then re-driving the entire route, we've now got the official 2012 HOT ROD Power Tour driving directions. Click on the link below to get the PDF. See you on the road...

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A Womanâs Place Is In The Garage

Fri, 18 May 2012 16:05:00 -0700

A Womanâs Place Is In The Garage

SEMA Mustang Build: Powered By Women

This summer, the women of the auto industry will strut their stuff and show off their skills to raise money for the SEMA Memorial Scholarship Fund with the first-ever SEMA Mustang Build Powered by Women.

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HRPT Ugly Luggage Contest

Wed, 16 May 2012 08:05:00 -0700

HRPT Ugly Luggage Contest

Royal Purple Announces Long Hauler Ugly Luggage Contest

Do you have luggage that has seen better days of travel? Are you holding your suitcase together with duct tape or intricately woven rubber bands? If you are a victim of these luggage faux pas or you are just too lazy to buy new luggage, Royal Purple wants to trade your old bags for a set of new Royal Purple Ogio luggage.

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50th Anniversary - Carroll Shelby, Hot Rodder

Sat, 12 May 2012 15:05:00 -0700

50th Anniversary - Carroll Shelby, Hot Rodder

As the Cobra Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary, We Celebrate Shelby as One of Our Own.

Nobody likes a good story better than Carroll Shelby, so let's start this story with a story. In 1915, years after the racing exploits that launched both of their careers, Henry Ford and Barney Oldfield happened to meet again. As they shook hands, Ford, by then among the world's richest men, gave his former driver a wink and generously remarked that he reckoned the two of them had made each other. Oldfield winked right back and said, "I guess I did the better job of it."

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Carroll Shelby: 1923-2012

Thu, 10 May 2012 12:05:00 -0700

Carroll Shelby: 1923-2012

Race driver and car builder Carroll Shelby passed away Thursday, May 10 after a long illness. He was 89.

One of the most iconic names in automotive history, Shelby became an international star in the 1950s as a race car driver, earning Sports Illustrated's "Sports Car Driver of the Year" honors in 1956 and 1957, then winning the 1959 24 Hours of LeMans in an Aston Martin with co-driver Roy Salvadori. A hereditary heart condition put an end to Shelby's driving career in 1960, but the lessons learned while driving world-renowned sports cars gave him the idea to build his own car using an AC Ace body and a small-block Ford V-8 engine. The result was the Cobra, a name that Shelby said came to him in a dream, and a company called Shelby American.

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Bombshell In Blue

Wed, 09 May 2012 11:05:00 -0700

Bombshell In Blue

This '28 Has Been Through Hell and Back

Oh, the stories this car could tell. Ryan Adams of Santa Ana, California, has owned this old Ford since 2000. His buddy Dano Nichols found it in Riverside, California, where it was languishing in a sorry state after serving as a dirt-track car. We donât know how long this poor soul was beaten and battered in side-by-side racing before it was finally put out to pasture, and we can only imagine how thrashed the body was back then, but since it was real, 70-year-old Ford steel for only $1,500, we can use our imaginations. Its scarred past is long behind it now, however. Seven years in the making and five years after it was completed, this â28/â29 Model A proves that a hot rod built right will never go out of style.

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1929 Ford Roadster Pickup - The True RPU

Wed, 09 May 2012 10:05:00 -0700

1929 Ford Roadster Pickup - The True RPU

This '29 rings truth through and through

TRUTH be told, it was the gas tank. "The tank actually started the project," confesses Eddie Barbosa from Gilroy, California. For weeks, he'd been eyeballing a half-derelict '48 Allis-Chalmers tractor that was decomposing in a field. Then one day he figured he'd give it a shot and try to get the property owner to sell him just the gas tank. "I kept looking at it thinking, That would look too cool on the back of something." That something would eventually become a noteworthy conversation piece on this '29 Ford roadster pickup.

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Straight-Axle Vette - Bad M/SP

Wed, 09 May 2012 10:05:00 -0700

Straight-Axle Vette - Bad M/SP

How this guy built it tall and cheap

Damn!This car is cool! Imagine a '60s-inspired Vette built from eBay parts and created for a fraction of the price of a restoration--this is it! Tapping into the retro revival using the Internet as a virtual junkyard, this breed of new builds is sending a shockwave through the valley. Hopefully gone forever are the days of mail-order builds that produce identical rides, distinguished only by the CNC program for their billet wheels and their brand of stereo.

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'30/'34 Cad Rod - Headskratcher

Wed, 09 May 2012 09:05:00 -0700

'30/'34 Cad Rod - Headskratcher

This freakish cover car is called Headskratcher.

STARE. You may not figure it out on your own. What we've got here is a heavily molested '30 Model A coupe topped with a '34 sedan roof, nosed with a pair of Deuce grilles welded together, and stuffed with '59 Cad power. That was the quick version. Then there's poor Skratch, who built this thing with about two years of work in a six-month window.

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Edelbrockâs Collection

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:05:00 -0700

Edelbrockâs Collection

Filled with history, Vic Edelbrock Jr.'s Museum in Torrance, California, has everything from the first Midget to run Nitro, to the first Hot Rod Camaro test car.

We recently visited Vic Edelbrock Jr.'s museum in Torrance. While open to the public by appointment only, it's filled with Vic's personal collection -- cars and motorcycles we grew up reading about in magazines and posters on our walls. It's a showcase of Edelbrock's past and present, like a '67 Camaro that one of the first off the production line and was even used as an early HOT ROD test vehicle. It was the first in California and also the first Camaro to be road tested for print media. There are motorcycles, late-model cars, race cars, and a bunch of memorabilia on the walls. Check out the photos, and visit Edelbrock.com for more info.

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1961 Olds Starfire - The Aladdin

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:05:00 -0700

1961 Olds Starfire - The Aladdin

John D'Agostino's Luxury Custom Drop-Top Olds. The Theme for This Build Could Be Less is More.

CONSISTENCY. In the realm of custom creations, there are plenty of hits and misses. When reshaping the already beautiful silhouette inherent to most vintage steel, itâs easy to disrupt the essential flow and harmony of the factory lines. Weâre not all Harley Earl. Even the big names have their off designs, but some have a better batting average than others. Swinging his way up to the top of the pool for consistency in elegance and style is John DâAgostino. The man has left a trail of customs to be envied: Midnight Sensation, Golden Sunrise, Royal Tahitian, Gable, Golden Star, Marilyn, and Stardust to name a few of our favorites. The list speaks for itself. If those names arenât familiar, youâre not into customs.

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You Will Have a Chance to Win a Chevrolet Performance Product Certificates

Mon, 07 May 2012 12:05:00 -0700

You Will Have a Chance to Win a Chevrolet Performance Product Certificates

2012 Hot Rod Magazine Power Tour Event Chevrolet Performance Product Certificate Sweepstakes

2012 Hot Rod Magazine Power Tour Event Chevrolet Performance Product Certificate Sweepstakes

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Real Rods of the '50s - The Genuine Article

Mon, 07 May 2012 11:05:00 -0700

Real Rods of the '50s - The Genuine Article

To Show You How Hot Rodding Really Was, We Went to the Source: The HOT ROD Magazine Time Machine

Doane Spencer, Joe Nitti, Neal East, Bob McGeeânames forever synonymous with the hot rods they built or bought in the â40s and â50s. Their projects have become icons of the genre, and while you might name another couple hundred hero cars that have been storied ad nauseam, the workaday rods by Joe Average radically outnumber those exalted examples. This story is here to honor the anonymous.

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1979 Ford Pinto - That Just Happened

Mon, 07 May 2012 11:05:00 -0700

1979 Ford Pinto - That Just Happened

8.02 Seconds. 171 mph. 21 mpg. And Itâs a Freaking Pinto.

People lost their minds. Tim Reedâs â79 Pinto hooked up on 275s, threw chunks of drag radial at the burnout box, and blasted through the quarter-mile traps at 8.02 seconds and more than 171 mphâand all that after cruising 1,000-plus miles during HOT ROD Drag Week â11â¢, scoring double-digit fuel economy on 87-octane gas. It was the third quickest car in all of Drag Weekâ¢, which is amazing when you look at the big-inch hardware on hand at the event.

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1940 Woody - Petrified Woody

Thu, 03 May 2012 10:05:00 -0700

1940 Woody - Petrified Woody

What started out as a '40 four-door woody is now shaping into a phantom two-door.

Hot Rods & Hobbies (HotRodsAndHobbies.net) and The Wood N' Carr (WoodNCarr.net), both in Signal Hill, California, are working together on several wood-intensive custom projects. Our favorite at the moment is the '40 Willys that owner Chip Israel calls "Petrified."

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Kustom Kulture Archival Photos - Roth Weirdos

Thu, 03 May 2012 10:05:00 -0700

Kustom Kulture Archival Photos - Roth Weirdos

Ed Roth Originals

You know Ed Roth, the '60s freakjob beatnik hot rodder who clearly sniffed too much resin while creating fiberglass show cars like The Outlaw, Mysterion, Road Agent, Surfite, and such. He's seen here, scrawling the wall at a party in the early '60s. You also know him as the father of Rat Fink and other weirdo monsters that were airbrushed and later silkscreened onto the must-have T-shirts for every teen gearhead of the time.

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How To Buy Your First Turbo

Thu, 03 May 2012 10:05:00 -0700

How To Buy Your First Turbo

A turbocharger is the best power-adder by far, and we can show you how to buy your first turbo.

A turbocharger is the best power-adder by far. Not only do turbos harness otherwise wasted exhaust energy to drive the compressor, their modular nature lets compressor and turbine housings and wheels be mixed and matched within a given turbo frame size to optimize the unit for a particular application. But this level of choice can also be daunting, introducing complexity somewhat akin to selecting the best cam for a normally aspirated motor.

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Hardley A Roadster

Thu, 03 May 2012 10:05:00 -0700

Hardley A Roadster

May 2012's Local Hero is JR Drake is Whose '32 Ford is About as Close to Harley as it Can Be Without Actually Being One.

This thing is about as close to a Harley as it can get without actually being one. Itâs loud, it uses a Harley V-twin, it has no top, radio, A/C, or heat, and it handles. Built by JR Drake, owner of Kick Ass Rod Shop in Hickory, North Carolina, this little roadster started as a Downs Industries fiberglass body that JR and crew cut 4 inches all the way around. âItâs basically a Sportster on four wheels,â says JR, who used a â99 1,200cc H-D Sportster engine and trans to power the roadster. He modified a transfer case out of a Legends race car (which uses an import motorcycle engine) to accept the Harley beltdrive. The transfer case runs a driveshaft to a Toyota rearend that resides in a homemade four-link. All the controls work like those on a normal car (the only difference is the driver merely has to bump the column shifter to change gears, similar to a foot lever on a bike), and making the linkages work right was the hardest part of the build. The chassis was also handbuilt. JR says itâs hard to keep up with him on North Carolina mountain roads.

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HOT ROD to the Rescue - Broken Brakes

Thu, 03 May 2012 10:05:00 -0700

HOT ROD to the Rescue - Broken Brakes

The Disc Brake Swap on This '64 Dodge Dart Didn't Work Out as Expected. Global West Pulled Out All the Stops To Make It Right.

EDITOR'S NOTE: If your existing hot rod has a gremlin that just wonât quit, you could be one of the lucky candidates chosen for a hands-on thrash. Drop us a line at Pitstop@HotRod.com, and put âRescueâ in the subject line. We wonât repair factory stockers or build you a whole car, but HOT ROD and industry experts will fix the immediate problem.

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Get the Picture - Weâve Got Your Number

Thu, 03 May 2012 10:05:00 -0700

Get the Picture - Weâve Got Your Number

A Variety of Bonneville, Midget, Circle-Track, and Hot Rod Styles Numbering From Now and Then.

In last monthâs Get The Picture? column, we shared a number of ideas for retro-style, sign-painted lettering. This month, same deal, only with numbers. You know why itâs cool to have a number on your door? Because it means you have a race carâor at least that you want your rod to look like one. Here we present a variety of Bonneville, Midget, circle-track, and hot rod styles from now and then. â

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Paxtonâs Most Affordable Blower

Thu, 03 May 2012 10:05:00 -0700

Paxtonâs Most Affordable Blower

The Novi 1200 Blow-Through for Entry-Level Boost. You want 730hp, don't you?

The Premise

Boost makes you godlike, letting you pick almost any power level you want. The downer is that guys fear the complexity and cost of adding a turbo or blower. Paxton solved that with the easiest and most affordable centrifugal huffer system we've seen: the Entry Level Universal Supercharger kit. For carbureted small-block Fords, these sell at Summit Racing for $2,359.95 in a satin finish (PN 1001864SL) or polished for $2,819.99 (PN 1001864SL-P). There are also setups for small- and big-block Mopars at slightly higher prices. With the promise of being the easiest boost-in-a-box kit yet, we had to check it out.

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The New Boss 302 Intake

Thu, 03 May 2012 10:05:00 -0700

The New Boss 302 Intake

Is It Worth Power Over the Base Mustang GT Unit? We Upgrade a Coyote Motor and Find Out.

The Premise

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1947 Ford 2N - Because He Could

Wed, 02 May 2012 11:05:00 -0700

1947 Ford 2N - Because He Could

Darrell Wark's New Use for Retired race Parts in the form of a '47 Ford 2N Tractor.

Why do you think guys race lawn mowers in the South, have sand drag races in the West, and race barstools at Bonneville? Because a true hot rodder will hot rod anything. Darrell Wark of Colby, Kansas, is one of them, and as a true rodder, he recycles-and that's what brought this scheme to life. He had a bunch of old race-car parts sitting around, so why not use them on a '47 Ford 2N tractor he purchased from his town's mayor.

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The Dirt Cheap Adventure - Road Warriors

Printable Schedule of Events

2012 Power Tour Driving Directions

A Womanâs Place Is In The Garage

HRPT Ugly Luggage Contest

50th Anniversary - Carroll Shelby, Hot Rodder

Carroll Shelby: 1923-2012

Bombshell In Blue

1929 Ford Roadster Pickup - The True RPU

Straight-Axle Vette - Bad M/SP

'30/'34 Cad Rod - Headskratcher

Edelbrockâs Collection

1961 Olds Starfire - The Aladdin

You Will Have a Chance to Win a Chevrolet Performance Product Certificates

2012 Hot Rod Magazine Power Tour Event Chevrolet Performance Product Certificate Sweepstakes

Real Rods of the '50s - The Genuine Article

1979 Ford Pinto - That Just Happened

1940 Woody - Petrified Woody

Kustom Kulture Archival Photos - Roth Weirdos

How To Buy Your First Turbo

Hardley A Roadster

HOT ROD to the Rescue - Broken Brakes

Get the Picture - Weâve Got Your Number

Paxtonâs Most Affordable Blower

The Premise

The New Boss 302 Intake

The Premise

1947 Ford 2N - Because He Could

A Womanâs Place Is In The Garage

Edelbrockâs Collection

Get the Picture - Weâve Got Your Number

Paxtonâs Most Affordable Blower